T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Europe region · Upper-Middle-Income country
An estimated 3,626 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Albania in 2025. Each year about 214 people are newly diagnosed and 45 people with T1D die. A further 1,481 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
3,626
New diagnoses this year
214
Deaths this year
45
Missing people
1,481
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
60.4years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Albania?
3,626 people in Albania are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 130.8 per 100,000 people. That is lower than the Europe average of 298.6 per 100,000 and higher than the global average of 115.5. Albania has the 123rd-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 41st-largest of the 53 countries in the IDF Europe region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Albania, another 41 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Albania?
The number of people living with T1D in Albania went from 1,393 in 2000 to 3,626 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 5,604 by 2040 (+55%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Albania, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Albania over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
1,393
116
49
1,088
2010
2,036
138
46
1,248
2020
3,017
190
46
1,436
2025
3,626
214
45
1,481
2030 (projected)
4,342
261
53
1,548
2040 (projected)
5,604
221
71
1,754
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Albania?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Albania today is expected to live to 60.4, compared with 80.7 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 20.2 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 31.4 years of healthy life at today's level of care. If everyone received timely diagnosis, insulin and test strips, and insulin pumps and CGMs, that loss would fall to 14.0 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Albania, as each level of care is added in turn
Level of care
Healthy years restored
Healthy years of life
Healthy years still lost
Current level of care
–
49.2
31.4
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+2.9
52.1
28.6
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+7.3
59.4
21.3
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.3
66.7
14.0
How does Albania compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Albania compared with the Europe region and the world, 2025
2025
Albania
Europe
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
130.8
298.6
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
7.7
12.1
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
40.8
30.5
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
60.4
62.1
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
All figures are T1D Index version 3.0 estimates for all ages. Missing people are those who would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes. Expected age at death is for a 10-year-old. See Data & Methods for how the estimates are made and the peer-reviewed publications behind them.
