T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Southeast Asia region · Lower-Middle-Income country
An estimated 26,835 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Bangladesh in 2025. Each year about 2,131 people are newly diagnosed and 819 people with T1D die. A further 18,208 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
26,835
New diagnoses this year
2,131
Deaths this year
819
Missing people
18,208
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
39.6years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Bangladesh?
26,835 people in Bangladesh are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 15.3 per 100,000 people. That is lower than the Southeast Asia average of 62.2 per 100,000 and lower than the global average of 115.5. Bangladesh has the 51st-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 2nd-largest of the 7 countries in the IDF Southeast Asia region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Bangladesh, another 68 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Bangladesh?
The number of people living with T1D in Bangladesh went from 5,593 in 2000 to 26,835 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 48,302 by 2040 (+80%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Bangladesh, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Bangladesh over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
5,593
773
440
7,881
2010
11,528
1,263
555
11,581
2020
20,617
1,795
669
15,418
2025
26,835
2,131
819
18,208
2030 (projected)
33,999
2,822
1,230
22,429
2040 (projected)
48,302
2,973
1,576
34,173
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Bangladesh?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Bangladesh today is expected to live to 39.6, compared with 76.9 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 37.3 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 45.6 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 14.7 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Bangladesh, 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
–
31.3
45.6
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+2.9
34.2
42.7
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+20.6
54.8
22.1
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.4
62.2
14.7
How does Bangladesh compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Bangladesh compared with the Southeast Asia region and the world, 2025
2025
Bangladesh
Southeast Asia
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
15.3
62.2
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
1.2
4.6
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
67.9
80.6
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
39.6
39.9
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.
