T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Europe region · High-Income country
An estimated 40,140 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Belgium in 2025. Each year about 1,147 people are newly diagnosed and 297 people with T1D die. A further 9,081 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
40,140
New diagnoses this year
1,147
Deaths this year
297
Missing people
9,081
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
71.7years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Belgium?
40,140 people in Belgium are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 341.5 per 100,000 people. That is higher than the Europe average of 298.6 per 100,000 and higher than the global average of 115.5. Belgium has the 35th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 13th-largest of the 53 countries in the IDF Europe region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Belgium, another 23 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Belgium?
The number of people living with T1D in Belgium went from 19,920 in 2000 to 40,140 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 50,445 by 2040 (+26%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Belgium, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Belgium over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
19,920
997
258
7,214
2010
27,738
1,157
344
7,853
2020
35,834
1,169
403
8,899
2025
40,140
1,147
297
9,081
2030 (projected)
43,969
1,209
330
9,144
2040 (projected)
50,445
1,168
390
9,526
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Belgium?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Belgium today is expected to live to 71.7, compared with 82.7 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 11.1 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 22.1 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 14.2 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Belgium, 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
–
60.6
22.1
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
–
60.6
22.1
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+1.2
61.8
20.9
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+6.8
68.6
14.2
How does Belgium compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Belgium compared with the Europe region and the world, 2025
2025
Belgium
Europe
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
341.5
298.6
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
9.8
12.1
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
22.6
30.5
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
71.7
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.
