T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Southeast Asia region · Lower-Middle-Income country
An estimated 597 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Bhutan in 2025. Each year about 39 people are newly diagnosed and 16 people with T1D die. A further 416 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
597
New diagnoses this year
39
Deaths this year
16
Missing people
416
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
41.6years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Bhutan?
597 people in Bhutan are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 74.9 per 100,000 people. That is higher than the Southeast Asia average of 62.2 per 100,000 and lower than the global average of 115.5. Bhutan has the 158th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 6th-largest of the 7 countries in the IDF Southeast Asia region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Bhutan, another 70 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Bhutan?
The number of people living with T1D in Bhutan went from 117 in 2000 to 597 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 941 by 2040 (+58%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Bhutan, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Bhutan over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
117
16
10
167
2010
259
26
10
266
2020
475
35
13
357
2025
597
39
16
416
2030 (projected)
725
48
22
493
2040 (projected)
941
48
30
704
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Bhutan?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Bhutan today is expected to live to 41.6, compared with 75.2 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 33.5 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 42.4 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 13.8 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Bhutan, 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
–
32.8
42.4
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+3.1
35.9
39.3
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+18.7
54.6
20.6
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+6.8
61.4
13.8
How does Bhutan compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Bhutan compared with the Southeast Asia region and the world, 2025
2025
Bhutan
Southeast Asia
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
74.9
62.2
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
5.0
4.6
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
69.7
80.6
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
41.6
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.
