T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Europe region · High-Income country
An estimated 11,784 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Croatia in 2025. Each year about 666 people are newly diagnosed and 199 people with T1D die. A further 4,054 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
11,784
New diagnoses this year
666
Deaths this year
199
Missing people
4,054
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
62.0years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Croatia?
11,784 people in Croatia are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 306.3 per 100,000 people. That is close to the Europe average of 298.6 per 100,000 and higher than the global average of 115.5. Croatia has the 84th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 30th-largest of the 53 countries in the IDF Europe region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Croatia, another 34 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Croatia?
The number of people living with T1D in Croatia went from 4,877 in 2000 to 11,784 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 17,623 by 2040 (+50%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Croatia, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Croatia over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
4,877
319
107
3,045
2010
7,575
470
154
3,344
2020
9,913
588
179
3,766
2025
11,784
666
199
4,054
2030 (projected)
13,847
850
290
4,542
2040 (projected)
17,623
770
339
6,018
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Croatia?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Croatia today is expected to live to 62.0, compared with 79.3 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 17.3 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 29.0 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 Croatia, 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
–
50.3
29.0
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
–
50.3
29.0
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+8.2
58.5
20.7
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.0
65.5
13.8
How does Croatia compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Croatia compared with the Europe region and the world, 2025
2025
Croatia
Europe
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
306.3
298.6
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
17.3
12.1
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
34.4
30.5
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
62.0
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.
