T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Europe region · High-Income country
An estimated 5,381 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Estonia in 2025. Each year about 299 people are newly diagnosed and 99 people with T1D die. A further 1,940 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
5,381
New diagnoses this year
299
Deaths this year
99
Missing people
1,940
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
58.6years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Estonia?
5,381 people in Estonia are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 400.4 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. Estonia has the 112th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 38th-largest of the 53 countries in the IDF Europe region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Estonia, another 36 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Estonia?
The number of people living with T1D in Estonia went from 1,990 in 2000 to 5,381 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 7,606 by 2040 (+41%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Estonia, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Estonia over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
1,990
110
38
1,362
2010
3,043
214
67
1,387
2020
4,410
260
74
1,690
2025
5,381
299
99
1,940
2030 (projected)
6,187
355
144
2,250
2040 (projected)
7,606
319
164
3,103
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Estonia?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Estonia today is expected to live to 58.6, compared with 79.7 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 21.1 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 32.2 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 14.8 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Estonia, 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
–
47.5
32.2
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
–
47.5
32.2
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+9.8
57.3
22.4
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.6
64.9
14.8
How does Estonia compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Estonia compared with the Europe region and the world, 2025
2025
Estonia
Europe
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
400.4
298.6
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
22.2
12.1
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
36.1
30.5
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
58.6
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.
