T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Europe region · High-Income country
An estimated 24,031 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Greece in 2025. Each year about 906 people are newly diagnosed and 279 people with T1D die. A further 8,304 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
24,031
New diagnoses this year
906
Deaths this year
279
Missing people
8,304
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
69.4years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Greece?
24,031 people in Greece are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 241.9 per 100,000 people. That is lower than the Europe average of 298.6 per 100,000 and higher than the global average of 115.5. Greece has the 59th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 24th-largest of the 53 countries in the IDF Europe region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Greece, another 35 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Greece?
The number of people living with T1D in Greece went from 15,483 in 2000 to 24,031 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 30,872 by 2040 (+28%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Greece, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Greece over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
15,483
590
240
7,414
2010
18,738
817
367
8,269
2020
22,754
940
281
8,833
2025
24,031
906
279
8,304
2030 (projected)
26,656
989
320
8,220
2040 (projected)
30,872
913
370
8,409
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Greece?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Greece today is expected to live to 69.4, compared with 82.5 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 13.1 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 25.1 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 13.8 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Greece, 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
–
57.4
25.1
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
–
57.4
25.1
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+4.0
61.4
21.1
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.3
68.7
13.8
How does Greece compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Greece compared with the Europe region and the world, 2025
2025
Greece
Europe
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
241.9
298.6
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
9.1
12.1
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
34.6
30.5
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
69.4
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.
