T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Western Pacific region · High-Income country
An estimated 4,557 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Hong Kong in 2025. Each year about 178 people are newly diagnosed and 37 people with T1D die. A further 692 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
4,557
New diagnoses this year
178
Deaths this year
37
Missing people
692
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
72.5years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Hong Kong?
4,557 people in Hong Kong are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 61.7 per 100,000 people. That is higher than the Western Pacific average of 43.1 per 100,000 and lower than the global average of 115.5. Hong Kong has the 116th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 13th-largest of the 33 countries in the IDF Western Pacific region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Hong Kong, another 15 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Hong Kong?
The number of people living with T1D in Hong Kong went from 1,353 in 2000 to 4,557 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 5,879 by 2040 (+29%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Hong Kong, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Hong Kong over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
1,353
90
13
312
2010
2,388
164
20
401
2020
3,943
179
34
572
2025
4,557
178
37
692
2030 (projected)
5,120
186
57
847
2040 (projected)
5,879
155
74
1,282
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Hong Kong?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Hong Kong today is expected to live to 72.5, compared with 85.9 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 13.4 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 27.4 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 14.3 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Hong Kong, 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
–
58.5
27.4
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
–
58.5
27.4
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+5.4
63.9
22.0
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.7
71.6
14.3
How does Hong Kong compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Hong Kong compared with the Western Pacific region and the world, 2025
2025
Hong Kong
Western Pacific
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
61.7
43.1
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
2.4
2.4
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
15.2
30.7
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
72.5
56.4
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
85.9
79.1
77.0
Type 1 diabetes in other Western Pacific countries
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.
