T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Europe region · Upper-Middle-Income country
An estimated 2,335 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Kosovo in 2025. Each year about 140 people are newly diagnosed and 24 people with T1D die. A further 717 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
2,335
New diagnoses this year
140
Deaths this year
24
Missing people
717
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
60.9years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Kosovo?
2,335 people in Kosovo are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 139.4 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. Kosovo has the 135th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 49th-largest of the 53 countries in the IDF Europe region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Kosovo, another 31 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Kosovo?
The number of people living with T1D in Kosovo went from 759 in 2000 to 2,335 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 4,041 by 2040 (+73%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Kosovo, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Kosovo over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
759
71
20
581
2010
1,281
92
22
611
2020
1,961
127
29
691
2025
2,335
140
24
717
2030 (projected)
2,878
175
28
771
2040 (projected)
4,041
167
42
948
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Kosovo?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Kosovo today is expected to live to 60.9, compared with 79.2 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 18.3 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 29.1 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 13.4 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Kosovo, 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
–
50.1
29.1
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+3.0
53.1
26.1
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+6.0
59.1
20.1
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+6.7
65.8
13.4
How does Kosovo compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Kosovo compared with the Europe region and the world, 2025
2025
Kosovo
Europe
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
139.4
298.6
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
8.4
12.1
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
30.7
30.5
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
60.9
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.
