T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Europe region · High-Income country
An estimated 7,885 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Lithuania in 2025. Each year about 482 people are newly diagnosed and 173 people with T1D die. A further 3,112 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
7,885
New diagnoses this year
482
Deaths this year
173
Missing people
3,112
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
54.6years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Lithuania?
7,885 people in Lithuania are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 278.7 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. Lithuania has the 98th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 33rd-largest of the 53 countries in the IDF Europe region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Lithuania, another 39 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Lithuania?
The number of people living with T1D in Lithuania went from 3,450 in 2000 to 7,885 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 10,713 by 2040 (+36%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Lithuania, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Lithuania over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
3,450
197
65
2,251
2010
4,636
338
87
2,312
2020
6,297
405
150
2,705
2025
7,885
482
173
3,112
2030 (projected)
9,024
572
266
3,720
2040 (projected)
10,713
494
294
5,359
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Lithuania?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Lithuania today is expected to live to 54.6, compared with 76.6 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 22.1 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 30.5 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 15.3 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Lithuania, 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
–
46.1
30.5
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
–
46.1
30.5
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+7.7
53.8
22.9
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.5
61.3
15.3
How does Lithuania compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Lithuania compared with the Europe region and the world, 2025
2025
Lithuania
Europe
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
278.7
298.6
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
17.0
12.1
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
39.5
30.5
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
54.6
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.
