T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Western Pacific region · Upper-Middle-Income country
An estimated 11,043 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Malaysia in 2025. Each year about 824 people are newly diagnosed and 145 people with T1D die. A further 2,224 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
11,043
New diagnoses this year
824
Deaths this year
145
Missing people
2,224
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
54.2years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Malaysia?
11,043 people in Malaysia are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 30.7 per 100,000 people. That is lower than the Western Pacific average of 43.1 per 100,000 and lower than the global average of 115.5. Malaysia has the 87th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 12th-largest of the 33 countries in the IDF Western Pacific region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Malaysia, another 20 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Malaysia?
The number of people living with T1D in Malaysia went from 327 in 2000 to 11,043 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 24,071 by 2040 (+118%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Malaysia, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Malaysia over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
327
40
12
158
2010
1,848
361
66
494
2020
7,342
743
125
1,529
2025
11,043
824
145
2,224
2030 (projected)
15,345
1,039
186
3,049
2040 (projected)
24,071
1,041
280
5,232
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Malaysia?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Malaysia today is expected to live to 54.2, compared with 77.5 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 23.3 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 31.5 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 14.6 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Malaysia, 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
–
46.0
31.5
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+4.2
50.2
27.3
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+5.3
55.5
22.0
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.4
62.9
14.6
How does Malaysia compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Malaysia compared with the Western Pacific region and the world, 2025
2025
Malaysia
Western Pacific
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
30.7
43.1
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
2.3
2.4
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
20.1
30.7
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
54.2
56.4
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
77.5
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.
