T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Southeast Asia region · Upper-Middle-Income country
An estimated 515 people are living with type 1 diabetes in the Maldives in 2025. Each year about 37 people are newly diagnosed and 4 people with T1D die. A further 111 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
515
New diagnoses this year
37
Deaths this year
4
Missing people
111
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
60.6years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in the Maldives?
515 people in the Maldives are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 97.3 per 100,000 people. That is higher than the Southeast Asia average of 62.2 per 100,000 and lower than the global average of 115.5. The Maldives has the 161st-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the smallest of the 7 countries in the IDF Southeast Asia region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in the Maldives, another 22 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in the Maldives?
The number of people living with T1D in the Maldives went from 37 in 2000 to 515 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 999 by 2040 (+94%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in the Maldives, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in the Maldives over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
37
4
1
31
2010
94
9
2
49
2020
354
34
5
90
2025
515
37
4
111
2030 (projected)
679
44
6
132
2040 (projected)
999
42
10
200
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in the Maldives?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in the Maldives today is expected to live to 60.6, compared with 82.0 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 21.4 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 36.0 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 13.0 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in the Maldives, 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
36.0
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+3.8
49.8
32.2
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+12.4
62.2
19.8
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+6.8
69.0
13.0
How does the Maldives compare?
Type 1 diabetes in the Maldives compared with the Southeast Asia region and the world, 2025
2025
Maldives
Southeast Asia
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
97.3
62.2
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
7.0
4.6
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
21.6
80.6
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
60.6
39.9
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.
