T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Europe region · High-Income country
An estimated 2,589 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Malta in 2025. Each year about 83 people are newly diagnosed and 28 people with T1D die. A further 655 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
2,589
New diagnoses this year
83
Deaths this year
28
Missing people
655
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
69.4years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Malta?
2,589 people in Malta are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 474.8 per 100,000 people. That is higher than the Europe average of 298.6 per 100,000 and higher than the global average of 115.5. Malta has the 132nd-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 46th-largest of the 53 countries in the IDF Europe region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Malta, another 25 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Malta?
The number of people living with T1D in Malta went from 1,235 in 2000 to 2,589 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 3,241 by 2040 (+25%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Malta, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Malta over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
1,235
47
17
439
2010
1,554
55
19
492
2020
2,270
74
27
581
2025
2,589
83
28
655
2030 (projected)
2,851
96
40
731
2040 (projected)
3,241
90
45
896
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Malta?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Malta today is expected to live to 69.4, compared with 84.1 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 14.7 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 28.3 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 14.1 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Malta, 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
–
55.8
28.3
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
–
55.8
28.3
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+6.7
62.5
21.6
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.6
70.1
14.1
How does Malta compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Malta compared with the Europe region and the world, 2025
2025
Malta
Europe
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
474.8
298.6
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
15.2
12.1
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
25.3
30.5
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
69.4
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.
