T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Europe region · Upper-Middle-Income country
An estimated 1,701 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Montenegro in 2025. Each year about 95 people are newly diagnosed and 34 people with T1D die. A further 815 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
1,701
New diagnoses this year
95
Deaths this year
34
Missing people
815
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
54.8years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Montenegro?
1,701 people in Montenegro are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 268.9 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. Montenegro has the 140th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 50th-largest of the 53 countries in the IDF Europe region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Montenegro, another 48 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Montenegro?
The number of people living with T1D in Montenegro went from 716 in 2000 to 1,701 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 2,338 by 2040 (+37%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Montenegro, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Montenegro over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
716
50
22
574
2010
1,067
69
21
636
2020
1,400
76
31
709
2025
1,701
95
34
815
2030 (projected)
1,934
115
45
895
2040 (projected)
2,338
104
51
1,109
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Montenegro?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Montenegro today is expected to live to 54.8, compared with 77.8 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 22.9 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 33.0 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 14.0 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Montenegro, 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
–
44.8
33.0
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+2.6
47.4
30.4
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+9.3
56.7
21.0
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.0
63.7
14.0
How does Montenegro compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Montenegro compared with the Europe region and the world, 2025
2025
Montenegro
Europe
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
268.9
298.6
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
14.9
12.1
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
47.9
30.5
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
54.8
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.
