T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Southeast Asia region · Lower-Middle-Income country
An estimated 18,763 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Nepal in 2025. Each year about 1,569 people are newly diagnosed and 695 people with T1D die. A further 16,389 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
18,763
New diagnoses this year
1,569
Deaths this year
695
Missing people
16,389
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
35.7years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Nepal?
18,763 people in Nepal are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 63.4 per 100,000 people. That is close to the Southeast Asia average of 62.2 per 100,000 and lower than the global average of 115.5. Nepal has the 68th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 3rd-largest of the 7 countries in the IDF Southeast Asia region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Nepal, another 87 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Nepal?
The number of people living with T1D in Nepal went from 3,594 in 2000 to 18,763 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 32,243 by 2040 (+72%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Nepal, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Nepal over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
3,594
667
493
7,722
2010
8,867
1,079
503
10,604
2020
15,192
1,383
603
14,275
2025
18,763
1,569
695
16,389
2030 (projected)
23,223
1,949
915
19,193
2040 (projected)
32,243
2,003
1,196
27,495
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Nepal?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Nepal today is expected to live to 35.7, compared with 72.8 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 37.1 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 43.3 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 14.3 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Nepal, 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
–
29.5
43.3
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+2.6
32.1
40.7
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+19.6
51.7
21.1
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+6.8
58.5
14.3
How does Nepal compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Nepal compared with the Southeast Asia region and the world, 2025
2025
Nepal
Southeast Asia
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
63.4
62.2
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
5.3
4.6
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
87.3
80.6
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
35.7
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.
