T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Europe region · High-Income country
An estimated 68,097 people are living with type 1 diabetes in the Netherlands in 2025. Each year about 2,045 people are newly diagnosed and 708 people with T1D die. A further 16,380 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
68,097
New diagnoses this year
2,045
Deaths this year
708
Missing people
16,380
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
70.7years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in the Netherlands?
68,097 people in the Netherlands are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 371.2 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. The Netherlands has the 28th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 11th-largest of the 53 countries in the IDF Europe region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in the Netherlands, another 24 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in the Netherlands?
The number of people living with T1D in the Netherlands went from 36,618 in 2000 to 68,097 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 81,782 by 2040 (+20%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in the Netherlands, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in the Netherlands over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
36,618
1,829
563
11,818
2010
48,353
2,051
614
12,953
2020
60,915
2,060
709
15,321
2025
68,097
2,045
708
16,380
2030 (projected)
73,447
2,172
882
17,603
2040 (projected)
81,782
2,152
949
20,010
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in the Netherlands?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in the Netherlands today is expected to live to 70.7, compared with 82.8 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 12.0 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 24.2 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 13.7 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in the Netherlands, 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
–
58.6
24.2
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
–
58.6
24.2
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+3.3
61.9
20.9
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.2
69.1
13.7
How does the Netherlands compare?
Type 1 diabetes in the Netherlands compared with the Europe region and the world, 2025
2025
Netherlands
Europe
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
371.2
298.6
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
11.2
12.1
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
24.1
30.5
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
70.7
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.
