T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Europe region · High-Income country
An estimated 134,165 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Poland in 2025. Each year about 6,988 people are newly diagnosed and 1,642 people with T1D die. A further 32,265 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
134,165
New diagnoses this year
6,988
Deaths this year
1,642
Missing people
32,265
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
63.5years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Poland?
134,165 people in Poland are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 351.8 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. Poland has the 18th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 8th-largest of the 53 countries in the IDF Europe region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Poland, another 24 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Poland?
The number of people living with T1D in Poland went from 41,798 in 2000 to 134,165 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 191,782 by 2040 (+43%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Poland, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Poland over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
41,798
3,482
595
17,545
2010
74,236
4,721
941
20,004
2020
112,040
6,397
2,175
26,530
2025
134,165
6,988
1,642
32,265
2030 (projected)
156,074
8,129
2,577
38,252
2040 (projected)
191,782
7,180
3,161
55,217
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Poland?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Poland today is expected to live to 63.5, compared with 79.3 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 15.8 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 25.5 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 14.6 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Poland, 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
–
53.8
25.5
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
–
53.8
25.5
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+3.5
57.3
22.0
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.4
64.7
14.6
How does Poland compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Poland compared with the Europe region and the world, 2025
2025
Poland
Europe
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
351.8
298.6
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
18.3
12.1
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
24.0
30.5
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
63.5
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.
