T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Europe region · High-Income country
An estimated 26,436 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Romania in 2025. Each year about 1,582 people are newly diagnosed and 509 people with T1D die. A further 11,035 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
26,436
New diagnoses this year
1,582
Deaths this year
509
Missing people
11,035
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
57.3years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Romania?
26,436 people in Romania are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 139.8 per 100,000 people. That is lower than the Europe average of 298.6 per 100,000 and higher than the global average of 115.5. Romania has the 53rd-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 21st-largest of the 53 countries in the IDF Europe region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Romania, another 42 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Romania?
The number of people living with T1D in Romania went from 12,219 in 2000 to 26,436 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 38,313 by 2040 (+45%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Romania, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Romania over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
12,219
831
313
8,984
2010
15,995
1,052
296
9,521
2020
22,384
1,361
517
10,253
2025
26,436
1,582
509
11,035
2030 (projected)
30,918
1,954
760
12,377
2040 (projected)
38,313
1,773
866
16,329
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Romania?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Romania today is expected to live to 57.3, compared with 76.8 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 19.5 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 28.9 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 14.5 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Romania, 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
–
47.8
28.9
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
–
47.8
29.0
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+7.4
55.2
21.5
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.1
62.3
14.5
How does Romania compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Romania compared with the Europe region and the world, 2025
2025
Romania
Europe
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
139.8
298.6
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
8.4
12.1
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
41.7
30.5
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
57.3
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.
