T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Europe region · Upper-Middle-Income country
An estimated 13,950 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Serbia in 2025. Each year about 542 people are newly diagnosed and 188 people with T1D die. A further 5,299 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
13,950
New diagnoses this year
542
Deaths this year
188
Missing people
5,299
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
55.1years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Serbia?
13,950 people in Serbia are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 208.6 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. Serbia has the 78th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 29th-largest of the 53 countries in the IDF Europe region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Serbia, another 38 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Serbia?
The number of people living with T1D in Serbia went from 6,411 in 2000 to 13,950 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 21,194 by 2040 (+52%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Serbia, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Serbia over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
6,411
266
155
4,529
2010
8,457
362
153
4,866
2020
11,749
479
192
5,099
2025
13,950
542
188
5,299
2030 (projected)
16,588
677
253
5,608
2040 (projected)
21,194
605
295
6,581
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Serbia?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Serbia today is expected to live to 55.1, compared with 77.5 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 22.4 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 32.2 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 14.0 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Serbia, 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
–
45.3
32.2
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+2.6
47.9
29.6
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+8.7
56.6
20.9
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+6.9
63.5
14.0
How does Serbia compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Serbia compared with the Europe region and the world, 2025
2025
Serbia
Europe
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
208.6
298.6
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
8.1
12.1
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
38.0
30.5
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
55.1
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.
