T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Western Pacific region · High-Income country
An estimated 4,076 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Singapore in 2025. Each year about 159 people are newly diagnosed and 16 people with T1D die. A further 285 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
4,076
New diagnoses this year
159
Deaths this year
16
Missing people
285
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
75.0years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Singapore?
4,076 people in Singapore are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 69.4 per 100,000 people. That is higher than the Western Pacific average of 43.1 per 100,000 and lower than the global average of 115.5. Singapore has the 121st-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 14th-largest of the 33 countries in the IDF Western Pacific region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Singapore, another 7 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Singapore?
The number of people living with T1D in Singapore went from 833 in 2000 to 4,076 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 6,014 by 2040 (+48%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Singapore, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Singapore over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
833
56
7
139
2010
1,823
129
8
185
2020
3,300
152
12
235
2025
4,076
159
16
285
2030 (projected)
4,783
176
27
363
2040 (projected)
6,014
169
40
600
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Singapore?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Singapore today is expected to live to 75.0, compared with 84.2 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 9.1 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 20.6 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 13.9 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Singapore, 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
–
63.6
20.6
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
–
63.6
20.6
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+1.2
64.8
19.4
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+5.5
70.3
13.9
How does Singapore compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Singapore compared with the Western Pacific region and the world, 2025
2025
Singapore
Western Pacific
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
69.4
43.1
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
2.7
2.4
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
7.0
30.7
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
75.0
56.4
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
84.2
79.1
77.0
Type 1 diabetes in other Western Pacific countries
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.
