T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Europe region · High-Income country
An estimated 192,956 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Spain in 2025. Each year about 5,940 people are newly diagnosed and 1,388 people with T1D die. A further 49,400 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
192,956
New diagnoses this year
5,940
Deaths this year
1,388
Missing people
49,400
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
74.6years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Spain?
192,956 people in Spain are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 403.1 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. Spain has the 13th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 5th-largest of the 53 countries in the IDF Europe region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Spain, another 26 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Spain?
The number of people living with T1D in Spain went from 105,990 in 2000 to 192,956 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 242,846 by 2040 (+26%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Spain, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Spain over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
105,990
3,886
1,393
46,757
2010
139,961
5,015
1,769
53,217
2020
173,313
5,645
1,465
50,865
2025
192,956
5,940
1,388
49,400
2030 (projected)
211,834
6,683
1,802
48,794
2040 (projected)
242,846
6,267
2,158
50,986
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Spain?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Spain today is expected to live to 74.6, compared with 84.2 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 9.6 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 21.2 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 Spain, 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
–
63.0
21.2
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
–
63.0
21.2
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+1.3
64.3
19.9
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+5.9
70.2
14.0
How does Spain compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Spain compared with the Europe region and the world, 2025
2025
Spain
Europe
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
403.1
298.6
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
12.4
12.1
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
25.6
30.5
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
74.6
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.
