T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Europe region · High-Income country
An estimated 84,525 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Sweden in 2025. Each year about 2,311 people are newly diagnosed and 437 people with T1D die. A further 13,221 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
84,525
New diagnoses this year
2,311
Deaths this year
437
Missing people
13,221
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
76.4years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Sweden?
84,525 people in Sweden are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 793.4 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. Sweden has the 25th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 10th-largest of the 53 countries in the IDF Europe region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Sweden, another 16 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Sweden?
The number of people living with T1D in Sweden went from 40,730 in 2000 to 84,525 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 104,591 by 2040 (+24%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Sweden, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Sweden over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
40,730
1,760
577
14,361
2010
55,770
2,198
431
13,949
2020
75,692
2,302
466
13,344
2025
84,525
2,311
437
13,221
2030 (projected)
92,160
2,385
589
13,279
2040 (projected)
104,591
2,350
652
13,798
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Sweden?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Sweden today is expected to live to 76.4, compared with 83.8 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 7.4 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 18.3 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 13.7 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Sweden, 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
–
65.5
18.3
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
–
65.5
18.3
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+1.5
67.0
16.8
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+3.1
70.1
13.7
How does Sweden compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Sweden compared with the Europe region and the world, 2025
2025
Sweden
Europe
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
793.4
298.6
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
21.7
12.1
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
15.6
30.5
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
76.4
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.
