T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Middle East and North Africa region · Low-Income country
An estimated 14,553 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Afghanistan in 2025. Each year about 1,716 people are newly diagnosed and 948 people with T1D die. A further 17,225 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
14,553
New diagnoses this year
1,716
Deaths this year
948
Missing people
17,225
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
26.4years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Afghanistan?
14,553 people in Afghanistan are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 33.2 per 100,000 people. That is lower than the Middle East and North Africa average of 172.4 per 100,000 and lower than the global average of 115.5. Afghanistan has the 77th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 16th-largest of the 21 countries in the IDF Middle East and North Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Afghanistan, another 118 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Afghanistan?
The number of people living with T1D in Afghanistan went from 1,369 in 2000 to 14,553 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 30,473 by 2040 (+109%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Afghanistan, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Afghanistan over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
1,369
303
289
4,015
2010
4,073
624
420
7,511
2020
10,626
1,384
863
13,405
2025
14,553
1,716
948
17,225
2030 (projected)
19,695
2,340
1,486
22,706
2040 (projected)
30,473
2,876
2,002
38,593
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Afghanistan?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Afghanistan today is expected to live to 26.4, compared with 70.5 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 44.2 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 47.1 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 14.8 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Afghanistan, 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
–
23.4
47.1
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+3.1
26.5
44.1
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+22.2
48.7
21.9
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.0
55.7
14.8
How does Afghanistan compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Afghanistan compared with the Middle East and North Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Afghanistan
Middle East and North Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
33.2
172.4
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
3.9
11.4
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
118.4
38.3
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
26.4
48.5
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
70.5
76.4
77.0
Type 1 diabetes in other Middle East and North Africa 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.
