T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Middle East and North Africa region · High-Income country
An estimated 8,244 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Bahrain in 2025. Each year about 439 people are newly diagnosed and 38 people with T1D die. A further 504 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
8,244
New diagnoses this year
439
Deaths this year
38
Missing people
504
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
67.9years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Bahrain?
8,244 people in Bahrain are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 501.7 per 100,000 people. That is higher than the Middle East and North Africa average of 172.4 per 100,000 and higher than the global average of 115.5. Bahrain has the 97th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the smallest of the 21 countries in the IDF Middle East and North Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Bahrain, another 6 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Bahrain?
The number of people living with T1D in Bahrain went from 707 in 2000 to 8,244 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 16,087 by 2040 (+95%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Bahrain, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Bahrain over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
707
55
5
124
2010
2,578
230
15
227
2020
5,914
371
33
364
2025
8,244
439
38
504
2030 (projected)
10,838
551
60
667
2040 (projected)
16,087
598
87
1,152
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Bahrain?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Bahrain today is expected to live to 67.9, compared with 82.1 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 14.2 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 26.5 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 Bahrain, 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
–
55.6
26.5
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
–
55.6
26.5
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+5.2
60.8
21.3
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.4
68.2
14.0
How does Bahrain compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Bahrain compared with the Middle East and North Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Bahrain
Middle East and North Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
501.7
172.4
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
26.7
11.4
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
6.1
38.3
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
67.9
48.5
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
82.1
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.
