T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Middle East and North Africa region · Lower-Middle-Income country
An estimated 203,020 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Egypt in 2025. Each year about 13,005 people are newly diagnosed and 4,304 people with T1D die. A further 73,467 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
203,020
New diagnoses this year
13,005
Deaths this year
4,304
Missing people
73,467
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
42.6years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Egypt?
203,020 people in Egypt are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 171.5 per 100,000 people. That is close to the Middle East and North Africa average of 172.4 per 100,000 and higher than the global average of 115.5. Egypt has the 11th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 2nd-largest of the 21 countries in the IDF Middle East and North Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Egypt, another 36 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Egypt?
The number of people living with T1D in Egypt went from 22,975 in 2000 to 203,020 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 382,543 by 2040 (+88%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Egypt, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Egypt over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
22,975
2,284
796
20,090
2010
63,745
6,754
2,052
30,664
2020
149,732
10,947
3,860
55,535
2025
203,020
13,005
4,304
73,467
2030 (projected)
263,456
16,129
6,022
95,699
2040 (projected)
382,543
17,765
8,475
157,235
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Egypt?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Egypt today is expected to live to 42.6, compared with 73.2 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 30.7 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 39.5 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 13.3 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Egypt, 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
–
33.8
39.5
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+3.3
37.1
36.2
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+16.5
53.6
19.6
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+6.3
59.9
13.3
How does Egypt compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Egypt compared with the Middle East and North Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Egypt
Middle East and North Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
171.5
172.4
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
11.0
11.4
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
36.2
38.3
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
42.6
48.5
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
73.2
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.
