T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Middle East and North Africa region · Upper-Middle-Income country
An estimated 70,018 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Iraq in 2025. Each year about 5,343 people are newly diagnosed and 1,176 people with T1D die. A further 20,708 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
70,018
New diagnoses this year
5,343
Deaths this year
1,176
Missing people
20,708
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
48.1years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Iraq?
70,018 people in Iraq are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 148.9 per 100,000 people. That is lower than the Middle East and North Africa average of 172.4 per 100,000 and higher than the global average of 115.5. Iraq has the 27th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 8th-largest of the 21 countries in the IDF Middle East and North Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Iraq, another 30 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Iraq?
The number of people living with T1D in Iraq went from 6,372 in 2000 to 70,018 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 145,355 by 2040 (+108%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Iraq, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Iraq over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
6,372
773
252
4,910
2010
17,860
2,463
522
7,799
2020
49,378
4,516
1,088
15,715
2025
70,018
5,343
1,176
20,708
2030 (projected)
93,766
6,860
1,722
27,093
2040 (projected)
145,355
7,964
2,699
46,530
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Iraq?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Iraq today is expected to live to 48.1, compared with 74.3 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 26.2 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 34.5 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 Iraq, 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
–
39.9
34.5
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+3.2
43.1
31.2
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+10.4
53.5
20.8
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+6.8
60.3
14.0
How does Iraq compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Iraq compared with the Middle East and North Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Iraq
Middle East and North Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
148.9
172.4
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
11.4
11.4
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
29.6
38.3
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
48.1
48.5
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
74.3
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.
