T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Middle East and North Africa region · High-Income country
An estimated 30,263 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Kuwait in 2025. Each year about 1,337 people are newly diagnosed and 107 people with T1D die. A further 1,779 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
30,263
New diagnoses this year
1,337
Deaths this year
107
Missing people
1,779
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
70.8years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Kuwait?
30,263 people in Kuwait are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 602.1 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. Kuwait has the 45th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 12th-largest of the 21 countries in the IDF Middle East and North Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Kuwait, another 6 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Kuwait?
The number of people living with T1D in Kuwait went from 4,357 in 2000 to 30,263 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 52,707 by 2040 (+74%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Kuwait, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Kuwait over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
4,357
285
24
459
2010
10,000
581
44
732
2020
21,739
1,054
132
1,643
2025
30,263
1,337
107
1,779
2030 (projected)
37,628
1,687
154
2,085
2040 (projected)
52,707
1,833
201
2,969
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Kuwait?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Kuwait today is expected to live to 70.8, compared with 81.4 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 10.6 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 22.6 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 13.0 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Kuwait, 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
–
58.8
22.6
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
–
58.8
22.6
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+2.7
61.5
20.0
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+6.9
68.4
13.0
How does Kuwait compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Kuwait compared with the Middle East and North Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Kuwait
Middle East and North Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
602.1
172.4
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
26.6
11.4
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
5.9
38.3
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
70.8
48.5
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
81.4
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.
