T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Middle East and North Africa region · Lower-Middle-Income country
An estimated 12,882 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Lebanon in 2025. Each year about 710 people are newly diagnosed and 258 people with T1D die. A further 6,659 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
12,882
New diagnoses this year
710
Deaths this year
258
Missing people
6,659
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
50.4years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Lebanon?
12,882 people in Lebanon are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 220.2 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. Lebanon has the 80th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 18th-largest of the 21 countries in the IDF Middle East and North Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Lebanon, another 52 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Lebanon?
The number of people living with T1D in Lebanon went from 3,466 in 2000 to 12,882 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 19,777 by 2040 (+54%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Lebanon, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Lebanon over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
3,466
336
109
3,830
2010
7,229
514
147
4,766
2020
10,976
658
264
5,922
2025
12,882
710
258
6,659
2030 (projected)
15,211
843
357
7,669
2040 (projected)
19,777
883
435
10,296
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Lebanon?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Lebanon today is expected to live to 50.4, compared with 79.5 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 29.2 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 41.9 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 13.6 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Lebanon, 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
–
37.7
41.9
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+3.8
41.5
38.0
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+17.5
59.0
20.6
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.0
66.0
13.6
How does Lebanon compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Lebanon compared with the Middle East and North Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Lebanon
Middle East and North Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
220.2
172.4
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
12.2
11.4
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
51.7
38.3
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
50.4
48.5
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
79.5
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.
