T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Middle East and North Africa region · Upper-Middle-Income country
An estimated 29,536 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Libya in 2025. Each year about 1,833 people are newly diagnosed and 418 people with T1D die. A further 8,586 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
29,536
New diagnoses this year
1,833
Deaths this year
418
Missing people
8,586
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
51.9years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Libya?
29,536 people in Libya are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 396.0 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. Libya has the 46th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 13th-largest of the 21 countries in the IDF Middle East and North Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Libya, another 29 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Libya?
The number of people living with T1D in Libya went from 4,712 in 2000 to 29,536 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 53,608 by 2040 (+82%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Libya, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Libya over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
4,712
434
142
2,993
2010
11,614
1,278
255
4,442
2020
22,682
1,625
387
6,873
2025
29,536
1,833
418
8,586
2030 (projected)
37,600
2,206
492
10,412
2040 (projected)
53,608
2,322
702
15,223
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Libya?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Libya today is expected to live to 51.9, compared with 74.2 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 22.3 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 29.2 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 14.6 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Libya, 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
–
45.0
29.2
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+3.7
48.7
25.4
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+3.7
52.4
21.8
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.1
59.5
14.6
How does Libya compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Libya compared with the Middle East and North Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Libya
Middle East and North Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
396.0
172.4
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
24.6
11.4
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
29.1
38.3
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
51.9
48.5
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
74.2
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.
