T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Middle East and North Africa region · Lower-Middle-Income country
An estimated 146,159 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Morocco in 2025. Each year about 9,917 people are newly diagnosed and 3,591 people with T1D die. A further 73,956 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
146,159
New diagnoses this year
9,917
Deaths this year
3,591
Missing people
73,956
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
44.7years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Morocco?
146,159 people in Morocco are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 380.3 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. Morocco has the 16th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 4th-largest of the 21 countries in the IDF Middle East and North Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Morocco, another 51 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Morocco?
The number of people living with T1D in Morocco went from 25,280 in 2000 to 146,159 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 233,744 by 2040 (+60%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Morocco, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Morocco over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
25,280
3,185
1,419
24,049
2010
57,750
6,110
1,992
37,867
2020
114,320
8,932
3,187
59,857
2025
146,159
9,917
3,591
73,956
2030 (projected)
178,397
11,758
4,964
91,508
2040 (projected)
233,744
11,836
6,414
136,819
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Morocco?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Morocco today is expected to live to 44.7, compared with 77.0 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 32.3 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 42.7 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 13.7 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Morocco, 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
–
34.3
42.7
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+3.3
37.6
39.4
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+18.8
56.4
20.6
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+6.9
63.3
13.7
How does Morocco compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Morocco compared with the Middle East and North Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Morocco
Middle East and North Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
380.3
172.4
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
25.8
11.4
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
50.6
38.3
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
44.7
48.5
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
77.0
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.
