T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Middle East and North Africa region · Lower-Middle-Income country
An estimated 25,659 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Pakistan in 2025. Each year about 2,217 people are newly diagnosed and 940 people with T1D die. A further 17,974 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
25,659
New diagnoses this year
2,217
Deaths this year
940
Missing people
17,974
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
35.3years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Pakistan?
25,659 people in Pakistan are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 10.1 per 100,000 people. That is lower than the Middle East and North Africa average of 172.4 per 100,000 and lower than the global average of 115.5. Pakistan has the 56th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 15th-largest of the 21 countries in the IDF Middle East and North Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Pakistan, another 70 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Pakistan?
The number of people living with T1D in Pakistan went from 4,993 in 2000 to 25,659 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 46,749 by 2040 (+82%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Pakistan, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Pakistan over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
4,993
663
359
5,702
2010
11,334
1,217
552
9,665
2020
19,957
1,846
828
14,581
2025
25,659
2,217
940
17,974
2030 (projected)
32,438
2,895
1,387
22,647
2040 (projected)
46,749
3,290
1,878
36,143
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Pakistan?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Pakistan today is expected to live to 35.3, compared with 72.2 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 36.9 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 14.4 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Pakistan, 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
–
29.5
42.7
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+2.6
32.1
40.1
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+18.8
50.9
21.4
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+6.9
57.8
14.4
How does Pakistan compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Pakistan compared with the Middle East and North Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Pakistan
Middle East and North Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
10.1
172.4
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
0.9
11.4
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
70.0
38.3
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
35.3
48.5
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
72.2
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.
