T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Middle East and North Africa region · Lower-Middle-Income country
An estimated 11,449 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Palestine in 2025. Each year about 770 people are newly diagnosed and 221 people with T1D die. A further 5,203 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
11,449
New diagnoses this year
770
Deaths this year
221
Missing people
5,203
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
46.6years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Palestine?
11,449 people in Palestine are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 204.8 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. Palestine has the 85th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 19th-largest of the 21 countries in the IDF Middle East and North Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Palestine, another 45 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Palestine?
The number of people living with T1D in Palestine went from 2,364 in 2000 to 11,449 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 22,216 by 2040 (+94%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Palestine, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Palestine over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
2,364
268
104
1,925
2010
5,205
461
143
2,962
2020
9,232
649
190
4,175
2025
11,449
770
221
5,203
2030 (projected)
14,710
965
231
5,952
2040 (projected)
22,216
1,093
333
8,113
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Palestine?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Palestine today is expected to live to 46.6, compared with 74.7 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 28.1 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 37.2 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 13.6 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Palestine, 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
–
37.5
37.2
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+3.8
41.3
33.4
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+13.2
54.5
20.2
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+6.6
61.1
13.6
How does Palestine compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Palestine compared with the Middle East and North Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Palestine
Middle East and North Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
204.8
172.4
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
13.8
11.4
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
45.4
38.3
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
46.6
48.5
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
74.7
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.
