T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Middle East and North Africa region · High-Income country
An estimated 13,766 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Qatar in 2025. Each year about 815 people are newly diagnosed and 29 people with T1D die. A further 422 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
13,766
New diagnoses this year
815
Deaths this year
29
Missing people
422
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
75.1years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Qatar?
13,766 people in Qatar are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 441.8 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. Qatar has the 79th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 17th-largest of the 21 countries in the IDF Middle East and North Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Qatar, another 3 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Qatar?
The number of people living with T1D in Qatar went from 623 in 2000 to 13,766 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 27,106 by 2040 (+97%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Qatar, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Qatar over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
623
51
4
88
2010
3,192
311
12
191
2020
9,819
699
22
327
2025
13,766
815
29
422
2030 (projected)
18,171
1,027
43
498
2040 (projected)
27,106
1,154
58
725
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Qatar?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Qatar today is expected to live to 75.1, compared with 83.3 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 8.2 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 19.6 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 13.4 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Qatar, 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
–
63.7
19.6
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
–
63.7
19.6
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+0.7
64.4
18.9
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+5.5
69.9
13.4
How does Qatar compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Qatar compared with the Middle East and North Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Qatar
Middle East and North Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
441.8
172.4
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
26.1
11.4
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
3.1
38.3
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
75.1
48.5
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
83.3
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.
