T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Middle East and North Africa region · Low-Income country
An estimated 100,571 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Sudan in 2025. Each year about 9,765 people are newly diagnosed and 6,414 people with T1D die. A further 131,992 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
100,571
New diagnoses this year
9,765
Deaths this year
6,414
Missing people
131,992
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
25.4years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Sudan?
100,571 people in Sudan are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 194.7 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. Sudan has the 22nd-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 6th-largest of the 21 countries in the IDF Middle East and North Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Sudan, another 131 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Sudan?
The number of people living with T1D in Sudan went from 17,242 in 2000 to 100,571 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 210,222 by 2040 (+109%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Sudan, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Sudan over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
17,242
2,391
2,905
44,874
2010
35,922
4,402
3,793
71,863
2020
76,066
7,824
5,385
110,668
2025
100,571
9,765
6,414
131,992
2030 (projected)
135,522
13,579
8,975
166,688
2040 (projected)
210,222
16,646
12,251
257,075
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Sudan?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Sudan today is expected to live to 25.4, compared with 70.9 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 45.5 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 48.1 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 15.7 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Sudan, 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
–
22.8
48.1
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+4.3
27.1
43.9
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+20.5
47.6
23.3
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.7
55.3
15.7
How does Sudan compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Sudan compared with the Middle East and North Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Sudan
Middle East and North Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
194.7
172.4
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
18.9
11.4
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
131.2
38.3
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
25.4
48.5
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
70.9
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.
