T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Middle East and North Africa region · Low-Income country
An estimated 45,328 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Syria in 2025. Each year about 3,366 people are newly diagnosed and 1,678 people with T1D die. A further 48,374 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
45,328
New diagnoses this year
3,366
Deaths this year
1,678
Missing people
48,374
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
35.1years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Syria?
45,328 people in Syria are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 176.9 per 100,000 people. That is close to the Middle East and North Africa average of 172.4 per 100,000 and higher than the global average of 115.5. Syria has the 32nd-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 9th-largest of the 21 countries in the IDF Middle East and North Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Syria, another 107 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Syria?
The number of people living with T1D in Syria went from 12,475 in 2000 to 45,328 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 82,046 by 2040 (+81%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Syria, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Syria over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
12,475
1,374
906
17,269
2010
29,167
2,471
1,235
28,099
2020
30,639
2,693
1,378
37,162
2025
45,328
3,366
1,678
48,374
2030 (projected)
58,584
4,373
2,357
58,915
2040 (projected)
82,046
5,132
3,182
81,883
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Syria?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Syria today is expected to live to 35.1, compared with 74.7 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 39.5 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 46.1 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 14.3 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Syria, 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
–
28.6
46.1
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+4.3
32.9
41.7
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+20.3
53.2
21.5
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.1
60.3
14.3
How does Syria compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Syria compared with the Middle East and North Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Syria
Middle East and North Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
176.9
172.4
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
13.1
11.4
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
106.7
38.3
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
35.1
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.
