T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Middle East and North Africa region · Lower-Middle-Income country
An estimated 43,071 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Tunisia in 2025. Each year about 2,898 people are newly diagnosed and 1,093 people with T1D die. A further 21,209 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
43,071
New diagnoses this year
2,898
Deaths this year
1,093
Missing people
21,209
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
45.1years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Tunisia?
43,071 people in Tunisia are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 348.8 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. Tunisia has the 33rd-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 10th-largest of the 21 countries in the IDF Middle East and North Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Tunisia, another 49 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Tunisia?
The number of people living with T1D in Tunisia went from 7,826 in 2000 to 43,071 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 66,929 by 2040 (+55%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Tunisia, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Tunisia over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
7,826
775
292
7,121
2010
17,532
1,989
595
10,376
2020
34,334
2,598
1,011
16,869
2025
43,071
2,898
1,093
21,209
2030 (projected)
52,138
3,367
1,494
26,483
2040 (projected)
66,929
3,276
1,830
39,346
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Tunisia?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Tunisia today is expected to live to 45.1, compared with 77.8 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 32.7 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 43.6 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 13.8 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Tunisia, 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
–
34.2
43.6
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+3.3
37.5
40.3
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+19.6
57.1
20.8
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.0
64.1
13.8
How does Tunisia compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Tunisia compared with the Middle East and North Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Tunisia
Middle East and North Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
348.8
172.4
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
23.5
11.4
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
49.2
38.3
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
45.1
48.5
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
77.8
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.
