T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Europe region · Upper-Middle-Income country
An estimated 207,079 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Turkey in 2025. Each year about 11,998 people are newly diagnosed and 1,778 people with T1D die. A further 48,040 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
207,079
New diagnoses this year
11,998
Deaths this year
1,778
Missing people
48,040
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
61.1years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Turkey?
207,079 people in Turkey are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 236.2 per 100,000 people. That is lower than the Europe average of 298.6 per 100,000 and higher than the global average of 115.5. Turkey has the 10th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 4th-largest of the 53 countries in the IDF Europe region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Turkey, another 23 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Turkey?
The number of people living with T1D in Turkey went from 40,525 in 2000 to 207,079 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 405,087 by 2040 (+96%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Turkey, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Turkey over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
40,525
2,793
869
28,139
2010
69,478
4,070
1,063
34,054
2020
154,537
10,429
1,595
43,031
2025
207,079
11,998
1,778
48,040
2030 (projected)
272,150
15,516
2,135
53,563
2040 (projected)
405,087
14,866
3,195
69,617
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Turkey?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Turkey today is expected to live to 61.1, compared with 78.7 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 17.6 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 27.1 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 13.7 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Turkey, 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
–
51.6
27.1
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+3.1
54.7
24.0
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+3.4
58.1
20.5
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+6.9
65.0
13.7
How does Turkey compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Turkey compared with the Europe region and the world, 2025
2025
Turkey
Europe
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
236.2
298.6
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
13.7
12.1
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
23.2
30.5
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
61.1
62.1
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
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.
