T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Middle East and North Africa region · High-Income country
An estimated 85,248 people are living with type 1 diabetes in the United Arab Emirates in 2025. Each year about 4,286 people are newly diagnosed and 138 people with T1D die. A further 2,184 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
85,248
New diagnoses this year
4,286
Deaths this year
138
Missing people
2,184
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
76.1years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in the United Arab Emirates?
85,248 people in the United Arab Emirates are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 751.4 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. The United Arab Emirates has the 24th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 7th-largest of the 21 countries in the IDF Middle East and North Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in the United Arab Emirates, another 3 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in the United Arab Emirates?
The number of people living with T1D in the United Arab Emirates went from 5,406 in 2000 to 85,248 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 171,210 by 2040 (+101%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in the United Arab Emirates, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in the United Arab Emirates over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
5,406
381
30
948
2010
21,155
1,770
61
1,540
2020
55,700
3,277
110
1,698
2025
85,248
4,286
138
2,184
2030 (projected)
113,364
5,439
217
2,525
2040 (projected)
171,210
6,101
301
3,707
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in the United Arab Emirates?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in the United Arab Emirates today is expected to live to 76.1, compared with 83.8 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 7.6 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 19.8 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 13.0 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in the United Arab Emirates, 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
–
64.0
19.8
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
–
64.0
19.8
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+0.7
64.7
19.0
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+6.1
70.8
13.0
How does the United Arab Emirates compare?
Type 1 diabetes in the United Arab Emirates compared with the Middle East and North Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
United Arab Emirates
Middle East and North Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
751.4
172.4
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
37.8
11.4
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
2.6
38.3
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
76.1
48.5
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
83.8
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.
