T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Middle East and North Africa region · Low-Income country
An estimated 11,439 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Yemen in 2025. Each year about 1,036 people are newly diagnosed and 446 people with T1D die. A further 9,512 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
11,439
New diagnoses this year
1,036
Deaths this year
446
Missing people
9,512
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
34.5years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Yemen?
11,439 people in Yemen are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 27.4 per 100,000 people. That is lower than the Middle East and North Africa average of 172.4 per 100,000 and lower than the global average of 115.5. Yemen has the 86th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 20th-largest of the 21 countries in the IDF Middle East and North Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Yemen, another 83 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Yemen?
The number of people living with T1D in Yemen went from 1,651 in 2000 to 11,439 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 24,643 by 2040 (+115%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Yemen, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Yemen over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
1,651
242
172
2,562
2010
4,210
477
257
4,495
2020
8,385
813
431
7,605
2025
11,439
1,036
446
9,512
2030 (projected)
15,511
1,421
639
11,971
2040 (projected)
24,643
1,712
919
18,850
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Yemen?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Yemen today is expected to live to 34.5, compared with 72.5 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 38.0 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 43.7 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 14.4 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Yemen, 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
–
28.8
43.7
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+4.4
33.2
39.4
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+18.0
51.2
21.3
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+6.9
58.1
14.4
How does Yemen compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Yemen compared with the Middle East and North Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Yemen
Middle East and North Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
27.4
172.4
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
2.5
11.4
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
83.2
38.3
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
34.5
48.5
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
72.5
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.
