T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Africa region · Lower-Middle-Income country
An estimated 4,334 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Benin in 2025. Each year about 575 people are newly diagnosed and 303 people with T1D die. A further 4,732 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
4,334
New diagnoses this year
575
Deaths this year
303
Missing people
4,732
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
26.2years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Benin?
4,334 people in Benin are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 29.3 per 100,000 people. That is close to the Africa average of 29.7 per 100,000 and lower than the global average of 115.5. Benin has the 118th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 22nd-largest of the 49 countries in the IDF Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Benin, another 109 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Benin?
The number of people living with T1D in Benin went from 324 in 2000 to 4,334 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 10,960 by 2040 (+153%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Benin, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Benin over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
324
69
75
968
2010
825
150
97
1,735
2020
2,775
451
221
3,522
2025
4,334
575
303
4,732
2030 (projected)
6,344
799
369
6,211
2040 (projected)
10,960
980
584
10,381
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Benin?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Benin today is expected to live to 26.2, compared with 67.2 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 41.0 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 43.3 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 16.4 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Benin, 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
–
24.0
43.3
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+3.1
27.1
40.1
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+16.0
43.1
24.2
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.7
50.8
16.4
How does Benin compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Benin compared with the Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Benin
Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
29.3
29.7
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
3.9
4.0
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
109.2
160.4
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
26.2
24.4
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.
