T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Africa region · Low-Income country
An estimated 3,079 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Burundi in 2025. Each year about 501 people are newly diagnosed and 366 people with T1D die. A further 7,393 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
3,079
New diagnoses this year
501
Deaths this year
366
Missing people
7,393
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
20.6years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Burundi?
3,079 people in Burundi are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 21.4 per 100,000 people. That is lower than the Africa average of 29.7 per 100,000 and lower than the global average of 115.5. Burundi has the 128th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 23rd-largest of the 49 countries in the IDF Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Burundi, another 240 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Burundi?
The number of people living with T1D in Burundi went from 366 in 2000 to 3,079 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 7,625 by 2040 (+148%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Burundi, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Burundi over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
366
105
159
1,994
2010
931
218
272
4,065
2020
2,058
368
284
6,036
2025
3,079
501
366
7,393
2030 (projected)
4,537
716
461
9,118
2040 (projected)
7,625
858
679
13,875
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Burundi?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Burundi today is expected to live to 20.6, compared with 68.1 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 47.5 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 48.7 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 16.3 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Burundi, 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
–
19.3
48.7
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+3.1
22.4
45.7
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+21.6
44.0
24.1
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.7
51.7
16.3
How does Burundi compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Burundi compared with the Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Burundi
Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
21.4
29.7
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
3.5
4.0
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
240.1
160.4
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
20.6
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.
