T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Africa region · Lower-Middle-Income country
An estimated 9,404 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Cameroon in 2025. Each year about 1,161 people are newly diagnosed and 592 people with T1D die. A further 8,925 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
9,404
New diagnoses this year
1,161
Deaths this year
592
Missing people
8,925
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
28.6years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Cameroon?
9,404 people in Cameroon are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 31.5 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. Cameroon has the 94th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 15th-largest of the 49 countries in the IDF Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Cameroon, another 95 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Cameroon?
The number of people living with T1D in Cameroon went from 800 in 2000 to 9,404 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 22,069 by 2040 (+135%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Cameroon, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Cameroon over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
800
145
143
1,888
2010
1,875
310
204
3,299
2020
6,220
908
460
6,450
2025
9,404
1,161
592
8,925
2030 (projected)
13,368
1,617
902
12,325
2040 (projected)
22,069
2,019
1,291
22,202
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Cameroon?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Cameroon today is expected to live to 28.6, compared with 69.0 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 40.4 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 43.5 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 15.4 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Cameroon, 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
–
25.5
43.5
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+3.5
29.0
40.0
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+17.5
46.5
22.5
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.1
53.6
15.4
How does Cameroon compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Cameroon compared with the Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Cameroon
Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
31.5
29.7
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
3.9
4.0
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
94.9
160.4
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
28.6
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.
