T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Africa region · Lower-Middle-Income country
An estimated 9,994 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Cote d'Ivoire in 2025. Each year about 1,275 people are newly diagnosed and 665 people with T1D die. A further 10,188 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
9,994
New diagnoses this year
1,275
Deaths this year
665
Missing people
10,188
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
28.1years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Cote d'Ivoire?
9,994 people in Cote d'Ivoire are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 30.6 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. Cote d'Ivoire has the 91st-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 14th-largest of the 49 countries in the IDF Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Cote d'Ivoire, another 102 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Cote d'Ivoire?
The number of people living with T1D in Cote d'Ivoire went from 945 in 2000 to 9,994 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 23,348 by 2040 (+134%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Cote d'Ivoire, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Cote d'Ivoire over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
945
175
176
2,259
2010
2,039
352
244
3,932
2020
6,578
985
516
7,494
2025
9,994
1,275
665
10,188
2030 (projected)
14,168
1,790
988
13,843
2040 (projected)
23,348
2,194
1,467
24,720
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Cote d'Ivoire?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Cote d'Ivoire today is expected to live to 28.1, compared with 67.0 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 38.9 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 41.4 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 15.8 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Cote d'Ivoire, 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
–
25.6
41.4
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+3.5
29.1
37.9
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+15.1
44.2
22.8
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.0
51.2
15.8
How does Cote d'Ivoire compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Cote d'Ivoire compared with the Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Cote d'Ivoire
Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
30.6
29.7
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
3.9
4.0
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
101.9
160.4
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
28.1
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.
