T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Africa region · Lower-Middle-Income country
An estimated 1,883 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Djibouti in 2025. Each year about 164 people are newly diagnosed and 84 people with T1D die. A further 1,757 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
1,883
New diagnoses this year
164
Deaths this year
84
Missing people
1,757
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
32.0years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Djibouti?
1,883 people in Djibouti are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 159.1 per 100,000 people. That is higher than the Africa average of 29.7 per 100,000 and higher than the global average of 115.5. Djibouti has the 137th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 25th-largest of the 49 countries in the IDF Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Djibouti, another 93 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Djibouti?
The number of people living with T1D in Djibouti went from 382 in 2000 to 1,883 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 3,194 by 2040 (+70%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Djibouti, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Djibouti over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
382
51
32
492
2010
786
93
52
866
2020
1,454
141
71
1,427
2025
1,883
164
84
1,757
2030 (projected)
2,352
207
119
2,183
2040 (projected)
3,194
219
148
3,293
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Djibouti?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Djibouti today is expected to live to 32.0, compared with 70.4 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 38.4 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 42.3 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 15.8 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Djibouti, 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
–
28.1
42.3
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+2.5
30.6
39.8
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+16.3
46.9
23.5
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.7
54.6
15.8
How does Djibouti compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Djibouti compared with the Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Djibouti
Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
159.1
29.7
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
13.8
4.0
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
93.3
160.4
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
32.0
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.
