T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Africa region · Low-Income country
An estimated 7,423 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Eritrea in 2025. Each year about 900 people are newly diagnosed and 539 people with T1D die. A further 12,526 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
7,423
New diagnoses this year
900
Deaths this year
539
Missing people
12,526
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
27.0years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Eritrea?
7,423 people in Eritrea are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 205.8 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. Eritrea has the 101st-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 18th-largest of the 49 countries in the IDF Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Eritrea, another 169 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Eritrea?
The number of people living with T1D in Eritrea went from 743 in 2000 to 7,423 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 16,650 by 2040 (+124%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Eritrea, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Eritrea over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
743
242
330
5,314
2010
2,264
475
501
8,933
2020
5,151
714
459
10,722
2025
7,423
900
539
12,526
2030 (projected)
10,415
1,223
712
15,088
2040 (projected)
16,650
1,419
967
22,029
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Eritrea?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Eritrea today is expected to live to 27.0, compared with 72.0 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 45.0 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 48.2 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 15.6 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Eritrea, 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
–
23.8
48.2
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+4.6
28.4
43.6
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+20.3
48.7
23.2
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.7
56.4
15.6
How does Eritrea compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Eritrea compared with the Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Eritrea
Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
205.8
29.7
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
25.0
4.0
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
168.7
160.4
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
27.0
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.
