T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Africa region · Low-Income country
An estimated 17,807 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Ethiopia in 2025. Each year about 2,259 people are newly diagnosed and 1,467 people with T1D die. A further 36,032 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
17,807
New diagnoses this year
2,259
Deaths this year
1,467
Missing people
36,032
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
25.0years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Ethiopia?
17,807 people in Ethiopia are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 13.1 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. Ethiopia has the 70th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 8th-largest of the 49 countries in the IDF Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Ethiopia, another 202 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Ethiopia?
The number of people living with T1D in Ethiopia went from 1,511 in 2000 to 17,807 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 44,721 by 2040 (+151%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Ethiopia, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Ethiopia over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
1,511
474
758
11,218
2010
4,055
1,015
1,166
19,690
2020
11,698
1,793
1,168
30,321
2025
17,807
2,259
1,467
36,032
2030 (projected)
25,836
3,033
1,717
42,696
2040 (projected)
44,721
3,778
2,509
60,493
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Ethiopia?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Ethiopia today is expected to live to 25.0, compared with 71.4 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 46.4 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 49.0 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 Ethiopia, 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
–
22.4
49.0
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+4.1
26.5
44.8
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+21.4
47.9
23.5
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.7
55.6
15.8
How does Ethiopia compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Ethiopia compared with the Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Ethiopia
Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
13.1
29.7
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
1.7
4.0
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
202.3
160.4
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
25.0
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.
