T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Africa region · Upper-Middle-Income country
An estimated 1,054 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Gabon in 2025. Each year about 97 people are newly diagnosed and 30 people with T1D die. A further 578 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
1,054
New diagnoses this year
97
Deaths this year
30
Missing people
578
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
41.8years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Gabon?
1,054 people in Gabon are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 40.6 per 100,000 people. That is higher than the Africa average of 29.7 per 100,000 and lower than the global average of 115.5. Gabon has the 150th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 32nd-largest of the 49 countries in the IDF Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Gabon, another 55 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Gabon?
The number of people living with T1D in Gabon went from 101 in 2000 to 1,054 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 2,556 by 2040 (+143%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Gabon, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Gabon over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
101
12
9
132
2010
232
27
14
248
2020
710
77
26
456
2025
1,054
97
30
578
2030 (projected)
1,497
136
41
732
2040 (projected)
2,556
164
62
1,170
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Gabon?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Gabon today is expected to live to 41.8, compared with 71.4 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 29.7 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 34.9 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 15.3 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Gabon, 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
–
36.5
34.9
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+5.1
41.6
29.9
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+7.4
49.0
22.5
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.2
56.2
15.3
How does Gabon compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Gabon compared with the Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Gabon
Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
40.6
29.7
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
3.8
4.0
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
54.8
160.4
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
41.8
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.
