T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Africa region · Lower-Middle-Income country
An estimated 10,899 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Ghana in 2025. Each year about 1,348 people are newly diagnosed and 788 people with T1D die. A further 12,187 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
10,899
New diagnoses this year
1,348
Deaths this year
788
Missing people
12,187
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
26.3years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Ghana?
10,899 people in Ghana are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 31.1 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. Ghana has the 88th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 11th-largest of the 49 countries in the IDF Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Ghana, another 112 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Ghana?
The number of people living with T1D in Ghana went from 1,126 in 2000 to 10,899 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 22,677 by 2040 (+108%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Ghana, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Ghana over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
1,126
197
166
2,591
2010
2,620
407
291
4,612
2020
7,459
1,104
631
8,975
2025
10,899
1,348
788
12,187
2030 (projected)
14,872
1,824
1,051
16,293
2040 (projected)
22,677
2,064
1,450
27,377
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Ghana?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Ghana today is expected to live to 26.3, compared with 69.4 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 43.1 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 45.6 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 16.0 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Ghana, 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
45.6
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+3.1
26.9
42.5
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+18.7
45.6
23.7
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.7
53.3
16.0
How does Ghana compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Ghana compared with the Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Ghana
Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
31.1
29.7
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
3.8
4.0
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
111.8
160.4
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
26.3
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.
