T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Africa region · Low-Income country
An estimated 12,371 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Mozambique in 2025. Each year about 1,579 people are newly diagnosed and 966 people with T1D die. A further 21,217 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
12,371
New diagnoses this year
1,579
Deaths this year
966
Missing people
21,217
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
26.1years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Mozambique?
12,371 people in Mozambique are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 34.7 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. Mozambique has the 82nd-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 10th-largest of the 49 countries in the IDF Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Mozambique, another 172 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Mozambique?
The number of people living with T1D in Mozambique went from 945 in 2000 to 12,371 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 29,122 by 2040 (+135%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Mozambique, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Mozambique over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
945
374
566
8,117
2010
2,821
690
599
12,622
2020
8,381
1,208
802
17,604
2025
12,371
1,579
966
21,217
2030 (projected)
17,437
2,251
1,409
26,149
2040 (projected)
29,122
2,905
2,059
40,781
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Mozambique?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Mozambique today is expected to live to 26.1, compared with 68.5 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 42.4 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 44.9 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 15.1 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Mozambique, 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
–
23.6
44.9
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+4.5
28.1
40.4
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+18.3
46.4
22.1
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.0
53.4
15.1
How does Mozambique compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Mozambique compared with the Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Mozambique
Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
34.7
29.7
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
4.4
4.0
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
171.5
160.4
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
26.1
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.
