T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Africa region · Upper-Middle-Income country
An estimated 1,422 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Namibia in 2025. Each year about 133 people are newly diagnosed and 53 people with T1D die. A further 1,386 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
1,422
New diagnoses this year
133
Deaths this year
53
Missing people
1,386
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
36.5years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Namibia?
1,422 people in Namibia are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 46.0 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. Namibia has the 145th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 28th-largest of the 49 countries in the IDF Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Namibia, another 97 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Namibia?
The number of people living with T1D in Namibia went from 262 in 2000 to 1,422 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 2,984 by 2040 (+110%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Namibia, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Namibia over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
262
38
36
450
2010
469
68
41
772
2020
1,005
105
45
1,164
2025
1,422
133
53
1,386
2030 (projected)
1,916
182
81
1,663
2040 (projected)
2,984
215
118
2,483
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Namibia?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Namibia today is expected to live to 36.5, compared with 70.4 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 33.9 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 38.3 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 Namibia, 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
–
32.1
38.3
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+4.2
36.3
34.1
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+10.8
47.1
23.3
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.3
54.4
16.0
How does Namibia compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Namibia compared with the Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Namibia
Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
46.0
29.7
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
4.3
4.0
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
97.5
160.4
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
36.5
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.
