T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Africa region · Lower-Middle-Income country
An estimated 2,128 people are living with type 1 diabetes in the Republic of Congo in 2025. Each year about 252 people are newly diagnosed and 117 people with T1D die. A further 1,865 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
2,128
New diagnoses this year
252
Deaths this year
117
Missing people
1,865
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
31.3years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in the Republic of Congo?
2,128 people in the Republic of Congo are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 32.8 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. The Republic of Congo has the 136th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 24th-largest of the 49 countries in the IDF Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in the Republic of Congo, another 88 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in the Republic of Congo?
The number of people living with T1D in the Republic of Congo went from 179 in 2000 to 2,128 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 5,232 by 2040 (+146%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in the Republic of Congo, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in the Republic of Congo over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
179
31
29
419
2010
454
69
45
796
2020
1,397
195
93
1,393
2025
2,128
252
117
1,865
2030 (projected)
3,090
362
167
2,500
2040 (projected)
5,232
437
250
4,363
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in the Republic of Congo?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in the Republic of Congo today is expected to live to 31.3, compared with 69.0 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 37.7 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 41.3 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 15.4 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in the Republic of Congo, 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
–
27.7
41.3
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+4.0
31.7
37.3
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+15.0
46.7
22.3
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.0
53.7
15.4
How does the Republic of Congo compare?
Type 1 diabetes in the Republic of Congo compared with the Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Republic of Congo
Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
32.8
29.7
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
3.9
4.0
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
87.6
160.4
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
31.3
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.
