T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Africa region · Low-Income country
An estimated 4,399 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Rwanda in 2025. Each year about 507 people are newly diagnosed and 311 people with T1D die. A further 7,522 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
4,399
New diagnoses this year
507
Deaths this year
311
Missing people
7,522
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
27.9years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Rwanda?
4,399 people in Rwanda are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 30.2 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. Rwanda has the 117th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 21st-largest of the 49 countries in the IDF Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Rwanda, another 171 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Rwanda?
The number of people living with T1D in Rwanda went from 297 in 2000 to 4,399 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 9,303 by 2040 (+111%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Rwanda, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Rwanda over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
297
141
226
2,847
2010
1,256
245
192
4,477
2020
3,080
400
253
6,357
2025
4,399
507
311
7,522
2030 (projected)
6,002
677
419
9,055
2040 (projected)
9,303
800
572
13,152
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Rwanda?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Rwanda today is expected to live to 27.9, compared with 70.9 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 43.0 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 46.3 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 15.1 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Rwanda, 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
–
24.6
46.3
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+4.9
29.5
41.4
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+19.2
48.7
22.2
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.0
55.7
15.1
How does Rwanda compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Rwanda compared with the Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Rwanda
Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
30.2
29.7
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
3.5
4.0
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
171.0
160.4
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
27.9
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.
