T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Africa region · Low-Income country
An estimated 21,218 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Somalia in 2025. Each year about 4,641 people are newly diagnosed and 4,177 people with T1D die. A further 75,024 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
21,218
New diagnoses this year
4,641
Deaths this year
4,177
Missing people
75,024
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
16.7years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Somalia?
21,218 people in Somalia are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 108.0 per 100,000 people. That is higher than the Africa average of 29.7 per 100,000 and close to the global average of 115.5. Somalia has the 63rd-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 6th-largest of the 49 countries in the IDF Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Somalia, another 354 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Somalia?
The number of people living with T1D in Somalia went from 3,221 in 2000 to 21,218 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 45,394 by 2040 (+114%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Somalia, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Somalia over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
3,221
947
1,437
19,748
2010
6,963
1,912
2,405
35,658
2020
15,278
3,489
3,249
58,057
2025
21,218
4,641
4,177
75,024
2030 (projected)
28,855
6,680
5,972
97,823
2040 (projected)
45,394
8,995
8,610
163,005
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Somalia?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Somalia today is expected to live to 16.7, compared with 66.7 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 49.9 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 50.5 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 16.7 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Somalia, 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
–
16.2
50.5
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+2.0
18.2
48.5
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+24.0
42.2
24.5
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.8
50.0
16.7
How does Somalia compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Somalia compared with the Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Somalia
Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
108.0
29.7
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
23.6
4.0
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
353.6
160.4
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
16.7
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.
