T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Africa region · Low-Income country
An estimated 10,120 people are living with type 1 diabetes in South Sudan in 2025. Each year about 2,356 people are newly diagnosed and 2,061 people with T1D die. A further 41,051 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
10,120
New diagnoses this year
2,356
Deaths this year
2,061
Missing people
41,051
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
16.3years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in South Sudan?
10,120 people in South Sudan are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 83.0 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. South Sudan has the 90th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 13th-largest of the 49 countries in the IDF Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in South Sudan, another 406 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in South Sudan?
The number of people living with T1D in South Sudan went from 923 in 2000 to 10,120 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 18,786 by 2040 (+86%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in South Sudan, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in South Sudan over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
923
522
691
11,995
2010
4,962
1,216
1,256
24,236
2020
6,448
1,714
1,414
32,883
2025
10,120
2,356
2,061
41,051
2030 (projected)
13,675
3,272
2,981
51,464
2040 (projected)
18,786
3,793
3,825
79,609
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in South Sudan?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in South Sudan today is expected to live to 16.3, compared with 65.3 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 49.0 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 49.5 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 South Sudan, 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
–
15.9
49.5
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+1.9
17.8
47.6
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+23.1
40.9
24.4
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.7
48.6
16.7
How does South Sudan compare?
Type 1 diabetes in South Sudan compared with the Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
South Sudan
Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
83.0
29.7
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
19.3
4.0
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
405.6
160.4
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
16.3
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.
