T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Africa region · Low-Income country
An estimated 19,550 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Uganda in 2025. Each year about 2,339 people are newly diagnosed and 1,385 people with T1D die. A further 29,563 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
19,550
New diagnoses this year
2,339
Deaths this year
1,385
Missing people
29,563
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
27.3years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Uganda?
19,550 people in Uganda are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 38.0 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. Uganda has the 66th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 7th-largest of the 49 countries in the IDF Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Uganda, another 151 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Uganda?
The number of people living with T1D in Uganda went from 1,461 in 2000 to 19,550 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 43,861 by 2040 (+124%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Uganda, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Uganda over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
1,461
484
749
9,770
2010
5,211
975
862
15,302
2020
13,306
1,806
1,159
24,021
2025
19,550
2,339
1,385
29,563
2030 (projected)
27,260
3,235
1,921
36,827
2040 (projected)
43,861
4,000
2,770
57,403
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Uganda?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Uganda today is expected to live to 27.3, compared with 71.5 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 44.2 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 47.2 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 16.3 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Uganda, 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
–
24.4
47.2
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+4.8
29.2
42.3
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+18.6
47.8
23.7
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.5
55.3
16.3
How does Uganda compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Uganda compared with the Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Uganda
Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
38.0
29.7
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
4.5
4.0
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
151.2
160.4
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
27.3
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.
