HIV and AIDS statistics for sub-Saharan Africa
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Across the countries of sub-Saharan Africa a total of 23 million adults are estimated to be living with HIV or AIDS. This is approximately 8 percent of the total adult population.
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| Country | Men (aged 15-49) |
Women (aged 15-49) |
Total Adults* | Percentage
of total adult population* |
| Angola | 68,000 | 82,000 | 150,000 | 2.78 |
| Benn | 30,000 | 37,000 | 67,000 | 2.45 |
| Botswana | 130,000 | 150,000 | 280,000 | 35.8 |
| Burkina Faso | 150,000 | 180,000 | 330,000 | 6.44 |
| Burundi | 150,000 | 190,000 | 340,000 | 11.32 |
| Cameroon | 230,000 | 290,000 | 520,000 | 7.73 |
| Central African Republic | 100,000 | 130,000 | 230,000 | 13.84 |
| Chad | 39,000 | 49,000 | 88,000 | 2.69 |
| Comoros | 400 | 0.12 | ||
| Congo | 37,000 | 45,000 | 82,000 | 6.43 |
| Cote d'Ivoire | 330,000 | 400,000 | 730,000 | 10.76 |
| Dem. Republic of Congo | 500,000 | 600,000 | 1,100,000 | 5.07 |
| Djibouti | 16,000 | 19,000 | 35,000 | 11.75 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 440 | 560 | 1,000 | 0.51 |
| Eritrea | 49,000 | 2.87 | ||
| Ethiopia | 1,300,000 | 1,600,000 | 2,900,000 | 10.63 |
| Gabon | 10,000 | 12,000 | 22,000 | 4.16 |
| Gambia | 5,400 | 6,600 | 12,000 | 1.95 |
| Ghana | 150,000 | 180,000 | 330,000 | 3.6 |
| Guinea | 23,000 | 29,000 | 52,000 | 1.54 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 5,700 | 7,300 | 13,000 | 2.5 |
| Kenya | 900,000 | 1,100,000 | 2,000,000 | 13.95 |
| Lesotho | 110,000 | 130,000 | 240,000 | 23.57 |
| Liberia | 16,000 | 21,000 | 37,000 | 2.8 |
| Madagascar | 4,200 | 5,800 | 10,000 | 0.15 |
| Malawi | 340,000 | 420,000 | 760,000 | 15.96 |
| Mali | 44,000 | 53,000 | 97,000 | 2.03 |
| Mauritania | 2,800 | 3,500 | 6,300 | 0.52 |
| Mauritius | 0 | 0 | 500 | 0.08 |
| Mozambique | 470,000 | 630,000 | 1,100,000 | 13.22 |
| Namibia | 65,000 | 85,000 | 150,000 | 19.54 |
| Niger | 27,000 | 34,000 | 61,000 | 1.35 |
| Nigeria | 1,200,000 | 1,400,000 | 2,600,000 | 5.06 |
| Rwanda | 160,000 | 210,000 | 370,000 | 11.21 |
| Senegal | 36,000 | 40,000 | 76,000 | 1.77 |
| Sierra Leone | 29,000 | 36,000 | 65,000 | 2.99 |
| South Africa | 1,800,000 | 2,300,000 | 4,100,000 | 19.94 |
| Swaziland | 53,000 | 67,000 | 120,000 | 25.25 |
| Togo | 54,000 | 66,000 | 120,000 | 5.98 |
| Uganda | 350,000 | 420,000 | 770,000 | 8.3 |
| United Rep. Of Tanzania | 530,000 | 670,000 | 1,200,000 | 8.09 |
| Zambia | 380,000 | 450,000 | 830,000 | 19.95 |
| Zimbabwe | 600,000 | 800,000 | 1,400,000 | 25.06 |
| Total | 10,495,440 | 12,948,760 | 23,444,200 | 8 |
Notes
The figures are the estimates at the end of 1999, published by UNAIDS in the "Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic June 2000". They include all people with HIV infection, whether or not they have developed symptoms of AIDS, alive at the end of 1999. The figure are estimates based on a number of different sources of information, rather then exact count sof infections. For several countries information is not available about the sex of the adults.
* An adult is defined, for the purposes of this estimating, as being someone aged 15-49. This age rance captures this in their most sexually active years
For further information, see our web pages AIDS in Africa, AIDS orphans in Africa and HIV and AIDS in Africa.