Statistics: Worldwide
LAST UPDATED NOVEMBER 2010
- More than 33 million people now live with HIV/AIDS.
- 2.5 million of them are under the age of 15.
- In 2009, an estimated 2.6 million people were newly infected with HIV.
- 370,000 were under the age of 15.
- Every day more than 7,000 people contract HIV—more than 300 every hour.
- In 2009, 1.8 million people died from AIDS.
- 260,000 of them were under the age of 15.
- Since the beginning of the epidemic, more than 60 million people have contracted HIV and more than 25 million have died of AIDS-related causes.
THE REGIONAL PICTURE
Africa
More than two-thirds (69 percent) of all people living with HIV, 22.5 million, live in sub-Saharan Africa—including 92 percent of the world’s HIV-positive children. In 2009, an estimated 1.8 million people in the region became newly infected. An estimated 1.3 million adults and children died of AIDS, accounting for 72 percent of the world’s AIDS deaths in 2009.
Asia and the Pacific
In Asia and the Pacific, more than 360,000 people became newly infected in 2009, bringing the total number of people living with HIV/AIDS there to more than 4.9 million. AIDS claimed an estimated 300,000 lives in the region in 2009.
Caribbean
An estimated 17,000 people became infected with HIV in 2009 in the Caribbean, bringing the total number of people living with HIV/AIDS to 240,000. An estimated 12,000 people died of AIDS in 2009.
Central and South America
There were an estimated 92,000 new HIV/AIDS infections and 58,000 AIDS-related deaths in Central and South America in 2009. This region currently has 1.4 million people living with HIV/AIDS.
North Africa and the Middle East
Approximately 460,000 people are living with HIV in this region and an estimated 75,000 people became newly infected in 2009. An estimated 24,000 adults and children died of AIDS
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Some 130,000 people were newly infected with HIV in 2009, bringing the number of people living with HIV/AIDS to 1.4 million. HIV/AIDS claimed 76,000 lives in 2009.
Western and Central Europe
In 2009, there were 31,000 new cases of HIV, bringing the number of people living with HIV in Western and Central Europe to 820,000. An estimated 8,500 people in these regions died of AIDS in 2009.
Source: UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic 2010
