The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, varies in prevalence from countries. Listed here are the prevalence rates among adults in various countries, based on data from various sources, largely the CIA World Factbook.[1][2][3]
As of 2024, around 40.8 million people, and 0.7% of the adult population (15–49), were estimated to be infected with HIV globally. Prevalence was higher among sex workers, gay and bisexual men, people who inject drugs, transgender people, and prisoners.[4]
The HIV pandemic is most severe in Southern Africa. Over 10% of all people infected with HIV/AIDS reside within the region. Adult HIV prevalence exceeds 20% in Eswatini, Botswana, Lesotho and Zimbabwe, while an additional five countries report adult HIV prevalence of at least 10%.
In absolute numbers, South Africa (9.2 million)—followed by Kenya (7.49 million), Mozambique (2.48 million), and Nigeria (2.45 million)—had the highest number of HIV/AIDS cases by the start of 2024.[2][5] While South Africa’s large population of HIV-positive people is attributable to its high disease prevalence (17.3%, one of the highest in the world), Nigeria’s is lower at 1.3%.[1] However, countries such as Nigeria with high HIV rates above 1% are classified as having Generalized HIV Epidemics (GHEs) by UNAIDS.[6]
HIV/AIDS prevalence estimates table
This data was sourced from the CIA World Factbook[7] and UNAIDS AIDS info website[8] unless referenced otherwise. A horizontal dash “-” indicates the data was not published. Adult prevalence describes ages between 15 and 49.
| Country/Region | Adult prevalence of HIV/AIDS[1] |
Number of people with HIV/AIDS |
Annual deaths from HIV/AIDS[3] |
Year of estimate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Eswatini
|
28.30% | 240,000 | 3,000 | 2024 |
 Lesotho
|
26.20% | 445,000 | 7,000 | 2025 |
 Botswana
|
22.80% | 399,100 | 5,275 | 2025 |
 Zimbabwe
|
23.10% | 2,460,000 | 28,000 | 2025 |
 South Africa
|
14.40% | 9,400,000 | 80,000 | 2025 |
 Mozambique
|
12.65% | 2,485,000 | 59,100 | 2024 |
 Namibia[9]
|
11.8% | 2021 | ||
 Malawi
|
11.40% | 1,642,570 | 15,270 | 2024 |
 Equatorial Guinea
|
7.71% | 74,466 | 2,400 | 2025 |
 Tanzania
|
8.20% | 3,410,000 | 39,000 | 2025 |
 Kenya
|
5.30% | 1,750,000 | 28,000 | 2025 |
 Uganda
|
5% | 1,590,000 | 23,300 | 2023 |
 Togo
|
5.20% | 220,440 | 6,600 | 2024 |
 Cameroon
|
4% | 530,000 | 14,600 | 2023 |
 Gabon
|
4.50% | 68,000 | 4,800 | 2025 |
 Central African Republic
|
4% | 126,200 | 4,400 | 2024 |
 Guinea-Bissau
|
3.65% | 42,000 | 2,200 | 2023 |
 Congo, Republic of the
|
3.77% | 110,840 | 6,700 | 2024 |
 Barbados
|
0.90% | 2,100 | – | 2023 |
 Rwanda
|
2.90% | 230,000 | 2,800 | 2016 |
 Côte d’Ivoire
|
2.70% | 430,000 | 13,000 | 2016 |
 South Sudan
|
2.40% | 190,000 | 9,100 | 2016 |
 Gambia, The
|
2.40% | 31,000 | 1,540 | 2023 |
 Haiti
|
2.20% | 180,000 | 3,000 | 2023 |
 Nigeria
|
2.20% | 2,450,000 | 56,500 | 2024 |
 Belize
|
3% | 6,000 | – | 2025 |
 Angola
|
2.10% | 355,000 | 15,000 | 2024 |
 Ghana
|
2.00% | 361,897 | 22,000 | 2025 |
 Bahamas, The
|
1.10% | 3,988 | – | 2025 |
 Jamaica
|
1.65% | 32,000 | 1,000 | 2019 |
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines [10]
|
1.60% | 860 | – | 2023 |
 Russian Federation[11]
|
1.50% | 1,137,000[12] | 24,000 | 2023 |
 Liberia
|
1.50% | 50,000 | 2,300 | 2023 |
 Sierra Leone
|
1.50% | 78,000 | 2,600 | 2019 |
 Guinea
|
1.40% | 110,000 | 3,100 | 2016 |
 Guyana
|
1.40% | 8,700 | – | 2019 |
 Suriname
|
1.30% | 5,800 | – | 2019 |
 Djibouti
|
1.50% | 9,100 | – | 2024 |
 Burundi
|
1.20% | 85,000 | 1,800 | 2016 |
 Chad
|
1.20% | 120,000 | 3,200 | 2016 |
 Mali
|
3% | 260,000 | 8,000 | 2025 |
 Trinidad and Tobago
|
1.20% | 11,000 | – | 2016 |
 Thailand
|
1.31% | 800,000 | 25,000 | 2024 |
 Ethiopia
|
1.40% | 760,000 | 25,000 | 2024 |
 Israel
|
0.20% | – | – | 2018 |
 Ukraine
|
1.10% | 260,000 | 9,100 | 2023 |
 Benin
|
1.00% | 67,000 | 2,400 | 2016 |
 Dominican Republic
|
0.9%[13] | 67,000 | 2,200 | 2024 |
 Papua New Guinea
|
0.90% | 46,000 | 1,100 | 2016 |
 Cabo Verde
|
0.80% | 2,800 | – | 2016 |
 Panama
|
1.30% | 42,000 | – | 2024 |
 Myanmar
|
1.20% | 281,000 | 8,400 | 2024 |
 Burkina Faso
|
0.80% | 95,000 | 3,100 | 2016 |
 Congo, Democratic Republic of
|
0.70% | 370,000 | 19,000 | 2016 |
 Georgia
|
1.00% | 25,000 | – | 2024 |
 Latvia
|
0.85% | 8,000 | – | 2024 |
 Cambodia
|
1.10% | 172,000 | 3,700 | 2024 |
 Venezuela
|
0.70% | 160,000 | 4,700 | 2024 |
 Moldova
|
1.10% | 23,800 | – | 2024 |
 Brazil
|
0.60% | 1,250,000 | 18,400 | 2021 |
 Eritrea
|
0.60% | 15,000 | – | 2016 |
 El Salvador
|
0.60% | 24,000 | – | 2016 |
 Uruguay
|
1.10% | 46,000 | – | 2024 |
 Mauritania
|
0.50% | 11,000 | – | 2016 |
 Chile
|
2.00% | 155,000 | – | 2024 |
 Guatemala
|
2.01% | 105,000 | 3,000 | 2025 |
 Paraguay
|
1.10% | 27,850 | – | 2024 |
 Portugal
|
0.5% | 47,000 | – | 2024 |
 Niger
|
0.40% | 48,000 | 3,400 | 2016 |
 Malaysia
|
0.30% | 110,000 | 7,400 | 2024 |
 Indonesia
|
0.50% | 660,000 | 47,000 | 2024 |
 Honduras
|
0.40% | 21,000 | – | 2016 |
 Cuba
|
1.10% | 35,000 | – | 2024 |
 Costa Rica
|
0.40% | 13,000 | – | 2016 |
 Colombia
|
0.60% | 145,000 | 5,250 | 2024 |
 Argentina
|
0.65% | 150,000 | 3,100 | 2024 |
 Belarus
|
1.00% | 24,000 | – | 2016 |
 Senegal
|
2.30% | 54,000 | 5,100 | 2024 |
 United States
|
0.42% | 1,427,155 | – | 2024[14] |
 Bolivia
|
0.40% | 24,000 | – | 2023 |
 France
|
0.30% | 231,791 | – | 2024 |
 Mexico
|
0.35% | 181,820 | 5,120 | 2024 |
 Ecuador
|
0.30% | 33,000 | – | 2016 |
 Peru
|
0.30% | 70,000 | 2,200 | 2016 |
 Italy
|
0.30% | 200,000 | – | 2024 |
 Laos
|
0.30% | 11,000 | – | 2016 |
 Spain
|
0.70% | 188,000 | – | 2024 |
 Tajikistan
|
0.30% | 14,000 | – | 2016 |
 Vietnam
|
0.70% | 271,000 | 5,200 | 2024 |
 Armenia
|
0.20% | 3,300 | – | 2016 |
 India
|
0.20% | 2,300,000 | 35,000 | 2024[15] |
 Kazakhstan
|
0.40% | 52,000 | – | 2024 |
 Kyrgyzstan
|
0.20% | 8,500 | – | 2016 |
 Lithuania
|
0.45% | 11,000 | – | 2024 |
 Madagascar
|
0.20% | 31,000 | 1,600 | 2016 |
 Nepal
|
0.92% | 46,000 | 3,500 | 2024 |
 Germany
|
0.25% | 100,000 | – | 2023 |
 Canada
|
0.21% | 75,000 | – | 2023[16] |
 Netherlands
|
0.50% | 59,900 | – | 2024 |
 Nicaragua
|
0.20% | 8,900 | – | 2016 |
 Sudan
|
0.20% | 56,000 | 3,000 | 2016 |
 Sweden
|
0.20% | 11,000 | – | 2016 |
 Switzerland
|
0.21% | 18,000[17] | – | 2022 |
 United Kingdom
|
0.17% | 116,000[18] | – | 2024 |
 Bhutan
|
0.16% | 1,265[19] | – | 2018 |
 Ireland
|
0.55% | 18,000 | – | 2024[20] |
 Greenland
|
0.13% | 70 | – | 2018[21] |
 Norway[22]
|
0.45% | 19,050 | 305 | 2024 |
 Philippines
|
0.19% | 215,400 | 834 | 2024 |
 Denmark
|
0.11% | 6,500 | – | 2018[23] |
 Albania
|
0.10% | 1,700 | – | 2016 |
 Australia
|
0.10% | 28,880 | – | 2023 |
 Fiji
|
0.10% | 468[24][unreliable source] | – | 2019 |
 Taiwan[25]
|
0.10% | 31,620 | – | 2016 |
 Azerbaijan
|
0.10% | 9,200 | – | 2016 |
 Morocco
|
0.10% | 14,000 | – | 2025 |
 Iran
|
0.10% | 66,000 | 4,000 | 2016 |
 Somalia
|
– | 436[26] | – | 2023 |
 Pakistan
|
0.10% | 130,000 | 5,500 | 2016 |
 Poland
|
0.08% | 30,092 | 1,471 | 2022 |
 Bangladesh
|
– | 12,000 | 1,000 | 2016 |
 Egypt
|
– | 11,000 | – | 2016 |
 Yemen
|
– | 9,900 | – | 2016 |
 Afghanistan
|
– | 7,500 | – | 2016 |
 Sri Lanka
|
– | 4,000 | – | 2016 |
 Bulgaria
|
– | 3,500 | – | 2016 |
 Tunisia
|
– | 2,900 | – | 2016 |
 Serbia
|
0.04% | 2,700 | – | 2016 |
 Croatia
|
0.14% | 2,700 | – | 2023 |
 China
|
0.09% | 1,250,000 | – | 2018[27] |
 Malta
|
0.088% | 453[28] | – | 2019 |
 Lebanon
|
0.063% | 3,750[29] | – | 2016 |
 Czech Republic
|
0.051%[30] | 3,122[31] | – | 2019 |
 Montenegro
|
0.12% | 401 | – | 2023 |
 Algeria
|
4.15% | 98,170 | – | 2016 |
 Saudi Arabia
|
0.024% | 8,200 | – | 2016 |
 Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
0.009% | 350 | – | 2018 |
 Kosovo
|
0.004% | 83 | – | 2013[32] |
 Turkmenistan
|
– | 720 | – | 2021 |
 Grenada
|
– | 5,300 | – | 2023 |
 Antigua and Barbuda
|
– | 84 | – | 2022 |
 Turks and Caicos Islands
|
– | 1,000 | – | 2023 |
 Samoa
|
– | 1,100 | – | 2023 |
 Dominica
|
– | 240 | – | 2023 |
 Iraq
|
0.24% | 4,700 | – | 2021 |
 United Arab Emirates
|
0.20% | 23,000 | 10,000 | 2024 |
 East Timor
|
– | 30 | – | 2022 |
 Finland
|
0.40% | 6,000 | 1,500 | 2021 |
| Svalbard
|
– | 2 | – | 2023 |
 Kiribati
|
– | 68 | – | 2025 |
 Estonia
|
0.2% | 1,000 | – | 2025 |
 Saint Kitts and Nevis
|
– | 100 | – | 2023 |
 Mauritius
|
0.16% | 6,671[33] | – | 2022 |
 Singapore
|
0.19% | 9,231 | – | 2021 |
 Hong Kong
|
0.16% | 11,737 | – | 2023 |
 Palau
|
– | 310 | – | 2023 |
 Tonga
|
– | 400 | – | 2023 |
 Japan
|
0.02% | 21,739 | – | 2022 |
 Puerto Rico
|
– | 526 | – | 2023 |
 Brunei Darussalam
|
– | 40 | – | 2024 |
 Comoros
|
– | 188 | – | 2023 |
 Niue
|
– | 35 | – | 2023 |
 Seychelles
|
– | 86 | – | 2023 |
 Kuwait
|
– | 400 | – | 2023 |
 Iceland
|
– | 448 | – | 2019 |
 Anguilla
|
– | 500 | – | 2024 |
 French Polynesia
|
– | 290 | – | 2023 |
 South Korea
|
0.029%[34] | 15,196[35] | – | 2023 |
 New Zealand
|
– | 3,033 [36] | – | 2023 |
 Austria
|
– | 3,000 | – | 2023 |
 Cyprus
|
– | 1,200 | – | 2023 |
 Tuvalu
|
5.2% | 702 | – | 2022 |
 Libya
|
1.02% | 1,700 | – | 2024 |
 Christmas Island
|
– | 13 | – | 2024 |
 Hungary
|
0.11% | 10,000 | – | 2023 |
 Romania
|
– | 1,660 | – | 2024 |
| Réunion
|
– | 118 | – | 2024 |
 São Tomé and Príncipe
|
– | 15,600 | – | 2023 |
 Uzbekistan
|
– | 48,658[37] | – | 2024 |
 Slovakia
|
– | 2,000 | – | 2023 |
 Belgium
|
– | 4,000 | – | 2024 |
 Greece
|
0.01057% | 1,100 | – | 2024 |
 Vanuatu
|
– | 325 | – | 2023 |
 Mongolia
|
– | 2,500 | – | 2024 |
 British Virgin Islands
|
– | 48 | – | 2024 |
 American Samoa
|
– | 110 | – | 2023 |
 Nauru
|
– | 270 | – | 2024 |
 Marshall Islands
|
– | 19 | – | 2024 |
 Saint Lucia
|
– | 287 | – | 2025 |
 Andorra
|
– | 600 | – | 2025 |
 Federated States of Micronesia
|
– | 149 | – | 2025 |
 Jordan
|
0.00017% | 2,000 | – | 2025 |
 Luxembourg
|
– | 5,700 | – | 2025 |
 Maldives
|
– | 660 | – | 2025 |
 Bahrain
|
– | 2,000 | – | 2024 |
 Montserrat
|
– | 127 | – | 2025 |
 North Macedonia
|
– | 5,600 | – | 2025 |
 Gibraltar
|
– | 198 | – | 2025 |
| Wallis and Futuna
|
– | 444 | – | 2025 |
 Qatar
|
– | 3,000 | – | 2025 |
 North Korea
|
– | 550 | – | 2024 |
See also
By region:
- HIV/AIDS in Africa
- HIV/AIDS in Asia
- HIV/AIDS in Europe
- HIV/AIDS in North America
- HIV/AIDS in South America
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This article incorporates public domain material from The World Factbook (2025 ed.). CIA.
External links
- HIV/AIDS Survey Indicators Database
- World Health Organization; Prevalence of HIV among adults aged 15 to 49 (%) by country
- World Health Organization; Number of deaths due to AIDS by country
- World Health Organization; Number of people (all ages) living with HIV by country
