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Statistics: Worldwide

Last updated december 2009

  • A total of 33 million people now live with HIV/AIDS.
  • 2 million of them are under the age of 15.
  • In 2008, an estimated 2.7 million people were newly infected with HIV.
  • 430,000 were under the age of 15.
  • Every day more than 7,000 people contract HIV—more than 300 every hour.
  • In 2008, 2 million people died from AIDS.
  • 280,000 of them were under the age of 15.
  • Since the beginning of the epidemic, around 60 million people have contracted HIV and 25 million have died of AIDS-related causes.

The Regional Picture

Africa

More than two-thirds (68 percent) of all people living with HIV, 22 million, live in sub-Saharan Africa—including 91 percent of the world’s HIV-positive children. In 2008, an estimated 1.9 million people in the region became newly infected. An estimated 1.4 million adults and children died of AIDS, accounting for 75 percent of the world’s AIDS deaths in 2008.

Asia and the Pacific

In Asia and the Pacific, 355,000 people became newly infected in 2008, bringing the total number of people living with HIV/AIDS there to more than 4 million. AIDS claimed 329,000 lives in the region in 2008.

Caribbean

An estimated 20,000 people became infected with HIV in 2008 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 2008.

Latin America

There were an estimated 170,000 new HIV/AIDS infections and 77,000 AIDS-related deaths in this region in 2008. Latin America currently has 2 million people living with HIV/AIDS.

North Africa and the Middle East

Approximately 310,000 people are living with HIV in this region and an estimated 35,000 people became newly infected in 2008. An estimated 20,000 adults and children died of AIDS.

Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Some 110,000 people were newly infected with HIV in 2008, bringing the number of people living with HIV/AIDS to 1.5 million. HIV/AIDS claimed 87,000 lives in 2008.

Western and Central Europe

In 2008, there were 30,000 new cases of HIV, bringing the number of people living with HIV in Western and Central Europe to 850,000. An estimated 13,000 people in these regions died of AIDS in 2008.

Source: UNAIDS Epidemic Update, December 2009