Top 10 Country By Share Of Deaths From HIV / AIDS Virus

In some countries, HIV/AIDS is the cause of more than a quarter of all deaths
Globally, 1.7% of deaths were caused by HIV/AIDS in 2017.

This share is high but masks the wide variations in the toll of HIV/AIDS across the world. In some countries, this share was much higher.

In the interactive map, we see the share of deaths which resulted from HIV/AIDS across the world. Across most regions the share was low: across Europe, for example, it accounted for less than 0.1% of deaths.

But across some countries – focused primarily in Southern Sub-Saharan Africa – the share is very high. More than 1-in-4 of deaths (28%) in South Africa and Botswana were caused by HIV/AIDS in 2017. The share was also very high across Mozambique (24%); Namibia (23%); Zambia (18%); Kenya (17%); and Congo (15%).