Global Health

Rank Table by:  Country Name    Percent

Rank Country Name  Percent  Year Global 0.8% 2008 1 Swaziland 26.1% 2007 2 Botswana 23.9% 2007 3 Lesotho 23.2% 2007 4 South Africa 18.1% 2007 5 Namibia 15.3% 2007 5 Zimbabwe 15.3% 2007 6 Zambia 15.2% 2007 7 Mozambique 12.5% 2007 8 Malawi 11.9% 2007 9 Central African Republic 6.3% 2007 10 Tanzania (United Rep. of) 6.2% 2007 11 Gabon 5.9% 2007 12 Uganda 5.4% 2007 13 Cameroon 5.1% 2007 14 Cote d'Ivoire 3.9% 2007 15 Chad 3.5% 2007 15 Congo 3.5% 2007 16 Equatorial Guinea 3.4% 2007 17 Togo 3.3% 2007 18 Djibouti 3.1% 2007 18 Nigeria 3.1% 2007 19 Bahamas 3.0% 2007 20 Rwanda 2.8% 2007 21 Guyana 2.5% 2007 22 Suriname 2.4% 2007 23 Haiti 2.2% 2007 24 Angola 2.1% 2007 24 Belize 2.1% 2007 24 Ethiopia 2.1% 2007 25 Burundi 2.0% 2007 26 Ghana 1.9% 2007 27 Guinea-Bissau 1.8% 2007 28 Liberia 1.7% 2007 28 Mauritius 1.7% 2007 28 Sierra Leone 1.7% 2007 29 Burkina Faso 1.6% 2007 29 Guinea 1.6% 2007 29 Jamaica 1.6% 2007 29 Ukraine 1.6% 2007 30 Mali 1.5% 2007 30 Papua New Guinea 1.5% 2007 30 Trinidad and Tobago 1.5% 2007 31 Sudan 1.4% 2007 31 Thailand 1.4% 2007 32 Eritrea 1.3% 2007 32 Estonia 1.3% 2007 33 Barbados 1.2% 2007 33 Benin 1.2% 2007 34 Dominican Republic 1.1% 2007 34 Russian Federation 1.1% 2007 35 Panama 1.0% 2007 35 Senegal 1.0% 2007 36 Gambia 0.9% 2007 37 Cambodia 0.8% 2007 37 El Salvador 0.8% 2007 37 Guatemala 0.8% 2007 37 Latvia 0.8% 2007 37 Mauritania 0.8% 2007 37 Niger 0.8% 2007 38 Honduras 0.7% 2007 38 Myanmar 0.7% 2007 39 Brazil 0.6% 2007 39 Colombia 0.6% 2007 39 Paraguay 0.6% 2007 39 Switzerland 0.6% 2007 39 United States of America 0.6% 2007 39 Uruguay 0.6% 2007 40 Argentina 0.5% 2007 40 Malaysia 0.5% 2007 40 Nepal 0.5% 2007 40 Peru 0.5% 2007 40 Portugal 0.5% 2007 40 Somalia 0.5% 2007 40 Spain 0.5% 2007 40 Viet Nam 0.5% 2007 41 Canada 0.4% 2007 41 Costa Rica 0.4% 2007 41 France 0.4% 2007 41 Italy 0.4% 2007 41 Moldova (Republic of) 0.4% 2007 42 Chile 0.3% 2007 42 Ecuador 0.3% 2007 42 India 0.3% 2007 42 Mexico 0.3% 2007 42 Tajikistan 0.3% 2007 43 Australia 0.2% 2007 43 Austria 0.2% 2007 43 Azerbaijan 0.2% 2007 43 Belarus 0.2% 2007 43 Belgium 0.2% 2007 43 Bolivia 0.2% 2007 43 Denmark 0.2% 2007 43 Greece 0.2% 2007 43 Iceland 0.2% 2007 43 Indonesia 0.2% 2007 43 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 0.2% 2007 43 Ireland 0.2% 2007 43 Lao People's Democratic Rep. 0.2% 2007 43 Luxembourg 0.2% 2007 43 Netherlands 0.2% 2007 43 Nicaragua 0.2% 2007 43 Singapore 0.2% 2007 43 United Kingdom 0.2% 2007 44 Algeria 0.1% 2007 44 Armenia 0.1% 2007 44 Bhutan 0.1% 2007 44 China 0.1% 2007 44 Cuba 0.1% 2007 44 Fiji 0.1% 2007 44 Finland 0.1% 2007 44 Georgia 0.1% 2007 44 Germany 0.1% 2007 44 Hungary 0.1% 2007 44 Israel 0.1% 2007 44 Kazakhstan 0.1% 2007 44 Kyrgyzstan 0.1% 2007 44 Lebanon 0.1% 2007 44 Lithuania 0.1% 2007 44 Madagascar 0.1% 2007 44 Malta 0.1% 2007 44 Mongolia 0.1% 2007 44 Morocco 0.1% 2007 44 New Zealand 0.1% 2007 44 Norway 0.1% 2007 44 Pakistan 0.1% 2007 44 Poland 0.1% 2007 44 Romania 0.1% 2007 44 Serbia 0.1% 2007 44 Sweden 0.1% 2007 44 Tunisia 0.1% 2007 44 Uzbekistan 0.1% 2007 45 Kenya 7.1-8.5 2007 46 Congo (Dem. Republic of) 1.2-1.5 2007 47 Montserrat <1.0% 2007 48 Albania <0.2% 2007 48 Bahrain <0.2% 2007 48 Cyprus <0.2% 2007 48 Iraq <0.2% 2007 48 Jordan <0.2% 2007 48 Kuwait <0.2% 2007 48 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya <0.2% 2007 48 Oman <0.2% 2007 48 Qatar <0.2% 2007 48 Saudi Arabia <0.2% 2007 48 Syrian Arab Republic <0.2% 2007 48 Turkey <0.2% 2007 48 United Arab Emirates <0.2% 2007 48 Yemen <0.2% 2007 49 Bangladesh <0.1% 2007 49 Bosnia and Herzegovina <0.1% 2007 49 Comoros <0.1% 2007 49 Croatia <0.1% 2007 49 Czech Republic <0.1% 2007 49 Egypt <0.1% 2007 49 Japan <0.1% 2007 49 Korea (Dem. Peo. Rep. of) <0.1% 2007 49 Korea (Republic of) <0.1% 2007 49 Macedonia (The former Yugoslav Republic of) <0.1% 2007 49 Maldives <0.1% 2007 49 Philippines <0.1% 2007 49 Slovakia <0.1% 2007 49 Slovenia <0.1% 2007 49 Sri Lanka <0.1% 2007 49 Turkmenistan <0.1% 2007 50 Afghanistan NA 2007 50 American Samoa NA 2007 50 Andorra NA 2007 50 Anguilla NA 2007 50 Antigua and Barbuda NA 2007 50 Aruba NA 2007 50 Bermuda NA 2007 50 Bouvet Island NA 2007 50 British Indian Ocean Territory NA 2007 50 British Virgin Islands NA 2007 50 Brunei Darussalam NA 2007 50 Bulgaria NA 2007 50 Cape Verde NA 2007 50 Cayman Islands NA 2007 50 Christmas Island NA 2007 50 Cocos (Keeling Islands) NA 2007 50 Cook Islands NA 2007 50 Dominica NA 2007 50 Faeroe Islands NA 2007 50 Falkland Islands (Malvinas) NA 2007 50 French Guiana NA 2007 50 French Polynesia NA 2007 50 French Southern Territories and Antarctic Lands NA 2007 50 Gibraltar NA 2007 50 Greenland NA 2007 50 Grenada NA 2007 50 Guadeloupe NA 2007 50 Guam NA 2007 50 Heard Island and McDonald Islands NA 2007 50 Johnston Atoll NA 2007 50 Kiribati NA 2007 50 Liechtenstein NA 2007 50 Marshall Islands NA 2007 50 Martinique NA 2007 50 Mayotte NA 2007 50 Micronesia (Federated States of) NA 2007 50 Midway NA 2007 50 Monaco NA 2007 50 Montenegro NA 2007 50 Nauru NA 2007 50 Netherlands Antilles NA 2007 50 New Caledonia NA 2007 50 Niue NA 2007 50 Norfolk Island NA 2007 50 Northern Mariana Islands NA 2007 50 Palau NA 2007 50 Pitcairn Island NA 2007 50 Puerto Rico NA 2007 50 Reunion NA 2007 50 Saint Helena NA 2007 50 Saint Kitts and Nevis NA 2007 50 Saint Lucia NA 2007 50 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines NA 2007 50 Samoa NA 2007 50 San Marino NA 2007 50 Sao Tome and Principe NA 2007 50 Seychelles NA 2007 50 Solomon Islands NA 2007 50 Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands NA 2007 50 Timor Leste NA 2007 50 Tokelau NA 2007 50 Tonga NA 2007 50 Turks and Caicos Island NA 2007 50 Tuvalu NA 2007 50 Vanuatu NA 2007 50 Venezuela NA 2007 50 Virgin Islands (U.S.) NA 2007 50 Wake Island NA 2007 50 Wallis and Futuna Islands NA 2007 50 West Bank and Gaza NA 2007 50 Western Sahara NA 2007

Notes: Data are estimates. UNAIDS recently updated global and regional data to reflect 2008 estimates. Therefore, the global entry above is a 2008 estimate; country entries are 2007 estimates. For most countries, UNAIDS provides estimates as well as ranges around the estimates that define the boundaries within which the actual numbers lie. For some countries, UNAIDS provides only a range or an upper boundary to a range. These data were included above as appropriate.

HIV/AIDS estimates reflect improved and expanded HIV surveillance, country data collection, and methodologies as well as an increased understanding of the natural course of the epidemic. As a result, since 2007, there have been substantial revisions from previous published estimates. For more information on these revisions as well as other factors impacting HIV/AIDS estimates, see Sexually Transmitted Infections, ''Improved Data, Methods and Tools for the 2007 HIV and AIDS Estimates and Projections'', August 2008, available at: http://sti.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/84/Suppl_1/i1, and ''Understanding the Latest Estimates of theGlobal AIDS Epidemic'', available at: http://data.unaids.org/pub/EPISlides/2009/20091117_QA_Methodology_Ba....

Definitions: HIV: Human immunodeficiency virus, the virus that causes AIDS. HIV can be transmitted through infected blood, semen, vaginal secretions, breast milk, and during pregnancy or delivery. HIV destroys certain white blood cells called CD4+ T cells. These cells are critical to the normal function of the human immune system, which defends the body against illness. When HIV weakens the immune system, a person is more susceptible to developing a variety of cancers and becoming infected with viruses, bacteria and parasites. The disease has four stages: primary or acute HIV infection, asymptomatic, symptomatic, and advanced HIV disease (AIDS).

AIDS: Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. A disease of the body's immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). A person who tests positive for HIV is considered to have progressed to AIDS when a laboratory test shows that his or her immune system is severely weakened by the virus or when he or she develops at least one of about 25 different opportunistic infections -- diseases that might not affect a person with a normal immune system but that take advantage of damaged immune systems. People who have not had one of these opportunistic infections, but whose immune system is severely damaged, are also considered to have progressed to an AIDS diagnosis.

HIV/AIDS Prevalence Rate: Number of people estimated to be living with HIV, at any disease stage, including AIDS.

Sources: Global total available at UNAIDS, 2009 AIDS Epidemic Update, 2009: http://www.unaids.org/en/KnowledgeCentre/HIVData/EpiUpdate/EpiUpdArc.... Country totals available at UNAIDS, 2008 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic, 2008: http://www.unaids.org/en/KnowledgeCentre/HIVData/GlobalReport/2008/2....