HIV/AIDS Facts South Africa

Fact Sheet on South Africa

• Total population*: 42,719,000
• Population by age: Age 0-14 12,602,105
• Age 15-64 27,895,507
• Age 65+ 2,193,308
• Life expectancy: 44.19 years

* As of July 2004

Global HIV/AIDS Facts:

There are more than 42 million HIV-infected people in the world; nearly 30 million of those are in Africa (mostly sub-Saharan Africa). ¹

Approximately 14,000 new HIV infections occur daily around the world and more than 90% of these are in developing countries.

In 2003 nearly 3 million people died of AIDS around the world; 2.2 million of them were in Sub-Sahara Africa. ²

HIV/AIDS in South Africa:

South Africa has the highest number of people (5.3 million) living with HIV/AIDS in the world, with an average of 1,500 people infected daily. ³

The estimated number of adults and children who died of AIDS in 2003 in South Africa was 520,000⁴

Pediatric HIV in South Africa:

Nearly 7% of South African children between the ages of two and nine are infected with HIV ¹

1. University of South Carolina School of Medicine
2. UNAIDS report at the World AIDS Conference in Bangkok 1/2004
3. UNAIDS 2004 Global Report
4. UNAIDS/WHO Epidemiological Fact Sheet - 2004 Update

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