Orphans 0-17 years currently living (high estimate) - HIV/AIDS - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators



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AIDS orphans are the estimated number of children who have lost their mother or both parents to AIDS before age 17 since the epidemic began in 1990. Some of the orphaned children included in this cumulative total are no longer alive; others are no longer under age 17. Source: UNAIDS and the WHO's Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic.
Orphans 0-17 years currently living (high estimate) - HIV/AIDS - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators (2007)

Rank

Country

Value

1Sub-Saharan Africa15,300,000
2Nigeria4,100,000
3South Africa1,800,000
4Uganda1,400,000
5Kenya1,400,000
6Zimbabwe1,100,000
7Tanzania1,100,000
8Ethiopia780,000
9Zambia660,000
10Malawi640,000
11Mozambique590,000
12Ivory Coast530,000
13Cameroon390,000
14Democratic Republic of the Congo380,000
15Chad270,000
16Angola260,000
17Rwanda250,000
18Ghana200,000
19Burundi150,000
20Burkina Faso130,000
21Lesotho120,000
22Botswana110,000
23Togo91,000
24Liberia87,000
25Central African Republic86,000
26Namibia85,000
27Republic of the Congo84,000
28Swaziland65,000
29Mali56,000
30Benin40,000
31Niger39,000
32Guinea39,000
33Eritrea32,000
34Gabon28,000
35Sierra Leone26,000
36Somalia16,000
37Senegal14,000
38Djibouti9,600
39Guinea-Bissau8,300
40Equatorial Guinea6,100
41Madagascar6,000
42Mauritania5,900
43Gambia4,700
44Mauritius1,000
45Comoros200
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