AIDS Statistics

Here are a few of the main worldwide AIDS statistics as of 2007.

· There are currently 33.2 million people living with HIV or AIDS
· Of these 30.8 million are adults and 2.5 million are children
· 2.5 million people are newly infected with HIV in 2007
· 2.1 million people died from AIDS in 2007

The following AIDS statistics compare America and Africa mortality rates in further detail.

More than 25 million people have died from AIDS since 1981 and Africa currently has 12 million children under the age of 18 orphaned by AIDS. In 1981 around 30 deaths occurred from AIDS in the United States, however in 2006 there were 14,627 deaths from AIDS. In the United States there have been more than half a million deaths as a result of AIDS in total. In South Africa alone there have been around half a million deaths every single year as a result of AIDS. In Sub-Saharan Africa there have been a total of 2 million deaths for 2005 alone. That means there have been more than five times as many deaths in Africa in just one single year than there have been in the United States in the past 27 years.

Since 1990, the number of people living with AIDS worldwide has increased by 700% from 5 million to just over 33 million.

Young people aged 25 or below account for more than half of all new infections worldwide. That’s around 1.25 million people in 2007 alone.