Botswana vs Namibia: Children orphaned by HIV/AIDS

Botswana
52,000
in 2024
Namibia
55,000
in 2024
Botswana rank
35th
Namibia rank
33rd

Children orphaned by HIV/AIDS over time

  • Botswana
  • Namibia
050.0k100.0k150.0k199020072024

How they compare

Namibia currently reports 55,000 against 52,000 in Botswana, a difference of 3,000.

That makes Namibia's figure about 1.1 times Botswana's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 35 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Botswana ahead.

Globally, Botswana ranks 35th and Namibia ranks 33rd of 138 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Children orphaned by HIV/AIDS
Source
UNAIDS estimates
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
139 places, 4,809 data points, 1990–2024
Last refreshed

Number of children orphaned by HIV/AIDS is the estimated number of children who have lost their mother or both parents to AIDS before age 15 since the epidemic began. Some of the orphaned children included in this cumulative total are no longer alive; others are no longer under age 15.