Cameroon vs Malawi: Children orphaned by HIV/AIDS

Cameroon
410,000
in 2024
Malawi
360,000
in 2024
Cameroon rank
9th
Malawi rank
10th

Children orphaned by HIV/AIDS over time

  • Cameroon
  • Malawi
0200.0k400.0k600.0k800.0k199020072024

How they compare

Cameroon currently reports 410,000 against 360,000 in Malawi, a difference of 50,000.

That makes Cameroon's figure about 1.1 times Malawi's.

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

Globally, Cameroon ranks 9th and Malawi ranks 10th 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.