Cameroon vs Zimbabwe: Children orphaned by HIV/AIDS

Cameroon
410,000
in 2024
Zimbabwe
510,000
in 2024
Cameroon rank
9th
Zimbabwe rank
7th

Children orphaned by HIV/AIDS over time

  • Cameroon
  • Zimbabwe
0500.0k1.0M1.5M199020072024

How they compare

Zimbabwe currently reports 510,000 against 410,000 in Cameroon, a difference of 100,000.

That makes Zimbabwe's figure about 1.2 times Cameroon's.

Across all 35 years both countries report, Zimbabwe has been ahead every year.

Globally, Cameroon ranks 9th and Zimbabwe ranks 7th 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.