Guinea vs Lesotho: Children orphaned by HIV/AIDS

Guinea
86,000
in 2024
Lesotho
81,000
in 2024
Guinea rank
26th
Lesotho rank
27th

Children orphaned by HIV/AIDS over time

  • Guinea
  • Lesotho
050.0k100.0k150.0k199020072024

How they compare

Guinea currently reports 86,000 against 81,000 in Lesotho, a difference of 5,000.

That makes Guinea's figure about 1.1 times Lesotho's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 35 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Guinea ahead.

Globally, Guinea ranks 26th and Lesotho ranks 27th 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.