Worldwide, more than 33 million people are infected with HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) and nearly 14 million are already dead of the disease. To gain a perspective of this global epidemic as it stood worldwide at the close of 1998, explore the map below and scroll down to see the bulleted information.
The data was drawn from a December 1998 update on the epidemic by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization.
Hard Facts
- More than 47 million people have been infected by HIV since the epidemic began in the late 1970s. Nearly 14 million have died of AIDS.
- In 1998 alone, AIDS deaths totaled some 2.5 million. Malaria, another of the world's top five killers, causes over one million deaths a year. But malaria is a mature epidemic, while AIDS is a still-emerging one whose death toll rises every year.
- By the end of 1998, the number of people living with HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) had grown to an estimated 33.4 million, which is 10 percent more than one year before. Globally, 1.1 percent of adults have been infected with HIV, and they continue to be at the rate of 16,000 a day.
- More than 95 percent of all HIV-infected people now live in the developing world, which has likewise experienced 95 percent of all deaths to date from AIDS.
- Eleven men, women, and children around the world were infected per minute during 1998—close to six million people in all.
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