Women's share of population ages 15+ living with HIV (%) - Country Ranking - Europe

Definition: Prevalence of HIV is the percentage of people who are infected with HIV. Female rate is as a percentage of the total population ages 15+ who are living with HIV.

Source: UNAIDS estimates.

See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Ukraine 47.00 2020
2 Estonia 39.30 2020
3 Romania 38.70 2020
4 Moldova 37.00 2020
5 Belarus 33.60 2020
6 Portugal 29.30 2020
7 Ireland 28.80 2020
8 Italy 28.60 2020
9 Albania 27.50 2020
10 Switzerland 27.40 2020
11 Iceland 27.30 2020
12 Denmark 24.80 2020
13 Germany 19.60 2020
14 Netherlands 18.30 2020
15 Spain 17.70 2020
16 Greece 16.00 2020
17 Serbia 14.70 2020
18 Montenegro 11.80 2020
19 Slovenia 11.60 2020
20 Croatia 9.80 2020

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Limitations and Exceptions: The limited availability of data on health status is a major constraint in assessing the health situation in developing countries. Surveillance data are lacking for many major public health concerns. Estimates of prevalence and incidence are available for some diseases but are often unreliable and incomplete. National health authorities differ widely in capacity and willingness to collect or report information.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: HIV prevalence rates reflect the rate of HIV infection in each country's population. Low national prevalence rates can be misleading, however. They often disguise epidemics that are initially concentrated in certain localities or population groups and threaten to spill over into the wider population. In many developing countries most new infections occur in young adults, with young women especially vulnerable. Data on HIV are from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). Changes in procedures and assumptions for estimating the data and better coordination with countries have resulted in improved estimates of HIV and AIDS. The models, which are routinely updated, track the course of HIV epidemics and their impact, making full use of information in HIV prevalence trends from surveillance data as well as survey data. The models take into account reduced infectivity among people receiving antiretroviral therapy (which is having a larger impact on HIV prevalence and allowing HIV-positive people to live longer) and allow for changes in urbanization over time in generalized epidemics. The estimates include plausibility bounds, which reflect the certainty associated with each of the estimates.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual