Timor-Leste - Women's share of population ages 15+ living with HIV (%)

Women's share of population ages 15+ living with HIV (%) in Timor-Leste was 35.10 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 30 years was 50.00 in 1993, while its lowest value was 35.10 in 2020.

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:

Year Value
1990 50.00
1991 50.00
1992 50.00
1993 50.00
1994 49.40
1995 49.50
1996 49.10
1997 48.70
1998 48.40
1999 48.10
2000 47.60
2001 47.00
2002 46.20
2003 45.70
2004 44.80
2005 44.00
2006 43.10
2007 42.00
2008 41.10
2009 40.30
2010 39.40
2011 38.60
2012 37.80
2013 37.00
2014 36.80
2015 36.50
2016 36.10
2017 36.00
2018 35.80
2019 35.40
2020 35.10

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

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Risk factors