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

Women's share of population ages 15+ living with HIV (%) in Arab World was 40.43 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 30 years was 41.88 in 1990, while its lowest value was 39.53 in 2013.

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 41.88
1991 41.79
1992 41.20
1993 40.58
1994 40.38
1995 40.44
1996 40.12
1997 40.31
1998 40.26
1999 40.32
2000 40.41
2001 40.45
2002 40.37
2003 41.00
2004 40.81
2005 40.76
2006 40.50
2007 40.42
2008 40.39
2009 40.47
2010 39.63
2011 39.56
2012 39.55
2013 39.53
2014 39.98
2015 40.07
2016 40.06
2017 40.11
2018 40.47
2019 40.46
2020 40.43

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