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

Women's share of population ages 15+ living with HIV (%) in Qatar was 22.00 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 30 years was 22.20 in 2018, while its lowest value was 11.90 in 1990.

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 11.90
1991 11.90
1992 12.50
1993 13.20
1994 13.90
1995 12.50
1996 13.80
1997 14.80
1998 16.00
1999 16.00
2000 15.40
2001 17.20
2002 17.60
2003 17.90
2004 17.40
2005 18.90
2006 18.60
2007 20.00
2008 20.30
2009 19.40
2010 20.30
2011 20.00
2012 21.10
2013 21.10
2014 20.80
2015 21.20
2016 21.80
2017 21.90
2018 22.20
2019 22.10
2020 22.00

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