Table # 16
AIDs:  Highest Rate of Infection

Percent of Adult Population Ages 15-49 with AIDs

Rank

2000

2003 2006
1 Zimbabwe Botswana Swaziland
25.8% 38.8% 33.4
2 Botswana Zimbabwe Botswana
25.1% 33.7% 24.1%
3 Namibia Swaziland Lesotho
19.9% 33.4 23.2%
4 Zambia Lesotho Zimbabwe
19.1% 31.0% 20.1%
5 Swaziland Namibia Namibia
18.5 22.5% 19.6%
6 Malawi South Africa South Africa
14.9% 20.1% 18.8%
7 Mozambique Zambia Zambia
14.2% 15.6% 17.0%
8 South Africa Malawi Mozambique
12.9% 15.0% 16.1%
9 Rwanda Kenya Malawi
12.8% 15.0% 11.8%

United States

0.8% 0.6% 0.6%

Source: Population Reference Bureau Data Sheets:   2000, 2003, 2006

Chart created by Russ Long