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AIDS statistics: deaths of adults and children in sub-Saharan Africa
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Across the countries of sub-Saharan Africa a total of 2.2 million adults and children are estimated to have died from AIDS in 1999, as shown below.

Estimated AIDS deaths in Africa
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Country

Adults and Children Deaths 1999

Angola

15,000

Benn

5,600

Botswana

24,000

Burkina Faso

43,000

Burundi

39,000

Cameroon

52,000

Central African Republic

23,000

Chad

10,000

Congo

8,600

Cote d'Ivoire

72,000

Dem. Republic of Congo

95,000

Djibouti

3,100

Equatorial Guinea

120

Ethiopia

280,000

Gabon

2,000

Gambia

1,400

Ghana

33,000

Guinea

5,600

Guinea-Bissau

1,300

Kenya

180,000

Lesotho

16,000

Liberia

4,500

Madagascar

870

Malawi

70,000

Mali

9,900

Mauritania

610

Mozambique

98,000

Namibia

18,000

Niger

6,500

Nigeria

250,000

Rwanda

40,000

Senegal

7,800

Sierra Leone

8,200

South Africa

250,000

Swaziland

7,100

Togo

14,000

Uganda

110,000

United Rep. Of Tanzania

140,000

Zambia

99,000

Zimbabwe

160,000

Total

2,204,200

Notes

The figures are the estimates at the end of 1999, published by UNAIDS in the "Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic June 2000". The figure are estimates based on a number of different sources of information, rather then exact counts of infections.

An adult is defined, for the purposes of this estimating, as being someone aged 15-49. This age range captures this in their most sexually active years.

For further information, see our web pages AIDS in Africa, AIDS orphans in Africa and HIV and AIDS in Africa.

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.Last updated June 27, 2002