Percentage of people living with HIV who have suppressed viral loads in AFR
AFR: Percentage of people living with HIV who have suppressed viral loads was 78 in 2025. ▲ Rising
Percentage of people living with HIV who have suppressed viral loads in AFR, 2015–2025
Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory.
Analysis
AFR recorded 78 for percentage of people living with hiv who have suppressed viral loads in 2025. That is the highest value across all 11 years on record.
That represents a change of up 1.3% on the previous year and up 90.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, percentage of people living with hiv who have suppressed viral loads in AFR peaked at 78 in 2025 and was at its lowest, 41, in 2015.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 11 years of available data.
Percentage of people living with HIV who have suppressed viral loads in AFR, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | — |
| 2016 | 46 | +12.2% |
| 2017 | 51 | +10.9% |
| 2018 | 55 | +7.8% |
| 2019 | 60 | +9.1% |
| 2020 | 64 | +6.7% |
| 2021 | 68 | +6.2% |
| 2022 | 72 | +5.9% |
| 2023 | 75 | +4.2% |
| 2024 | 77 | +2.7% |
| 2025 | 78 | +1.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 50.6 | 41 | 60 | 5 |
| 2020s | 72.33 | 64 | 78 | 6 |
Countries ranked near AFR
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- Prevalence of diabetes, crude 8.58 (2022)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is percentage of people living with hiv who have suppressed viral loads in AFR?
- Percentage of people living with hiv who have suppressed viral loads in AFR was 78 in 2025, according to World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory.
- What is the highest percentage of people living with hiv who have suppressed viral loads recorded in AFR?
- The highest recorded value was 78 in 2025.
- What is the lowest percentage of people living with hiv who have suppressed viral loads recorded in AFR?
- The lowest recorded value was 41 in 2015.
- How does AFR rank for percentage of people living with hiv who have suppressed viral loads?
- AFR ranks 1st out of 7 groups with data for 2025.
- Is percentage of people living with hiv who have suppressed viral loads rising or falling in AFR?
- Over the last ten years it is up 90.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this AFR data come from?
- The figures come from World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory, published as part of Percentage of people living with HIV who have suppressed viral loads. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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