Are HIV/AIDS deaths falling?
As of 2023, hiv/aids death rate is 9.9 per 100,000: −63% from 2000s peak.
Why it changed
Both are true at once here: antiretroviral therapy scaled across low- and middle-income countries, generic competition that cut treatment costs, and wider testing reduced the age-standardized death rate by about two-thirds from its early-2000s peak near 27 per 100,000 to about 10. And also, HIV/AIDS still kills around 600,000 people a year, most in sub-Saharan Africa, and millions living with HIV are still not on treatment.
Source · Our World in Data (IHME, GBD 2023) CC-BY 4.0 (Our World in Data) Last reviewed 2026-06-30
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What is the source for this number?
Our World in Data (IHME, GBD 2023). Last reviewed 2026-06-30 — CC-BY 4.0 (Our World in Data).
How has this changed since 2000?
−63% from 2000s peak. As of 2023, HIV/AIDS death rate stands at 9.9 per 100,000.
What still isn't solved?
HIV/AIDS still kills around 600,000 people a year, most in sub-Saharan Africa, and millions living with HIV are still not on treatment.