Are malaria deaths falling?
As of 2023, malaria death rate is 9.6 per 100,000: −34% since 2000.
Why it changed
Mass rollout of insecticide-treated bed nets, rapid tests, and artemisinin treatment funded through the Global Fund cut the age-standardized death rate by about a third since its early-2000s peak. At the same time, malaria still kills roughly 600,000 people a year, most of them children under 5, and progress has stalled near 10 per 100,000 as drug resistance spreads.
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 1990?
−34% since 2000. As of 2023, malaria death rate stands at 9.6 per 100,000.
What still isn't solved?
Malaria still kills roughly 600,000 people a year, most of them children under 5, and progress has stalled near 10 per 100,000 as drug resistance spreads.