Guinea-Bissau: Antiretroviral therapy coverage (% of people living with HIV)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2024, Guinea-Bissau's antiretroviral therapy coverage (% of people living with HIV) rose 14 percentage points on 2023 (from 65% to 79%).

Across the 23 yearly changes before that (2001 to 2023), the average change was +2.83 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.55 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 4.4 standard deviations above that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 14 percentage points in 2024. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2015 to 2024 the straight-line trend is upward, about 5.53 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 98% of the movement over 10 observed years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

A straight-line projection, tested first

Extending that straight line gives about 89.48% for 2027. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2022 to 2024 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 5.61%, against 12.33% for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.

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How it compares

In 2024, Guinea-Bissau had the 40th highest value of the 125 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.

Closest to Guinea-Bissau in the 2024 ranking

• Cabo Verde — 38th of 125: 80%
• Peru — 39th of 125: 80%
• Argentina — 40th of 125: 79%
• Lebanon — 42nd of 125: 79%
• Senegal — 43rd of 125: 79%
• Côte d'Ivoire — 44th of 125: 78%

What this measures

Antiretroviral therapy coverage indicates the percentage of all people living with HIV who are receiving antiretroviral therapy.

Limitations: The limited availability of data on health status is a major constraint in assessing the health situation in developing countries. Surveillance data are lacking for many major public health concerns. Estimates of prevalence and incidence are available for some diseases but are often unreliable and incomplete. National health authorities differ widely in capacity and willingness to collect or report information.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 25 values

Antiretroviral therapy coverage (% of people living with HIV) in nearby economies

• Angola — 48% (2024)
• Benin — 87% (2024)
• Botswana — 95% (2024)
• Burkina Faso — 82% (2024)
• Burundi — 93% (2024)
• Cabo Verde — 80% (2024)
• Cameroon — 88% (2024)
• Central African Republic — 66% (2024)
• Chad — 65% (2024)

More health data for Guinea-Bissau

• Population ages 00-04, female (% of female population) — 13.13% (2025)
• Population ages 00-04, male (% of male population) — 13.81% (2025)
• Population ages 0-14, female — 425,557 (2025)
• Population ages 0-14, female (% of female population) — 37.42% (2025)
• Population ages 0-14, male — 436,574 (2025)
• Population ages 0-14, male (% of male population) — 39.25% (2025)
• Population ages 0-14, total — 862,130 (2025)
• Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) — 38.33% (2025)
• Population ages 05-09, female (% of female population) — 12.36% (2025)

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Questions people ask

What is Guinea-Bissau's antiretroviral therapy coverage (% of people living with HIV)?

79% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2000?

It is up 79 percentage points from 0% in 2000. The highest value was 79% in 2024 and the lowest 0% in 2000.

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SH.HIV.ARTC.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: UNAIDS estimates, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), uri: https://aidsinfo.unaids.org/, publisher: UNAIDS, date accessed: 2025-08-27, date published: 2025-07 Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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