Lesotho's women's share of population ages 15+ living with HIV (%) was 62.39% in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 2.04 percentage points from 60.35% in 2014.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 62.39% | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 61.31% | 2019 |
| Ten years earlier | 60.35% | 2014 |
| Highest | 62.39% | 2024 |
| Lowest | 59.92% | 2010 |
| Average since 2015 | 61.43% | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 61.83% | 1990 |
What the numbers say
In 2024, Lesotho's women's share of population ages 15+ living with HIV (%) rose 0.23 percentage points on 2023 (from 62.16% to 62.39%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1994 to 2023), the average change was +0 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.16 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.4 standard deviations above that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 0.24 percentage points in 2022 and the biggest yearly fall was 0.21 percentage points in 2007. 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 0.2 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 100% 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 62.94% 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 0.13%, against 0.46% 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.
See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.
How it compares
In 2024, Lesotho had the 32nd highest value of the 172 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.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Lesotho | 62.39% | 2024 |
| World | 53.17% | 2024 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 63.25% | 2024 |
Closest to Lesotho in the 2024 ranking
What this measures
Prevalence of HIV is the percentage of people who are infected with HIV. Female rate is as a percentage of the total population ages 15+ who are living with HIV.
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 35 values
| Year | Women's share of population ages 15+ living with HIV (%) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 62.39 |
| 2023 | 62.16 |
| 2022 | 61.94 |
| 2021 | 61.7 |
| 2020 | 61.5 |
| 2019 | 61.31 |
| 2018 | 61.1 |
| 2017 | 60.91 |
| 2016 | 60.74 |
| 2015 | 60.56 |
| 2014 |
Women's share of population ages 15+ living with HIV (%) in nearby economies
- Angola — 73.12% (2024)
- Benin — 64.37% (2024)
- Botswana — 61.75% (2024)
- Burkina Faso — 63.68% (2024)
- Burundi — 63.34% (2024)
- Cabo Verde — 47.52% (2024)
- Cameroon — 64.83% (2024)
- Central African Republic — 65.07% (2024)
- Chad — 63.03% (2024)
More health data for Lesotho
- Population ages 00-04, female (% of female population) — 10.7% (2025)
- Population ages 00-04, male (% of male population) — 11.44% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, female — 400,450 (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, female (% of female population) — 33.06% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, male — 405,493 (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, male (% of male population) — 35.19% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, total — 805,943 (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) — 34.1% (2025)
- Population ages 05-09, female (% of female population) — 11.21% (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Lesotho's women's share of population ages 15+ living with HIV (%)?
- 62.39% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1990?
- It is up 0.56 percentage points from 61.83% in 1990. The highest value was 62.39% in 2024 and the lowest 59.92% in 2010.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SH.DYN.AIDS.FE.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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