Sierra Leone's children (0-14) living with HIV was 6,500 in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 28.57% from 9,100 in 2014 (3.31% a year on average, compounded).
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 6,500 | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 8,000 | 2019 |
| Ten years earlier | 9,100 | 2014 |
| Highest | 9,800 | 2009 |
| Lowest | 1,300 | 1990 |
| Average since 2015 | 7,800 | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 1,300 | 1990 |
What the numbers say
In 2024, Sierra Leone's children (0-14) living with HIV fell 5.8% on 2023 (from 6,900 to 6,500).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1994 to 2023), the average change was +3.8% and a typical year strayed about 7.4% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.3 standard deviations below 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 25% in 1992 and the biggest yearly fall was 5.8% 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 downward, about 259.39 a year. A straight line explains 99% 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 5,948 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 276.06, against 533.33 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.
See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.
How it compares
In 2024, Sierra Leone had the 27th highest value of the 87 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Sierra Leone | 6,500 | 2024 |
| World | 1.4 million | 2024 |
Closest to Sierra Leone in the 2024 ranking
What this measures
Children living with HIV refers to the number of children ages 0-14 who are infected with HIV.
All 35 values
| Year | Children (0-14) living with HIV |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 6,500 |
| 2023 | 6,900 |
| 2022 | 7,200 |
| 2021 | 7,400 |
| 2020 | 7,800 |
| 2019 | 8,000 |
| 2018 | 8,200 |
| 2017 | 8,400 |
| 2016 | 8,700 |
| 2015 | 8,900 |
| 2014 |
Children (0-14) living with HIV in nearby economies
- Angola — 40,000 (2024)
- Benin — 5,200 (2024)
- Botswana — 4,200 (2024)
- Burkina Faso — 8,400 (2024)
- Burundi — 4,100 (2024)
- Cabo Verde — 100 (2024)
- Cameroon — 20,000 (2024)
- Central African Republic — 9,100 (2024)
- Chad — 11,000 (2024)
- Congo, Dem. Rep. — 69,000 (2024)
- Congo, Rep. — 12,000 (2024)
More health data for Sierra Leone
- Population ages 00-04, female (% of female population) — 13.22% (2025)
- Population ages 00-04, male (% of male population) — 13.55% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, female — 1.65 million (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, female (% of female population) — 37.28% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, male — 1.67 million (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, male (% of male population) — 38.03% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, total — 3.32 million (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) — 37.65% (2025)
- Population ages 05-09, female (% of female population) — 12.34% (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Sierra Leone's children (0-14) living with HIV?
- 6,500 in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1990?
- It is up 400% from 1,300 in 1990 (4.85% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was 9,800 in 2009 and the lowest 1,300 in 1990.
- How does Sierra Leone rank?
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SH.HIV.0014, 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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