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"Senegal", "code": "SEN"}, {"id": 88, "name": "Serbia", "code": "SRB"}, {"id": 87, "name": "Sierra Leone", "code": "SLE"}, {"id": 86, "name": "Singapore", "code": "SGP"}, {"id": 85, "name": "Slovakia", "code": "SVK"}, {"id": 83, "name": "Slovenia", "code": "SVN"}, {"id": 82, "name": "Somalia", "code": "SOM"}, {"id": 81, "name": "South Africa", "code": "ZAF"}, {"id": 258, "name": "South Sudan", "code": "SSD"}, {"id": 9, "name": "Spain", "code": "ESP"}, {"id": 141, "name": "Sri Lanka", "code": "LKA"}, {"id": 79, "name": "Sudan", "code": "SDN"}, {"id": 234, "name": "Suriname", "code": "SUR"}, {"id": 7, "name": "Switzerland", "code": "CHE"}, {"id": 77, "name": "Syria", "code": "SYR"}, {"id": 76, "name": "Tajikistan", "code": "TJK"}, {"id": 64, "name": "Tanzania", "code": "TZA"}, {"id": 75, "name": "Thailand", "code": "THA"}, {"id": 74, "name": "Togo", "code": "TGO"}, {"id": 71, "name": "Tunisia", "code": "TUN"}, {"id": 68, "name": "Uganda", "code": "UGA"}, {"id": 72, "name": "United Arab Emirates", "code": "ARE"}, {"id": 1, "name": "United Kingdom", "code": "GBR"}, {"id": 238, "name": "Venezuela", "code": "VEN"}, {"id": 84, "name": "Vietnam", "code": "VNM"}, {"id": 367349, "name": "Western & Central Europe and North America (UNAIDS)", "code": null}, {"id": 372428, "name": "Western and Central Africa (UNAIDS)", "code": null}, {"id": 355, "name": "World", "code": "OWID_WRL"}, {"id": 61, "name": "Yemen", "code": "YEM"}, {"id": 60, "name": "Zambia", "code": "ZMB"}, {"id": 80, "name": "Zimbabwe", "code": "ZWE"}]}}, "descriptionShort": "Number of children, aged 17 and under, who have been orphaned by the death of one or both parents from AIDS at any point in their lives. This is the central estimate.", "type": "float", "grapherConfigIdETL": "019bebd3-0558-71e8-b009-de234230b772", "datasetName": "Global AIDS Update", "datasetVersion": "2026-01-19", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"unit": "children", "numDecimalPlaces": 0}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "minor", "presentation": {"titlePublic": "Children orphaned due to AIDS", "titleVariant": "aged 0-17, central estimate", "topicTagsLinks": ["HIV/AIDS"]}, "descriptionKey": ["An orphan is defined as a child under 18 years old who has lost at least one parent:\n  - A child who has lost their mother is called a maternal orphan, while a child who has lost their father is referred to as a paternal orphan.\n  - A child who has lost both parents is known as a double orphan.", "**Scale of the crisis:** Sub-Saharan Africa faces the gravest orphan crisis, with an estimate of 10 million children (0-17) losing one or both parents due to AIDS by 2023.", "**Vulnerability and impact:** Orphaned children often experience extreme poverty, disruption in schooling, and psychosocial distress, exposing them to heightened risks of exploitation and abuse.", "**Preferred family-based care:** Emphasis is placed on keeping these children within a family environment\u2014often headed by surviving parents, grandparents, or relatives\u2014rather than resorting to institutional orphanages."], "origins": [{"id": 10878, "title": "Global AIDS Update, Epidemic Indicators", "description": "UNAIDS leads the world's most extensive data collection on HIV epidemiology, programme coverage and finance and publishes the most authoritative and up-to-date information on the HIV epidemic.\n\nIn some cases there is no data for some country and year. This can be a result of very small epidemics among women in the reproductive age which makes estimation of the mother to child transmission very unstable. Another reason for missing data is that relevant authorities may have asked UNAIDS not to share their estimates.\n\nA historic funding crisis is threatening to unravel decades of progress unless countries can make radical shifts to HIV programming and funding. The report highlights the impact that the sudden, large-scale funding cuts from international donors are having on countries most affected by HIV. Yet it also showcases some inspiring examples of resilience, with countries and communities stepping up in the face of adversity to protect the gains made and drive the HIV response forward.", "producer": "Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS", "citationFull": "AIDS, crisis and the power to transform: UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2025. Geneva: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS; 2025. Full report: https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/documents/2025/2025-global-aids-update-summary", "attributionShort": "UNAIDS", "urlMain": "https://aidsinfo.unaids.org/dataset", "urlDownload": "https://aidsinfo.unaids.org/public/documents/Estimates_2025_en.zip", "dateAccessed": "2026-01-19", "datePublished": "2026-01-15", "license": {"url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/igo/", "name": "CC BY 3.0"}}]}