HIV, TB & Malaria — the big threeThe three great communicable-disease epidemics: global trends since 2000, country burden, the income & regional divide, and country profiles

How to read this. Every figure is a World Bank reported value for a specific year — always shown next to the number, because the latest available year varies (often 2024 for the headline burden series, sometimes earlier for bed-net surveys or TB treatment outcomes). This is descriptive: it shows where the three epidemics stand and how they have moved since 2000. It does not predict the future. The big picture is two-sided — major long-run progress in all three, but recent plateauing, and a burden still heavily concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa.

— — measured World Bank reported interpretive framing & selection

● The big three — global headline measuredinterpretive

HIV prevalence, ages 15–49 · world · —

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2000→— measured

TB incidence · world · —

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Malaria incidence · world · —

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2000→—

New HIV infections, adults 15–49 · world

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Children (0–14) living with HIV · world

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TB treatment success · world

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▤ Highest-burden countries measured

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Ranked across the ~80 high-burden and large countries in this atlas (not all 200+ World Bank economies), highest burden at top. The year column is the latest available reported value for each country, which can differ between rows. Bar length is relative to the highest value shown. Countries with no reported value for the selected disease are omitted (a gap, never read as zero).

◑ The divide — by income group & region measured

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◎ Country profile measured

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HIV prevalence, 2000→latest measured

TB incidence, 2000→latest

Malaria incidence, 2000→latest

How it compares — HIV prevalence, latest value

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