Talk:List of countries by people living with HIV/AIDS

Merging List of countries by people living with HIV/AIDS and List of countries by HIV/AIDS adult prevalence rate
Would it be worth adding another column to this table to show the approximate percentage of a country that AIDS? For at the top of the table, the five million with AIDS in South Africa is more serious than five million in India. Oswax 11:59, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
 * There is another article List of countries by HIV/AIDS adult prevalence rate. Do you think we should list the data here also? --Vsion 19:05, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, I suppose not if there is a link somewhere. It is only that the figures on this page are a little misleading: Swaziland comes 33, Botswana is 22 and Lesotho is 25! The adult prevalence rate is clearly the more important ranking statistics-wise, so maybe these figures ought to be added to that table. Oswax 20:09, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Used Excel, a text editor and Dreamweaver to merge and format the ranking tables found on List of countries by people living with HIV/AIDS and List of countries by HIV/AIDS adult prevalence rate. I posted a proposed merged population/prevalence table at Talk:List of countries by HIV/AIDS adult prevalence rate. I support merging the two datasets into one Wikipedia page because it gives a fuller and more accurate picture of the topic. I also support sorting by prevalence rank, though it would be interesting to have both sort options (prevalence and total people) available. Showing total HIV/AIDS population or HIV/AIDS prevalence alone is so incomplete as to be misleading to the casual reader; juxtaposition is necessary to complete the picture. Would be interesting to see total overall population included in these tables. It would also be interesting to see updated info - newest data for most countries in these tables are 3-5 years old.

--Erielhonan 01:56, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

MORE: I calculated the total population of the countries listed using the HIV/AIDS rate and the total HIV/AIDS populations, and the statistics here only "appear" to account for about 50% of the overall world population. I realize that rounding of small prevalence percentages accounts for a portion of the inaccuracy, but that can't be all of it given the wide divergence from real statistics. There has to be a large measure of reporting error. For instance, 950,000 people represents about 0.32% of the U.S. population, not 0.6%. When I divided the total HIV cases by the HIV prevalence rates and added the results, I came up with a total of about 3.1 billion people. This means that overall the number of cases is lowballed or the prevalence is highballed, by an combined factor of about 2.

The data for these tables, which I used in my analysis, were derived from the CIA World Factbook.

--Erielhonan 03:45, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Malta
That number is undoubtedly incorrect...merely a few months ago it was stated that there were less than 20 known cases of Aids.

Drew88 15:38, 23 August 2006 (UTC)