Malaria Cases in Africa, 2017
Updated on January 5, 2020.
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Data Source: World Health Organization (WHO).
Malaria Cases in Africa, 2017
In 2017, the World Health Organization estimated, 219 million cases of malaria globally. The majority of the malaria cases, that is 200.5 million (92%) occurred in Africa.
The map above highlights the severity of the malaria cases for the individual African countries. Interestingly, Rwanda which had a population of 12.2 million cases in 2017, also had 6.2 million malaria cases, which is approximately half the the size of its population.