Ministry of Health: HIV Stats

Statistics

HIV Stats

TABLE 1: NUMBER OF SINGAPOREANS REPORTED WITH HIV INFECTION/AIDS (1985 - 2008)
	HIV/AIDS
Year	Male	Female	Total	Rate*
1985	2	0	2	0.8
1986	6	1	7	2.8
1987	10	0	10	3.9
1988	15	0	15	5.8
1989	9	1	10	3.8
1990	17	0	17	6.2
1991	39	3	42	15.0
1992	49	6	55	19.3
1993	58	6	64	22.0
1994	76	10	86	29.1
1995	102	9	111	36.8
1996	123	16	139	45.3
1997	157	16	173	55.4
1998	167	32	199	62.6
1999	171	35	206	63.8
2000	193	33	226	69.0
2001	204	33	237	71.3
2002	206	28	234	69.2
2003	212	30	242	71.9
2004	290	21	311	91.1
2005	287	30	317	91.4
2006	325	32	357	101.3
2007	392	31	423	118.1
2008	426	30	456	125.2
Total	3,538	403	3,941	-

Note: ^*per million population, based on yearly resident population estimates revised by Singapore Department of Statistics in February 2008.

TABLE 2: DISTRIBUTION OF HIV INFECTED SINGAPOREANS BY MODES OF TRANSMISSION (1985 - 2008)
Mode of Transmission	1985-2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Sexual Orientation
Heterosexual	1160	181	177	188	186	222	255	248
Homosexual	191	30	40	72	87	95	130	151
Bisexual	146	12	14	22	14	14	15	34
Intravenous drug use	32	6	4	7	4	14	7	20
Blood Transfusion	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Renal Transplant overseas	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Perinatal (mother to child)	15	2	1	4	3	2	2	0
Uncertain	47	3	6	18	23	12	13	3
Total	1,599	234	242	311	317	359	423	456

TABLE 3: HIV INFECTED SINGAPOREANS BY MARITAL STATUS (1985 - 2008)
Marital Status	1985 - 2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Male
Single	868	106	112	180	176	198	230	280
Married	376	71	65	74	82	92	114	105
Divorced/Separated	119	25	28	25	27	30	42	37
Widowed	35	4	7	11	2	5	6	4
Female
Single	40	6	3	7	7	8	6	1
Married	128	15	21	8	19	17	17	17
Divorced/Separated	19	3	5	2	3	6	7	7
Widowed	14	4	1	4	1	1	1	5
Total
Single	908	112	115	187	183	206	236	281
Married	504	86	86	82	101	109	131	122
Divorced/Separated	138	28	33	27	30	36	49	44
Widowed	49	8	8	15	3	6	7	9

TABLE 4: HIV/AIDS INFECTED SINGAPOREANS BY ETHNIC GROUP (1985 - 2008)
Ethnic Group	1985 - 2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Chinese	1340	201	201	261	252	292	355	363
Malay	114	23	27	29	48	47	47	71
Indian	84	5	6	16	12	12	11	15
Others	61	5	8	5	5	8	10	7

TABLE 5: HIV INFECTED SINGAPOREANS BY AGE AND SEX (1985 - 2007)
Age Group	1985 - 2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Male
0 -9	8	1	1	1	0	2	1	0
10 - 19	9	0	1	4	4	1	6	7
20 - 29	250	22	22	41	36	50	54	66
30 - 39	557	53	71	82	85	91	99	120
40 - 49	334	67	66	84	83	90	121	116
50 - 59	129	39	29	44	49	60	81	78
60 & above	111	24	22	34	30	31	30	39
Female
0 -9	7	1	0	2	3	1	1	0
10 - 19	3	1	0	0	0	1	3	0
20 - 29	81	10	7	6	8	7	1	3
30 - 39	53	3	12	7	10	8	7	10
40 - 49	28	6	8	5	1	7	13	9
50 - 59	17	6	3	0	7	6	6	4
60 & above	12	1	0	1	1	2	0	4
Total
0 -9	15	2	1	3	3	3	2	0
10 - 19	12	1	1	4	4	2	9	7
20 - 29	331	32	29	47	44	57	55	69
30 - 39	610	56	83	89	95	99	106	130
40 - 49	362	73	74	89	84	97	134	125
50 - 59	146	45	32	44	56	66	87	82
60 & above	123	25	22	35	31	33	30	43

HIV statistics update: 3 June 2009

Privacy Statement \| Terms of Use	Ministry of Health, Singapore, 2007
Best viewed using Internet Explorer 6.0+