MAP · Malaria Mortality (P. falciparum)
Malaria deaths (falciparum) by country
How many people die of falciparum malaria?
Of the 76 countries compared in 2024, Costa Rica had the lowest reading, 0.00000, and Sierra Leone had the highest reading, 133.26729. In the middle country the figure was 8.10553. Among the 69 countries measured in every edition since 2000, the middle one moved from 35.23861 to 12.42409.
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Malaria deaths (falciparum) · 2024
Context statistic
Lowest of 76Costa Rica
0.00000012024 · values only
Who leads
The three countries at the lowest end of 76 compared, the three at the other end, and the first on each continent.
1Photo: Henry Zbyszynski from Capitola California, USA · CC BY 2.0, greyscale
2Photo: User:Gire 3pich2005 , derived: User:Nastoshka · CC0, greyscale
3Photo: Alfred Weidinger from Vienna, Austria derivative work: Jjtkk · CC BY 2.0, greyscale
Highest in 2024
Sierra Leone133.26729
Niger116.27036
Central African Republic98.80466
Where a country sits says how it compares with the others measured, and nothing about why.
Lowest on each continent
- Africa
South Africa0.03636 - AmericasCosta Rica0.00000
- Asia
Iran0.00002 - Oceania
Solomon Islands21.380622 of 21 measured
- Every region
02Every measured country
Malaria deaths (falciparum) on a map
Each country is shaded by its value, in five groups holding the same number of countries. Hover a country for its value, or select it to open its profile. Below the map, each continent’s middle country.
Darker is a lower value — the better end.
- 57.03594–133.26729
- 20.28842–50.21872
- 2.57125–20.08835
- 0.03843–1.89747
- 0.00000–0.03636
- No reading in 2024 (25 measured in an earlier edition)
- Americas
0.03610
the middle country, of 13 measured · 48 members
Costa Rica0.00000
Guyana6.26624Lowest and highest reading in Americas.
- Asia
0.16786
the middle country, of 16 measured · 52 members
Iran0.00002
Yemen12.01185Lowest and highest reading in Asia.
- Africa
39.80394
the middle country, of 45 measured · 55 members
South Africa0.03636Sierra Leone133.26729Lowest and highest reading in Africa.
- Oceania
2 of 21 measured — too few for a middle: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands.
Solomon Islands21.38062
Papua New Guinea23.71406Lowest and highest reading in Oceania.
- Every region
12 sub-regions, lowest middle country first
- South America
0.03843
the middle country, of 7 measured · 12 members
Ecuador0.00181Guyana6.26624Lowest and highest reading in South America.
- South-eastern Asia
0.08758
the middle country, of 8 measured · 11 members
Timor-Leste0.00034
Myanmar1.66955Lowest and highest reading in South-eastern Asia.
- Southern Asia
0.48469
the middle country, of 6 measured · 9 members
Iran0.00002
Pakistan3.91942Lowest and highest reading in Southern Asia.
- Eastern Africa
19.78264
the middle country, of 16 measured · 19 members
Zimbabwe2.57125
Burundi92.90509Lowest and highest reading in Eastern Africa.
- Middle Africa
43.34646
the middle country, of 9 measured · 9 members
São Tomé and Príncipe1.43509Central African Republic98.80466Lowest and highest reading in Middle Africa.
- Western Africa
77.42052
the middle country, of 15 measured · 16 members
Mauritania19.65094Sierra Leone133.26729Lowest and highest reading in Western Africa.
- Caribbean
2 of 24 measured — too few for a middle: Dominican Republic, Haiti.
Dominican Republic0.02079
Haiti4.13393Lowest and highest reading in Caribbean.
- Central America
4 of 8 measured — too few for a middle: Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama.
Costa Rica0.00000
Nicaragua0.09921Lowest and highest reading in Central America.
- Melanesia
2 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands.
Solomon Islands21.38062Papua New Guinea23.71406Lowest and highest reading in Melanesia.
- Northern Africa
1 of 6 measured — too few for a middle: Sudan.
Sudan7.64509Lowest and highest reading in Northern Africa.
- Southern Africa
4 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Botswana, Eswatini, Namibia, South Africa.
South Africa0.03636
Namibia1.89747Lowest and highest reading in Southern Africa.
- Western Asia
2 of 19 measured — too few for a middle: Oman, Yemen.
Oman0.00008Yemen12.01185Lowest and highest reading in Western Asia.
03The whole field at once
The spread
76 countries, one dot each, on one scale — further right is a higher value. Half the countries are above 8.10553; a quarter are above 44.20542, and a quarter below 0.17101. The bar in each row marks that continent’s middle country.
Log scale: each gridline is ten times the one before, so countries of very different sizes can be seen on one line.
04All 101 ever measured
Every country
In order, lowest value first. No rank or position is shown: too many countries share the same value for an order to mean anything. Only countries where falciparum malaria has been transmitted since 2000 appear, and a missing country is not a country with no deaths: MAP's data cannot tell 'none' from 'no estimate'. At the bottom of the table the rates are so small that they are model residue rather than a count of deaths.
Showing 25 of 101 countries
Values for 2024. The change column compares 2024 with 2023 only; the sparkline covers the recent editions.
052000–2024 · 25 reference years
Over time
Each point is one year from 2000, all re-estimated together in one MAP release, and the shaded band is the uncertainty MAP publishes around each estimate. That release is older than the one behind the incidence figures, because MAP's newest release has no mortality layer, so its last year is one year earlier.
- the middle country
- the middle half of countries
- the middle of the 69 countries measured every time
- each continent’s middle country
The same, year by year
| Year | Countries | Middle country | Middle half | Measured every time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 76 | 8.10553 | 0.17101 – 44.20542 | 12.42409 |
| 2023 | 77 | 7.64937 | 0.16877 – 42.96140 | 12.26065 |
| 2022 | 75 | 8.71347 | 0.14834 – 51.29681 | 14.67782 |
| 2021 | 75 | 8.75022 | 0.19217 – 54.82535 | 12.93164 |
| 2020 | 78 | 8.33768 | 0.12299 – 50.66468 | 12.97929 |
| 2019 | 78 | 7.35150 | 0.09739 – 47.81667 | 14.21932 |
| 2018 | 80 | 7.33685 | 0.11399 – 46.01633 | 15.51751 |
| 2017 | 79 | 8.61316 | 0.39450 – 46.69352 | 13.49676 |
| 2016 | 81 | 6.63012 | 0.13851 – 44.96368 | 14.72839 |
| 2015 | 82 | 6.56774 | 0.08878 – 46.33174 | 14.50944 |
| 2014 | 83 | 6.58634 | 0.15578 – 48.78274 | 14.45463 |
| 2013 | 85 | 8.31948 | 0.17665 – 50.73593 | 18.89588 |
| 2012 | 87 | 6.52856 | 0.09182 – 51.68310 | 22.56481 |
| 2011 | 87 | 7.83450 | 0.14270 – 52.43250 | 24.77135 |
| 2010 | 87 | 9.49357 | 0.22552 – 54.97242 | 28.96770 |
| 2009 | 92 | 7.24909 | 0.13616 – 55.94860 | 27.67367 |
| 2008 | 93 | 4.88977 | 0.10997 – 59.73375 | 26.68148 |
| 2007 | 94 | 4.90621 | 0.11607 – 63.84299 | 24.71477 |
| 2006 | 96 | 6.28577 | 0.11422 – 60.46537 | 24.81206 |
| 2005 | 92 | 7.62921 | 0.19227 – 66.07168 | 32.48657 |
| 2004 | 96 | 8.29597 | 0.13742 – 68.90819 | 38.93563 |
| 2003 | 96 | 10.21972 | 0.15031 – 83.42855 | 40.33267 |
| 2002 | 96 | 11.24233 | 0.26146 – 87.23423 | 39.93503 |
| 2001 | 96 | 11.29212 | 0.18736 – 90.03308 | 41.18215 |
| 2000 | 97 | 10.63713 | 0.21529 – 96.01524 | 35.23861 |
062023 → 2024
Who rose and fell
The biggest changes in value between the two newest editions — reference years recalculated in one report, not two separate publications. Places are shown second, because they also move when other countries do.
Improved most
before → after
Liberia85.33687 → 82.13078−3.20609
Côte d’Ivoire80.58083 → 77.42052−3.16031- Solomon Islands22.72184 → 21.38062−1.34122
South Sudan47.97578 → 46.78228−1.19350
Benin88.41395 → 87.36814−1.04581
Worsened most
before → after
Gambia28.05094 → 32.88078+4.82984- Sierra Leone131.43750 → 133.26729+1.82979
Ethiopia10.82805 → 12.42409+1.59604- Mauritania18.52521 → 19.65094+1.12573
Djibouti9.97267 → 11.09163+1.11895
76 countries were measured in both 2023 and 2024. The field changed from 77 to 76 countries, so a place can move for reasons that have nothing to do with the country itself.
07Across every edition
Malaria deaths (falciparum) in records
The extremes of the statistic. A record reached by more than one country names none of them.
Highest reading on record
287.33566
Deaths from P. falciparum malaria per 100,000 people per year
Lowest reading on record
0.00000
Deaths from P. falciparum malaria per 100,000 people per year
Biggest improvement between editions
−89.16280
138.87379 → 49.71099
Biggest decline between editions
+34.49364
17.94040 → 52.43404
Most improved since first measured
−201.20354
258.23948 → 57.03594
At the top most often
9 of 25
editions, alone at the first-listed end
08The measure
About malaria deaths (falciparum)
Malaria mortality is the number of deaths from falciparum malaria per 100,000 people each year. The figures are modelled by the Malaria Atlas Project from its estimates of how many people fall ill, not counted from death registers, which in the worst-affected countries record only a fraction of deaths.
What the number is: Deaths from P. falciparum malaria per 100,000 people per year.
09Where it fits
Connections
Its part in the Country Index, the statistics whose values line up most closely with it across countries, and others on the same subject.
In the Country Index
Context, with no vote
This statistic is published in full under Health & Wellbeing and Development & Human Capital, but does not help decide any Country Index standing.
Health & WellbeingDevelopment & Human CapitalWhich statistics vote, and why
Moves with
Where malaria deaths (falciparum) is higher, these tend to be higher too.
No statistic lines up this closely.
Moves against
Where malaria deaths (falciparum) is higher, these tend to be lower.
No statistic lines up this closely.
Rank correlation (ρ, from −1 to 1) across countries, on each statistic’s newest edition, out of 0 statistics sharing at least 80 countries with this one. Two statistics that move together do not cause each other.
10Keep reading
Explore further
The countries at either end
11Questions
Malaria deaths (falciparum): questions and answers
Which country has the lowest malaria deaths (falciparum)?
Costa Rica, at 0.00000, among the 76 countries compared in 2024.
Which country has the highest malaria deaths (falciparum)?
Sierra Leone, at 133.26729, among the 76 countries compared in 2024.
How many countries does the Malaria Mortality (P. falciparum) cover?
76 in 2024, and 101 at least once across all editions. The number measured varies from 75 to 97 between editions.
What is the world average malaria deaths (falciparum)?
This site does not calculate a world average, which would depend on how countries are weighted. In the middle country of the 76 compared in 2024, the figure was 8.10553.
Is this Malaria Atlas Project (MAP)’s own ranking?
No ranking is shown. Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) publishes values only, and too many countries share the same value for an ordering to mean anything, so none is derived.
How often is the Malaria Mortality (P. falciparum) published?
This site holds 25 reference years, 2000–2024, all recalculated in Malaria Atlas Project (MAP)’s 2025 report on one method — not 25 separate publications.
Where does the data come from, and can I download it?
From Malaria Atlas Project (MAP), under CC BY 3.0. From the Malaria Atlas Project's own Trends API (national estimates, with their uncertainty bounds). MAP serves the rate per person; the decimal point has been moved to its documented unit, deaths per 100,000 people, without changing a digit. Every edition is on this site’s Datasets pages as a full table, and downloads as a CSV file with every value unrounded.
12Method
Sources, method and citation
Source
Malaria Mortality (P. falciparum) — Malaria Atlas Project (MAP)
From the Malaria Atlas Project's own Trends API (national estimates, with their uncertainty bounds). MAP serves the rate per person; the decimal point has been moved to its documented unit, deaths per 100,000 people, without changing a digit.
Newest edition
Report year 2024Data year 2024
Cite the source as: Malaria Atlas Project. Plasmodium falciparum mortality rate, national (admin0) estimates, release 202508. https://data.malariaatlas.org/. Accessed 29 September 2026.
Licence: CC BY 3.0, checked 2026-09-29.
How this page reads the numbers
- No rank or position is shown: Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) publishes values only, and too many countries share the same value for an ordering to mean anything.
- Which end is better follows the publisher’s own reading of the measure.
- A country is named at an end only when it holds that value alone. Where several share it, the page says how many and names none first.
- Values are stored exactly as published and trimmed only for display. “The middle country” is the median of the countries measured, not a world average.
The file itself, column by column — where it came from, what each column holds, and every edition as a CSV — is on its dataset page.
Photographs
The countries at the top of this statistic, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Malaria deaths (falciparum) by country: Malaria Mortality (P. falciparum), data from Malaria Atlas Project (MAP). https://nationsinquiry.com/statistics/falciparum-malaria-mortality