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WHO estimated 282 million malaria cases and 610,000 deaths in 2024
Prevention tools helped avert an estimated 170 million cases and one million deaths, yet total burden rose.
Event / data period: 2025-12-04
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IllustrationWHO estimated 282 million malaria cases and 610,000 deaths in 2024; 95% of deaths were in its African Region.
Prevention tools were estimated to avert 170 million cases; burden and counterfactual impact are separate estimates.
Data
Malaria indicators
WHO estimates of 2024 burden and intervention impact.
- Malaria cases
- 282 million cases
- 2024 · Estimate
- Malaria deaths
- 610,000 deaths
- 2024 · Estimate
- Estimated cases averted
- 170 million cases
- 2024 · Estimate
Methodology
Burden and counterfactual cases estimated averted by interventions are reported separately.
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