Progress

•      Globally, there were an estimated 241 million malaria cases in 2020 in 85 malaria-endemic countries.

•      In the period 2000–2020, an estimated 1.7 billion malaria cases and 10.6 million malaria deaths have been           averted.

•     Malaria case incidence (i.e. cases per 1000 population at risk) reduced from 80.1 in 2000 to 59 in 2020 globally.

•     From 2000 to 2020, the number of countries with fewer than 100 indigenous cases increased from 6 to 26.