The data displays the 20 countries with the biggest number of new malaria cases per 1,000 inhabitants at risk in 2016. In that year, more than 459 among one thousand inhabitants in Mali developed malaria. Thus, Mali had the highest malaria rate in the world. As of 2015, malaria remained the most serious of the mosquito-borne diseases for at-risk populations worldwide.
Mali | 459.7 |
Burkina Faso | 423.3 |
Rwanda | 392.7 |
Guinea | 386.5 |
Niger | 378.9 |
Togo | 360.4 |
Nigeria | 349.6 |
Central African Republic | 311.6 |
Mozambique | 307.8 |
Sierra Leone | 303.5 |
Benin | 297.3 |
DR Congo | 291.9 |
Ghana | 285.6 |
Cameroon | 271.3 |
Malawi | 249.1 |
Equatorial Guinea | 238.8 |
Liberia | 237 |
Côte d’Ivoire | 223.2 |
Gabon | 206.2 |
Congo | 204.7 |
Zambia | 189.8 |