People living with sickle-cell disease, worldwide
7.74 million
people, worldwide
“In 2021, an estimated 7.74 million people were living with sickle-cell disease globally”
WHO fact sheet, Sickle-cell disease, 2025-08-06
- Kind of source
- Registry or statistics office
- Read on
- 2026-11-06
- Daily check
- Quote found at the source on 2026-11-06
- What to know
- Figure is for 2021.
- About
- Sickle cell disease
Used in
Kept as evidence; no figure on the platform is computed from it yet.