
Population in environmentally suitable regions for Zika virus transmission 2015
This statistic shows the population living in areas environmentally suitable for Zika virus transmission within each major world region and the top four countries contributing to these populations at risk, based on 2015 population estimates. The region of Asia was found to have the highest at risk population for possible Zika virus transmissions with a total of approximately 1.4 billion people living in environmentally suitable areas for Zika virus transmissions.