Table 1.

Demographic characteristics and HIV prevalence in four study countries [3]

Country	Population	Indigenous population	Indigenous population as percentage of total (%)	HIV diagnosis rates (per 100,000) Indigenous peoples	HIV diagnosis rates (per 100,000) non-Indigenous people
Australia	21,507,719 (2011)	548,370 (2011)	2.5	31.2	26.2
Canada	32,852,320 (2011)	1,400,685 (2011)	4.3	179.2	29.2
New Zealand	4,433,100 (2012)	682,200 (2012)	15.4	18.9	18.5
United States	308,745,538 (2010)	5,220,579 (2010)	1.7	9.3	7.0 (White only)

United States HIV diagnosis rate information from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [21]. Population data from most recent census [22] and from Statistics New Zealand [23]. Overall rates for Canada, Australia and New Zealand are standardized directly to the age distribution of the 2001 Canadian male Indigenous population. HIV diagnoses from national surveillance and notification systems