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In the United States, Native Americans have a fivefold greater mortality from TB, [197] and racial and ethnic minorities accounted for 88% of all reported TB cases. [198] The overall tuberculosis case rate in the United States was 2.9 per 100,000 persons in 2023, representing a 16% increase in cases compared to 2022.
Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate).It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR), the estimated proportion of people infected by a disease-causing agent, including asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections, who die from the disease.
Electronic health records, [87] [88] [54] death certificates [89] [56] [90] [91] as well as post-mortem analyses (such as post-mortem computed tomography and other other pathology) [92] can and are often used to investigate underlying causes of deaths such as for mortality statistics, [93] [94] relevant to progress measurements. [95]
Of the new TB cases in 2014, 58 percent were in the Southeast Asia and Western Pacific regions, with India having the largest percentage of cases at 23 percent.
List of U.S. states and territories by birth and death rates in 2021 2021 rank State Birth rate (per 1,000 people) [1] Death rate (per 1,000 people) [1] Rate of natural increase (per 1,000 people) 1 Guam: 15.5 7.6 7.9 2 American Samoa - - - 3 Utah: 14.0 6.8 7.2 4 Northern Marianas: 11.0 5.1 5.9 5 Alaska: 12.8 8.5 4.3 6 District of Columbia: 12. ...
By the late 19th century, 70–90% of the urban populations of Europe and North America were infected with the Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and about 80% of those individuals who developed active TB died of it. [67] However, mortality rates began declining in the late 19th century throughout Europe and the United States. [67]
Life expectancy at birth in each U.S. state and the District of Columbia in 2019 and 2020 according to the Centers ... Illinois: 79.3 76.7 81.8 25. ... region 2019 ...
Treatment success rates remain unacceptably low globally with variation between regions. 2016 data published by the WHO [68] reported treatment success rates of multidrug-resistant TB globally. For those started on treatment for multidrug-resistant TB 56% successfully completed treatment, either treatment course completion or eradication of ...