WHS3_41 Diphtheria - number of reported cases
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Vaccine-preventable · ICD-10 A36
Diphtheria
WHO/UNICEF annual reported cases (GHO). Latest available year per country.
countries/areas
213
Year
2011–2025
Latest year
Window
2025
Sources
1
Global distribution
Annual reported cases (latest available year)
Years can differ by country (see the Year column); diagnosis and reporting practices differ, so countries cannot be compared or ranked directly.
Country series pages
Yearly series pages exist for the 30 countries/areas with the largest recorded annual counts in this source; each page shows its own date coverage.
Countries/areas
Sorted by value, top 25
| Country/area | Value | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 15,273 | 2025 |
| Somalia | 3,622 | 2025 |
| India | 3,249 | 2025 |
| Niger | 1,592 | 2025 |
| Yemen | 1,447 | 2025 |
| Mauritania | 1,273 | 2025 |
| Algeria | 775 | 2025 |
| Mali | 712 | 2025 |
| Pakistan | 562 | 2025 |
| South Africa | 314 | 2025 |
| Indonesia | 254 | 2025 |
| Sudan | 186 | 2025 |
| Philippines | 117 | 2025 |
| Myanmar (Burma) | 107 | 2025 |
| Madagascar | 107 | 2025 |
| South Sudan | 85 | 2023 |
| Guinea | 72 | 2025 |
| Nepal | 70 | 2024 |
| Central African Republic | 66 | 2025 |
| Haiti | 62 | 2025 |
| DR Congo | 61 | 2025 |
| Thailand | 60 | 2025 |
| Germany | 53 | 2025 |
| France | 44 | 2025 |
| Kenya | 27 | 2024 |
Show all 213 countries/areas
| Australia | 26 | 2025 |
| Switzerland | 24 | 2025 |
| Malaysia | 21 | 2025 |
| Belgium | 18 | 2025 |
| United Kingdom | 15 | 2025 |
| Eswatini | 11 | 2024 |
| Gabon | 10 | 2024 |
| Czechia | 10 | 2025 |
| Uganda | 10 | 2025 |
| Iraq | 8 | 2025 |
| Netherlands | 7 | 2025 |
| Slovakia | 6 | 2025 |
| Namibia | 5 | 2024 |
| Canada | 5 | 2025 |
| Afghanistan | 5 | 2025 |
| New Zealand | 4 | 2025 |
| Chad | 4 | 2025 |
| Brazil | 4 | 2025 |
| Austria | 3 | 2025 |
| Poland | 3 | 2025 |
| Cambodia | 3 | 2025 |
| Vietnam | 3 | 2025 |
| Sweden | 3 | 2025 |
| Spain | 3 | 2025 |
| Luxembourg | 2 | 2025 |
| Norway | 2 | 2025 |
| Italy | 2 | 2025 |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | 2025 |
| United States | 1 | 2023 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 2025 |
| Slovenia | 1 | 2025 |
| Greece | 1 | 2025 |
| Guyana | 1 | 2025 |
| Latvia | 1 | 2025 |
| American Samoa | 0 | 2011 |
| Burundi | 0 | 2011 |
| Tanzania | 0 | 2013 |
| Morocco | 0 | 2018 |
| Wallis & Futuna | 0 | 2018 |
| Sint Maarten | 0 | 2018 |
| Curaçao | 0 | 2019 |
| Mozambique | 0 | 2019 |
| Nauru | 0 | 2019 |
| Cook Islands | 0 | 2019 |
| Tuvalu | 0 | 2019 |
| São Tomé & Príncipe | 0 | 2021 |
| Liberia | 0 | 2022 |
| North Korea | 0 | 2022 |
| Israel | 0 | 2022 |
| Tajikistan | 0 | 2022 |
| Fiji | 0 | 2022 |
| Micronesia | 0 | 2023 |
| Congo | 0 | 2023 |
| Rwanda | 0 | 2023 |
| Singapore | 0 | 2024 |
| French Polynesia | 0 | 2024 |
| Aruba | 0 | 2024 |
| Guam | 0 | 2024 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 0 | 2024 |
| New Caledonia | 0 | 2024 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | 0 | 2024 |
| Comoros | 0 | 2024 |
| Monaco | 0 | 2024 |
| Zambia | 0 | 2024 |
| Anguilla | 0 | 2025 |
| Albania | 0 | 2025 |
| Azerbaijan | 0 | 2025 |
| Costa Rica | 0 | 2025 |
| Georgia | 0 | 2025 |
| Ghana | 0 | 2025 |
| United Arab Emirates | 0 | 2025 |
| Argentina | 0 | 2025 |
| China | 0 | 2025 |
| Côte d’Ivoire | 0 | 2025 |
| Cayman Islands | 0 | 2025 |
| Colombia | 0 | 2025 |
| Cape Verde | 0 | 2025 |
| Ethiopia | 0 | 2025 |
| Finland | 0 | 2025 |
| Bhutan | 0 | 2025 |
| Botswana | 0 | 2025 |
| Djibouti | 0 | 2025 |
| Dominica | 0 | 2025 |
| Chile | 0 | 2025 |
| Cuba | 0 | 2025 |
| Cyprus | 0 | 2025 |
| North Macedonia | 0 | 2025 |
| Malta | 0 | 2025 |
| Marshall Islands | 0 | 2025 |
| St. Lucia | 0 | 2025 |
| Sri Lanka | 0 | 2025 |
| Lesotho | 0 | 2025 |
| Japan | 0 | 2025 |
| Palau | 0 | 2025 |
| Laos | 0 | 2025 |
| Lebanon | 0 | 2025 |
| Libya | 0 | 2025 |
| Oman | 0 | 2025 |
| Peru | 0 | 2025 |
| Mongolia | 0 | 2025 |
| Mexico | 0 | 2025 |
| Papua New Guinea | 0 | 2025 |
| Portugal | 0 | 2025 |
| Montserrat | 0 | 2025 |
| Paraguay | 0 | 2025 |
| Maldives | 0 | 2025 |
| Niue | 0 | 2025 |
| Montenegro | 0 | 2025 |
| El Salvador | 0 | 2025 |
| San Marino | 0 | 2025 |
| Tunisia | 0 | 2025 |
| Türkiye | 0 | 2025 |
| Ukraine | 0 | 2025 |
| Mauritius | 0 | 2025 |
| Malawi | 0 | 2025 |
| Senegal | 0 | 2025 |
| Solomon Islands | 0 | 2025 |
| Nicaragua | 0 | 2025 |
| Panama | 0 | 2025 |
| Trinidad & Tobago | 0 | 2025 |
| Russia | 0 | 2025 |
| Saudi Arabia | 0 | 2025 |
| Zimbabwe | 0 | 2025 |
| St. Vincent & Grenadines | 0 | 2025 |
| Palestine | 0 | 2025 |
| British Virgin Islands | 0 | 2025 |
| Samoa | 0 | 2025 |
| Kazakhstan | 0 | 2025 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 0 | 2025 |
| Kiribati | 0 | 2025 |
| St. Kitts & Nevis | 0 | 2025 |
| South Korea | 0 | 2025 |
| Hungary | 0 | 2025 |
| Jamaica | 0 | 2025 |
| Jordan | 0 | 2025 |
| Gambia | 0 | 2025 |
| Kuwait | 0 | 2025 |
| Grenada | 0 | 2025 |
| Guatemala | 0 | 2025 |
| Estonia | 0 | 2025 |
| China Macao | 0 | 2025 |
| Moldova | 0 | 2025 |
| Croatia | 0 | 2025 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 0 | 2025 |
| Ireland | 0 | 2025 |
| Iran | 0 | 2025 |
| Iceland | 0 | 2025 |
| Honduras | 0 | 2025 |
| Vanuatu | 0 | 2025 |
| Serbia | 0 | 2025 |
| Suriname | 0 | 2025 |
| Kosovo | 0 | 2025 |
| Uzbekistan | 0 | 2025 |
| Romania | 0 | 2025 |
| Turks & Caicos Islands | 0 | 2025 |
| Togo | 0 | 2025 |
| Turkmenistan | 0 | 2025 |
| Sierra Leone | 0 | 2025 |
| Uruguay | 0 | 2025 |
| Qatar | 0 | 2025 |
| Seychelles | 0 | 2025 |
| Denmark | 0 | 2025 |
| Dominican Republic | 0 | 2025 |
| Ecuador | 0 | 2025 |
| Egypt | 0 | 2025 |
| Eritrea | 0 | 2025 |
| China Hong Kong | 0 | 2025 |
| Syria | 0 | 2025 |
| Timor-Leste | 0 | 2025 |
| Tonga | 0 | 2025 |
| Venezuela | 0 | 2025 |
| Bangladesh | 0 | 2025 |
| Bulgaria | 0 | 2025 |
| Bahrain | 0 | 2025 |
| Bahamas | 0 | 2025 |
| Cameroon | 0 | 2025 |
| Belize | 0 | 2025 |
| Bermuda | 0 | 2025 |
| Bolivia | 0 | 2025 |
| Barbados | 0 | 2025 |
| Brunei | 0 | 2025 |
| Armenia | 0 | 2025 |
| Antigua & Barbuda | 0 | 2025 |
| Angola | 0 | 2025 |
| Belarus | 0 | 2025 |
| Bosnia & Herzegovina | 0 | 2025 |
| Andorra | 0 | 2025 |
| Benin | 0 | 2025 |
Related reading
Recent items from MMWR, Eurosurveillance, EID, China CDC Weekly and PLOS NTDs (titles and original links only; bodies are not republished).
China notifiable-disease monthly reports (links)
China CDC Weekly national notifiable infectious disease monthly report titles and links; case counts are not ingested here.
Source ledger
- WHO GHO
How to read
Years can differ by country (see the Year column); diagnosis and reporting practices differ, so countries cannot be compared or ranked directly.
Data are provisional and may be revised retrospectively; empty values mean not reported and are never filled with zero.