Reported Tuberculosis in the United States, 2020

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Table 6B. Tuberculosis Incidence Rates per 100,000 Population by Country of Birth in the United States by the Top 10 Countries of Birth:1 United States, 2016–2020

See Surveillance Slide #15.

Table 6B. Tuberculosis Cases and Percentages Among Non-U.S.–Born Persons by the Top 30 Countries of Birth: United States, 2015–2019
Country of Birth Average Annual Number of Cases Population Estimate2 U.S. Rate by Country of Birth
Marshall Islands 42.6 25,942 164.2
Congo 37.6 31,116 120.8
Somalia 80.6 99,211 81.2
Myanmar 109.4 148,910 73.5
Bhutan 36.2 53,548 67.6
Nepal 93.8 145,751 64.4
Guinea 11.0 17,184 64.0
Fed. States of Micronesia 18.8 31,598 59.5
Ethiopia 138.6 265,468 52.2
Eritrea 21.4 47,153 45.4

1The top 10 countries were selected based on their ranked 5-year rate of TB cases by country of birth in the United States.
2Population Estimates were obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) data, 2015–2019 multiyear file. At the time of this report, the 2016–2020 had not been published yet.

Note: Data for all years updated through June 14, 2021.

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