New hepatitis B infections worldwide each year
0.9 million
people per year, worldwide
“WHO estimates that 240 million people were living with chronic hepatitis B infection in 2024, with 0.9 million new infections each year.”
WHO fact sheet, Hepatitis B (28 July 2026), 2026-07-28
- Kind of source
- Registry or statistics office
- Read on
- 2026-11-06
- Daily check
- Quote found at the source on 2026-11-06
- What to know
- New infections, not new chronic cases: many acute infections in adults clear.
- About
- Hepatitis B
Used in
Kept as evidence; no figure on the platform is computed from it yet.