People living with chronic hepatitis B infection worldwide in 2024
240 million
people, 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
- Chronic infection only. The same fact sheet says only 65 million (27%) knew their status in 2024.
- About
- Hepatitis B
Used in
Kept as evidence; no figure on the platform is computed from it yet.