New hepatitis C virus infections worldwide each year

about 0.9 million

people per year, worldwide

“Globally, an estimated 47 million people have chronic hepatitis C virus infection, with about 0.9 million new infections occurring per year.”

WHO fact sheet, Hepatitis C (28 July 2026), 2026-07-28

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Registry or statistics office
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2026-11-06
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Quote found at the source on 2026-11-06
What to know
New infections a year, as WHO states it; not all become chronic.

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Kept as evidence; no figure on the platform is computed from it yet.