Share of people with COVID-19 who develop post COVID-19 condition (long COVID)
6 in every 100
percent of people with COVID-19, worldwide (global estimates)
“Approximately 6 in every 100 people who have COVID-19 develop post COVID-19 condition.”
WHO fact sheet, Post COVID-19 condition (long COVID), 2025
- 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
- A risk among infected people, not a count of new cases per year. Recorded as given.
- About
- Long COVID
Used in
Kept as evidence; no figure on the platform is computed from it yet.