MENINGOCOCCAL DISEASE

reported cases per 100,000 population · 1970–2023 · lower is better · NCHS Health, United States (Table IDNotif) · CDC NNDSS annual summary via WONDER

0.13

2023 (latest)

1.23

1970

1.30

high · 1996

0.06

low · 2021

−89%

since 1970

50 Years Since 2000 10 Years 5 Years 1 Year

┊ dashed lines mark 1979 Oil shock & inflation peak · 1987 Black Monday crash · 1991 Gulf War recession · 2001 Dot-com bust & 9/11 · 2008 Global financial crisis · 2020 COVID-19 pandemic

Method & caveats. Annual reported meningococcal disease incidence, all serogroups, from NCHS and CDC NNDSS. The case definition changed in 2015. Rates through 2019 are NCHS's; rates from 2020 are the NNDSS final count divided by the Census July 1 resident population (FRED POPTHM), using a later population vintage (about 1% higher denominator). This is not always the same construction: IDNotif excludes populations of jurisdictions where a disease was not notifiable or data were unavailable; STD rates before 1991 use civilian population. Selected years before 1988 are not interpolated.

Sources

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Data

Year	Meningococcal disease	Change
2023	0.13	+44%
2022	0.09	+50%
2021	0.06	−14%
2020	0.07	−36%
2019	0.11	+10%
2018	0.10	−9%
2017	0.11	−8%
2016	0.12	+0%
2015	0.12	−14%
2014	0.14	−22%
2013	0.18	+0%
2012	0.18	−28%
2011	0.25	−7%
2010	0.27	−16%
2009	0.32	−18%
2008	0.39	+8%
2007	0.36	−10%
2006	0.40	−5%
2005	0.42	−11%
2004	0.47	−23%
2003	0.61	−5%
2002	0.64	−23%
2001	0.83	+0%
2000	0.83	−10%
1999	0.92	−9%
1998	1.01	−19%
1997	1.24	−5%
1996	1.30	+4%
1995	1.25	+13%
1994	1.11	+9%
1993	1.02	+21%
1992	0.84	+0%
1991	0.84	−15%
1990	0.99	−10%
1989	1.10	−9%
1988	1.21	+16%
1985	1.04	−17%
1980	1.25	+2%
1970	1.23	—

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