Administrative Details

Source

WHO Annual Cholera Reports

Created

2019-01-25 4:11 PM

Updated

2026-10-30 1:07 PM

Source Documents

1974-2019 who annual reports.zip 2021-11-11 3:23 PM
GHO_repo_2017-09-01_version.csv 2021-11-11 3:23 PM
WHO_Annual_Cholera_Report_2020.pdf 2022-02-23 2:08 PM
WHO_Annual_Cholera_Report_2021.pdf 2022-10-11 6:00 PM
WHO_Annual_Cholera_Report_2022 2023-10-03 9:31 PM
WHO_Annual_Cholera_Report_2023.pdf 2024-09-26 2:49 PM
WHO_Annual_Cholera_Report_2024.pdf 2025-10-01 5:48 PM

Tags

WHOannual

Notes

2025-10-01: updated 2024 data. Annual cases and deaths reported to WHO, excludes imported cases. Updated in October 2020. Added 2019 data from WER9537. 2021-08-25: uploaded who annual reports between 1949-2019 and no imported cases were reported in this country during this time period. Data from repository were used as the main source and pdf version of the reports were used as supplements for missing data. 2022-05-20: added 2020 cases and deaths. 2022-10-11: added 2021 data. 2026-10-30: updated 2025 data + adding new fields : deaths_facility and deaths_community + removing field tested_PCR and cCh_PCR as it counts for tested and cCh respectively

Epidemiologic Details

Suspected Case Def

UNKNOWN

Confirmed Case Def

A suspected case confirmed by culture or PCR

Primary Time Criteria

CLINIC

Observation Properties

Case and death counts could include double-counting of overlapping observations
# of Observations

58

Earliest Observation

1973-01-01

Latest Observation

2025-12-31

Observation Frequency

Annual

Deaths

4905

Suspected Cases

295630

Confirmed Cases

744

Observation Fields

Standard

Location
TL
TR
Primary
Phantom
deaths
sCh
cCh
tested

Custom

tested_RDT
Number of cases through RDT
sCh_imported
Imported suspected cases
cCh_RDT
Number of cases tested positive through RDT
age_L
Lower bound of age range of cases (non inclusive)
age_R
Upper bound of age range of cases (inclusive)
sex
1 = male, 0 = female
deaths_facility
number of individuals that die in a facility
deaths_community
number of individuals that die in a community

Observations

Location
TL
TR
deaths
sCh
cCh
tested
tested_RDT sCh_imported cCh_RDT age_L age_R sex deaths_facility deaths_community
AFR::MWI.Malawi 1973-01-01 1973-12-31 20 371
AFR::MWI.Malawi 1976-01-01 1976-12-31 0 19
AFR::MWI.Malawi 1977-01-01 1977-12-31 0 577
AFR::MWI.Malawi 1978-01-01 1978-12-31 24 263
AFR::MWI.Malawi 1981-01-01 1981-12-31 0 261
AFR::MWI.Malawi 1983-01-01 1983-12-31 49 487
AFR::MWI.Malawi 1988-01-01 1988-12-31 0 6
AFR::MWI.Malawi 1989-01-01 1989-12-31 16 8351
AFR::MWI.Malawi 1990-01-01 1990-12-31 481 13457
AFR::MWI.Malawi 1991-01-01 1991-12-31 245 8088
AFR::MWI.Malawi 1992-01-01 1992-12-31 8 298
AFR::MWI.Malawi 1993-01-01 1993-12-31 524 25193
AFR::MWI.Malawi 1994-01-01 1994-12-31 11 107
AFR::MWI.Malawi 1995-01-01 1995-12-31 0 1
AFR::MWI.Malawi 1996-01-01 1996-12-31 0 1
AFR::MWI.Malawi 1997-01-01 1997-12-31 15 130
AFR::MWI.Malawi 1998-01-01 1998-12-31 74 1745
AFR::MWI.Malawi 1999-01-01 1999-12-31 648 26508
AFR::MWI.Malawi 2000-01-01 2000-12-31 56 2391
AFR::MWI.Malawi 2001-01-01 2001-12-31 42 2395
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