Reported Tuberculosis in the United States, 2012
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Table 6. Tuberculosis Cases and Percentages Among Foreign-born Persons1 by the Top 30 Countries2 of Birth: United States, 2008–2012
Country of Origin | Year | |||||||||
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2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | ||||||
No. | (%) | No. | (%) | No. | (%) | No. | (%) | No. | (%) | |
Total Cases | 6274 | (100) | 6527 | (100) | 6770 | (100) | 6934 | (100) | 7604 | (100) |
Mexico | 1,308 | (21) | 1,450 | (22) | 1,541 | (23) | 1,594 | (23) | 1,763 | (23) |
Philippines | 773 | (12) | 757 | (12) | 756 | (11) | 806 | (12) | 860 | (11) |
India | 532 | (8) | 509 | (8) | 584 | (9) | 541 | (8) | 598 | (8) |
Viet Nam | 456 | (7) | 549 | (8) | 542 | (8) | 532 | (8) | 583 | (8) |
China | 351 | (6) | 378 | (6) | 370 | (5) | 344 | (5) | 405 | (5) |
Guatemala | 193 | (3) | 172 | (3) | 198 | (3) | 214 | (3) | 252 | (3) |
Haiti | 197 | (3) | 189 | (3) | 195 | (3) | 207 | (3) | 237 | (3) |
Ethiopia | 162 | (3) | 153 | (2) | 161 | (2) | 172 | (2) | 183 | (2) |
Honduras | 126 | (2) | 128 | (2) | 143 | (2) | 151 | (2) | 195 | (3) |
Korea, Republic of | 106 | (2) | 131 | (2) | 120 | (2) | 156 | (2) | 150 | (2) |
Somalia | 101 | (2) | 116 | (2) | 125 | (2) | 112 | (2) | 151 | (2) |
El Salvador | 116 | (2) | 103 | (2) | 116 | (2) | 118 | (2) | 147 | (2) |
Myanmar | 116 | (2) | 92 | (1) | 116 | (2) | 104 | (2) | 108 | (1) |
Peru | 79 | (1) | 93 | (1) | 111 | (2) | 94 | (1) | 144 | (2) |
Ecuador | 65 | (1) | 79 | (1) | 84 | (1) | 99 | (1) | 114 | (2) |
Cambodia | 78 | (1) | 91 | (1) | 70 | (1) | 99 | (1) | 77 | (1) |
Pakistan | 68 | (1) | 87 | (1) | 74 | (1) | 84 | (1) | 87 | (1) |
Dominican Republic | 74 | (1) | 75 | (1) | 85 | (1) | 71 | (1) | 88 | (1) |
Nepal | 82 | (1) | 77 | (1) | 64 | (1) | 74 | (1) | 70 | (1) |
Kenya | 58 | (1) | 75 | (1) | 63 | (1) | 73 | (1) | 82 | (1) |
Laos | 64 | (1) | 62 | (1) | 70 | (1) | 60 | (1) | 68 | (1) |
Bangladesh | 54 | (1) | 66 | (1) | 58 | (1) | 44 | (1) | 55 | (1) |
Nigeria | 58 | (1) | 52 | (1) | 43 | (1) | 46 | (1) | 50 | (1) |
Thailand | 33 | (1) | 37 | (1) | 47 | (1) | 57 | (1) | 62 | (1) |
Indonesia | 41 | (1) | 32 | (0) | 58 | (1) | 34 | (0) | 30 | (0) |
Colombia | 25 | (0) | 32 | (0) | 43 | (1) | 40 | (1) | 43 | (1) |
Cuba | 30 | (0) | 40 | (1) | 33 | (0) | 36 | (1) | 42 | (1) |
Bhutan | 57 | (1) | 39 | (1) | 37 | (1) | 33 | (0) | 8 | (0) |
Korea, Dem. Peoples Republic | 50 | (1) | 38 | (1) | 35 | (1) | 16 | (0) | 27 | (0) |
Liberia | 33 | (1) | 28 | (0) | 36 | (1) | 33 | (0) | 33 | (0) |
All Others | 788 | (13) | 797 | (12) | 792 | (12) | 890 | (13) | 892 | (12) |
1 Includes persons born outside the United States, American Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Midway Island, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the Republic of Palau, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and U.S. minor and outlying Pacific islands.
2 The top 30 countries were selected based on their ranked 5-year average number of TB cases.
3 Includes Not Specified for Country of Origin.
Note: Zero (0) denotes <0.5%.
Data for all years updated through June 10, 2013.
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