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Reported Tuberculosis in the United States, 2013

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Table 5. Tuberculosis Cases, Percentages, and Case Rates per 100,000 Population by Origin of Birth: United States, 1993–2013

Year Total Cases U.S.-born Persons Foreign-born Persons1 Unknown or Missing
No. (%) Rate No. (%) Rate No. (%)
1993 25103 17435 (69) 7.4 7401 (29) 34.0 266 (1)
1994 24206 16191 (67) 6.8 7751 (32) 36.0 264 (1)
1995 22726 14675 (65) 6.1 7998 (35) 38.0 53 (0)
1996 21210 13398 (63) 5.6 7739 (36) 32.0 73 (0)
1997 19751 11935 (60) 4.9 7742 (39) 30.8 74 (0)
1998 18286 10633 (58) 4.4 7599 (42) 28.8 54 (0)
1999 17499 9805 (56) 4.0 7602 (43) 28.1 92 (1)
2000 16308 8647 (53) 3.5 7619 (47) 26.4 42 (0)
2001 15945 7872 (49) 3.2 8010 (50) 27.6 63 (0)
2002 15055 7282 (48) 2.9 7718 (51) 25.5 55 (0)
2003 14835 6861 (46) 2.7 7929 (53) 23.8 45 (0)
2004 14499 6632 (46) 2.6 7844 (54) 23.1 23 (0)
2005 14061 6306 (45) 2.5 7724 (55) 22.2 31 (0)
2006 13727 5888 (43) 2.3 7815 (57) 21.6 24 (0)
2007 13282 5481 (41) 2.1 7731 (58) 20.8 70 (1)
2008 12893 5282 (41) 2.0 7602 (59) 20.1 9 (0)
2009 11519 4543 (39) 1.7 6956 (60) 18.7 20 (0)
2010 11164 4381 (39) 1.6 6773 (61) 17.7 10 (0)
2011 10509 3981 (38) 1.5 6522 (62) 16.9 6 (0)
2012 9940 3656 (37) 1.4 6274 (63) 15.9 10 (0)
2013 9582 3375 (35) 1.2 6193 (65) 15.6 14 (0)

1Includes 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.

Note: Denominators Denominators for computing rates for years 1993–1994 were obtained from Quarterly Estimates of the United States Foreign-born and Native Resident Populations: April 1, 1990–July 1, 1999, located at (accessed July 15, 2014). Denominators for computing the 1995–2013 rates are based on the U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey (July Supplement) via Data Ferret.

Data for all years updated through June 11, 2014.

See Technical Notes

Zero % (0) denotes <0.5%.

See Surveillance Slides #13, #14, #17 and #18.

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