Hepatitis B - Annual Epidemiological Report 2023

Surveillance and monitoring
Publication series: Annual Epidemiological Report
Time period covered: This report is based on data for 2023 retrieved from The European Surveillance System (TESSy) on 5 February 2025.
Cite:

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Hepatitis B. In: ECDC. Annual epidemiological report for
2023. Stockholm: ECDC; 2025.

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For 2023, 30 countries in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) reported 37 766 cases of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, corresponding to a crude rate of 8.1 cases per 100 000 population. Of all cases, 6.3% were reported as acute, 40.5% as chronic, 46.1% as ‘unknown’ and 7.1% as ‘could not be classified’.