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. 2023 Oct 19;28(42):2300051. doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2023.28.42.2300051

Table. Number of tuberculosis cases among foreign-born residents and total number of foreign-born residents from the 10 highest ranked countries of origin in terms of the highest tuberculosis burden, European Union countries and Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, 2020.

Country TB cases among foreign-born residentsa Total number of foreign-born residentsa TB IR in foreign-born residentsa TB IR as reported to the WHO in 2020b [5]
United Kingdom 1,997 2,579,000 77.4 6.9
Germany 1,543 4,452,141 34.7 5.5
France 1,439 3,146,068 45.7 8.2
Italy 884 2,328,403 38.0 6.6
Spain 819 2,673,525 30.6 7.3
Belgium 361 NA NA 7.7
Netherlands 299 630,455 47.4 4.1
Portugal 267 428,734 62.3 16.0
Greece 191 732,968 26.1 4.5
Austria 169 589,765 28.7 4.9
Sweden 165 580,798 28.4 3.6
Switzerland 160 498,680 32.1 4.7
Malta 116 NA NA 36.0
Denmark 114 143,226 79.6 4.9
Czechia 104 430,437 24.2 3.9
Ireland 96 165,080 58.2 5.3
Norway 95 165,727 57.3 3.1
Poland 81 1,564,051 5.2 9.6
Estonia 36 153,947 23.4 10.0
Romania 31 NA NA 64.0
Finland 30 193,967 15.5 3.6
Slovenia 30 155,458 19.3 4.1
Cyprus 26 75,594 34.4 5.7
Luxembourg 25 109,809 22.8 5.9
Lithuania 13 115,503 11.3 29.0
Iceland 9 27,593 32.6 2.8
Slovakia 8 55,306 14.5 3.2
Hungary 5 72,133 6.9 4.6
Bulgaria 2 4,192 47.7 19.0
Croatia 1 9,438 10.6 6.6
Total 9,116

IR: incidence rate; NA: not available; TB: tuberculosis; WHO: World Health Organization.

a From the 10 highest ranked countries of origin in terms of number of notified TB cases among foreign-born individuals in the year 2020.

b Incidence rate is reported per 100,000 population in the year 2020.