Table 1.
New tuberculosis notification cases and rates between 2020 and 2021 in the Republic of Korea
| Variable | 2020 |
2021 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. (%) | Rate* | No. (%) | Rate* | |
| All the new tuberculosis cases | 19,933 (100.0) | 38.8 | 18,335 (100.0) | 35.7 |
| Sex | ||||
| Male | 11,608 (58.2) | 45.3 | 10,639 (58.0) | 41.6 |
| Female | 8,325 (41.8) | 32.3 | 7,696 (42.0) | 29.9 |
| Age, yr | ||||
| <65 | 10,151 (50.9) | 23.5 | 8,929 (48.7) | 20.9 |
| ≤65 | 9,782 (49.1) | 120.3 | 9,406 (51.3) | 109.7 |
| Foreigner | 1,076 (5.4) | 93.9† | 1,029 (5.6) | 94.6† |
| Medical aid beneficiaries | NA | NA | 1,686 (9.2) | 110.5‡ |
*
Tuberculosis notification rate was obtained by dividing the total number of notified tuberculosis cases by the mid-year population of the year made by Statistics Korea. Its unit 33 is per 100,000 population.
†
The rate was calculated using the number of registered foreigners for each calendar year based on Statistics Korea.
‡
The rate was calculated using the number of beneficiaries of the National Health Insurance in 2020.