Number and rate^* of newly reported cases^† of chronic hepatitis C virus infection, by demographic characteristics — United States, 2020

Number and rate* of newly reported cases† of chronic hepatitis C virus infection, by demographic characteristics — United States, 2020

Table 2.2.
Characteristics	No.	Rate*
Total ^§	107,300	40.7
Age (yrs)
0-19	718	1.1
20-29	16,026	45
30-39	26,194	73.6
40-49	16,415	51.2
50-59	18,474	54.4
≥60	23,242	37.3
Sex
Male	68,561	52.9
Female	38,283	28.6
Race/ethnicity
American Indian/Alaska Native	1,443	66.8
Asian/Pacific Islander	619	3.6
Black, non-Hispanic	9,084	25.9
White, non-Hispanic	43,288	26.3
Hispanic	3,954	9
Urbanicity ^¶
Urban	82,577	36.4
Rural	20,944	57.3
HHS Region: Regional Office ^#
Region 1: Boston	4,082	29.6
Region 2: New York	7,337	26
Region 3: Philadelphia	15,881	54.4
Region 4: Atlanta	29,890	57
Region 5: Chicago	14,591	31.9
Region 6: Dallas	9,788	71.1
Region 7: Kansas City	6,639	46.9
Region 8: Denver	4,328	35
Region 9: San Francisco	8,717	22.1
Region 10: Seattle	6,047	41.7

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Source: CDC, National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System.

* Rates per 100,000 population.

† Reported confirmed cases. For the case definition, see Chronic Hepatitis C.

§ Numbers reported in each category may not add up to the total number of reported cases in a year due to cases with missing data or, in the case of race/ethnicity, cases categorized as “Other”.

¶ Urbanicity was categorized according to the 2013 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) urban-rural classification scheme for counties and county-equivalent entities. Large central metro, large fringe metro, medium metro, and small metro counties were grouped as urban. Micropolitan and noncore counties were grouped as rural.

** US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Regions were categorized according to the grouping of states and US territories assigned under each of the ten Department of Health and Human Services regional offices. For the purposes of this report, regions with US territories (Region 2 and Region 9) contain data from states only.

During 2020, the rates of newly reported chronic hepatitis C were highest among persons aged 30– 39 years, males, American Indian/Alaska Native persons, those living in rural areas, and persons in US Department of Health and Human Services Region 6 (Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas). Among all cases of chronic hepatitis C newly reported during 2020, 26% occurred among persons aged 30–39 years, 64% occurred among males, and 80% occurred in urban areas. Race/ethnicity information was only available for 58,388 (54%) cases of newly reported chronic hepatitis C; after excluding cases with missing race/ethnicity information, 67% of cases occurred among non-Hispanic White persons.

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