Dengue fever infections

Description: Estimated number of new cases of dengue.
Data source: IHME, Global Burden of Disease (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Unit: new cases
Date range: 1990-2023
Last updated: 2026-02-07
Next expected update: 2030-02-06
Managed by: Fiona Spooner

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Data sources

IHME, Global Burden of Disease – Global Burden of Disease – Prevalence and Incidence

The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study provides a comprehensive assessment of global health trends. This dataset contains the prevalence and incidence counts and rates for 371 diseases and injuries.

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February 7, 2026

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https://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-results/

Citation

This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data.

"Global Burden of Disease Collaborative Network. Global Burden of Disease Study 2023 (GBD 2023). Seattle, United States: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), 2025. Available from https://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-results/."

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“Data Page: Dengue fever infections”, part of the following publication: Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Max Roser (2016) - “Global Health”. Data adapted from IHME, Global Burden of Disease. Retrieved from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20261014-114458/grapher/dengue-incidence.html [online resource] (archived on October 14, 2026).

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If you have limited space (e.g. in data visualizations), you can use this abbreviated in-line citation:

IHME, Global Burden of Disease (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data

Full citation

IHME, Global Burden of Disease (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Dengue fever infections – IHME” [dataset]. IHME, Global Burden of Disease, “Global Burden of Disease – Prevalence and Incidence” [original data]. Retrieved October 14, 2026 from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20261014-114458/grapher/dengue-incidence.html (archived on October 14, 2026).

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