Number of malaria cases | Sri Lanka
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Number of confirmed malaria cases in Sri Lanka in 2023 amounted to 63, which is 70.27% more than in 2022, when it was 37 cases. It has been growing in this country for already 2 years in a row. Since 2000, for the whole period of WHO statistics, the annual malaria case count in Sri Lanka has decreased in 3 333.95 times. The highest number of new malaria diagnoses was in 2000, when it reached 210 039. The minimum of Sri Lanka was recorded in 2021, with a value of 26 cases.
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Confirmed cases used were reported through the laboratory, unless indicated by the country that confirmed cases should be used from the outpatient register owing to incomplete or inaccurate laboratory data. Confirmed cases were corrected for double counting of microscopy and RDT where the exact number of double counted cases was known. Confirmed cases include indigenous, imported, introduced, relapsing and recrudescent cases, as well as all species, including non-human malaria P. knowlesi.
