Descriptive Analysis of Typhoid Fever Surveillance Data in the Jimma Zone, Southwest Ethiopia (2015–2019)

Table 1

Incidence of typhoid fever by year in the Jimma Zone, Oromia Region, Southwest Ethiopia, from 2015 to 2019.

Years	Population at risk	Number of cases	Number of deaths	Percentage of cases^a (%)	Incidence rate (case/100,000)
2015	2,863,762	6,182	0	17	216
2016	2,976,050	5,874	0	16	198
2017	3,088,338	6,265	0	17	203
2018	3,200,626	8,421	0	23	264
2019	3,312,914	9,899	0	27	299
Total	15,441,690 person-year	36,641			238

^aPercentage of cases: the number of typhoid fever cases in each year divided by the total number of typhoid fever cases of the five years.