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Ghana: Number of individuals in the country requiring preventive chemotherapy for onchocerciasis
5.27Mcount · 2025+31.9% since 2015
Number of individuals in the country requiring preventive chemotherapy for onchocerciasis. WHO Global Health Observatory indicator NTD_ONCHEMO. Annual figures for Ghana from 2013 to 2025.
Every year
| Year | Value (count) | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5,269,727 | |
| 2024 | 5,199,035 | |
| 2023 | 4,944,189 | |
| 2022 | 8,616,893 | |
| 2021 | 8,390,624 | |
| 2020 | 7,621,642 | |
| 2019 | 7,621,642 | |
| 2018 | 9,617,037 | |
| 2017 | 8,066,348 | |
| 2016 | 5,169,058 | |
| 2015 | 3,995,382 | |
| 2014 | 2,545,217 | |
| 2013 | 4,450,048 |
Source
Published by World Health Organization. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. Retrieved 2026-11-07.
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World Health Organization (2026). Number of individuals in the country requiring preventive chemotherapy for onchocerciasis. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/who-ntd-onchemo (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.
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- Benin
- Brazil
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Congo
- Congo, The Democratic Republic of the
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Equatorial Guinea
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Liberia
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mozambique
- Nigeria
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Tanzania, United Republic of
- Togo
- Uganda
- Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
- Yemen
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