Cholera in Afghanistan

Cholera · Afghanistan · 8 WHO events across 8 calendar years (1998–2025).

Event log

Year	DON ID	ICD-10	ICD-11
2025	DON2928	A000	1A00
2023	DON2796	A000	1A00
2022	DON2784	A000	1A00
2005	DON0995	A000	1A00
2001	DON0514	A000	1A00
2000	DON0413	A000	1A00
1999	DON0335, DON0338, DON0348	A000	1A00
1998	DON0253, DON0249, DON0248	A000	1A00

Annual cadence

Year	Events
2025	1
2023	1
2022	1
2005	1
2001	1
2000	1
1999	1
1998	1

Most active year: 2025 with 1 event.
Quiet years with no events: 20.

Position within the disease

• Afghanistan is rank #2 of 79 for this disease.
• The country sits in the WHO EMR region.
• Last reported event: 2025 (1 year ago).

Regional peers (EMR)

10 countries in this region report this disease. Median event count: 3.

Country	Events
Afghanistan ←	8
Somalia	8
Iraq	6
Pakistan	4
Sudan	3
Syrian Arab Republic	2
Lebanon	2
Yemen	2

How this disease ranks among Afghanistan’s threats

Cholera is rank #1 of 13 diseases reported by Afghanistan to the WHO. The full country profile is at the Afghanistan Hub.