warning 4 events U00-U49 • WPR

COVID-19 in Japan

COVID-19 has 4 WHO-tracked outbreak events in Japan between 2020 and 2023.

COVID-19 · Japan · 4 WHO events across 4 calendar years (2020–2023).

Event log

Year DON ID ICD-10 ICD-11
2023 Coronavirus dashboard U071 25RA01
2022 Coronavirus dashboard U071 25RA01
2021 Coronavirus dashboard U071 25RA01
2020 Coronavirus dashboard U071 25RA01

Annual cadence

Year Events
2023 1
2022 1
2021 1
2020 1

Most active year: 2023 with 1 event.
No quiet years in range.

Position within the disease

  • Japan is rank #168 of 231 for this disease.
  • The country sits in the WHO WPR region.
  • Last reported event: 2023 (3 years ago).

Regional peers (WPR)

25 countries in this region report this disease. Median event count: 4.

Country Events
New Zealand 6
Brunei Darussalam 6
China 6
Samoa 5
Singapore 5
Australia 5
Malaysia 5
Cambodia 5

How this disease ranks among Japan’s threats

COVID-19 is rank #1 of 8 diseases reported by Japan to the WHO. The full country profile is at the Japan Hub.

Japan health system snapshot

Indicator 2023
Population 124,000,000
Life expectancy 84.80 yr
Healthy life expectancy 74.10 yr
Hospital beds /1k 13.00
Physicians /1k 2.60
Healthcare spending % GDP 10.90%
DTP3 vaccination 98.00%
TB incidence /100k 10.00
HIV prevalence 0.10%

Outbreak Events

4

First Reported

2020

Latest Reported

2023

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Country

Japan • WPR