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Table 4. Tuberculosis Cases and Case Rates per 100,000 Population by Origin:
United States, 1992-2002

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Year	Total Cases	U.S.-born Persons			Foreign-born Persons¹			Unknown
Year	Total Cases	No.	%	Rate	No.	%	Rate	No.	%
1992	26,673	19,225	72	8.2	7,270	27	34.2	178	1
1993	25,287	17,464	69	7.4	7,354	29	33.6	469	2
1994	24,361	16,278	67	6.8	7,627	31	33.9	456	2
1995	22,860	14,772	65	6.1	7,930	35	34.2	158	1
1996	21,337	13,333	62	5.5	7,704	36	32.3	300	1
1997	19,851	11,898	60	4.9	7,702	39	31.2	251	1
1998	18,361	10,675	58	4.3	7,591	41	30.0	95	1
1999	17,531	9,809	56	4.0	7,553	43	29.2	169	1
2000	16,377	8,714	53	3.5	7,554	46	24.1	109	1
2001	15,989	7,845	49	3.1	7,865	49	24.4	279	2
2002	15,075	7,296	48	2.9	7,659	51	23.1	120	1
¹Includes persons born outside the United States, American Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Midway Island, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the Republic of Palau, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and U.S. minor and outlying Pacific islands. Note: Denominators for computing rates for years 1992-1999 were obtained from Quarterly Estimates of the United States Foreign-born and Native Resident Populations: April 1, 1990, to July 1, 1999. Denominators for computing the 2000 rates based on April 2000 U.S. Census; denominators for 2001 and 2002 based on extrapolation from the Current Population Survey March 2002 to the July 1 total population estimates. See Surveillance Slides #11, #14, and #15.

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Table 4. Tuberculosis Cases and Case Rates per 100,000 Population by Origin: United States, 1992-2002

Table 4. Tuberculosis Cases and Case Rates per 100,000 Population by Origin:
United States, 1992-2002