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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Priyamvada Singh, MBBS [2]

Epidemiology and demographics

Prevalence

Gonorrhea is a very common infectious disease. It is more common in large cities, inner-city areas, populations with lower overall levels of education and people with lower socioeconomic status. *CDC estimates that more than 700,000 persons in the U.S. get new gonorrheal infections each year. Only about half of these infections are reported to CDC.

• In the period from 1975 to 1997, the national gonorrhea rate declined, following the implementation of the national gonorrhea control program in the mid-1970s.
• After a small increase in 1998, the gonorrhea rate has decreased slightly since 1999.
• In 2004, the rate of reported gonorrheal infections was 113.5 per 100,000 persons.
• In 2004, 330,132 cases of gonorrhea were reported to CDC.
• In 2012, . Global estimates of gonorrhea were estimated 78 million new cases.

Gender

In 2012, the global prevalence of gonorrhea among women aged 15–49 years was estimated to range from 600 to 1,000 cases per 100,000 individuals. In 2012, the global prevalence of gonorrhea among men was estimated to range from 400 to 900 cases per 100,000 individuals.