Dengue in India
Country profile for India (South-East Asia): official dengue surveillance data reported to WHO, analysed by the SENTINARA early-warning engine.
Key facts
- India reported 70,140 dengue cases from January to September 2026, +2.6% compared with the same period of 2025, according to WHO Global Dengue Surveillance.
- Deaths reported in 2026 to September: 71 (48 in the same period of 2025).
- In 2025, the last full year, India recorded 120,729 cases, an incidence of 8.2 per 100,000 people and a case fatality rate of 0.090%.
- Automatic early-warning analysis is not available because there are fewer than 36 consecutive months of data, too short for seasonal analysis.
- OpenDengue holds complete annual totals for India since 1991.
Related pages
- Dengue in Sri Lanka
- Dengue in Maldives
- Dengue in Bangladesh
- Dengue in Timor-Leste
- Dengue in Thailand
- Dengue in Nepal
Data updated 2026-10-31. Sources: WHO Global Dengue Surveillance; OpenDengue V1.3 (Clarke et al., 2025), doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.24259573; Dinas Kesehatan Kota Semarang; World Bank Open Data; NASA POWER.