Percentage of people with hepatitis B

Regarding the proportion of the hepatitis B population, in 2006, the National Sero-Epidemiological Survey on Hepatitis B showed that the general population aged 1-59 years old in China had a carrier rate of 7.18% for the hepatitis B virus. With the implementation of hepatitis B vaccination, the lower the age. The lower the probability of infection. 2014 China conducted another survey on the epidemiology of hepatitis B in people aged 1-29 years old and found that the infection rate was only 0.32% in people aged 1-4 years old, 0.94% in people aged 5-14 years old and 4.18% in people aged 15-29 years old. Currently there are about 86 million people infected with hepatitis B virus in China, of which only about 20 million are being treated or receiving antiviral therapy.