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Year of the last reported rinderpest case

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Year of the last reported rinderpest case
Rinderpest, also known as cattle plague, was a disease that infected ruminant animals, primarily cattle and buffalo. The last outbreak was recorded in Kenya in 2001 and the disease was officially declared eradicated in 2011.
Source
World Organisation for Animal Health and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2022) – processed by Our World in Data
Last updated
April 22, 2025
Date range
0–0

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Eradication of Diseases

Max Roser, Sophie Ochmann, Hannah Behrens, Hannah Ritchie, and Bernadeta Dadonaite

How rinderpest was eradicated

Sophie Ochmann and Hannah Behrens

Sources and processing

This data is based on the following sources

World Organisation for Animal Health and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – Rinderpest and its Eradication

Data taken from the table commencing on page 743 in Appendix 1 of the 'Rinderpest and its eradication report'.

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April 22, 2025
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https://www.woah.org/en/document/rinderpest-and-its-eradication/
Citation
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Taylor W.E., Gibbs E.P.J., Bandyopadhyay S.K., Pastoret P-P., Atang P. (2022). - Rinderpest and its eradication. Paris, OIE and FAO, 816 p. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.20506/9789295115606). Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

Data taken from the table commencing on page 743 in Appendix 1 of the 'Rinderpest and its eradication report'.

Retrieved on
April 22, 2025
Retrieved from
https://www.woah.org/en/document/rinderpest-and-its-eradication/
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
Taylor W.E., Gibbs E.P.J., Bandyopadhyay S.K., Pastoret P-P., Atang P. (2022). - Rinderpest and its eradication. Paris, OIE and FAO, 816 p. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.20506/9789295115606). Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

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Notes on our processing step for this indicator
  • For Kosovo, the source gives the last case as 1890s, we code this as 1899.
  • For Liechtenstein, the source gives the last case as the 19th century, we code this as 1899.
  • For Sao Tome and Principe the source gives the last case as 1950s, we code this as 1959.

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“Data Page: Year of the last reported rinderpest case”, part of the following publication: Max Roser, Sophie Ochmann, Hannah Behrens, Hannah Ritchie, and Bernadeta Dadonaite (2018) - “Eradication of Diseases”. Data adapted from World Organisation for Animal Health and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260304-094028/grapher/year-of-the-last-reported-rinderpest-case.html [online resource] (archived on March 4, 2026).

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World Organisation for Animal Health and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2022) – processed by Our World in Data

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World Organisation for Animal Health and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2022) – processed by Our World in Data. “Year of the last reported rinderpest case” [dataset]. World Organisation for Animal Health and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, “Rinderpest and its Eradication” [original data]. Retrieved April 1, 2026 from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260304-094028/grapher/year-of-the-last-reported-rinderpest-case.html (archived on March 4, 2026).

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import delimited "https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/year-of-the-last-reported-rinderpest-case.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false", encoding("utf-8") clear