# WHO Global report on hypertension: the race against a silent killer (2023)

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Also called: Global report on hypertension

Browse, organ or system: Blood vessels  
Browse, condition area: High blood pressure  

## In plain language

The World Health Organization's 2023 global report on hypertension. WHO says it compiles data for the first time on the far-reaching consequences of uncontrolled hypertension, including heart attacks, strokes and early death, and on the economic losses for communities and countries, and that it gives the burden of hypertension and the progress of control efforts by region and country. Among adults aged 30 to 79 years with hypertension, it estimates that in 2019 54% had been diagnosed, 42% were treated and 21% had it controlled.

## Technical summary

WHO publication of 291 pages dated 19 September 2023 on the WHO page, ISBN 978-92-4-008106-2, licence CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. The report describes the HEARTS technical package as launched in 2018 in its section 5.4. The figures cited here come from the report's section 2.3; it names the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration and additional calculations as the source. A later WHO fact sheet (25 September 2025) gives different figures for a different year, which are shown beside the report's 2019 estimates on the claim and are not a measured change.

## Connected pages

- Issuer: World Health Organization (`cardio:who`)

## Provenance

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Last substantive edit: 2026-10-15
Evidence last checked: 2026-10-15