From 2000 to 2016, measles cases worldwide plunged from 853,479 to 132,490. Cases began to rise again after that. In 2019, 869,770 people had measles, the most since 1996.
Worldwide, deaths from measles in 2019 was 207,500, up ~50 % since 2016.
Measles has come back with a vengeance in the last several years