Tuberculosis data
Data reported by countries to WHO and estimates of tuberculosis burden generated by WHO for the Global tuberculosis report.
WHO has published a global tuberculosis (TB) report every year since 1997. The report provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic, and of progress in prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease at global, regional and country levels.
Tuberculosis profiles are generated automatically based on data reported by countries and which are held in WHO's global TB database. They are available for all countries, areas and territories asked to report TB data to WHO. Countries can update information at any time via WHO's TB data collection system (or, for countries in the European region, via the ECDC - WHO/Europe Joint Surveillance system). Therefore data shown in the profiles may differ slightly from the data available at the time the Global tuberculosis report was written.
Interactive visualizations
In 2020, the Global Tuberculosis Programme began asking global and regional priority countries for the provisional number of new and relapse TB cases notified to health authorities by month or quarter. These numbers are not final and are subject to change. However, they provide an early indication of how the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic may be affecting essential TB services.
- Download a CSV file of provisional notifications to date by all countries asked to report
For a guide to the variables, download the data dictionary. Data are provided in accordance with WHO's data sharing policy and their use are subject to WHO's terms and conditions.
- View provisional notifications from a subset of countries as interactive charts
Download data provided by countries to WHO and estimates of TB burden generated by WHO for the Global tuberculosis report as comma-separated value (CSV) files. CSV files can be opened by or imported into many spreadsheet, statistical analysis and database packages.
Data are provided in accordance with WHO's data sharing policy and their use are subject to WHO's terms and conditions.
Definition of variables
The first row in each CSV file contains variable names; find the definition of each variable in the data dictionary.
» Download the data dictionary
The following changes were made in the CSV files with the publication of the 2024 Global tuberculosis report compared to those published for the 2023 report:
| New variables | cf_community, community_annual_report, community_budget_available, community_manuals, community_nsp, community_prog_review, disagg_zoonotic, district, district_cxr, district_description, district_monitor_pos_rate, district_wrd, gov_funding_cash_trans, gov_funding_tx_enablers, ident_pris, ident_zoonotic, income_loss, m_bovis, m_caprae, m_orygis, m_pinnipedii, m_wrd_error_rate_lte_5pct, m_wrd_tat_lt_48h, miners, miners_screen, miners_screen_data_available, newinc_from_screen, newrel_prisoners, nrr_2hrze2hr_tx, nrr_2hrze2hr_used, people_cash_trans, people_tx_enablers, phcf, phcf_wrd, plhiv_all, plhiv_all_screen, plhiv_all_screen_data_available, plhiv_new, plhiv_new_screen, plhiv_new_screen_data_available, presumptive, presumptive_wrd, prisoners, prisoners_screen, prisoners_screen_data_available, tb_from_screen_available, tpt_6lfx, wrd_test_capacity, zoonotic |
| Deleted variables | exp_res |
WHO TB burden estimates
This includes WHO-generated estimates of TB mortality, incidence (including disaggregation by age, sex, risk factors, HIV status, rifampicin resistance), case fatality ratio, treatment coverage (previously called case detection rate) and TB infection estimates in household contacts.
- WHO TB burden estimates [>1Mb]
- WHO TB incidence estimates disaggregated by age group, sex and risk factor [>0.5Mb]
- WHO MDR/RR-TB burden estimates
- WHO TB infection estimates in household contacts
Data provided by countries and territories
WHO's global TB database is updated regularly as countries notify WHO of corrections to previously submitted data. Therefore country data downloaded to CSV files may differ slightly from the data available at the time the Global tuberculosis report was written.
- Budgets for tuberculosis since fiscal year 2018
- Case notifications [>2Mb]
- Community engagement activities for TB
- Drug resistance testing in pulmonary bacteriologically confirmed TB patients since 2017
- Expenditure and utilization of health services for TB since fiscal year 2017
- Laboratory diagnostic services
- Non-routine surveillance of HIV prevalence in TB patients
- Policies and services for tuberculosis in 2023
- Public-public and public-private mix
- Screening and TB preventive treatment for contacts of TB patients
- Treatment outcomes [>1Mb]
- Treatment outcomes by age group and sex
- UN high-level meeting (UNHLM) commitments and multi-sectoral accountability in 2024
- Zoonotic TB in 2018 and 2023
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