Global Tuberculosis Programme
The WHO Global Tuberculosis Programme works towards the goal of a world free of TB, with zero deaths, disease and suffering due to the disease. The team’s mission is to lead and guide the global effort to end the TB epidemic through universal access to people-centred prevention and care, multisectoral action and innovation.
Tuberculosis data
Data reported by countries to WHO and estimates of tuberculosis burden generated by WHO for the Global Tuberculosis Report.
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.
The 2021 edition of the Global Tuberculosis Report was published on 14 October 2021
Tuberculosis country, regional and global profiles
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 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 in profiles may differ slightly from the data available at the time Global Tuberculosis Report was written.
Interactive visualizations
Provisional TB notifications by month or quarter
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
CSV files
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 [csv 0.1Mb]
The following changes were made in the CSV files with the publication of the 2021 Global Tuberculosis Report compared to those published for the 2020 report:
| New variables | c_newrel_f_tsr, conf_rr_fqr, conf_rr_fqr_tx, conf_rr_nfqr, conf_rr_nfqr_tx, culture_eqa_pass, dst_bdq, dst_bdq_eqa_pass, dst_inh, dst_inh_eqa_pass, dst_lzd, dst_lzd_eqa_pass, dst_moxlev, dst_moxlev_eqa_pass, dst_pza, dst_pza_eqa_pass, dst_rif, dst_rif_eqa_pass, dx_test_sites, exp_res, hiv_all, hiv_all_tpt, hiv_all_tpt_completed, hiv_all_tpt_started, hiv_elig_all, hiv_elig_all_tpt, hiv_elig_new, hiv_elig_new_tpt, hiv_new, hiv_new_tpt, iso15189_accredited, lmis, lpa_fl, lpa_fl_eqa_pass, lpa_sl, lpa_sl_eqa_pass, m_wrd, m_wrd_eqa_pass, m_wrd_etrans, mdr_alloral_short_tx, mdr_alloral_short_used, newinc_con_prevtx_cmplt, newrel_art_014, newrel_f_coh, newrel_f_died, newrel_f_fail, newrel_f_lost, newrel_f_succ, newrel_hivpos_014, newrel_hivtest_014, qms_pending, r_rlt_rel, rr_fqr_bdqr_lzdr, rr_fqr_bdqr_lzds, rr_fqr_bdqr_lzdu, rr_fqr_bdqs_lzdr, rr_fqr_bdqs_lzds, rr_fqr_bdqs_lzdu, rr_fqr_bdqu_lzdr, rr_fqr_bdqu_lzds, rr_fqr_bdqu_lzdu, rr_rel, smear_eqa_pass, tbhiv_014_flg, unconf_rr_nfqr_tx |
| Updated variables | budget_cpp_xdr, caseb_err_nat, exp_cpp_xdr, mdr_tx_adsm, mdrxdr_bdq_used, smear, tx_xdr, xdr |
| Deleted variables | e_inc_rr_num, e_inc_rr_num_hi, e_inc_rr_num_lo, e_mdr_pct_rr, e_mdr_pct_rr_new, e_mdr_pct_rr_ret, e_rr_in_notified_labconf_pulm, e_rr_in_notified_labconf_pulm_hi, e_rr_in_notified_labconf_pulm_lo, e_rr_pct_new, e_rr_pct_new_hi, e_rr_pct_new_lo, e_rr_pct_ret, e_rr_pct_ret_hi, e_rr_pct_ret_lo, free_dx_followup, lf_urine_lam, pub_new_dx, source_drs_coverage_new, source_drs_coverage_ret, source_drs_year_new, source_drs_year_ret, source_rr_new, source_rr_ret, universal_dst, wrd_initial_test |
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 latent TB infection among children aged under 5 years.
- WHO TB burden estimates [0.8Mb]
- WHO TB incidence estimates disaggregated by age group, sex and risk factor [0.6Mb]
- WHO latent TB infection estimates for 2019 [20kb]
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 is written.
- Case notifications [2Mb]
- Drug resistance testing in pulmonary bacteriologically confirmed TB patients since 2017 [0.1Mb]
- Zoonotic TB in 2018 [12kb]
- Laboratory diagnostic services [0.2Mb]
- Non-routine surveillance of HIV prevalence in TB patients [20kb]
- Treatment outcomes [0.8Mb]
- Screening and TB preventive treatment for contacts of TB patients [0.1Mb]
- TB policies and services in 2020 [10kb]
- Community engagement activities for TB [40kb]
- Budgets for TB since fiscal year 2018 [0.1Mkb]
- Expenditure and utilization of health services for TB since fiscal year 2017 [0.1Mb]
Global TB report mobile app
Discover current statistics and trends, compare countries and regions, and find the data you need at your fingertips using the TB Report app. Switch the interface between English, French, Russian and Spanish.
