News in numbers Global milestones: tuberculosis End tuberculosis strategy, 2025 milestones: Tuberculosis incidence rate Number of tuberculosis deaths


Percentage of TB affected house holds facing catastrophic costs


100% 8.3% reduction 23% reduction 49% 0% 2023 UN high-level meeting on tuberculosis targets:


People diagnosed with TB who were initially tested with a WHO-recommended rapid test


Tuberculosis treatment coverage TPT coverage: people living with HIV


TPT coverage: household contacts


Funding: universal access to TB prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care


Funding: TB research


New TB vaccines that are safe and effective


21% US$ 5.7 billion US$ 1.0 billion in 2022 6 in Phase III trials, as of August 2024 48% 75% 56% 100% by 2027 90% by 2027 90% by 2027 90% by 2027


$22bn annually by 2027


$5bn annually by 2027


Rollout initiated, preferably within fi ve years


Estimated number of incident tuberculosis cases in 2023, for countries with at least 100,000 incident cases*:


50% reduction by 2025, compared with 2015


75% reduction by 2025, compared with 2015


Zero by 2025 Key facts


1.25 million 10.8 million


People who died from TB in 2023, including 161,000 people with HIV.


Estimated number of people who fell ill with TB in 2023, including six million men, 3.6 million women and 1.3 million children.


2 in 5


The number of people with drug resistant


TB who accessed treatment in 2023. 79 million


Estimated lives saved since 2000 thanks to global efforts to combat TB.


$22 billion 10.6 million


Amount needed annually for TB prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care to achieve the global target by 2027.


The global TB population.


Global estimates of TB incidence disaggregated by age group and sex, 2023 1.5 –


1.0 – 0.5 – 0 –


Number of incident cases


100,000 500,000


1,000,000 2,000,000


Incidence per 100,000 population per year


0 – 9.9 10 – 49 50 – 99 100 – 299


300 – 499 +500


No data Not applicable *The labels show the eight countries that accounted for about two-thirds of the global number of people estimated to have developed tuberculosis in 2023. 6 Pakistan Nigeria


Democratic Republic of the Congo


India Bangladesh Indonesia


Philippines China


0-4 5-14 15-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65+ Age group (years)


Male Female


Global trend in TB treatment coverage*, 2010–2023 The shaded area represents the 95% uncertainty interval.


100 – 75 – 50 – 25 – 0 –


Target for 2027 set at the 2023 UN’s meeting on TB


2010 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021 2023


*Notifi cations of people with a new or relapse episode of TB as a percentage of estimated incident TB cases, in the same year.


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Treatment coverage (%)


Number of TB cases (millions)


Source for all: WHO


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