People with TB disease

The number of people with active TB disease varied greatly amongst countries in 2020. Some countries reported to the World Health Organisation (WHO) fewer than five people per 100,000 population. Others reported more than 500 people per 100,000 population.

India is the country with the highest number of people with TB

The Covid-19 pandemic resulted in a large drop in the number of people newly diagnosed with Tuberculosis and reported to WHO.

Globally 5.8 million new cases of people with Tuberculosis were notified to the WHO in 2020. This was a decrease from 7.1 million in 2019. It was an 18% decline back to the level of 2012 and far short of the approximately 10 million people who developed TB in 2020.

However, as the TB statistics show that there are estimated to be 10 million people developing TB disease each year, this means that nearly half of people were not reported. It is likely that many of these people were not diagnosed as having TB and did not receive appropriate TB treatment.

Improvements are not taking place fast enough to meet the goals set out in the WHO's End TB strategy.

I have great hope that progress can be made, and there are solutions. But they require commitment and financial investment Philippe Glaziou, senior epidemiologist, WHO [efn_note]TB cases falling too slowly to hit 2020 targets, 2019, https://www.scidev.net/global/health/news/tb-cases-falling-too-slowly-to-hit-2020-targets.html[/efn_note]

Which countries reported 1,000 or more people with TB in 2020

The list below is of the countries with more than 1,000 people reported as having active Tuberculosis, and is the number reported to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Countries reporting less than 1,000 people with TB in 2020

Listed below are the countries that reported less than 1,000 people with active TB in 2020. The number of cases of TB is given in brackets. The list includes some countries that either had no cases, or who did not report any cases to the WHO.

Albania (440) American Samoa (1) Andorra (2) Anguilla (0) Antigua and Barbuda (6) Aruba (5) Austria (482) Bahamas (47)  Bahrain (154)  Barbados (1) Belgium (981) Belize (104) Bermuda (2) Bonaire, British Virgin Islands (1) Brunei Darussalam (252)  Cabo Verde (206) Cayman Islands (3) China Macao SAR (328) Comoros (0)  Cook Islands (0) Costa Rica (408) Croatia (372) Cuba (749)  Curacao Cyprus (52) Czechia (444) Denmark (291) Dominica (4)

Estonia (147) Fiji (389) Finland (230) French Polynesia (54) Greece (432) Greenland (52) Grenada (2) Guam (71) Guyana (586) Hungary (640) Iceland (8) Ireland (314) Israel (292)  Jamaica (69) Jordan (404)  Kiribati (323)  Kuwait (820) Latvia  Lebanon (668) Luxembourg (42) Maldives (138) Malta (55) Marshall Islands (429)  Mauritus (133) Micronesia Federated States of (125) Monaco  Montenegro (84)  Montserrat (0)

Nauru (5)  Netherlands (806) New Caledonia (37) New Zealand (309) Niue (1)  North Macedonia (217) Northern Mariana Islands (47) Norway (209) Oman (246)  Palau (17)  Puerto Rico (28) Qatar (750) Saint Kitts and Nevis (0) Saint Lucia (5)  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (6)  Samoa (11) San Marino (0) Sao Tome and Principe (152)  Serbia, without Kosovo (656)  Kosovo (702) Seychelles (15)  Sint Maarten Dutch part (10) Slovakia (281)  Slovenia (99) Solomon Islands (391)  Suriname (179)  Sweden (491) Switzerland (516)

Tokelau Tonga (9)  Trinidad and Tobago (272)  Turks and Calcos Islands (2) Tuvalu (32) United Arab Emirates (86) Vanuatu (90) Wallis and Futuna Islands (0) West Bank and Gaza Strip (30)

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Author Annabel Kanabus

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