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Rate of new tuberculosis cases

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Rate of new tuberculosis cases
The number of new cases of per 100,000 people.
Source
WHO (2025); Population based on various sources (2024)with minor processing by Our World in Data
Last updated
February 5, 2026
Date range
2000–2024
Unit
cases per 100,000 people

Sources and processing

WHO – Global Tuberculosis Report - Burden Estimates

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.

Retrieved on
February 5, 2026
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
Global tuberculosis report 2025. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2025.

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.

Retrieved on
February 5, 2026
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
Global tuberculosis report 2025. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2025.

Various sources – Population

Our World in Data builds and maintains a long-run dataset on population by country, region, and for the world, based on various sources.

You can find more information on these sources and how our time series is constructed on this page: https://ourworldindata.org/population-sources

Retrieved on
July 11, 2024
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
The long-run data on population is based on various sources, described on this page: https://ourworldindata.org/population-sources

Our World in Data builds and maintains a long-run dataset on population by country, region, and for the world, based on various sources.

You can find more information on these sources and how our time series is constructed on this page: https://ourworldindata.org/population-sources

Retrieved on
July 11, 2024
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
The long-run data on population is based on various sources, described on this page: https://ourworldindata.org/population-sources

All data and visualizations on Our World in Data rely on data sourced from one or several original data providers. Preparing this original data involves several processing steps. Depending on the data, this can include standardizing country names and world region definitions, converting units, calculating derived indicators such as per capita measures, as well as adding or adapting metadata such as the name or the description given to an indicator.

At the link below you can find a detailed description of the structure of our data pipeline, including links to all the code used to prepare data across Our World in Data.

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Notes on our processing step for this indicator

Regional aggregates were calculated by Our World in Data.

How to cite this page

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“Data Page: Rate of new tuberculosis cases”, part of the following publication: Saloni Dattani, Fiona Spooner, Hannah Ritchie, and Max Roser (2023) - “Tuberculosis”. Data adapted from WHO, Various sources. Retrieved from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260304-094028/grapher/incidence-of-tuberculosis-sdgs.html [online resource] (archived on March 4, 2026).

How to cite this data

In-line citationIf you have limited space (e.g. in data visualizations), you can use this abbreviated in-line citation:

WHO (2025); Population based on various sources (2024) – with minor processing by Our World in Data

Full citation

WHO (2025); Population based on various sources (2024) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. “Rate of new tuberculosis cases” [dataset]. WHO, “Global Tuberculosis Report - Burden Estimates”; Various sources, “Population” [original data]. Retrieved March 31, 2026 from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260304-094028/grapher/incidence-of-tuberculosis-sdgs.html (archived on March 4, 2026).

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Data URL (CSV format)
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/incidence-of-tuberculosis-sdgs.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false
Metadata URL (JSON format)
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/incidence-of-tuberculosis-sdgs.metadata.json?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false

Code examples

Examples of how to load this data into different data analysis tools.

Excel / Google Sheets
=IMPORTDATA("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/incidence-of-tuberculosis-sdgs.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false")
Python with Pandas
import pandas as pd
import requests

# Fetch the data.
df = pd.read_csv("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/incidence-of-tuberculosis-sdgs.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false", storage_options = {'User-Agent': 'Our World In Data data fetch/1.0'})

# Fetch the metadata
metadata = requests.get("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/incidence-of-tuberculosis-sdgs.metadata.json?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false").json()
R
library(jsonlite)

# Fetch the data
df <- read.csv("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/incidence-of-tuberculosis-sdgs.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false")

# Fetch the metadata
metadata <- fromJSON("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/incidence-of-tuberculosis-sdgs.metadata.json?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false")
Stata
import delimited "https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/incidence-of-tuberculosis-sdgs.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false", encoding("utf-8") clear