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Source
WHO (2023); Population based on various sources (2023) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Last updated
November 27, 2023
Date range
2000–2022
Unit
deaths per 100,000 people

Sources and processing

This data is based on the following sources

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
November 27, 2023
Retrieved from
https://www.who.int/teams/global-tuberculosis-programme/data
Citation
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Global tuberculosis report 2023. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2023.

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Retrieved on
March 31, 2023
Retrieved from
https://ourworldindata.org/population-sources
Citation
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The long-run data on population is based on various sources, described on this page: https://ourworldindata.org/population-sources

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“Data Page: Tuberculosis death rate”, 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://ourworldindata.org/grapher/tuberculosis-death-rate [online resource]
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WHO (2023); Population based on various sources (2023) – with minor processing by Our World in Data

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WHO (2023); Population based on various sources (2023) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. “Tuberculosis death rate” [dataset]. WHO, “Global Tuberculosis Report”; Various sources, “Population” [original data]. Retrieved November 24, 2024 from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/tuberculosis-death-rate