Our World
in Data
It’s Giving Season. Help us do more with a donation.
Data

Tuberculosis treatment success rate

See all data and research on:
TuberculosisCauses of Death

What you should know about this indicator

  • This definition of treatment success doesn’t necessarily require bacterial evidence that the tuberculosis bacteria are completely gone from their body, which is partly because these tests are less accurate for some demographics, such as children and people with HIV/AIDS, who respond differently to the disease
  • Relapse cases may not consistently be included by all countries
Tuberculosis treatment success rate
Treatment success rate among new and relapse cases.
Source
WHO (2023) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Last updated
November 27, 2023
Date range
1994–2021
Unit
%

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
December 11, 2023
Retrieved from
https://www.who.int/teams/global-tuberculosis-programme/data
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 2023. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2023.

How we process data at Our World in Data

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.

Read about our data pipeline

Reuse this work

  • All data produced by third-party providers and made available by Our World in Data are subject to the license terms from the original providers. Our work would not be possible without the data providers we rely on, so we ask you to always cite them appropriately (see below). This is crucial to allow data providers to continue doing their work, enhancing, maintaining and updating valuable data.
  • All data, visualizations, and code produced by Our World in Data are completely open access under the Creative Commons BY license. You have the permission to use, distribute, and reproduce these in any medium, provided the source and authors are credited.

Citations

How to cite this page

To cite this page overall, including any descriptions, FAQs or explanations of the data authored by Our World in Data, please use the following citation:

“Data Page: Tuberculosis treatment success rate”, part of the following publication: Saloni Dattani, Fiona Spooner, Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser (2023) - “Tuberculosis”. Data adapted from WHO. Retrieved from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/tuberculosis-treatment-success-rate-in-new-and-relapsed-cases [online resource]
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 (2023) – with minor processing by Our World in Data

Full citation

WHO (2023) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. “Tuberculosis treatment success rate” [dataset]. WHO, “Global Tuberculosis Report” [original data]. Retrieved December 15, 2024 from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/tuberculosis-treatment-success-rate-in-new-and-relapsed-cases