TB incidence in India fell by 21%, almost twice the global decline of 12%, says WHO report

India’s tuberculosis (TB) incidence, with caller cases emerging each year, fell by 21% — from 237 TB cases per lakh colonisation successful 2015 to 187 per lakh colonisation successful 2024 — astir treble the gait of diminution observed globally, astatine 12%, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global TB Report 2025, the Union Health Ministry said successful a merchandise issued connected Wednesday (November 12, 2025).

This was 1 of the highest declines successful TB incidence globally, outpacing reductions noted among different high-burden countries.

“India’s innovative lawsuit uncovering approach, driven by the swift uptake of newer technologies, decentralisation of services, and large-scale assemblage mobilisation, has led to the country’s attraction sum to surge to implicit 92% successful 2024, from 53% successful 2015 — with 26.18 lakh TB patients being diagnosed successful 2024, retired of an estimated incidence of 27 lakh cases,” the merchandise said.

The Ministry said this had helped trim the fig of “missing cases” — those who had TB but were not reported to the programme — from an estimated 15 lakh successful 2015 to little than 1 lakh successful 2024. 

Also, determination is nary important summation successful the fig of multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB patients successful the country, it said, adding that attraction occurrence complaint nether the TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyan increases to 90%, up of the planetary attraction occurrence complaint of 88%.

Similarly, India’s TB mortality complaint has decreased from 28 per lakh colonisation successful 2015 to 21 per lakh colonisation successful 2024, reflecting important advancement successful reducing deaths owed to TB. 

Since its motorboat successful December 2024, India’s flagship TB elimination mission, the TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyan, has achieved extended reach, screening implicit 19 crore susceptible individuals for TB crossed the country, starring to the detection of implicit 24.5 lakh TB patients, including 8.61 lakh asymptomatic TB cases, the study said.