The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates there were 8.7 million incident cases of tuberculosis in the world in 2011 (range, 8.3 million – 9.0 million), a rate of 125 cases per 100,000 population (range, 120 - 130) (see Table 1). It is also estimated that there were 12 million prevalent tuberculosis cases (range, 10 million – 13 million).

Tuberculosis deaths in HIV-negative people fell just below 1 million (range, 0.84 million - 1.1 million). An additional 0.43 million tuberculosis deaths occurred in HIV-positive people (range, 0.40 million - 0.46 million) (classified as HIV deaths according to International Classification of Diseases).

Table 1. WHO estimates of tuberculosis incidence by WHO region, 2011

WHO Region	Number of cases (thousands)	Rate per 100,000
Africa	2300	262
The Americas	270	28
Eastern Mediterranean	660	109
Europe	380	42
South-East Asia	3500	189
Western Pacific	1700	92
Global	8700	125

 WHO estimates by country

WHO estimates of tuberculosis incidence by country, for 2011, are available as convenient tables (prepared from data downloadable from the WHO website):

• WHO country data, sorted by country
• WHO country data, sorted by TB rate

Further information

The WHO Stop TB Strategy and Global Plan to Stop TB present global targets for the control of tuberculosis, and progress towards achieving these targets is assessed in the latest WHO report.  For more information, visit:

• WHO Stop TB Strategy  [external link]
• Stop TB Partnership [external link] 
• WHO Global tuberculosis report 2012 [external link]

Note: Data presented here are an extract of data available for download from the WHO website.  Only 'best estimate' figures of incidence are included here. Uncertainty bounds for these estimates are included in data downloadable from the WHO website and should be referred to if further interpretation of the figures is required.  Details of the methods used for the estimation of incidence can be found in the WHO Global tuberculosis report 2012 [external link].

Source: WHO TB burden estimates in the Global tuberculosis report 2012. Accessed 02/12/2012.

• World Health Organization (WHO) estimates of tuberculosis incidence by country, 2011 (sorted by country)
  Worldwide TB data by country from the WHO.
  Added/updated: 6 February 2013
  
• World Health Organization (WHO) estimates of tuberculosis incidence by rate, 2011 (sorted by rate)
  Added/updated: 15 March 2013