Physics

Internal medicine

Pathology

Sociology

Disease

Tuberculosis

Population

Burden of disease

Incidence (geometry)

Optics

Life expectancy

Demography

Surgery

Mortality rate

Disease burden

Verbal autopsy

Cause of death

Confidence interval

Medicine

Environmental health

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

An understanding of the trends in tuberculosis incidence, prevalence, and mortality is crucial to tracking of the success of tuberculosis control programmes and identification of remaining challenges. We assessed trends in the fatal and non-fatal burden of tuberculosis over the past 25 years for 195 countries and territories.

The global burden of tuberculosis: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015