There
are 22 countries in the world, which constitute 80% of
global tuberculosis cases. WHO gives data of burden of
TB in these countries. Country wise burden in terms of
incidence of some of the high burden countries is as following:
Some of the countries are listed below.
| Country |
Burden of TBIncidence
(all cases/ 100, 000 pop/year) |
Global Rank
(by estimated cases) |
| Afghanistan |
333 |
21 |
| Bangladesh |
246 |
5 |
| Brazil |
62 |
15 |
| Cambodia |
508 |
23 |
| China |
102 |
2 |
Democratic republic of Congo |
369 |
11 |
| Ethiopia |
356 |
7 |
| India |
168 |
1 |
| Indonesia |
285 |
3 |
| Kenya |
610 |
10 |
| Nigeria |
293 |
4 |
| Pakistan |
181 |
6 |
| Philippines |
296 |
9 |
| Thailand |
142 |
17 |
| Uganda |
411 |
16 |
United Republic of Tanzania |
371 |
14 |
| Vietnam |
178 |
13 |
| Zimbabwe |
569 |
19 |
For more information click on http://www.stoptb.org/countries/
Profile of each country is available from WHO in Global
Report on TB.
For country wise profile click on http://www.who.int/tb/country/en/
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