Global Tuberculosis Report 2024: Top findings and messages

Overview

The global rise in the number of people falling ill with TB (incident cases) that started during the COVID-19 pandemic has slowed and started to stabilize. The global number of deaths caused by TB fell in 2023, reinforcing the decline that was achieved in 2022 after 2 years of increases during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020 and 2021). Despite this progress, TB has probably returned to being the world’s leading cause of death from a single infectious agent.

Ending TB requires that commitments made at the 2023 UN high-level meeting on TB are translated into action.