WHO estimates India’s tuberculosis deaths fell 38% from 2015 to 2025

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12 Nov 2026, 9:01 pm IST1 min read

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An estimated 2.63 lakh people died from tuberculosis in India in 2025, down from 4.26 lakh in 2015, according to country estimates accompanying the World Health Organization’s Global Tuberculosis Report 2026. The difference is about 38%. India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare highlighted the decline on November 12 in a release issued through the Press Information Bureau.

In the WHO estimates for people without HIV, the TB mortality rate fell from about 28 deaths per lakh population in 2015 to 18 in 2025. The ministry said the findings from a separate national TB prevalence survey conducted in 2025 are under technical discussion with WHO, which will then update India’s country profile.

WHO report and country estimates (https://www.who.int/teams/global-programme-on-tuberculosis-and-lung-health/tb-reports/global-tuberculosis-report-2026)

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