India achieved a 21 per cent reduction in tuberculosis (TB) incidence between 2015 and 2024 — nearly double the global rate of decline — according to the World Health Organization’s Global TB Report 2025. The country’s TB incidence dropped from 237 cases per lakh population in 2015 to 187 per lakh in 2024, marking one of the steepest declines among high-burden countries.

India’s innovative strategies, including the rapid adoption of new technologies, decentralised service delivery, and large-scale community mobilisation, have helped expand treatment coverage to over 92 per cent in 2024, up from 53 per cent in 2015. Of the estimated 27 lakh TB cases in 2024, 26.18 lakh patients were diagnosed and placed on treatment. As a result, the number of “missing cases” — those with TB who were not r

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