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India
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Detailed explanation-1: -TB Incidence in high Burden Countries India (26%), China (8.5%), Indonesia (8.4%), the Philippines (6.0%), Pakistan (5.8%), Nigeria (4.6), Bangladesh (3.6%) and South Africa (3.3%). There is more about TB in India.
Detailed explanation-2: -Eight countries accounted for more than two thirds of the global total: India, Indonesia, China, the Philippines, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Detailed explanation-3: -The “high burden” TB countries are those countries that are given the highest priority at global level. The “high burden” country list was first created in 1998.
Detailed explanation-4: -Globally, an estimated 10.0 million people developed active TB disease in 2019, with 1.4 million TB deaths. The WHO regions of South-East Asia, Africa, and the Western Pacific had the most cases of TB. Progress in achieving the United Nations (UN) General Assembly End TB targets remains slow.