Global Tuberculosis Report
Also called: WHO GTR · Topic: Economic Data: Census, NSS, Surveys and Statistical Tools · NCERT: Beyond NCERT
Meaning
The Global Tuberculosis Report (WHO GTR) is a report that the World Health Organization (WHO) publishes every year. For each country it gives estimates of TB incidence (new cases per lakh people in a year), mortality rate (deaths per lakh people), treatment success and funding. Countries use it to track their progress against the End TB targets for 2030. Its figures are model-based estimates, not a count of every case or death. WHO revises them between editions, and it can change even the starting year's number.
Example
GTR 2026 showed India's TB mortality rate falling from 28 to 18 per lakh between 2015 and 2025. That is a 38% fall, against a 35% fall globally. But WHO's starting figure for India's 2015 incidence was 256 per lakh in GTR 2022 and 237 per lakh in GTR 2025. So a "% fall since 2015" from one edition cannot be compared directly with the figure from another edition.
Don't confuse with
- National notification data (Ni-kshay): India's own count of patients who are officially registered and tracked. The GTR estimates all TB cases, including people who are never diagnosed or never reported.
- Fall in the mortality rate vs fall in deaths: The rate is deaths per lakh people, so it can fall faster than the actual number of deaths when the population grows. GTR 2025 reported a 28% fall in TB deaths (2015–24). GTR 2026 reported a 38% fall in the rate (2015–25).