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<title>Our World in Data - Tuberculosis</title>
<subtitle>Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems</subtitle>
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<updated>2025-07-28T04:00:00.000Z</updated>
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    <title>The world left its fight against tuberculosis unfinished — how can we complete the job?</title>
    <id>https://ourworldindata.org/ending-tuberculosis-save-millions</id>
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    <published>2025-07-28T04:00:00.000Z</published>
    <author><name>Hannah Ritchie</name></author><author><name>Fiona Spooner</name></author>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[If we get it right, the world could save more than 1.2 million lives every year.<br/><br/><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/ending-tuberculosis-save-millions"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/8168303b-e636-4850-ffdc-90eeca931600/w=512"/></a>]]></summary>
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    <title>The end of tuberculosis that wasn’t</title>
    <id>https://ourworldindata.org/the-end-of-tuberculosis-that-wasnt</id>
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    <published>2025-06-30T04:00:00.000Z</published>
    <author><name>Hannah Ritchie</name></author><author><name>Fiona Spooner</name></author>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[In the 1980s, many thought tuberculosis was on the path to elimination. In reality, more were dying from the disease than ever.<br/><br/><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/the-end-of-tuberculosis-that-wasnt"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/b5aa8c82-2fc4-4e0a-cdf1-82d5aa6f9800/w=512"/></a>]]></summary>
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    <title>Once a leading killer, tuberculosis is now rare in rich countries — here’s how it happened</title>
    <id>https://ourworldindata.org/tuberculosis-history-decline</id>
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    <published>2025-06-02T04:00:00.000Z</published>
    <author><name>Hannah Ritchie</name></author><author><name>Fiona Spooner</name></author>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[As much as one quarter of deaths in Europe and the United States were once from tuberculosis.<br/><br/><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/tuberculosis-history-decline"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/21b69f06-f8eb-4618-a3ed-401b8af6d300/w=512"/></a>]]></summary>
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    <title>Tuberculosis in Ethiopia: a drastic decline but still far behind wealthier nations</title>
    <id>https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/tuberculosis-in-ethiopia-a-drastic-decline-but-still-far-behind-wealthier-nations</id>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/tuberculosis-in-ethiopia-a-drastic-decline-but-still-far-behind-wealthier-nations"/>
    <published>2024-08-02T05:00:00.000Z</published>
    <author><name>Veronika Samborska</name></author>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<br/><br/><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/tuberculosis-in-ethiopia-a-drastic-decline-but-still-far-behind-wealthier-nations"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/c4c8a3cf-f024-4b34-0d72-439ec0951200/w=608"/></a>]]></summary>
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    <title>Drug-resistant tuberculosis is much more expensive to treat</title>
    <id>https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/drug-resistant-tuberculosis-is-much-more-expensive-to-treat</id>
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    <published>2024-05-15T06:21:29.000Z</published>
    <author><name>Saloni Dattani</name></author>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<br/><br/><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/drug-resistant-tuberculosis-is-much-more-expensive-to-treat"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/9e41affd-1ff2-431d-2a8f-62f225087400/w=608"/></a>]]></summary>
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<entry>
    <title>Tuberculosis</title>
    <id>https://ourworldindata.org/tuberculosis</id>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://ourworldindata.org/tuberculosis"/>
    <published>2023-12-21T12:56:00.000Z</published>
    <author><name>Saloni Dattani</name></author><author><name>Fiona Spooner</name></author><author><name>Hannah Ritchie</name></author><author><name>Max Roser</name></author>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Tuberculosis is still among the most common causes of death globally. Explore global data on tuberculosis and its trends over time.<br/><br/><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/tuberculosis"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/a325ebe3-e451-4830-772c-0471a8f8f900/w=512"/></a>]]></summary>
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