WHO Countries with High Tuberculosis Incidence

Afghanistan 
Algeria 
Angola 
Argentina 
Armenia 
Azerbaijan 
Bangladesh 
Belize 
Benin 
Bhutan 
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 
Bosnia and Herzegovina 
Botswana 
Brazil 
Brunei Darussalam 
Burkina Faso 
Burundi 
Cabo Verde 
Cambodia 
Cameroon 
Central African Republic 
Chad 
China 
China, Hong Kong SAR 
China, Macao SAR 
Colombia 
Comoros 
Congo 
Congo (Democratic Republic of) 
Cote d'Ivoire 
Djibouti 
Dominican Republic 
Ecuador 
El Salvador 
Equatorial Guinea 
Eritrea 
Eswatini 
Ethiopia 
Fiji 
French Polynesia 
Gabon 
Gambia 
Georgia 
Ghana 
Greenland 
Guam 
Guatemala 
Guinea 
Guinea-Bissau 
Guyana 
Haiti 
Honduras 
India 
Indonesia 
Iraq 
Kazakhstan 
Kenya 
Kiribati 
Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of) 
Korea (Republic of) 
Kyrgyzstan 
Lao People's Democratic Republic 
Latvia 
Lesotho 
Liberia 
Libya 
Lithuania 
Madagascar 
Malawi 
Malaysia 
Maldives 
Mali 
Marshall Islands 
Mauritania 
Mexico 
Micronesia (Federated States of) 
Moldova (Republic of) 
Mongolia 
Morocco 
Mozambique 
Myanmar 
Namibia 
Nauru 
Nepal 
Nicaragua 
Niger 
Nigeria 
Niue 
Northern Mariana Islands 
Pakistan 
Palau 
Panama 
Papua New Guinea 
Paraguay 
Peru 
Philippines 
Qatar 
Romania 
Russian Federation 
Rwanda 
Sao Tome and Principe 
Senegal 
Sierra Leone 
Singapore 
Solomon Islands 
Somalia 
South Africa 
South Sudan 
Sri Lanka 
Sudan 
Suriname 
Syrian Arab Republic 
Tajikistan 
Tanzania (United Republic of) 
Thailand 
Timor-Leste 
Togo 
Trinidad and Tobago 
Tunisia 
Turkmenistan 
Tuvalu 
Uganda 
Ukraine 
Uruguay 
Uzbekistan 
Vanuatu 
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 
Viet Nam 
Yemen 
Zambia 
Zimbabwe
 

Source

American College Health Association. (2024, May) Tuberculosis Screening Targeted Testing of College and University Students. www.acha.org/guidelines. Recent changes noted, pending publication.

This data is obtained from the WHO Global Health Observatory, Tuberculosis Incidence. Countries with average incidence rates of ≥ 20 cases per 100,000 population.