Fact sheet - Tuberculosis in the WHO European Region (2020)

Despite the notable progress achieved in the fight against Tuberculosis (TB), it still poses a public health threat in the WHO European Region.

In the past 10 years, the number of new TB patients has been falling at an average rate of 5% per year, which is the fastest decline among all WHO regions. However, the treatment success rate among newly diagnosed and relapsed patients was 77%, which remains one of the lowest among WHO regions.