Which Country is the Most Successful at Tuberculosis Treatment?

Tuberculosis Treatment Success Rate (% of Registered Cases) (%), 2022 or latest
Health Care | September 1, 2025
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Based on a comparison of 171 countries in 2022, Kuwait ranked the highest in tuberculosis treatment success rate as a percentage of all registered cases with 100% followed by Cayman Islands and Malta. On the other end of the scale was Finland with 1.00%, Denmark with 18.0% and Cyprus with 26.0%.

Average tuberculosis treatment success rate as a percentage of all registered cases reached 88.0% in 2022 in the World according to World Bank / WHO. This is 1.15 % less than in the previous year and 0 % the same as 10 years ago.

Historically, average tuberculosis treatment success rate as a percentage of all registered cases reached an all time high of 88.0% in 2022 and an all time low of 54.0% in 1996. The average annual growth amounted to 0.531 % since 1994.

Data for more countries are available at Tuberculosis Treatment Success Rate (% of Registered Cases) indicator page.

Tuberculosis Treatment Success Rate (% of Registered Cases) Unit 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Afghanistan % 93.0% 91.0% 91.0% 91.0% 95.0%
Bangladesh % 94.0% 94.0% 94.0% 95.0% 95.0%
Burundi % 92.0% 93.0% 94.0% 94.0% 95.0%
Cambodia % 94.0% 94.0% 94.0% 96.0% 96.0%
Cayman Islands % ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 100% 100% ... 100% ...
China % 93.0% 93.0% 94.0% 94.0% 95.0%
Dem. Republic of the Congo % 89.0% 90.0% 93.0% 92.0% 94.0%
East Timor % ... 89.0% 88.0% 88.0% 91.0% 91.0%
Eritrea % 91.0% 92.0% 93.0% 93.0% 91.0%
Iraq % 93.0% 92.0% 93.0% 94.0% 94.0%
Kuwait % ... 87.0% 89.0% 83.0% 74.0% 82.0%
Malta % ... ... ... ... ... ... 99.0% ...
Mozambique % ... 90.0% 90.0% 93.0% 94.0% 94.0%
Pakistan % 94.0% 93.0% 93.0% 93.0% 94.0%
Tanzania % 90.0% 90.0% 92.0% 93.0% 96.0%