Table 1 Tuberculosis notifications for 2013–2020 by age and sex (children aged < 15 years, adults aged 15–64 years, elderly aged ≥ 65 years, men aged ≥ 15 years and women aged ≥ 15 years), aggregated across 45 high TB, TB/HIV and MDR-TB burden countries. Note that not all countries had notification data for all years

Children

89,941

432,310

324,383

373,195

386,762

445,492

442,766

325,964

Adults

1,565,284

3,497,613

3,921,764

4,391,616

4,448,079

4,807,836

4,816,194

4,079,324

Elderly

235,275

272,117

517,191

591,488

580,333

721,210

750,611

595,840

Women

647,666

1,399,267

1,599,160

1,779,556

1,816,238

2,040,835

2,064,250

1,758,159

Men

1,152,893

2,530,656

2,871,346

3,203,548

3,212,174

3,488,211

3,503,555

2,917,005