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Incidence of TB per 1000 population. Figure 2 illustrates that incidence of TB is remarkably lower in the developed countries like USA and Japan than in the third world countries like in South Asia. India and Bangladesh have one of the highest incidence rates of TB in the world. Source: World Health Statistics and Global Disease Burden.
