In the 20 years since WHO established a global reporting
system in 1995, it has received reports of 78 million TB
cases, 66 million of which were treated successfully.
" In 2014, that system measured a marked increase in global
TB notifications for the first time since 2007. The annual
total of new TB cases, which had been about 5.7 million
until 2013, rose to slightly more than 6 million in 2014 (an
increase of 6%). This was mostly due to a 29% increase in
notifications in India, which followed the introduction of a
policy of mandatory notification in May 2012, creation of
a national web-based reporting system in June 2012 and