Before you play

What This TB Death Figure Means

This game compares deaths due to tuberculosis per 100,000 people.

  • This is a mortality figure, not just a case count.
  • High death rates usually reflect treatment gaps, late diagnosis, and broader health-system failure.
  • A country can reduce incidence slowly but still cut deaths if care works; the reverse is also true.

Tuberculosis death is where disease burden stops being abstract and becomes a systems verdict.