electricsheepasia/asia-who-number-of-people-diagnosed-with-new-episode-of-pulmonary-tb-numlabconf

Number of people diagnosed with new episode of pulmonary TB who are bacteriologically confirmed. | Asia (WHO GHO)

🌏 1,048 observations · 48 Asia countries · 2000–2021 · Repackaged by [Electric Sheep Asia](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepasia)

TL;DR

This dataset contains 1,048 observations of Number of people diagnosed with new episode of pulmonary TB who are bacteriologically confirmed. data across 48 Asia countries, spanning 2000–2021, covering 1 distinct indicators.

About the source

• —Source: WHO Global Health Observatory
• —Publisher: World Health Organization
• —License: cc-by-4.0
• —Topic: Number of people diagnosed with new episode of pulmonary TB who are bacteriologically confirmed.

Geographic coverage

48 Asia countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Indicators (sample)

• —TB_notif_num_labconf

Schema

Disaggregation dimensions

The following columns provide disaggregation dimensions:

• —`dim1_type` (1 unique values): TB_CASETYPE
• —`dim1` (1 unique values): TB_CASETYPE_TB_CASETYPE_BCPTB

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepasia/asia-who-number-of-people-diagnosed-with-new-episode-of-pulmonary-tb-numlabconf")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

indonesia = df[df["country_iso3"] == "IDN"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = (df[df["indicator_code"] == "TB_notif_num_labconf"]
          .sort_values("year"))
sample.plot(x="year", y="value_numeric", title="TB_notif_num_labconf")

Pivot to country × year matrix

matrix = (df[df["indicator_code"] == "TB_notif_num_labconf"]
          .pivot_table(index="year", columns="country_iso3", values="value_numeric"))
print(matrix.tail())

Citation

@misc{asia_who_number_of_people_diagnosed_with_new_episode_of_pulmonary_tb_numlabconf_2021,
  title        = {Number of people diagnosed with new episode of pulmonary TB who are bacteriologically confirmed. | Asia (WHO GHO)},
  author       = {World Health Organization},
  year         = {2021},
  url          = {https://www.who.int/data/gho},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepasia/asia-who-number-of-people-diagnosed-with-new-episode-of-pulmonary-tb-numlabconf}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © World Health Organization. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Asia repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Asia is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Asia on HuggingFace. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepasia

Provenance: ingested 2026-05-29 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://www.who.int/data/gho