Abstract
Tuberculosis (TB) is a preventable and curable disease. According to Cause-of-death statistics from the Statistics Korea, the number of TB (A15–A19) deaths in 2022 was 1,322 (2.6 per 100,000 population). TB was the second leading infectious cause of death after coronavirus disease 2019. The number of deaths decreased by 7.6% from the previous year (n=1,430, 2.8 per 100,000 population). The number of TB deaths decreased by a total of 46.4% from 2012 to 2022. The active promotion of the national TB management policies by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) may have contributed to the downward trend in TB deaths. The KDCA will continue to implement national TB control programs to achieve a further decrease in the number of TB deaths and end TB.