This figure shows the rate of tuberculosis (TB) in Australia from 1960 to 2014. This figure demonstrates a substantial decline in TB rates from the 1960s to the 1980s with steady rates from the 1980s until now. In 2010 and 2011, TB rates reached 6.2 per 100,000 which was the highest rate recorded since the 7 per 100,000 recorded in 1985. In 2014, the rate of TB was 5.7 per 100,000. End of description.