India has topped the list of seven countries, accounting for 64 per cent of the over 10 million new tuberculosis (TB) cases worldwide last year. <br/><br/>According to the Global TB Report 2017 released by WHO, India was followed by Indonesia, China, Philippines, Pakistan, Nigeria and South Africa. <br/><br/>The report said, an estimated 1.7 million people died from TB last year, including nearly 4 lakh people who were co-infected with HIV, recording a drop by 4 per cent as compared to 2015. <br/><br/>It also said, India along with China and Russia accounted for almost half of around 5 lakh multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) cases registered in 2016.