Fig. 1

Location of Yunnan Province and Greater Mekong Subregion with border counties, and the county-level average tuberculosis prevalence of Yunnan, 2005–2018. Location and prefectures of Yunnan Province and China, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam (a), the border and inland counties of China with GMS counties (b), The average prevalence of PTB in Yunnan, 2005–2018 (c), the average prevalence of SSP-TB in Yunnan, 2005–2018 (d), the average prevalence of SSN-TB in Yunnan, 2005–2018 (e). GMS Greater Mekong Subregion, PTB Pulmonary tuberculosis, SSP-TB Sputum smear-positive tuberculosis, SSN-TB Sputum smear-negative tuberculosis. World geographic database were extracted from the GADM database (https://www.gadm.org/), China and Yunnan geographic database provided by National Geomatics Center of China (http://www.ngcc.cn/ngcc/) at a 1:1,000,000 scale as the layer’s attribute