The WHO said the tuberculosis figures were inadmissible for an infection that could be cured.
Medecins Sans Frontieres said the measurements were "demoralizing" and cautioned the world was "losing ground" on handling safe types of TB.
The WHO's Global Tuberculosis Report 2015 demonstrates the gigantic steps that have been made in handling TB, with the demise rate being about divided subsequent to 1990.
What's more, the quantity of contaminations has been falling by 1.5% a year since 2000.
Passings from HIV/Aids have additionally been falling quickly in light of enhanced access to against retroviral drugs.
Dr Mario Raviglione, the WHO's tuberculosis executive, told the BBC News site: "Tuberculosis and HIV are presently contending to be the most obvious reason for death from irresistible malady on the planet.
"Tuberculosis now positions close by HIV."
Most new instances of TB are in China, India, Indonesia, Nigeria or Pakistan.
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Passings from HIV/Aids have been falling subsequent to the mid-2000s, and stand at 1.2 million a year.
Generally speaking there were 1.5 million tuberculosis passings in 2014.
Be that as it may, 400,000 of them are formally considered Aids passings as they were in HIV positive patients.
The WHO now considers TB and HIV to be viably joint top executioners.
WHO executive general Margaret Chan said there had been "gigantic effect" following 1990, yet included that "if the world is to end this pestilence, it needs proportional up administrations and, basically, put resources into examination".
Dr Raviglione concurred, saying that if the universal interest in TB coordinated that of HIV, then "we could have quickened the decrease in mortality".
Resistance
The report likewise highlights the risks of tuberculosis getting to be impervious to anti-toxins.
Around three in each 100 new instances of TB couldn't be treated with first decision anti-infection agents.
Dr Grania Brigden, from Medecins Sans Frontieres, said it was "yet one more year of dispiriting insights" that ought to "serve as a reminder".
She included: "We're losing ground in the fight to control drug-safe types of TB, and without significant restorative activity, most by far of individuals with multi-drug safe TB won't ever be analyzed, put on treatment, or cured."
The World Health Organization will move to its End TB Strategy one year from now, which intends to cut passings by 90% by 2030.
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