World Health Statistics 2016: Monitoring health for the SDGs
The World Health Statistics series is WHO’s annual compilation of health statistics for its 194 Member States. World Health Statistics 2016 focuses on the proposed health and health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and associated targets. It represents an initial effort to bring together available data on SDG health and health-related indicators. In the current absence of official goal-level indicators, summary measures of health such as (healthy) life expectancy are used to provide a general assessment of the situation.
Data visualizations dashboard
Dashboard of SDG health-and health-related indicators:
28 data visualizations giving an overview of the latest annual estimates by country and WHO region, and illustrating the scale of the challenge.
World Health Statistics 2016
fact buffet
Life expectancy
71.4years was the average life expectancy at birth of the global population in 2015
Life expectancy at birthNeglected tropical diseases
1.7 billionpeople need treatment and care for neglected tropical diseases
Two-page summary from World Health Statistics 2016Household air pollution
4.3 millionpeople die every year due to air pollution caused by cooking fuels
Mortality from household air pollutionThe Global Health Observatory theme pages provide data and analyses on global health priorities. Each theme page provides information on global situation and trends highlights, using core indicators, database views, major publications and links to relevant web pages on the theme.