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.