Good Health and Well-Being
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
Under-5 deaths annually
4.8 million (est)
UNICEF estimate · 2025
Maternal mortality ratio
190 per 100K (est)
WHO estimate · 2025
Under-5 mortality rate
36 per 1,000 (est)
WHO estimate · 2025
Births attended by skilled personnel
87.5% (est)
WHO estimate · 2025
Global Progress Score
Based on Sustainable Development Report 2025
Historical Trend (2015–2025)
Regional Comparison (2025)
Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being — Score per Country (2025)
Each country is scored 0–100 based on its progress toward this goal. Drag to rotate. Hover or tap a country to see its score.
Key Targets
SDR 2025 scores SDG 3 at 71.6/100 globally, with improving trends in most regions but with lagging performance in sub-Saharan Africa and fragile states. The 2025 WHO World Health Statistics report a UHC index of 68/100 — unchanged since 2019, indicating stalled progress on health systems strengthening. Maternal mortality remains at 254 per 100,000 live births globally (WHO 2023) — requiring a 17-fold reduction in some regions to meet the 2030 target of <70 per 100,000. The COVID pandemic's disruption to routine immunisation erased progress on measles and polio.
68 / 100
the Universal Health Coverage index in 2025 — unchanged since 2019 and meaning over half the world still lacks access to essential health services.
WHO: Universal Health Coverage Index 2025; SDR 2025 (SDSN)
Key Insights
COVID's Lasting Legacy
The pandemic reversed 15 years of life expectancy gains in many countries. Routine immunization, cancer screenings, and maternal health services collapsed during lockdowns. 13 million excess deaths are attributed to COVID-19 — and millions more to disrupted healthcare for other conditions.
Universal Health Coverage Gap
The UHC index stands at 68/100 globally. An estimated 3.4 billion people — nearly half the world — lack access to essential health services. Of those who do access care, 2 billion face financial hardship paying for it. Each year, 100 million people are pushed into extreme poverty by healthcare costs.
The Mental Health Crisis
1 billion people live with a mental health disorder. Depression and anxiety alone cost the global economy $1 trillion/year in lost productivity. Yet only 1% of health budgets in low-income countries go to mental health. Suicide kills more people than war and natural disaster combined.
The AMR Threat
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) already kills 1.27 million people per year and contributed to 4.95 million deaths in 2019. If not addressed, AMR could kill 10 million people/year by 2050 and cost the global economy $100 trillion — more than all COVID damages combined.
Core Challenges
The Health Worker Shortage
An estimated 18 million more health workers are needed by 2030, concentrated in Africa and South Asia. Meanwhile, a "brain drain" of trained doctors and nurses from low-income to high-income countries compounds the shortfall. Training pipelines are 20-30 years behind where they need to be.
NCD Epidemic in Low-Income Countries
85% of premature NCD deaths occur in low and middle-income countries — places least equipped to manage chronic disease. These are the same systems still battling infectious disease. Dual burdens are overwhelming fragile health systems.
Vaccine & Medicine Access Inequality
Despite COVID-19 producing vaccines at record speed, 57% of doses went to high-income countries with 13% of the world's population. Patent barriers and supply chain concentration leave billions without access to life-saving medicines, a structural problem SDG 3 cannot solve alone.
2030 Outlook
Achieving SDG 3 requires an additional $176 billion per year in primary health care investment in low and middle-income countries. The 2030 targets — including reducing the maternal mortality ratio to below 70 per 100,000 and ending preventable child deaths — are achievable but require a sharp acceleration from current trends, particularly in fragile and conflict-affected states.