May. 17, 2018

WHO release of 2018 world health statistics .

Publication of the World Health Statistics 2018

17 May, 2018 - Geneva

What: This year’s World Health Statistics: Monitoring Health for the SDGs is now published.

The WHO publication provides an annual snapshot of the state of the world’s health. The 2018 edition highlights that, while remarkable progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals has been made in some areas, progress has stalled in others and the gains that have been made could easily be lost.

The latest data show that:
Less than half the people in the world today get all of the essential health services they need.
In 2010, almost 100 million people were pushed into extreme poverty because they had to pay for health services out of their own pockets.
13 million people die every year before the age of 70 from cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease, diabetes and cancer – most in low and middle-income countries.
Every day in 2016, 15 000 children died before reaching their fifth birthday.
When: 17 May 2018, 15:30 CEST

Where: Available online at: http://www.who.int/gho/publications/world_health_statistics/2018/en/