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SDG Facts
Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being
Facts and Figures
Child health
Ÿ In 2018, an estimated 6.2 million children and adolescents under the age of 15 years died, mostly from preventable causes. Of these deaths, 5.3 million occurred in the first 5 years, with almost half of these in the first month of life.
Ÿ Despite determined global progress, an increasing proportion of child deaths are in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia. Four out of every five deaths of children under age five occur in these regions.
Ÿ Children in sub-Saharan Africa are more than 15 times more likely to die before the age of 5, than children in high income countries.
Ÿ Malnourished children, particularly those with severe acute malnutrition, have a higher risk of death from common childhood illnesses such as diarrhoea, pneumonia, and malaria. Nutrition-related factors contribute to about 45 per cent of deaths in children under-5 years of age.
Maternal health
Ÿ Over 40 per cent of all countries have fewer than 10 medical doctors per 10,000 people; over 55 per cent of countries have fewer than 40
nursing and midwifery
personnel per 10,000 people.
Ÿ In Eastern Asia, Northern Africa and Southern Asia,
maternal mortality has
declined by around two-thirds.
Ÿ Every day in 2017,
approximately 810 women died from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.
Ÿ 94 per cent of all maternal deaths occur in low and lower middle-income countries.
Ÿ Young adolescents (ages 10- 14) face a higher risk of complications and death as a result of pregnancy than other women.
Ÿ But maternal mortality ratio – the proportion of mothers that do not survive childbirth compared to those who do – in developing regions is still 14 times higher than in the developed regions.
HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Ÿ 38 million people globally were
living with HIV in 2019.
Ÿ 25.4 million people were
accessing antiretroviral
therapy in 2019.
Ÿ 1.7 million people became
newly infected with HIV in
2019.
Ÿ 690 000 people died from
AIDS-related illnesses in 2019.
Ÿ 75.7 million people have
become infected with HIV
since the start of the
epidemic.
Ÿ 32.7 million people have died
from AIDS-related illnesses since the start of the epidemic.
Ÿ Tuberculosis remains the leading cause of death among people living with HIV, accounting for around one in three AIDS-related deaths.
Ÿ Globally, adolescent girls and young women face gender- based inequalities, exclusion, discrimination and violence, which put them at increased risk of acquiring HIV.
Ÿ HIV is the leading cause of death for women of reproductive age worldwide.
Ÿ AIDS is now the leading cause of death among adolescents (aged 10–19) in Africa and the second most common cause of death among adolescents globally.
Ÿ Over 6.2 million malaria deaths have been averted between 2000 and 2015, primarily of children under five years of age in sub-Saharan Africa. The global malaria incidence rate has fallen by an estimated 37 per cent and the mortality rates by 58 per cent.
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