WHO Triple Billion progress data (contributions)
Triple Billion progress data from the World Health Organization. Global, regional and Member State data (2018 - 2030).
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Tracking the work of WHO, Member States and partners towards meeting the Triple Billion targets and health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The Triple Billion targets assess impact by considering how many more people are enjoying better health and wellbeing, are benefitting from Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and are better protected from health emergencies.
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Healthier Populations
Universal Health Coverage
Health Emergencies Protection
How are the WHO Triple Billion target projections calculated and actioned?
The Triple Billion target estimates are underpinned by 46 outcome indicators, used as tracers, and calculated with 90% uncertainty intervals (UI). They include 39 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators and seven indicators related to World Health Assembly (WHA) resolutions. These offer a flexible approach to each of the Triple Billion targets, allowing countries to prioritize certain indicators based on their national health strategy, ensuring relevance for all Member States and their unique health challenges.
Currently, the world is far off track to reach the health-related SDGs by 2030.
Accelerating progress and delivering results in countries involves implementing data-driven delivery approaches, promoting integrated platforms, applying digital health and ready-to-scale-up innovations, incentivizing partnerships and multisectoral collaboration, and obtaining innovative financing for public health.
On a regular basis, newly collected and processed data from WHO technical programmes are added to the World Health Data Hub, where they can be used to calculate current progress towards the Triple Billion targets. For transparency and accountability, progress towards the Triple Billion targets is shared publicly through the World Health Data Hub dashboard and annual results reporting. The results are also critically reviewed and discussed with WHO senior leadership on a semi-annual basis through stocktakes, that aim to identify critical gaps or opportunities for acceleration that can be actioned.
Global Triple Billion target analysis
Healthier Populations
The current trajectory indicates that the target of one billion more people enjoying better health and well-being will likely be met by 2025.
At global level, this has been driven primarily by improvements in air quality and access to water, sanitation and hygiene measures at global level (e.g. with respect to the particulate matter 2.5 standard, clean household fuels, safely managed sanitation).
However, projected current rate of progress will be insufficient to reach all the health-related targets of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 for most indicators.
Universal Health Coverage
The world is off track to meet the target of one billion more people benefiting from universal health coverage by 2025 and to meet the related Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
However, 30% of countries have bucked the global trend in order to make progress on both the coverage of essential health services and the provision of financial protection. The overall measures of progress are largely driven by increased HIV service coverage. The disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to many indicators, such as those on routine childhood vaccination and tuberculosis, are recovering but still require concerted effort to close the gaps and accelerate action towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
Health Emergencies Protection
Global progress is not on track to reach the target of one billion more people better protected from health emergencies by 2025.
Improvements in emergency preparedness, as measured through core capacities related to the International Health Regulations (2005), made a positive contribution in 2022–2023. Although the coverage of vaccinations for high-priority pathogens shows improvement relative to the COVID-19 pandemic-related disruptions in 2020–2021, it has not yet returned to pre-pandemic levels.
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Each of the Triple Billion tracer or subcomponent indicators is shown here as a circle. The position on the axis represents their relative positive or negative contribution, in number of lives, toward the targets based on country level progress for each indicator. The subsequent table outlines the 2019 to 2025 trend and percentage change per indicator.
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What is the significance of 2025 as the year represented in the Triple Billion data?
The GPW13 was defined for 2019-2023 with 2018 as the baseline year for comparing impact measures. However, due to widespread disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, during the seventy-fifth World Health Assembly (2022) Member States agreed to extend the GPW13 period to 2025.
With 2030 as the target year for achieving the SDGs, 2025 is both an important milestone for assessing the attainment of the Triple Billion targets at the end of the GPW13, as well as an opportunity to renew focus on acceleration efforts needed in pursuit of the broader Sustainable Development Agenda.
WHO Triple Billion resources
Downloadable data
Documentation
Further information
The Triple Billion targets are an ambitious initiative to improve population health through concerted and accelerated actions aligned with the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
As the foundation of WHO’s Thirteenth General Programme of Work (GPW13), the Triple Billions targets function as both a measurement framework and policy strategy; focusing on the execution and delivery of evidence-based interventions, strengthening health information systems, and supporting transformational public health approaches to improve the number of people enjoying better health and well-being, benefiting from Universal Health Coverage (UHC), and better protected in health emergencies.
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Glossary and definitions
| Triple Billion targets | A hallmark of WHO’s Thirteenth General Programme of Work (GPW13) and a central part of the overall impact measurement framework used to gauge progress towards ambitious global targets to ensure more people enjoy better health and wellbeing, are benefitting from Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and are better protected from health emergencies. |
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| Health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) | Indicators and data used to set ambition and monitor progress towards targets within the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development. SDG 3 seeks to ensure health and well-being for all, at every stage of life, and additionally many other SDG goals comprise important determinants of health. |
| Outcome indicators | Quantitative measures reflecting short-term and medium-term changes for a health outcome, used as a source of information to assess progress over time. In the GPW13 outcome indicators cover a range of health issues and contribute directly or indirectly to the Triple Billion targets. |
| Tracer indicators | Health outcome measures that are subcomponents to a specific Billion target, when aggregated used to reflect change in the Billion as a whole (eg, there are 14 tracer indicators for UHC). |
| Contributions | Based on the methodology used to calculate the Triple Billion targets as outlined in the GPW13 Methods for impact measurement, the number of lives improved or worsened according to change in specific indicators over the period of time. |
| Country level progress | Examining the trends across indicators for a particular country. |
Data sources
| Triple Billion data | Triple Billion Progress, WHO Global progress dashboard |
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