Table of Contents
Introduction 8
Part I. Health-related Millennium Development Goals 11
Summary of status and trends 12
Regional and country charts
1. Children aged <5 years underweight (%) 23
2. Under-five mortality rate (probability of dying by age 5 per 1000 live births) 24
3. Measles immunization coverage among 1-year-olds (%) 25
4. Maternal mortality ratio (per 100 000 live births) 26
5. Births attended by skilled health personnel (%) 27
6. Contraceptive prevalence (%) 28
7. Adolescent fertility rate (per 1000 girls aged 15–19 years) 29
8. Antenatal care coverage (%): at least 1 visit and at least 4 visits 30
9. Unmet need for family planning (%) 31
10. Prevalence of HIV among adults aged 15–49 years (%) 32
11. Males aged 15–24 years with comprehensive correct knowledge of HIV/AIDS (%) 33
12. Females aged 15–24 years with comprehensive correct knowledge of HIV/AIDS (%) 34
13. Antiretroviral therapy coverage among people with advanced HIV infection (%) 35
14. Malaria mortality rate (per 100 000 population) 36
15. Children aged <5 years sleeping under insecticide-treated nets (%) 37
16. Children aged <5 years with fever who received treatment with any antimalarial (%) 38
17. Tuberculosis mortality rate among HIV-negative people (per 100 000 population) 39
18. Population using improved drinking-water sources (%) 40
19. Population using improved sanitation (%) 41
Part II. Global health indicators 43
Table 1 Mortality and burden of disease 45
Life expectancy at birth (years)
Healthy life expectancy (HALE) at birth (years)
Neonatal mortality rate (per 1000 live births)
Infant mortality rate (probability of dying by age 1 per 1000 live births)
Under-five mortality rate (probability of dying by age 5 per 1000 live births)
Adult mortality rate (probability of dying between 15 and 60 years per 1000 population)
Table 2 Cause-specific mortality and morbidity 59
Mortality
Maternal mortality ratio (per 100 000 live births)
Cause-specific mortality rate (per 100 000 population)
Age-standardized mortality rates by cause (per 100 000 population)
Distribution of years of life lost by broader causes (%)
Distribution of causes of death among children aged <5 years (%)
Morbidity
Prevalence of tuberculosis (per 100 000 population)
Incidence of tuberculosis (per 100 000 population per year)
Prevalence of HIV among adults aged 15–49 years (%)
Table 3 Selected infectious diseases : number of reported cases 73
Cholera
Diphtheria
H5N1 influenza
Japanese encephalitis
Leprosy
Malaria
Measles
Meningitis
Mumps
Pertussis
Plague
Poliomyelitis
Congenital rubella syndrome
Rubella
Neonatal tetanus
Total tetanus
Tuberculosis
Yellow fever
Table 4 Health service coverage 85
Antenatal care coverage (%)
Births attended by skilled health personnel (%)
Births by caesarean section (%)
Neonates protected at birth against neonatal tetanus (%)
Immunization coverage among 1-year-olds (%)
Children aged 6–59 months who received vitamin A supplementation (%)
Children aged <5 years sleeping under insecticide-treated nets (%)

Children aged <5 years with fever who received treatment with any antimalarial (%)
Children aged <5 years with ARI symptoms taken to facility (%)
Children aged <5 years with diarrhoea receiving ORT (%)
Unmet need for family planning (%)
Contraceptive prevalence (%)
Antiretroviral therapy coverage among HIV-infected pregnant women for PMTCT (%)
Antiretroviral therapy coverage among people with advanced HIV infection (%)
Smear-positive tuberculosis case-detection rate (%)
Smear-positive tuberculosis treatment-success rate (%)
Table 5 Risk factors 99
Population using improved drinking-water sources (%)
Population using improved sanitation (%)
Population using solid fuels (%)
Low-birth-weight newborns (%)
Infants exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months of life (%)
Children aged <5 years stunted (%)
Children aged <5 years underweight (%)
Children aged <5 years overweight (%)
Adults aged ≥15 years who are obese (%)
Alcohol consumption among adults aged ≥15 years (litres of pure alcohol per person per year)
Prevalence of smoking any tobacco product among adults aged ≥15 years (%)
Prevalence of current tobacco use among adolescents aged 13–15 years (%)
Prevalence of condom use by adults aged 15–49 years at higher-risk sex (%)
Population aged 15–24 years with comprehensive correct knowledge of HIV/AIDS (%)
Table 6 Health workforce, infrastructure and essential medicines 113
Health workforce and infrastructure
Number of physicians and density (per 10 000 population)
Number of nursing and midwifery personnel and density (per 10 000 population)
Number of dentistry personnel and density (per 10 000 population)
Number of pharmaceutical personnel and density (per 10 000 population)
Number of environment and public health workers and density (per 10 000 population)
Number of community health workers and density (per 10 000 population)
Hospital beds (per 10 000 population)
Essential medicines
Median availability of selected generic medicines in public and private sectors (%)
Median consumer price ratio of selected generic medicines in public and private sectors