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World Health Statistics 2020: Monitoring Health for the SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals

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The World health statistics 2020 report is the latest annual compilation of health statistics for 194 Member States.1 It summarizes trends in life expectancy and causes of death and reports on progress towards the health and healthrelated Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and associated targets.The 2020 edition finds steady improvements in many key health indicators, while showing that we are still lagging in other areas. We have made remarkable progress in several important indicators, such as reductions in maternal, neonatal and child mortality since 2000, but there is still a long way to go to meet the SDG targets.

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