S no | SDG target | Indicator | WHO/SDG report | IHME estimates | Variations/gaps |
1 | 2.2 | Child stunting | 22.2 | 28.7 | – |
2 | 2.2 | Child wasting | 7.5 | 8.0 | – |
3 | 2.2 | Child overweight | 5.6 | 15.9 | WHO measures for under-five while IHME measures for 2–4 years age group |
4 | 3.1 | Maternal mortality ratio (per 100 000 livebirths) | 216 | 145 | – |
5 | 3.1 | Births attended by skilled health personnel (%) | 78 | 80.1 | WHO figure from 2017 report as not reported in 2018. |
6 | 3.2 | Neonatal mortality (per 1000 livebirths) | 18.6 | 18.6 | – |
7 | 3.2 | Under-five mortality (per 1000 livebirths) | 40.8 | 43.3 | – |
8 | 3.3 | HIV incidence (new HIV infections per 1000 uninfected population) | 0.26 | 0.3 | – |
9 | 3.3 | Tuberculosis incidence (per 100 000 population) | 140 | 139.6 | – |
10 | 3.3 | Malaria incidence | 90.8 | 31.8 | WHO measures malaria incidence per 1000 at-risk population, while IHME measures age-standardised rate of cases per 1000 population |
11 | 3.3 | Hepatitis B incidence | 1.30 | 2123.8 | WHO measures HBsAg prevalence in children under-five (%) while IHME measures age-standardised rate of incidence/100 000 |
12 | 3.3 | Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) | 1 499 735 642 | 24 | WHO reports number of people requiring interventions against NTDs while IHME reports age-standardised prevalence of the sum of 15 NTDs (%) |
13 | 3.4 | NCD mortality | 18.3 | 382.7 | WHO measures probability of dying from any of CVD, cancer, diabetes, CRD between age 30 years and exact age 70 years (%) while IHME reports age-standardised death rate due to CVD, cancer, diabetes and CRD in age 30–70 years per 100 000 population |
14 | 3.4 | Suicide mortality rate (per 100 000 population) | 10.6 | 10.0 | – |
15 | 3.5 | Alcohol use | 6.4 | 11.6 | WHO reports total alcohol per capita (≥15 years of age) consumption (litres of pure alcohol) while IHME measures risk-weighted prevalence of alcohol consumption as measured by the summary exposure value or alcohol use |
16 | 3.6 | Road traffic mortality (per 100 000) | 17.4 | 16.1 | – |
17 | 3.7 | Adolescent birth rate (per 1000 women) | 43.9 | 21.7 | WHO measures in women aged 15–19 years while IHME measures in those 10–19 years of age |
18 | 3.7 | Family planning coverage (proportion of married or in-union WRA who have their need for FP satisfied with modern methods (%)) | 77.4 | 75.7 | – |
19 | 3.8 | UHC coverage—service coverage index (RMNCH, infectious diseases, NCDs) | 64 | 67.7 | – |
20 | 3.9 | Mortality due to air pollution | 114.1 | 55.6 | Both WHO and IHME measure as age-standardised mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution (per 100 000 population) |
21 | 3.9 | Mortality due to unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene (per 100 000) | 11.7 | 35.7 | IHME reports theirs as ‘age standardised’ while WHO does not |
22 | 3.9 | Mortality due to unintentional poisoning (per 100 000) | 1.4 | 1.0 (age-standardised death rate per 100 000) | IHME reports theirs as ‘age standardised’ while WHO does not |
23 | 3.a | Tobacco use (age standardised prevalence) % | 20.2 (≥15 years) | 18.4 (≥10 years) | WHO measures for ≥15 years while IHME measures for ≥10 years |
24 | 3.b | Vaccine coverage | – | – | WHO measures individual vaccine coverage (DPT, Measles, Pneumococcal Conjugate) and IHME is reporting coverage of eight vaccines as coverage of eight vaccines among target populations |
25 | 6.1 | Access to safely managed drinking water source (%) | 71 | – | Not reported by IHME |
26 | 6.2 | Access to safely managed sanitation (%) | 39 | – | Not reported by IHME |
27 | 7.1 | Clean household energy (%) | 59 | – | Not reported by IHME |
28 | 13.1 | Mortality due to conflict (per 100 000) | 2.5 | 1.9 | – |
Sources: World health statistics 2018: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2018. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. Measuring progress from 1990 to 2017 and projecting attainment to 2030 of the health-related sustainable development goals for 195 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. GBD 2017 SDG Collaborators*. Lancet 2018; 392: 2091–138.
CRD, Chronic respiratory disease; CVD, cardiovascular disease; DPT, diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus(vaccine); FP, Family planning; HBsAg, Hepatitis B surface antigen; HIV, human immunodeficiency viruses; IHME, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation; NCD, Non-communicable disease; NTD, Neglected Tropical Diseases; RMNCH, reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health; SDGs, sustainable development goals; UHC, universal health coverage; WHO, World Health Organization; WRA, women of reproductive age.