World Health Statistics 2005

Focuses on a basic set of health indicators that were selected on the basis of current availability and quality of data and include the majority of health indicators that have been selected for monitoring progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In the first part of World Health Statistics 2005, data are presented in four interrelated indicator groups on: (i) health status, including mortality and morbidity outcomes; (ii) health services coverage and behavioural and environmenta