Tracking Universal Health Coverage: 2021 Global monitoring report: executive summary

Overview

This report is yet another reminder that our world is way off track to reach the Sustainable Development Goal target on UHC. In 2018, the World Health Assembly adopted the “triple billion” targets, including the target to see 1 billion more people benefiting from UHC by 2023. Even before the pandemic, the world was still 730 million people short of that target; now we estimate that shortfall to be between 800 and 840 million.