The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, approved by the UN General Assembly in 2015, includes 17 global goals (the Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs). One of them is “universal health coverage” – that is, the idea that all people will be able to obtain the medical services they need without facing financial hardship that ruins them.
How things are progressing in that direction can be judged from the data presented in a World Health Organization publication, Tracking universal health coverage: 2025 global monitoring report.
The WHO formulated and tracks two fairly complex indicators, each made up of many smaller ones. The first, the Health Service Coverage Index (SCI), aggregates data...
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