India ranks 128th in terms of meeting the United Nations’ (UN) health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, with low scores on air pollution, sanitation, hepatitis B and child wasting, according to a global health review published in The Lancet on Wednesday.
The analysis also ranks countries on an overall health-related SDG index. Singapore, Iceland and Sweden were the highest performing countries in terms of the overall health-related SDGs. Somalia, Central African Republic, and Afghanistan ranked lowest.
Only 7% of countries were projected to meet the target on HIV/AIDS, and no country was projected to reach the SDG target on tuberculosis. A number of targets remained out of reach for most countries, with a total of 11 targets projected to be met by less than 5% of countries, including on childhood overweight, suicide mortality, and road injury mortality.
