Child Health 2050 Data Dashboard

For internal use by the Child Health 2050 project team. This dashboard will developed toward a future external-use version.

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Summaries of five key indicators

Data sources: UN WPP 2024, GBD 2023, NCD-RisC, and PISA.
Note: These figures show whether locations seem to be on track to halve each outcome by 2050 based on recent trends. Recent trends are measured as average annual rate of decline between a baseline year and the most recent year with available data, usually 10 years apart (for math scores, the gap may be different because data are not available for all years). Each line has its own scale, running from the baseline value for that outcome to 0; if the outcome has worsened over time, the line instead runs from the most recent value to 0. Mortality rates are per 1000 (conditional on surviving to the start of the age interval). Height gap is relative to average height in the top 10 countries. Math gap is relative to Singapore in 2022 (the best performer).
Data sources: UN WPP 2024, GBD 2023, NCD-RisC, and PISA.
Note: For each outcome, the line runs from the highest to lowest observed value across countries, using the most recent observations available and a baseline value 10 years earlier (e.g., 2023 and 2013 for the mortality outcomes). For the selected location, the red dot is the baseline value, the blue arrow is the most recent value, the green star is half of the most recent value (the goal), and the yellow diamond is the 2050 value projected from average annual rate of decline between the baseline and most recent observations. Mortality rates are per 1000 (conditional on surviving to the start of the age interval). Height gap is relative to average height in the top 10 countries. Math gap is relative to Singapore in 2022 (the best performer).
Data sources: UN WPP 2024, GBD 2023, NCD-RisC, and PISA.
Note: Each line runs from the highest to lowest observed neonatal mortality rate across countries, using the most recent observations available and a baseline value 10 years earlier (e.g., 2023 and 2013). The red dot is the baseline value, the blue arrow is the most recent value, the green star is half of the most recent value, and the yellow diamond is the 2050 value projected from average annual rate of decline between the baseline and most recent observations. Neonatal mortality rates are per 1000 live births.
Data sources: UN WPP 2024, GBD 2023, NCD-RisC, and PISA.
Note: Each line runs from the highest to lowest observed mortality rate for ages 1-59 months across countries, using the most recent observations available and a baseline value 10 years earlier (e.g., 2023 and 2013). The red dot is the baseline value, the blue arrow is the most recent value, the green star is half of the most recent value, and the yellow diamond is the 2050 value projected from average annual rate of decline between the baseline and most recent observations. Mortality rates for ages 1-59 months are per 1000 children surviving to age 1 month.
Data sources: UN WPP 2024, GBD 2023, NCD-RisC, and PISA.
Note: Each line runs from the highest to lowest observed mortality rate for ages 5-19 years across countries, using the most recent observations available and a baseline value 10 years earlier (e.g., 2023 and 2013). The red dot is the baseline value, the blue arrow is the most recent value, the green star is half of the most recent value, and the yellow diamond is the 2050 value projected from average annual rate of decline between the baseline and most recent observations. Mortality rates for ages 5-19 years are per 1000 children surviving to age 5 years.
Data sources: UN WPP 2024, GBD 2023, NCD-RisC, and PISA.
Note: Each line runs from the highest to lowest observed height gap across countries, using the most recent observations available and a baseline value 10 years earlier. The red dot is the baseline value, the blue arrow is the most recent value, the green star is half of the most recent value, and the yellow diamond is the 2050 value projected from average annual rate of decline between the baseline and most recent observations. Height gap is relative to average height in the top 10 countries.
Data sources: UN WPP 2024, GBD 2023, NCD-RisC, and PISA.
Note: Each line runs from the highest to lowest observed math score gap across countries, using the most recent observations available and a baseline value from the earlier available comparison year. The red dot is the baseline value, the blue arrow is the most recent value, the green star is half of the most recent value, and the yellow diamond is the 2050 value projected from average annual rate of decline between the baseline and most recent observations. Math gap is relative to Singapore in 2022 (the best performer).
Data sources: UN WPP 2024, GBD 2023, NCD-RisC, and PISA.
Note: This traditional star plot uses the same five indicators as the figure above. Each spoke corresponds to one outcome. In the default view, each spoke runs from the minimum to the maximum observed value for that outcome and sex across locations. The red line shows the earlier observation and the blue line shows the more recent observation for each outcome. Use the switch below to show percentile positions instead, calculated within each outcome, sex, and year across locations. Mortality rates are per 1000 (conditional on surviving to the start of the age interval). Height gap is relative to average height in the top 10 countries. Math gap is relative to Singapore in 2022 (the best performer).
Data sources: UN WPP 2024, GBD 2023, NCD-RisC, and PISA.
Note: These figures show whether locations seem to be on track to halve each outcome by 2050 based on recent trends. Recent trends are measured as average annual rate of decline between a baseline year and the most recent year with available data, usually 10 years apart (for math scores, the gap may be different because data are not available for all years). Each spoke has its own scale, running from the baseline value for that outcome to 0; if the outcome has worsened over time, the spoke instead runs from the most recent value to 0. The green line across a spoke shows the value the most recent observation would need to be at to suggest that the outcome is declining fast enough to be halved by 2050. If the most recent value is worse than the baseline value, no green line is shown because the location is moving away from the target. Mortality rates are per 1000 (conditional on surviving to the start of the age interval). Height gap is relative to average height in the top 10 countries. Math gap is relative to Singapore in 2022 (the best performer).

Outcomes by household wealth

Each bar shows under-5 mortality by household wealth quintile, stacked by age segment at death. Data source: DHS.

All cause mortality

Data source: UN WPP 2024.
Data source: UN WPP 2024.
Data source: UN WPP 2024.
Data source: UN WPP 2024.
Data source: UN WPP 2024.
Data source: UN WPP 2024.
Data source: UN WPP 2024 (infant mortality) and GBD 2023 (number of deaths < age 1 year and number of deaths < age 28 days).
Data source: UN WPP 2024 (infant mortality) and GBD 2023 (number of deaths < age 1 year and number of deaths < age 28 days).
Data source: UN WPP 2024 and GBD 2023.
Select outcomes below. Under-5 mortality, infant mortality, neonatal mortality, and postneonatal mortality are per 1000 live births. Child mortality (1-4 years), mortality age 5-9 years, mortality age 10-15 years, and mortality age 15-19 years are per 1000 surviving until the start of the age interval.

Height by year

Data source: NCD-RisC.
Data source: NCD-RisC.
Data source: NCD-RisC.
Data source: NCD-RisC.
Data source: NCD-RisC.
Data source: NCD-RisC.
Select height outcomes below. One figure is shown per selected country.

Height by age

Data source: NCD-RisC.
Data source: NCD-RisC.
Data source: NCD-RisC.
Data source: NCD-RisC.
Data source: NCD-RisC.
Data source: NCD-RisC.
Select years below to compare height by age. One figure is shown per selected location and sex. 2019 is preselected.

Information on data

Data sources used in this dashboard.