SDG 3

Good Health and Well-being

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Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all.

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Ireland: Challenges remain· Moderately improving

Official figures from the Sustainable Development Report 2026 (Sachs, Lafortune, Fuller, Iablonovski — SDSN), shown as published — only the layout is ours. The report is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. This site is not affiliated with or endorsed by SDSN. Imported from their published database on 2026-09-29.

What makes up this score

The real, underlying figures 🇮🇪 Ireland's SDSN score for this goal is built from — not the 0-100 score itself, the actual measurements behind it.

Maternal mortality ratio (per 100,000 live births): 3.8
Neonatal mortality rate (per 1,000 live births): 2.6
Mortality rate, under-5 (per 1,000 live births): 3.9
Incidence of tuberculosis (per 100,000 population): 6.2
New HIV infections (per 1,000 uninfected population, all ages): 0
Age-standardized death rate due to cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, or chronic respiratory disease in adults aged 30 to 70 years (%): 9.6
Age-standardized death rate due to air pollution (per 100,000 population): 16.5
Traffic deaths (per 100,000 population): 2.8
Life expectancy at birth (years): 82.7
Adolescent fertility rate (births per 1,000 females aged 15 to 19): 3.3
Births attended by skilled health personnel (%): 99.5
Surviving infants who received 2 WHO-recommended vaccines (%): 90
Universal health coverage (UHC) index of service coverage (worst 0-100 best): 82
Subjective well-being (average ladder score, worst 0-10 best): 6.9
Gap in life expectancy at birth among regions (years): 1
Gap in self-reported health status by income (percentage points): 23.5
Daily smokers (% of population aged 15 and over): 14

What this goal covers

•Cut maternal mortality to fewer than 70 deaths per 100,000 births
•End preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5
•End the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other major diseases

Simplified from the UN's official targets for this goal.

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Goal 3 score, by country

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Ireland Other countries

1Monaco

97.1/100

2United Arab Emirates

93.3/100

3Israel

93/100

4Singapore

92.1/100

5Qatar

91.2/100

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21Ireland

86.7/100

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189Guinea

28.4/100

190Somalia, Fed. Rep.

25.1/100

191Lesotho

21.9/100

192South Sudan

21.2/100

193Central African Republic

13.6/100

Ireland is in rank group 21 of 193 (out of 193 countries with a score for this goal).

What makes up Ireland's score (87 out of 100)

The average of 17 indicator scores, one per official target area. Each bar scores Ireland from 0 to 100 on that indicator: the best 10% of countries count as 100, the worst 5% as 0.

3.1 Maternal health · Maternal mortality ratio4 per 100,000 live births (2023)
100
3.3 Infectious disease · New HIV infections0.1 per 1,000 uninfected (2024)
100
3.4 Non-communicable disease · Chance of dying early from heart disease, cancer, diabetes or lung disease9.6% (2021)
100
3.6 Road safety · Road traffic death rate3.1 per 100,000 (2019)
100
3.9 Pollution-related deaths · Deaths from household and ambient air pollution12.8 per 100,000 (2019)
100
3.1 Safe childbirth · Births attended by skilled health staff99.7% (2017)
100
3.7 Sexual and reproductive health · Adolescent birth rate4 per 1,000 girls 15-19 (2024)
99
3.3 Infectious disease · Tuberculosis incidence6.2 per 100,000 people (2024)
99
3.2 Child deaths · Under-five mortality rate3.9 per 1,000 live births (2024)
99
3.9 Pollution-related deaths · Deaths from unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene2.7 per 100,000 (2019)
99
3.8 Health coverage · Universal health coverage service index82 index 0-100 (2023)
93
3.c Health workforce · Doctors3.9 per 1,000 people (2023)
88
3.b Vaccination · Children with 3 doses of DTP vaccine92% (2024)
84
3.d Health-emergency readiness · Health-emergency preparedness (IHR capacity)77% (2024)
76
3.4 Mental health · Suicide mortality rate8.6 per 100,000 (2021)
65
3.a Tobacco control · Adults currently using tobacco (age-standardised)18.2% (2024)
65
3.5 Harmful use of alcohol · Alcohol consumption per person10.8 litres a year (2020)
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Chart data: World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0) and the UN SDG Global Database (UNdata terms). Each goal score (0–100, 100 = best) averages a country's scores on several official indicators, one per main target area of the goal (17 for this goal). Each indicator is scored against a range set by the data: the best 10% of countries count as 100, the worst 5% as 0. Latest value per country since 2010; fetched 2026-09-22. The scores are calculated by this site; the underlying values are the sources', unchanged. How the scores are built →

Under-five mortality rate (WB SH.DYN.MORT; 3.2 Child deaths)
Maternal mortality ratio (WB SH.STA.MMRT; 3.1 Maternal health)
Tuberculosis incidence (WB SH.TBS.INCD; 3.3 Infectious disease)
New HIV infections (WB SH.HIV.INCD.TL.P3; 3.3 Infectious disease)
Chance of dying early from heart disease, cancer, diabetes or lung disease (WB SH.DYN.NCOM.ZS; 3.4 Non-communicable disease)
Suicide mortality rate (WB SH.STA.SUIC.P5; 3.4 Mental health)
Road traffic death rate (WB SH.STA.TRAF.P5; 3.6 Road safety)
Adolescent birth rate (WB SP.ADO.TFRT; 3.7 Sexual and reproductive health)
Deaths from household and ambient air pollution (WB SH.STA.AIRP.P5; 3.9 Pollution-related deaths)
Births attended by skilled health staff (WB SH.STA.BRTC.ZS; 3.1 Safe childbirth)
Alcohol consumption per person (WB SH.ALC.PCAP.LI; 3.5 Harmful use of alcohol)
Deaths from unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene (WB SH.STA.WASH.P5; 3.9 Pollution-related deaths)
Adults currently using tobacco (age-standardised) (UN SH_PRV_SMOK; 3.a Tobacco control)
Children with 3 doses of DTP vaccine (UN SH_ACS_DTP3; 3.b Vaccination)
Universal health coverage service index (UN SH_ACS_UNHC_25; 3.8 Health coverage)
Doctors (WB SH.MED.PHYS.ZS; 3.c Health workforce)
Health-emergency preparedness (IHR capacity) (UN SH_IHR_CAPS; 3.d Health-emergency readiness)

Under-five mortality rate, by county

Limerick	1.69 per 1,000 live births
Kerry	1.51 per 1,000 live births
Clare	1.34 per 1,000 live births
North Tipperary	1.29 per 1,000 live births
Longford	1.25 per 1,000 live births
Waterford	1.19 per 1,000 live births
Mayo	1.18 per 1,000 live births
Roscommon	1.05 per 1,000 live births
Monaghan	1.05 per 1,000 live births
Cavan	1.01 per 1,000 live births
Wicklow	0.97 per 1,000 live births
Sligo	0.9 per 1,000 live births
Galway	0.82 per 1,000 live births
Offaly	0.81 per 1,000 live births
Wexford	0.72 per 1,000 live births
Cork	0.72 per 1,000 live births
Carlow	0.71 per 1,000 live births
Dublin	0.7 per 1,000 live births
Laois	0.67 per 1,000 live births
Louth	0.6 per 1,000 live births
Donegal	0.57 per 1,000 live births
Meath	0.52 per 1,000 live births
South Tipperary	0.47 per 1,000 live births
Westmeath	0.44 per 1,000 live births
Leitrim	0.42 per 1,000 live births
Kilkenny	0.41 per 1,000 live births
Kildare	0.16 per 1,000 live births

Source: CSO SDG 3.2.1 (table G0303) (2014)

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