The World Health Organization and the World Bank have released a new report entitled "Tracking universal health coverage: 2025 global monitoring report."According to the news release ("Most countries make progress towards universal health coverage, but major challenges remain, WHO–World Bank report finds," World Health Organization, December 6 2025):"The UHC Global Monitoring Report 2025 shows that health service coverage, measured by the Service Coverage Index (SCI), rose from 54 to 71 points between 2000 and 2023. Meanwhile, the share of people experiencing financial hardship due to large and impoverishing out-of-pocket (OOP) health payments declined from 34% to 26% between 2000 and…
