SDG 3
Good Health and Well-being
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all.
Ireland: Challenges remain· Moderately improving
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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
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)7
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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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