Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: Ten statistical highlights in global public health -- 1. Monitoring progress: appropriate use of health statistics -- 2. People living with HIV: better data, better estimates -- 3. Future health: projected deaths for selected causes to 2030 -- 4. Child undernutrition: where are we now? -- 5. Levels and causes of death: filling data gaps -- 6. Tobacco use and poverty: high prevalence among the world's poorest -- 7. Mental illness: depression worsens the health of people with chronic illness -- 8. Inequalities in health: understanding their determinants -- 9. Tuberculosis control: towards goals and targets -- 10. Health expenditure: meeting needs? -- References -- Part 2: World health statistics -- Health status: mortality -- Health status: morbidity -- Health service coverage -- Risk factors -- Health systems -- Inequities in health -- Demographic and socioeconomic statistics.