EMPOWERING WOMEN HEALTH
G7 performance on health, 1975–2023
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86%, 2014 with 92% and 2015 with 86%. The G7’s lowest compliance score came for 2017, with just 25%. It then increased but remained low at 53% for 2018. It rose to 72% for 2019 and again to 98% for 2020. It declined a little but stayed high at 92% for 2021, and dipped to 84% in 2022. Halfway between the 2023 and 2024 summits, G7
members had achieved 94% compliance.
Health Organization – average 83% and those that refer to the United Nations average 91%, well above the 78% average for health commitments and 77% overall average. Second, commitments made at the seven summits where there were pre-summit health ministerial meetings (2006, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) averaged 83% compliance, higher than the 76% average for health commitments made at summits without health ministerials. In 2020 G7 health ministers began meeting multiple times, supporting consistently high compliance in those years: they met four times in 2020, five times in 2021, four times in 2022 and twice in 2023. The combined average of these four summits (including interim compliance from 2023) is 92%. Thus, the G7 should always hold a pre-summit meeting of health ministers to harness the momentum produced by the G7’s high performance in 2023 and in recent years. The G7 should also find synergies with the UN and the WHO, including by including the WHO director-general and the UN secretary-general at the leaders’ meeting.
CAUSES AND CORRECTIONS How can the G7 maintain its momentum or improve its compliance? First, analysis reveals that commitments that refer to the responsible core international organisation – the World
HÉLÈNE EMORINE
Hélène Emorine is a senior researcher at the G7 Research Group, based at Trinity College in the University of Toronto. She holds an MSc in global governance and diplomacy from the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on cooperation between states, non-state actors and the private sector through international and plurilateral institutions. The views expressed here are her own.
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