With the 2030 target year for the Sustainable Development Goals fast approaching, progress toward universal health coverage (UHC) must accelerate to avoid falling short of global commitments. The 2025 UHC Global Monitoring Report presents the latest available data on service coverage and financial protection, using updated indicators and consistent time series to track trends over time. Global progress has been made in expanding access to essential health services and reducing the financial hardship caused by health costs. Yet progress has been uneven and, amid a global polycrisis, has slowed in recent years. As of 2023, an estimated 4.6 billion people still lacked coverage for essential health services, and in 2022, 2.1 billion people experienced financial hardship due to out-of-pocket health spending.