Connor SR, Centeno C, Garralda E, et al. - Researchers aimed at determining the number of providers delivering palliative care worldwide and the patients they served in 2017 via obtaining estimates from a sample of countries from each World Bank income group employing typical case purposive sampling methods. For the high-income group, they used reliable data from the United States, and eight additional countries. For low and middle-income countries (LMICs), they surveyed 30 countries representative of palliative care service delivery in each region and income group, in order to determine an estimate of the number of patients served. Findings revealed existence of significant disparities in palliative care access both by region and income group; the European and Pan-American regions had most while the Eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asian, and African regions had least. They identified necessity for much more to be done to develop and deliver palliative care in LMICs where 80% of the need for palliative care exists. As nearly 70% of operating palliative care services are identified in high income countries and only 30% in LMICs, there is urgent necessity for a major effort to develop palliative care in these settings.