After publication of this article [1], the authors reported that the author name ‘Venkatraman Chandra Mouli’ was incorrectly written as ‘Venkatraman Chandra Moulli’. Also, the author name ‘Lamessa Oljira’ was incorrectly written as ‘Lamessa Oljiira’.

Moreover, in the heading ‘Substantive changes have occurred in a number of health outcomes, harmful practices, health outcomes, health behaviours, health service use, and social determinants in the first two decades of the twenty-first century’, remove “health outcomes”, since it appears twice.

The original article [1] has been corrected.