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  1. 2 days ago · Suicide was the tenth leading cause of death among ... in cancer-related suicide rates between 2013 and 2017. Since 2020, ... Vital Statistics System. February 20, 2020. Hedegaard H, Curtin S ...

  2. 5 days ago · The WHO’s World Health Statistics 2024 report confirmed that COVID-19 was the third highest cause of death globally in 2020 and the second highest a year later. The coronavirus was also the leading cause of mortality in the Americas for 2020 and 2021.

  3. 5 days ago · Between 2000 and 2019, steady gains were made with life expectancy. In 2000, life expectancy was 66.8 years (95% uncertainty interval [UI], 66.2 to 67.3 years) and rose to 73.1 (UI, 72.6 to 73.7) years in 2019. Women gained an average of 6.5 years from 2000 to 2019, and men 6.2 years. When the pandemic began in 2020, expectancy rates began to ...

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  5. 5 days ago · The pandemic wiped out nearly a decade of progress in improving life expectancy within just two years. Between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy dropped by 1.8 years to 71.4 years (back to the level of 2012). Similarly, global healthy life expectancy dropped by 1.5 years to 61.9 years in 2021 (back to the level of 2012).

  6. 1 day ago · The Society of Actuaries said through 2020 the overall age-adjusted mortality rate for all causes was 16.8%, which marked the highest increase dating to 1900. For comparison, during the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, population mortality in the United States increased 11.7%. About 12% of the group life claims filed during the pandemic period ...

  7. 3 days ago · This makes medical errors the third leading cause of death in the United States. It trails cardiovascular disease (611,105 deaths) and cancer (584,881 deaths) as causes of death. However, it is far ahead of the fourth leading cause of death: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (149,205 deaths).

  8. 5 days ago · The suicide rate among South Korean adolescents has been steadily increasing from 4.2 per 100,000 in 2015 to 7.1 in 2021 , and by cause of death, “intentional self-injury (suicide)” accounts for the largest proportion of deaths among those aged 10–19 (43.7%, Cause of Death Statistics by Statistics Korea). In this context, the fourth ...