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4 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 ...
4 days ago · 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). The 2024 report also highlights how the effects have been felt unequally across the world.
4 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.
1 day ago · European Union figures released this month show the average life expectancy across the bloc in 2023 was 81.5 years, representing almost a year's gain over 2022, as the coronavirus pandemic was ...
1 day ago · Mortality in younger ages has successfully been reduced, with under-five mortality dropping globally from 93 deaths per 1,000 births in 1990 to 37 in 2023, according to UNICEF. Declining child deaths together with a greater proportion of adults in the population means a proportionately higher number of deaths at older ages.
4 days ago · Covid-19 cut global life expectancy by almost two years when it raged from 2019 to 2021, wiping out a decade of progress, the World Health Organization said Friday. ... The amount of time the ...
1 day ago · The multivariable-adjusted Cox proportional hazard analysis indicated that, regardless of age, sex, health status or invasive oxygenation, a low-dose treatment increased the hazard of death of ...
