TNPSC Thervupettagam

Fall of Life expectancy

May 29 , 2024 35 days 172 0
  • Globally, the proportion of deaths from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) rose to 73.9 per cent by 2019.
  • The share of communicable diseases dropped to 18.2 per cent.
  • The estimates showed that 13 million people died of COVID-19 between 2020 and 2021.
  • COVID-19 ranking third-highest worldwide as the cause of mortality globally in 2020 and second in 2021.
  • Global life expectancy increased by 7.8 years from 1990 to 2019, dropping to 71.4 years according to a Lancet study.
  • The COVID-19 pandemic reversed global life expectancy by 1.8 years.

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