"The world faces an emerging crisis of higher death rates among teenagers and young adults, according to a major study on the causes of death and disability worldwide. The reasons vary from drug and alcohol use, and suicide in North America, to infectious diseases and injuries in sub-Saharan Africa, the researchers said, but warned that their data should serve as a wake-up call."
"The study also found that chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes now accounted for two-thirds of all ill health and that mental health problems were surging. Half of the world's disease burden was preventable, researchers calculated, driven by risks that could be reduced, such as high blood pressure, air pollution, smoking and obesity. The Global Burden of Disease study was carried out by a network of 16,500 scientists using more than 300,000 data sources."
"It found that, as of 2023, death rates had fallen overall in all 204 countries and territories, and global life expectancy had recovered from a dip caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. It stands at 76.3 years for women and 71.5 for men, more than 20 years higher than in 1950 although stark geographic differences remain, ranging from 83 years in high-income regions to 62 in sub-Saharan Africa."
Higher death rates among teenagers and young adults are emerging, driven by drug and alcohol use and suicide in North America, and by infectious diseases and injuries in sub-Saharan Africa. Chronic diseases like heart disease and diabetes cause about two-thirds of ill health, while mental health problems are rising. Half the global disease burden is preventable, from modifiable risks such as high blood pressure, air pollution, smoking and obesity. Overall death rates fell across all 204 countries by 2023, and global life expectancy recovered to 76.3 years for women and 71.5 for men, with regional ranges from around 83 years to 62.
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