Good news: life expectancy has increased significantly worldwide (these are the big killers that we are increasingly able to contain)

According tin The Lancet, the increase in life expectancy in recent decades is largely due to fewer people dying from diarrhea, respiratory infections and heart disease. In Southeast Asia, East Asia and Oceania, people liv an impressive 8.3 years longer, largely due to a decrease in chronic respiratory diseases, stroke, respiratory infections and cancer. Because countries implement such strict lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic, they were also able to largely maintain these health gains. In South Asia, a sharp decline in diarrheal deaths was the main driver of the increase in life expectancy.

It is the first time that the effects of corona have also been examin. “On the one hand, we see that countries have made a huge achievement by preventing so many deaths from diarrhea and strokes.

The corona pandemic

On the other hand, we see how far the corona pandemic has set us back,” says researcher Liane Ong of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).

For the first time in 25 years, the top five causes of death have chang. A long-dominant killer – stroke – has been dethron by Covid-19. Many years of life have been lost to the coronavirus, particularly in South America, the Caribbean phone number library and sub-Saharan Africa. But impressive gains have been made despite this. For example, improv management of diarrhoea has increas life expectancy globally by 1.1 years. A ruction in deaths from respiratory infections has l to an increase of 0.9 years. And advances in the treatment of stroke, neonatal conditions, heart disease and cancer have increas life expectancy even further.

Large regional differences

At the regional level, life expectancy increas most rapidly in eastern Sub-Saharan Africa. Where people liv 10.7 years longer in Me pehea te whakaora i te hainatanga hiko? 2021 than in 1990. Largely due to efforts to tackle diarrhea. This was follow by East Asia. Where fewer people di from lung diseases in particular. The study shows that in some locations, huge progress has been made in preventing deaths from the leading causes of asb directory death. It also shows that the diseases that cause the most deaths are concentrat in just a few areas. For example, diarrhea is the most deadly in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, and for malaria, 90 percent of deaths occurr in an area in Southern Africa that is home to just 12 percent of the world’s population.