Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Life expectancy returned to prepandemic rates in 2023. COVID-19 fell from the top cause of death in 2021 to 20th ...

Humans are living 20 years longer than they were in 1950, according to new research with all 204 countries and territories studied reporting declines in their mortality rates since then. But vast ...

According to the latest Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study, global mortality has fallen by a surprising 67% since 1950. This means that people are dying far less than they used to about 70 years ago ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The global age-standardized mortality rate for suicide decreased by about 40% from 1990 to 2021. This rate rose ...

Global mortality rates are falling, but not among youths and young adults, according to the latest Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study published in The Lancet today and presented at the World Health ...

This section provides an overview of the projections. Detailed results for 2002, 2015, and 2030 are presented in Dataset S1 https://medicine.plosjournals.org/archive ...

While the world celebrates a historic 67% drop in mortality rates since 1950, experts warn of a disturbing countertrend — rising deaths among young people due to modern health and societal crises.