World Health Statistics 2024: The World’s Annual Health Check

In this Global Network Webinar, we welcomed Dr. Haidong Wang and Dr. Bochen Cao from the World Health Organization (WHO). They presented on the topic “World Health Statistics 2024: The World’s Annual Health Check.”
The latest edition of the World Health Statistics report revealed that the COVID-19 pandemic reversed the trend of steady gain in life expectancy at birth and healthy life expectancy at birth (HALE). The pandemic wiped out nearly a decade of progress in improving life expectancy within just two years. Between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy and HALE dropped back to the levels of 2012. COVID-19 rapidly emerged as a leading cause of death, ranking as the third highest cause of mortality globally in 2020 and the second in 2021. Communicable diseases surged back to causing 23.0% of all deaths in 2020 and 28.1% in 2021 - a return to 2005 levels. These effects have been felt unequally across the world. The two speakers provided details on these and other key findings from the report during the webinar.
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