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Each of the regions studied by the report “showed an overall improvement from 1990 and 2021, obscuring the negative effect in the years of the pandemic,” write the GBD 2021 Causes of Death Collaborators, who comprise hundreds of researchers led by Mohsen Naghavi and Kanyin Liane Ong of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

The decline was revealed in the world’s most comprehensive analysis of health indicators, known as the Global Burden of Disease study.

The global fertility rate will decline through 2100, continuing a trend since 1950, according to new projections.

“The implications are immense. These future trends in fertility rates and live births will completely reconfigure the global economy and the international balance of power and will necessitate reorganising societies,” said Natalia V Bhattacharjee, co-lead author and lead research scientist at the IHME.

“We hope that our findings can help policymakers more comprehensively understand the impact of neurological conditions on both adults and children to inform more targeted interventions in individual countries, as well as guide ongoing awareness and advocacy efforts around the world.”

A new study measures how much extra life comes from being educated.

Entre los otros hallazgos clave de GBD, la mortalidad infantil continuó disminuyendo en medio de la pandemia de covid-19, con medio millón menos de muertes entre niños menores de 5 años en 2021 en comparación con 2019.

“For adults worldwide, the Covid-19 pandemic has had a more profound impact than any event seen in half a century, including conflicts and natural disasters,” study author Austin Schumacher said in a statement.

COVID-19 slashed overall life expectancy, according to a highly anticipated update of the Global Burden of Disease study.

If the low fertility rate persists, the population of Asia’s fifth-biggest economy is projected to almost halve to 26.8 million by 2100, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle.

The Global Burden of Disease Study 2016, coordinated by the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, used 694 sources of individual and population-level alcohol consumption, along with 592 studies on the risk of alcohol to estimate that nearly 3 million deaths globally in 2016 were attributed to alcohol use.

The rate in the US is eight times greater than in Canada, which has the seventh highest rate of gun ownership in the world; 22 times higher than in the European Union and 23 times greater than in Australia, according to Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) data from 2019.

On average, one person in five will develop some form of cancer in their lifetime, with the number of global cases growing by over 25 percent between 2009 and 2019, according to the US-based Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

“This comprehensive study marks a significant step in understanding the profound health impacts of intimate partner violence against women and childhood sexual abuse,” said Professor Emmanuela Gakidou from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington and senior co-lead author of the paper.

Completing primary, secondary and tertiary education is the equivalent of a lifetime of eating a healthy diet, lowering the risk of death by 34% compared with those with no formal education, according to the peer-reviewed analysis in The Lancet Public Health journal.