The report said that the Western Pacific was the least hit, with life expectancy falling just 0.1 year. Geneva: Covid-19 cut global life expectancy by almost two years when it raged from 2019 to 2021, wiping out a decade of progress, the World Health Organization said Friday. “The Covid-19 pandemic reversed the trend of steady … Read more
New Delhi: The COVID-19 pandemic has upset the trend of steady rise in life expectancy at birth and healthy life expectancy at birth (HALE) globally, the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) latest report card on health has revealed. According to the World Health Statistics 2024 report released Friday, between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy dropped … Read more
For the third year in a row life expectancy has declined in Canada, a trend experts consider to be historical, indicating a worrisome downturn in our overall health. Statistics Canada released its report Deaths, 2022 on Monday, showing that the life expectancy of Canadians fell to 81.3 years in 2022 from 81.6 years in 2021. … Read more