📊 Global life expectancy nears pre-pandemic level, but healthy years lag behind, according to WHO

Global life expectancy reached 73.3 years in 2023, nearly returning to the 73.4 years recorded in 2019

Healthy life lost to depression rose 20% and to anxiety nearly 45% between 2019 and 2023

Depression and anxiety together accounted for 110 million years of healthy life lost in 2023

Noncommunicable diseases caused 74% of global deaths in 2023, up from 58% in 2000

Dementia became the 5th-leading cause of death, up from 19th in 2000, with deaths tripling

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