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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 Organisations (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 by 1.8 years to 71.4 years..
Global healthy life expectancy also saw a drop of 1.5 years to 61.9 years in 2021..
Life expectancy at birth is defined as the average number of years that a newborn could expect to live, while healthy life expectancy is defined as the average number of years that a person can expect to live in full health from the time of birth...
The statistics for India available only till 2019, or for the period before the Covid pandemic showed that between 2000 and 2019, life expectancy at birth improved by 8.68 years, from 62.1 years in 2000 to 70.8 years in 2019...
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