Covid-19 pandemic likely to have set back global progress on life expectancy - WHO

The latest report shows that prior to the pandemic, there had also been encouraging trends globally in the reduction of child stunting, alcohol consumption and tobacco ue.

The World Health Organisation has revealed that disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic are likely to set back global progress on both life expectancy and healthy life expectancy made in the first 20 years of the century.

Global life expectancy at birth had increased from 66.8 years in 2000 to 73.3 years in 2019, and healthy life expectancy increased from 58.3 years to 63.7 years.