Life expectancy around the World Has Increased by Six Years - Study Claim

New Study research claim men and women across the world are going to living six years longer than they did a generation ago. Haaa! Excited? Read on.

 

The Global Burden of Disease study today revealed men are living 5.8 years longer than they did in 1990, while women are living an extra 6.6 years.  Wow!

 

Charts post explains that cancer death rate has fallen by 15 per cent and heart disease down to 22 per cent in high-income regions parts of the world. Meanwhile in lower-income countries, rapidly falling death rates for diarrhoea, lower respiratory tract infections conditions that affect the lungs, such as pneumonia and neonatal disorders have helped prolong life expectancy.

 

Despite increase  life expectancies around the world based on study, there is one notable exception.  In southern sub-Saharan Africa deaths from HIV and AIDS have wiped more than five years off life expectancy. While worldwide deaths from HIV/AIDS have declined substantially every year since its peak in 2005, the conditions are still the greatest cause of premature death in 20 of 48 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the study found.

 

More so, the Lancet medical journal, cites war as being the leading cause of premature death in Syria, where an estimated 30,000 people died in 2013. A further 30,000 were killed in the preceding two years.

In high-income regions, life expectancy had mostly been increased by falling cancer and heart disease death rates, said the report. Nevertheless dramatic increase in life expectancy is seen in some low-income countries, experts found. In Nepal, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Niger, the Maldives, Timor-Leste and Iran, life expectancy increased by more than 12 years in the last two decades.

 

Certain causes of death were shown to have increased around the world since 1990. 

They included liver cancer, drug use conditions, chronic kidney disease, sickle cell disease, diabetes and pancreatic cancer, the study in The Lancet medical journal found. 

 

Despite dramatic drops in child deaths over the last 23 years (from 7.6 million in 1990 to 3.7 million in 2013), lower respiratory tract infections, malaria, and diarrhoeal disease are still in the top five global causes of death in children younger than five years.They continue to kill almost two million children between the ages of one and five every year.

 

 

 

Credit: Excerpt from Mailonline