People in Bangladesh live longer on average than their neighbours in India and Pakistan. The World Health Organization's latest World Health Statistics, released on Friday, put life expectancy in 2023 at 72.7 years in Bangladesh, 71 in India and 68.2 in Pakistan.
People in the rich West live longer still: 78.5 years in the United States and 81.4 in Canada.
Global life expectancy has almost returned to its pre-pandemic level. It was 73.4 years in 2019, fell to 71.5 in 2021 as Covid-19 swept the world, and was back to 73.3 in 2023.
The WHO stresses that living longer does not mean living healthily for all those years: healthy life expectancy remains well below total life expectancy. Alain Labrique, head of the WHO's data department, said rising life expectancy is a major public health achievement, but the challenge now is for people to live longer in good health, free of disease.
The report is from Ittefaq's digital desk.
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Source: Ittefaq
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