Global life expectancy found to have risen by 6.2 years despite Covid
Global life expectancy increased by 6.2 years from 1990 to 2021, despite a pandemic-related dip between 2019 and 2021, a new study published in The Lancet has found. The overall rise in life expectancy worldwide over the past two decades was helped by several factors, including a decline in deaths from intestinal infections such as diarrhoea, a research team led by Simon Hay from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington said. This decline alone was responsible for an increase of 1.1 years in life expectancy during the period. "The second-largest ef...