- Health Access and Quality
- Healthcare access and quality index analyzed for 204 countries from 1990-2019
- Worldwide shortage of health workers threatens effective coverage
- Disease Burden
- Nearly half of global cancer deaths due to risk factors
- Nearly 8 million smoking deaths globally in 2019
- 90% of new smokers addicted by age 25
- 369 diseases and injuries analyzed globally from 1990-2019
- Population and Demographics
- 160 million women worldwide have unmet contraception needs
- Global fertility, mortality, and healthy life expectancy estimates from 1950-2019
- 87 risk factors analyzed in 204 countries from 1990-2019
- Social Issues
- More than half of US police killings unreported
- Black Americans most likely to experience fatal police violence
- Global disease estimates show rising chronic diseases and public health failures