We live longer than before, but an illness kills us prematurely

Today, people in the world live far more than 70 years ago. Average life expectancy in 1950 was 46 years old, and in 2015 it reached 71 years.

In some lands progress has not always been calm. Diseases, epidemics, and unexpected events are a reminder that an extension of life cannot be received <x0 welcome”.

In the meantime, death has become a very important subject for many of us. Despite less than 0.5% of people dying from terrorism, wars, or natural disasters, many still end up in premature death or causes that could have been prevented.

The story of the age in which people actually die is how they die and how this has changed over time, states Hannah Richie from Oxford Martin School.

Some 56 million people died in the world in 2017, according to the BBC. This is 10 million more than 1990, but it must be remembered that the number of people on earth has increased, in the meantime, just as average life expectancy.

More than 70 percent of people die from chronic illness. The biggest killer, however, is cardiovascular disease responsible for each third death. Twice more people die from cardiovascular disease than cancer, the second most frequent cause of death, from which every sixth person in the world dies.

At the top of the list are some untransmittable diseases, such as diabetes, some respiratory diseases, and degeneracy.

Shocking fact is the number of people who die from disease that is curable. Some 1.6 million people died of diabetes in 2017, making the disease one of the top ten. In some lands, especially in Africa and Asia, it is a major cause of mortality.

When it comes to accidents, 1.2 million lost their lives worldwide in 2017, but that is not the same in rich and poor countries. While in high - developing countries the number of deaths in road accidents has declined in recent decades, their numbers have remained the same worldwide.

What people die is changing over time and the growth rate of the countries in which they lived. In the past, even immediate infectious diseases were more deadly than they are today.

For example, in 1990, one in three people died of infectious diseases, while in 2017 the report was one in five. Children are an especially vulnerable category when it comes to infectious diseases.

In the nineteenth century, for example, every third child in the world died of an infection, while today the situation is much better, largely thanks to vaccines, better sanitation, nutrition, health care, and access to clean water.

However, this changes depending on the development of countries. In affluent countries, the death of children because of an infection is relatively rare, while in the poorest regions of the world, their numbers correspond to the mortality of children in Great Britain or Sweden in the first half of the 20th century with a trend of growth.

But due to statistics, we finally conclude that there are still a much smaller number of children who die from infectious diseases, which, according to Hannah Richie, can be considered one of the most successful stories of modern health care.

Comparisons of data show that fewer children have died in recent decades of infections, mainly because drugs have advanced prominently in this area globally. But that cannot be said of older people who are very sensitive and often suffer from infectious diseases.

Many countries are warning of the burden of elderly and sick people for national relatives and health systems.

Sudden “infections”, like. Sida, I can draw attention to all this. Sida shocked the world for the first time in the 1980s, but left the biggest trace in sub-Saharan Africa. Thanks to aggressive medical therapy, the number of people who died of this disease has been halved in the last decade.

However, when we compare present times with the past, the general impression is positive: We live longer than ever, and fewer people die of healing diseases. At least when it comes to global plans and statistics.

But it is also true that there is still a long way ahead of us to further improve hygiene, nutrition, vaccine, and basic health care. A better understanding of what most people die of is crucial to further progress and preventing disease with fatal epilogue.