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WHO Report on Non communicable Diseases
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- WHO released a report named ‘Invisible numbers – the true scale of non-communicable diseases’.
- Every two seconds, one person under the age of 70 dies of a non-communicable disease (NCD).
- 86 per cent of those deaths occurring in low- and middle-income countries.
- In India, 66 per cent of total deaths were due to NCDs in 2019.
- The World Health Organisation (WHO) has also launched a portal.
- For the first time, this portal brings together all WHO data related to NCDs for 194 countries.
- Over 60.46 lakh people died due to NCDs in India in 2019.
- Over 25.66 lakh deaths in 2019 in the country were due to cardiovascular diseases.
- 11.46 lakh deaths were due to chronic respiratory diseases.
- Cancer led to 9.20 lakh deaths while 3.49 lakh deaths in the country were attributed to diabetes.
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