WHO’s World Health Statistics report 2023 presents the latest data for more than 50 health-related indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals and WHO’s “triple billion” targets. It finds an overall increase in global life expectancy and healthy life expectancy at birth as a result of improvements in several communicable diseases, maternal, perinatal and nutritional conditions, noncommunicable diseases, injuries and their underlying determinants. Persisting inequalities also continue to impact population health in most, if not all, aspects. Despite the overall improvement in service coverage, between and within countries disadvantaged populations still have lower access to care and are at greater risk of facing catastrophic costs. While premature deaths from noncommunicable diseases – the world’s leading cause of death – continue to fall, progress has slowed in recent years and key risk factors including tobacco use and alcohol consumption, hypertension, obesity, and physical inactivity will require urgent and targeted intervention.

PDF p.12 Fig. 1.8 total alcohol consumption (litres pure alcohol per capita), by sex and WHO region, 2000 - 2019 and Fig. 1.9 and, Prevalence of tobacco use, by sex and WHO region, 2000 - 2020.