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News release
#### [The Lancet: More than half of adults and a third of children and adolescents predicted to have overweight or obesity by 2050](/news-events/newsroom/news-releases/lancet-more-half-adults-and-third-children-and-adolescents)
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March 3, 2025
News release
#### [About 740,000 global deaths from suicide occur annually—that’s one death every 43 seconds](/news-events/newsroom/news-releases/about-740000-global-deaths-suicide-occur-annually-thats-one)
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February 19, 2025
News release
#### [Most comprehensive study on US health care spending by county reveals wide variation](/news-events/newsroom/news-releases/most-comprehensive-study-us-health-care-spending-county-reveals)
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February 14, 2025
News release
#### [US college graduates live an average of 11 years longer than those who never finish high school](/news-events/newsroom/news-releases/us-college-graduates-live-average-11-years-longer-those-who)
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January 23, 2025
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Recent publications
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Scientific Publication
#### [Mapping the global prevalence, incidence, and mortality of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax malaria, 2000–22: a spatial and temporal modelling study](/research-analysis/library/mapping-global-prevalence-incidence-and-mortality-plasmodium-falciparum-0)
Olivia Nesbit, Joanna Whisnant, David Smith, Jon Mosser, Christopher J.L. Murray, Simon Hay
March 5, 2025
Scientific Publication
#### [Global, regional, and national prevalence of adult overweight and obesity, 1990–2021, with forecasts to 2050: a forecasting study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021](/research-analysis/library/global-regional-and-national-prevalence-adult-overweight-and-obesity-1990)
Marie Ng, Emmanuela Gakidou, Justin Lo, Christopher J.L. Murray, Stein Emil Vollset, Austin Ahlstrom, Noah Ahmad, Cat Antony, Aleksandr Aravkin, Catherine Bisignano, Dana Bryazka, Rebecca Cogen, Xiaochen Dai, Lalit Dandona, Rakhi Dandona, Samath D. Dharmaratne, Simon Hay, Nicholas Kassebaum, Stephen Lim, Paulina Lindstedt, Tomislav Mestrovic, Ali Mokdad, Erin Mullany, Mohsen Naghavi, Erin O'Connell, Cat Raggi, Amanda Smith, Georgia Smith, Reed Sorensen, Theo Vos, Chun-Wei Yuan, Peng Zheng
March 3, 2025
Scientific Publication
#### [Global, regional, and national prevalence of child and adolescent overweight and obesity, 1990–2021, with forecasts to 2050: a forecasting study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021](/research-analysis/library/global-regional-and-national-prevalence-child-and-adolescent-overweight)
Emmanuela Gakidou, Austin Ahlstrom, Noah Ahmad, Aleksandr Aravkin, Catherine Bisignano, Dana Bryazka, Rebecca Cogen, Xiaochen Dai, Lalit Dandona, Rakhi Dandona, Simon Hay, Nicholas Kassebaum, Stephen Lim, Paulina Lindstedt, Tomislav Mestrovic, Ali Mokdad, Erin Mullany, Christopher J.L. Murray, Erin O'Connell, Cat Raggi, Amanda Smith, Georgia Smith, Stein Emil Vollset, Chun-Wei Yuan
March 3, 2025
Scientific Publication
#### [Trends in the global, regional, and national burden of oral conditions from 1990 to 2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021](/research-analysis/library/trends-global-regional-and-national-burden-oral-conditions-1990-2021)
Nicholas Kassebaum, Xiaochen Dai, Simon Hay, Kyle Humphrey, Stephen Lim, Ali Mokdad, Christopher J.L. Murray
February 27, 2025
Hear from experts
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Get expert insights on trending topics in global health.
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Commentary
#### [Autism and Identity: Navigating Disability Versus Difference](/news-events/insights-blog/commentary/autism-and-identity-navigating-disability-versus-difference)
Think Global Health March 3, 2025
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Acting on Data
#### [Focus on environments and systems to tackle childhood overweight and obesity](/news-events/insights-blog/acting-data/focus-environments-and-systems-tackle-childhood-overweight)
Katherine Leach-Kemon
March 3, 2025
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Acting on Data
#### [Suicide prevention efforts are working, new research shows](/news-events/insights-blog/acting-data/suicide-prevention-efforts-are-working-new-research-shows)
Katherine Leach-Kemon, Nicole Weaver, Mohsen Naghavi
February 19, 2025
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Podcast
#### [Understanding health care spending in the United States](/podcast/understanding-health-care-spending-united-states)
Rhonda Stewart, Joseph Dieleman
February 14, 2025
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Popular pages and tools
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Research study
#### [Global Burden of Disease (GBD)](/research-analysis/gbd)
The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study provides a comprehensive picture of mortality and disability across countries, time, age, and sex. It quantifies health loss from hundreds of diseases, injuries, and risk factors, so that health systems can be improved and disparities eliminated.
Last updated
February 20, 2025
Country profiles
#### [Health research by location](/research-analysis/health-by-location/profiles)
Get an overview of population health and demographic information for every country of the world. We also provide profiles for select subnational locations.
Last updated
December 31, 2024
Data tools and practices
#### [Data sources](/data-tools-practices/data-sources)
We make datasets and our sources freely available so that policymakers have the evidence they need to make informed decisions about how to allocate resources to best improve population health.
Last updated
March 7, 2025
Data tools
#### [Interactive data visuals](/data-tools-practices/interactive-data-visuals)
Explore our data through interactive visual tools.
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December 31, 2024
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