University of Rhode Island DigitalCommons@URI Civil & Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications Civil & Environmental Engineering 11-10-2018 Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950-2017: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 Ali S. Akanda University of Rhode Island,
[email protected] et al Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/cve_facpubs Citation/Publisher Attribution Akanda, Ali S., and et al. "Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950-2017: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017." The Lancet 392, 10159 (2018): 1684-1735. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31891-9. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Civil & Environmental Engineering at DigitalCommons@URI. It has been accepted for inclusion in Civil & Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@URI. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Global Health Metrics Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 GBD 2017 Mortality Collaborators* Summary Lancet 2018; 392: 1684–735 Background Assessments of age-specific mortality and life expectancy have been done by the UN Population Division, This online publication has been Department of Economics and Social Affairs (UNPOP), the United States Census Bureau, WHO, and as part of corrected. The corrected version previous iterations of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD). Previous iterations of first appeared at thelancet.com the GBD used population estimates from UNPOP, which were not derived in a way that was internally consistent on June 20, 2019 with the estimates of the numbers of deaths in the GBD.