Forbes August 18, 2024
What’s been killing most people around the world? Well, for a long time, technically, no one really knew for sure.
That’s because back in 2005, only around a third of all deaths globally had officially recorded causes, according to the World Health Organization. This number had moved up closer to half by 2015 with 27 million of the 56 million deaths that year having a registered cause of death. But that proportion was still way below where it should be. After all, you kind of need to know what’s been killing a majority of people in order to come up with the right policies and interventions to prevent such deaths in the future.
That was the impetus for the start...