In this week's issue of The Lancet, we publish the latest global, regional, and national estimates and analyses from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD 2016), covering the period 1990 to 2016. The GBD is a herculean effort that annually tracks disease burden across countries, time, age, and sex. In 2016, there were an estimated 128·8 million livebirths and 54·7 million deaths. The good news is that globally, mortality rates have decreased across all age groups over the past five decades.

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2016年的生死与残障

在本周刊的《柳叶刀》杂志上，我们发布了《 2016年全球疾病，伤害和危险因素负担研究》（GBD 2016）的最新全球，区域和国家评估与分析，涵盖了1990年至2016年。GBD为一项艰巨的工作，每年跟踪跨国家，时间，年龄和性别的疾病负担。2016年，估计有128·800万例婴儿出生，而54·700万例死亡。好消息是，在过去的五十年里，全球各个年龄段的死亡率都在下降。