Question 1

What happened to the global suicide rate in the last 20 years?

Question 2

The low-income countries of today had a life expectancy of 44 years back in 1970. What is it now?

Question 3

In which countries are people on average least satisfied with their lives?

Question 4

Worldwide, how many babies are born with a trained health worker present?

Question 5

How many of the world's 1-year-old children were vaccinated against some disease in 2022?

Question 6

Worldwide, there are around 38 million people living with HIV. How many of them got anti-HIV drugs in 2021?

Question 7

Child deaths in Africa today are at the same levels as in Europe in:

Question 8

In what share of all schools in the world do children have soap and water to wash their hands with?

Question 9

How many cases of smallpox are expected in the world this year?

Question 10

In 1990, more than 4 million people died from indoor pollution. What has happened to the number who die each year since?

Question 11

In 1990, around 9% of children worldwide died before age five. What is the number today?

Question 12

What happened to the number of new tuberculosis cases worldwide between 2000 and 2022?

Question 13

The average length of life worldwide is roughly 72, today. What was the global life expectancy a hundred years ago?

Question 14

How many children in Europe (including Russia and Türkiye) receive the full two doses of the measles vaccine?

Question 15

How many children aged under 5 in Sub-Saharan Africa sleep under a bed net to prevent malaria?

Question 16

What share of the world’s population today live in countries where life expectancy is shorter than 50 years (in 1960, it was around 55%)?

Question 17

What is the average life expectancy in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Question 18

Worldwide, what share of all deaths are directly caused by illegal drug use?

Question 19

Of all pregnant women in the world, how many give birth without first being examined by an educated midwife, nurse or doctor?

Question 20

How many babies in the world are born in health facilities?

Question 21

What share of all road fatalities globally occur in low- and middle-income countries?

Question 22

What share of adults worldwide used drugs in 2020 (other than alcohol or medicine)?

Question 23

Which of these risk factors leads to more deaths?

Question 24

How many countries (out of 194) participate in some of the World Health Organization’s programmes for child vaccination?

Question 25

When UNICEF bought child vaccines in 2018, what price did they pay on average, compared to the price paid by high-income countries like Germany and USA?

Question 26

In 2023, the number of children who died before age five was around 4% worldwide. What was this number back in 1900?

Question 27

What happened to the global maternal mortality rate between 2000 and 2020 (the rate of mothers dying while giving birth or shortly after)?

Question 28

If all kinds of cancer could be cured, how much longer would lives be on average worldwide?

Question 29

What happened to the suicide rate in the European Union between 1999 and 2019?

Question 30

Of all children born in low-income countries in 1990, about 18% died before their 5th birthday. What is the number today?

Question 31

Between 2013 and 2020, the amount of methamphetamine (an illegal drug) that was seized by customs worldwide…

Question 32

Globally, how many people suffer from depression, according to the World Health Organization?

Question 33

Worldwide, what causes more deaths?

Question 34

In low-income countries, around 45% of all deaths are caused by infections. What is the number in high-income countries?

Question 35

In 2019, how many people worldwide died from infections that were resistant to antibiotics?

Question 36

In the European Union, for every 100,000 babies that are born, around six women die during pregnancy, while giving birth or shortly after. What is this figure in the United States?

Question 37

Of all children in high-income countries who had cancer back in 1975, around 58% survived more than 5 years. What is that number today?