Zhongxin Finance, June 20. On June 20, the China International Development Knowledge Center released the first "Global Development Report".

The report pointed out that health development has achieved positive results.

Between 2000 and 2019, global life expectancy increased from 66.8 years to 73.3 years, and healthy life expectancy increased from 58.3 years to 63.7 years.

During the same period, the global under-five mortality rate dropped from 76 per thousand to 38 per thousand.

Stunting (short stature) among children under 5 in 2020 decreased by 2.4 percentage points from 2015, equivalent to 14.2 million children.

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