[Comment] Shared burdens, shared responsibilities: advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

00:00 - 12 Oct 2025

In The Lancet, as part of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2023, the GBD 2023 Causes of Death Collaborators analysed cause-specific mortality and years of life lost for 292 causes by age and sex across 204 countries and territories and 660 subnational locations from 1990 to 2023.1 This analysis included a focus on premature death (defined as death before age 70 years), and assessed the correlation between mean age at death and Socio-demographic Index (SDI), building upon the use of SDI in previous GBD analyses.