20 years of sustainable investing and what this tells us about the future - Flipbook - Page 19
the last 20 years in numbers
HEALTHIER
73
30%
Life expectancy has increased since 2000,
with a global average of over 73 (in 2019)
compared to 67 (in 2000).
A child born at the start of the 20th century
had a one in five chance of not reaching
their fifth birthday but this is now one in 250
(source: UN).
But on average, only five of those additional
years are lived in good health.
Even over the last 20 years, the number dying
before five has halved on a global scale to
3.8%.
There has been a global decline in deaths
from communicable diseases, with tuberculosis
falling by about 30%.
16%
Heart disease has been the leading global
cause of death for the last 20 years, 16% of
the total (source: WHO).
Polio has been eradicated from Africa after infecting up to 450,000 people a year worldwide in the 1980s.
SAFER
The retirement savings gap is predicted to
increase to $400 trillion by 2050 if measures
are not taken to increase overall savings rates
(Source: World Economic Forum).
While less than 7% of the world was online
in 2000, over half the global population has
access to the internet today.
Approximately 1.35 million people die
worldwide each year as a result of road
traffic crashes (Source: WHO) but the number
of road accidents in the UK has halved over
the last 20 years.
In 2000, there were 740 million mobile phone
subscriptions worldwide; two decades later, it
is more than 8 billion, meaning there are now
more phones in the world than people (Source:
World Economic Forum).
Online sales in the UK made up 36.3% of total
retail sales in February 2021 (Source: ONS),
up from 20% in January 2020.
2021
Under the Biden presidency,
US re-accepts and re-joins
Paris climate agreement, having left under
the Trump administration in 2020.
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