Preventable deaths since 1990
One person dies every 3.3 seconds from causes we already know how to prevent
Since 1990, an estimated more than 350 million people have died from preventable causes — diseases, malnutrition, childbirth complications — that wealthy nations solved decades ago.
That's not a lack of knowledge. It's a failure to deploy what we already have.
The technology exists. The knowledge exists.
What's missing is the speed of deployment.
Every year we accelerate — through AI, through political will, through better systems — saves millions of lives.
What we need is a comprehensive plan to build better economies that provide for everyone's needs. See our vision for the United States:
New Consensus How People Are DyingWe compared mortality rates in developing countries against the rates achieved by the world's healthiest nations (Japan, Iceland, Norway). The gap represents deaths that are preventable with existing technology and infrastructure. Rates are interpolated based on UN IGME and World Bank data, with adjustments for declining trends over time.