![]() Globally in 2018, at least 1 in 10 adolescents aged 13–15 years uses tobacco, although there are areas where this figure is much higher.ĭepression and anxiety are among the leading causes of illness and disability among adolescents, and suicide is among the leading causes of death in people aged 15–19 years. The vast majority of people using tobacco today began doing so when they were adolescents. Alcohol and drug use in children and adolescents is associated with neurocognitive alterations which can lead to behavioural, emotional, social and academic problems in later life. Prevalence of heavy episodic drinking among adolescents aged 15–19 years was 13.6% in 2016, with males most at risk.Ĭannabis is the most widely used psychoactive drug among young people with about 4.7% of people aged 15–16 years using it at least once in 2018. Worldwide, more than a quarter of all people aged 15–19 years are current drinkers, amounting to 155 million adolescents. Violence during adolescence also increases the risks of injury, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, mental health problems, poor school performance and dropout, early pregnancy, reproductive health problems, and communicable and noncommunicable diseases.ĭrinking alcohol among adolescents is a major concern in many countries. It causes nearly a third of all adolescent male deaths in low- and middle-income countries in the WHO Region of the Americas. Its prominence varies substantially by world region. Interpersonal violence is among the leading causes of death in adolescents and young people globally. Many of those who died were vulnerable road users, including pedestrians, cyclists or users of motorized two-wheelers.ĭrowning is also among the top causes of death among adolescents more than 30 000 adolescents, over three quarters of them boys, are estimated to have drowned in 2019. In 2019, 115 000 adolescents (10–19 years) died as a result of road traffic accidents. Many unintentional injuries such as road traffic and drowning are the leading cause of death and disability among adolescents. Maternal conditions become an increasingly important cause of death for young women in lower-income countries. Rates are higher for males from the conditions mentioned above along with collective violence and legal intervention (war/conflict). Sex differences in mortality rates also become apparent in adolescence. Among older adolescents and young adults, a shift away from infectious diseases of childhood is seen, towards accidents and injuries, self-harm and interpersonal violence. The patterns of death in those aged 10 to 24 years reflect the underlying risk profiles of the age groups, with those of 10–14-year-olds dominated by infectious diseases. ![]() Females generally have lower mortality rates for these ages than males. Within the age group 10–24 years, mortality rates are lowest among adolescents aged 10–14, and highest among young adults aged 20–24 years. The average global probability of a 10-year-old dying before age 24 was about 6 times higher in sub-Saharan Africa than in North America and Europe. In 2021, the probability of dying among those aged 10–24 years was highest in sub-Saharan Africa and lowest in Europe and Northern America. Survival chances for adolescents and young adults vary greatly across the world. ![]()
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