An indicator used by experts to gauge the number of people dying prematurely due to a particular disease as well as the number of years spent by them in a state of disability owing to the disease is called ____________.

Global Burden of disease

One study points out that India has about one-fifth of the world’s population but it bears a frightening 20 per cent of the global burden of diseases (GBD). GBD is an indicator used by experts to gauge the number of people dying prematurely due to a particular disease, as well as, the number of years spent by them in a state of ‘disability’ owing to the disease.