• The latest Lancet Commission addresses Adolescent Health and Wellbeing, defining adolescents as individuals aged 10–24.

• With adolescents making up 24% of the global population amid declining family sizes and ageing societies, their wellbeing is increasingly urgent.

• The present adolescent cohort face unique challenges from environmental stress, internet exposure, and crisis in conflict zones.

• Using global and country-level data, the Commission estimates that by 2030, over half of adolescents will live in multi-burden countries with overlapping health risks.

• From 1990–2013, communicable diseases declined more than non-communicable ones, both among males and females. Despite declining trends, Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia still carry the highest burden of Communicable, Maternal, Newborn and Child illness.

• Males experienced injury-related DALYs higher than females. High-income regions saw a rise in NCDs post-2010.

• The report urges multi sectoral strategies to improve health and wellbeing because investing in adolescents will yield a triple dividend- benefits for their present, their future as adults, and the children they will raise.

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