Check out this interesting chart and story on life expectancy in the US verses other countries like the UK, Australia, Canada and Japan. The US is lower than all the countries listed above as found by this new study.
Men in the US are on average aged 75 when they die. That is 1.5 years younger than men in the UK and 3.5 years younger than men in Australia, says a new study. American women live on average to just under 81 – about three years younger than the average Australian woman.
While life expectancy in the US continues to improve, says the report by researchers at University of Washington in Seattle and Imperial College, London, it is not increasing as quickly as in other Western countries, so the gap is widening.
“The researchers suggest that the relatively low life expectancies in the US cannot be explained by the size of the nation, racial diversity, or economics,” says the document, which ranks the US 38th in the world for life expectancy overall.
“Instead, the authors point to high rates of obesity, tobacco use and other preventable risk factors for an early death as the leading drivers of the gap between the US and other nations.”
Some food for thought….
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Oh boy…. here we go.
my main hustle takes me to japan six months out of the year – and my main bitch i’m swimming in is japanese.
do i get years for that?
I respect that! lol!
anyway, im going to die young knowing what I did the past ten years.
Kind of dont care, i been everywhere! fucked alot of bad chicks, plenty money. what more can i do? if im here for my son for another 10+ year im happy.
makes me wonder what your main hustle is…
I’m going to chalk this up to us getting FATTER daily…
I read an amazing book recently called ‘The Spirit Level: Why Equality is better for Everyone’ and it explains these disparities. ‘obesity, tobacco use and other preventable risk factors for an early death’ are all shown to link to inequality, with the US & UK having the highest levels of inequality and Japan the lowest, among developed countries. Read it.