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If you ever want to feel really old, go to Population.io [1], enter your date of birth and country (fake it a bit if you wish), and look at how many people in t
by newscracker 10y ago
If you ever want to feel really old, go to Population.io [1], enter your date of birth and country (fake it a bit if you wish), and look at how many people in the world are currently younger than you. This is both fascinating and shocking even if you enter the information for any smaller children you know (from the last decade or so).
[1]: http://population.io http://population.io
- dominotw 10y agothank India.
- sumedh 10y agoYou are expected to live 40.1 years as a citizen of India Well that is depressing.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoNot really. You're expected to die in childhood. Survive that, you'll likely live about as long as anybody anywhere else.
- eru 10y agoClose, but not quite. Ie at age 30, the site gives me 53.4 more years in Germany, and 42.1 in India.
- lloyd-christmas 10y agoA glance at the methodology shows that they account for that. https://github.com/worldpopulation/population.io-api/tree/master/modeling https://github.com/worldpopulation/population.io-api/tree/ma...
- MollyR 10y agoThis is an anecdote. I have coworker friend who is from india, and he told me most of the men in his family die from heart attacks from age 40-50. I thought it was weird as heck, but when I researched it showed they had 4x for heart issues against the general population in america. https://stanfordhealthcare.org/stanford-health-now/2015/south-asians-heart-disease-qa.html https://stanfordhealthcare.org/stanford-health-now/2015/sout...
- triplesec 10y agoAny idea of why this might be?
- MollyR 10y agoMy initial guess was diet and/or exercise, but I was thinking it could be some genetic factor as well. I really wish we had more genomic data from across the world.
- newscracker 10y ago[My limited knowledge and reading of this is reflected here] There are genetic, dietary and lifestyle factors. Genetically and historically, people were used to famines and lower availability of food. So the body evolved to store up whenever food consumption increases. This applies to large parts of the population in Africa too. With affluence and affordability improved drastically in the last few decades, people tend to eat more and richer food, which forces the body to store as fat. This triggers Type 2 diabetes, hypertension and heart disease. Diet wise, the consumption of dairy is quite high (not as high as some developed countries though) - significantly higher than consumption in the past. This combined with genetics makes things worse, and a lot of lacto-vegetarians also tend to suffer from the lifestyle diseases mentioned above.
- ajcarpy2005 10y ago1. their traffic intersections appear to be extremely stress-inducing because it requires hyper-vigilance. 2. the heat indices of that country can be quite astonishing
- theparanoid 10y agoSouth Asians have a high predisposition to metabolic syndrome - http://lmgtfy.com/?q=india+metabolic+syndrome+genetic+predisposition http://lmgtfy.com/?q=india+metabolic+syndrome+genetic+predis...
- sumedh 10y agoPoor diet, we eat lot of fried food. We eat lot of Indian sweets (to be fair they are really good) and we dont exercise.
- csomar 10y agoWow, pretty interesting. I compared to the US and it turned out that I'm expected to live 0.2 year longer than if I was from the US. I'm from a third-world (Tunisia if you are curious), so that was totally unexpected. The Life expectancy here is pretty high comparing to other developing countries.