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And in France it's 82.7 years, the wealth of the US doesn't directly translate to good life expectancy, especially when you've got so many inequalities. The hig
by Zababa 5y ago
And in France it's 82.7 years, the wealth of the US doesn't directly translate to good life expectancy, especially when you've got so many inequalities. The highest life expectancy is at 85 years in Japan. The average life exepctancy in the world in 72.6 years, 79 in Europe, 82.5 in Western Europe. With all due respect to Tunisia, it's better than average but still lower than "any western country".
- 8note 5y agoThe wealth of the US comes from a few people being extraordinarily wealthy. The p20 of wealth isn't great in the US
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- refurb 5y agoCountries also count deaths differently. Some will count a premature baby at 26 weeks that dies as a death (the US), while others just say “it was never viable” so not a death. Don’t need to average very many “zeros” to bring down an average.
- derriz 5y agoThat sounds wrong. There’s a whole range of life expectancy metrics that are calculated carefully as they constitute a fundamental metric about a population in everything from the insurance industry to the health industry. Life expectancy metrics are heavily used for geographic and historic comparison as they have standard and specific definition. The starting age is always specified - e.g. life expectancy at 18 or 60 or whatever. When the age is not specified, the implied age is zero or “life expectancy at birth”. I’ve never heard of “life expectancy at conception” nor can think that one country would calculate it but use the value for “life expectancy at birth”.
- refurb 5y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_mortality https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_mortality There is huge variability in how deaths are reported for newborns. “Many countries, however, including certain European states (e.g. France) and Japan, only count as live births cases where an infant breathes at birth, which makes their reported IMR numbers somewhat lower and increases their rates of perinatal mortality.[111] In the Czech Republic and Bulgaria, for instance, requirements for live birth are even higher.”
- derriz 5y agoVariances in how countries calculate IMR don't affect the calculation of life expectancy at birth which is a standardised measure - see https://www.who.int/whosis/whostat2006DefinitionsAndMetadata.pdf https://www.who.int/whosis/whostat2006DefinitionsAndMetadata...
- refurb 5y agoYou link shows a standard way to calculate infant mortality if the baby is born alive. That’s my point, no every country counts those the same.
- derriz 5y agoRead the “Methods of estimation” section where the standardization process is described. This would be a lot simpler is you could simply provide a reference to support the claim that the life expectancy at birth metric in the USA is calculated differently to that in other countries. Your claim seems to based on differences in calculation a different metric, infant mortality rate.
- JPLeRouzic 5y ago> And in France it's 82.7 years It depends on your occupation (and probably on other factors too). https://www.niussp.org/education-work-economy/france-male-managers-live-six-years-longer-male-manual-workersen-france-un-cadre-vit-six-ans-de-plus-quun-ouvrier/ https://www.niussp.org/education-work-economy/france-male-ma...
- Zababa 5y agoYes, that's how averages work.