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Actually, life expectancy is badly skewed by the rates of fatal injury when people are in their 20s, which ruins the average. The US has anomalously high fatal
by jandrewrogers 4y ago
Actually, life expectancy is badly skewed by the rates of fatal injury when people are in their 20s, which ruins the average.
The US has anomalously high fatal injury rates in young people due to things like automotive accidents and homicides. If you remove fatal injuries and similar from the statistics, Americans have among the highest life expectancies.
- hotpotamus 4y agoI suspect drug overdoses are mixed in there too. I believe there are also significant differences between the states (with fairly predictable trends). I suppose it all depends on how you measure public health, but the picture seems grim regardless.