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The title here is kind of misleading (need to report @dang, I think?). The tweet talks about healthy life expectancy, which is different from life expectancy ov
by reisse 4y ago
The title here is kind of misleading (need to report @dang, I think?). The tweet talks about healthy life expectancy, which is different from life expectancy overall:
> the average American now has the same healthy life expectancy (years lived in good health) as someone in Blackpool, the town with England’s lowest life expectancy (by far)
- woobar 4y agoFor comparison, healthy life expectancy in the UK [1] in 2020: 62.8 years. Some of these charts don't make sense. [1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthandlifeexpectancies/bulletins/healthstatelifeexpectanciesuk/2018to2020 https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...