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The average healthspan is approximately 70.7 years in the EU, compared to 63.9 years in the US, meaning Europeans tend to live longer in good health than Americ
by danielscrubs 2y ago
The average healthspan is approximately 70.7 years in the EU, compared to 63.9 years in the US, meaning Europeans tend to live longer in good health than Americans.
But averages kind of sucks for comparison. Id be interested to see the median of each country.
- wqaatwt 2y agoAdjusting by location, race and other factors makes a significant difference as well. e.g. Hispanics generally have comparable life expectancy to top 10 European countries in most states. If you exclude the Black and non-Hispanic White population California is on par or above Spain and Italy (interestingly enough obesity is much more prevalent amongst the Latino than white population there). (Asians are of course even higher but you have to take wealth/education into account)
- danielscrubs 2y agoYou are aware that europeans too very, very large minority populations? I mean Sweden alone have over 15% of its population speaking arabic. Taking a group from one area and comparing to a subgroup from another area doesn’t seem fair.
- wqaatwt 2y agoI assume statistics could be found for that subpopulation. And well.. I only mentioned Spain and Italy, not Sweden. Regardless this seems besides the point? I just found it interesting that Hispanic Americans live longer than non-Hispanic whites despite being poorer and more overweight. They must be doing something right.