The life expectancy of people worldwide has risen in recent years, at all ages, according to a survey of Our world in datamade with the latest data published by the United Nations, from which it can be deduced that an average person can expect to live a much longer life than in the past, no matter how old you are.
With century-to-century improvements in health, infrastructure, and reduced infant mortality, people in many of the world’s richest countries have a life expectancy that many exceeds 80 years. In 2021, life expectancy in Monaco, Hong Kong and Macao exceeded 85 years.
Meanwhile, in the countries with the worst health, life expectancy isand is between 50 and 60 years old. The population of the Central African Republic has the lowest life expectancy, with Chad (Central Africa) occupying that place, with an average 52.5 years.
Argentina is ranked 68th with a 75.4 life expectancy, like the neighboring country Uruguaywith the same brand. In the region, with a little less expectation, is located Brazil (72.8), while in Chili the average reaches 78.9 years.
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The ranking of countries with the highest and lowest life expectancy
By 2021, the ten countries with the highest life expectancy are:
Monacowith 85.9 years
Hong Kong – 85.5 years
macau – 85.4 years
Japan – 84.8 years
Australia – 84.5 years
Switzerland – 84 years
malt – 83.8 years
South Korea – 83.7 years
liechtenstein – 83.3 years
Norway – 83.2 years
Countries with the lowest life expectancy:
Chad – 52.5 years
Nigeria – 52.7 years
Lesotho – 53.1 years
Central African Republic – 53.9 years
South Sudan – 55 years
Somalia – 55.3 years
Swaziland- 57.1 years
Ivory Coast – 58.6 years
Guinea – 58.9 years
Mali – 58.9 years
How life expectancy evolved from the 19th century to the present
As he analyzes Our world in data, demographic research suggests that at the beginning of the 19th century no country in the world had a life expectancy of more than 40 years.
In the graphs you can see how, at that time, all the countries are shown in red.
“Almost everyone lived in conditions of extreme poverty, with little medical knowledge and in all countries our ancestors had to prepare for a premature death”detailed in the report.
Over the next 150 years, some parts of the world achieved substantial improvements in health, opening up a global gap there: “In 1950 the life expectancy of newborns already exceeded 60 years in Europe, North America, Oceania, Japan and parts of South America”.
Meanwhile, in other parts of the world, a newborn could only expect to live around 30 years. “Global health inequality was huge in 1950: people in Norway had a life expectancy of 72 years, while in Mali it was 26 years. Africa as a whole had an average life expectancy of just 36 years, while people in other regions of the world could expect to live more than twice as long,” the report said.
Globally, life expectancy increased from less than 30 years to more than 72 years. “After two centuries of progress we can expect to live much more than twice as long as our ancestors. And this progress did not change in some. In all regions of the world, people today can expect to live more than twice as long.”
Nevertheless, the global inequalities in health that we still see today, as in the case of Africa, also show that there is still much to do.
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