[OC] Lebenserwartung nach Ländern (UN-Daten 2023)
Von Minute_Silver73
[OC] Lebenserwartung nach Ländern (UN-Daten 2023)
Von Minute_Silver73
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all nations should be red what, all nations have a life expectancy of above 50
Only four ranges? Really? Quite lazy.
Lesotho, at one point in the early 2000’s,was down to a life expectancy of just 43 years due to the HIV/Aids epidemic there.
The % of the population infected is still at 25%, second only to Eswatini.
An incredibly beautiful country and amazing people, they’ve made incredible progress in addressing it but obviously have a long way to go
the fucking cold war border
Why is Europe not red? Average life expectancy is above 50
Some economists say the life expectancy is a better mesure to track than others metrics like GDP. It is true then when you think about it, a lot goes into the life expectancy from the quality of your health system to how equality of your population to the murder rates, etc.
The Philippines blundered so badly on so many things
What’s shocking about the US is that even the most affluent, with full medical insurance, don’t have a reasonable life expectancy. The wealthiest Americans have survival rates on par with the poorest Europeans in western parts of Europe such as Germany, France and the Netherlands (source: [New England Journal of Medicine 2025](https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa2408259)).
What’s going on in Bolivia??
As a Canadian who doesn’t want to live past 80, for fuck sakes….
Blue = developed world, Green = 2nd world, Yellow = developing, Red = fucked
County breakdown in the US would look wild. I moved from a county (parish) in Louisiana that would be yellow on this map to a county in Oregon that would be blue. Feels like a different country.
Arbitrary endpoints alert
Why 2023 data when 2024 is available?
Czechia and Albania reached 80 years in 2024
The good people at Measure of America do their own HDI measure by state, county, congressional district, with occasional deep dives by county going as granular as the neighborhood level. So much data on education, health, economic security… any Americans or others who are interested in well-being in the US should check it out. It is very important for us to know and use in our policy planning.
Example: they did a deep dive into my home Los Angeles County, our most populous county in the country, almost 10 million people, and very diverse and unequal. In 2016 our life expectancy would have exceeded Denmark. Everywhere fell during COVID and had a slow recovery, but other countries far exceeded our recovery and in 2026 our life expectancy is far below Denmark and on the level of Czechia. Our public health system is not resilient enough to withstand shocks like COVID, even though in general we were and remain in better health than the country as a whole and even by international standards used to rank highly. This raises important questions and helps us imagine what the solutions might be.
https://measureofamerica.org/maps/
I mean, should they all be red??
Out of Africa the picture.
You should cite your sources, otherwise the mods will delete the post soon.
Source: [https://population.un.org/wpp/downloads?folder=Standard%20Projections&group=Most%20used](https://population.un.org/wpp/downloads?folder=Standard%20Projections&group=Most%20used)
The data comes from the [United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Department_of_Economic_and_Social_Affairs) and is for the 2023 calendar year. Global life expectancy was 73.2 years in 2023
Thought Nigeria was in the upper-middle tier in Africa
Good for PR doing better than the rest of the US!
So the west minus USA plus chile is above 80 years
And now I spend half an hour reading up on health care in Costa Rica and the Nicoya Peninsula Blue Zone.
It must be nice living in a place like that.