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    [OC] Lebenserwartung im Vergleich zu den Vereinigten Staaten (UN-2023)

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    1. YodasLeftNut on

      Would be cool to see the life expectancy of individual states in the US compared to the average of the whole country

    2. MontEcola on

      Countries with a similar amount of wealth who have socialized medicine have a better life expectancy than the USA. We are the only nation that allows corporations to profit from health care. This should be posted along with economic indicators.

    3. lipflip on

      That looks a bit too simplistic as it ignores the variance. Have you tried different shades for larger or smaller deviations from the baseline? Also,  I would suggest not using the US as a baseline but just use shades from lower to higher life expectancy. 

    5. Clemario on

      China probably would turn green soon. Their life expectancy has increased by 7 years since 2000 and official stats have it at 79 now.

    6. rod_dy on

      is life expectancy poor in latin america because of the violence? or does this data exclude murder and just use death of old age? what does the data look like.

    7. Ribbitor123 on

      What’s shocking about the US is that even the most affluent citizens, 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)).

    8. geraffes-are-so-dumb on

      This is really cool. I’d love to see this but on a state basis.

    9. karagousis on

      In Brazil the leading cause of death for men between the ages of 16 to 24 is homicide, but after 25 they’re on par with the US. States with lower crime rates like Santa Catarina actually have higher life expectancy than any American state, sitting at around 81 years.

    11. Zigxy on

      and the number one factor isn’t guns or cars or healthcare…

      it’s obesity

    14. llamaz314 on

      Probably what happens when half the population is either in prison, addicted to fentanyl, or cannot afford medical care. All the school shootings can’t help either.

    15. Moose-Live on

      Not very informative. The data must surely allow for a more nuanced visualisation than „less“ or „more“.

      Edit: the comments here are incomprehensible to me. So many people commenting on the fact that the USA has a higher life expectancy than almost every other country in the world, and lower than only a very few countries, as though that’s a tragedy that must be addressed urgently. Is there no perspective here other than a USA-centric one? Are the hundreds of countries with a lower life expectancy not even a blip on the radar?

    21. Groentekroket on

      How’s that #1 working out for you guys? Maybe #1 in medical debt or obesity 

    22. PELAOSUAZO on

      Chile’s health spending is 1/4 of US’s. I feel proud of ourselves but also worried about how wastefull the US healthcare system is. Clearly a totally failed one.

    23. ZarquonLoC on

      Would like to see this set against the map of countries with socialized medicine.

    24. Original_Importance3 on

      For all I know from looking at this, Canada’s life expectancy could be 0.00001 of a year more than US. Should use a color gradient. And include different states compared to the national average, because life expectancy of Hawaii is more than much of Europe

    25. Background_Relief_36 on

      Why is Puerto Rico not colored with the rest of the Untied States?

    27. GhettocornHoN on

      My dumbass didn’t read the title and just looked at Greenland and thought “wait but it’s clearly above the the US”

    28. Samceleste on

      This map carries strictly less information than the usual „Life expectancy per country“ with a gradient.
      But I guess, for people who only care about US centric, then may gain a few second by reading this one

    29. vtjohnhurt on

      Life expectancy varies tremendously county to county and state to state in the US. My county in Eastern Massachusetts is much healthier than much of the EU.

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