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Social indicators, such as life expectancy, mirrored the dismal GDP numbers.
Indeed, abandoning work at an ever younger age relative to the longer life expectancy of Italians is something particularly worrying.
In 2000, life expectancy at birth was just 48 years; today, it’s 67.
Perhaps a maximally extended life expectancy is of higher value to you than living in a society where doctors do not leave curable patients to die if they cannot pay for the required treatment out of their own pockets.
What you really want, of course, is a cure, not merely a minimal extension of life expectancy, but nothing is certain.
Among ASEAN countries, Myanmar has the lowest life expectancy and the second-highest rate of infant and child mortality.
In 2010, life expectancy in Botswana is expected to drop to about 30 years if the AIDS epidemic remains unchecked.
In Canada, life expectancy is over 80 years and rising.
If we act, Botswana's life expectancy may one day be closer to 80 than to 30 after all.
For example, between 1990 and 2015, average life expectancy increased, infant mortality rates were halved, secondary school enrollment soared, and infrastructure gaps narrowed.
Gains in average life expectancy have been astounding, steadily rising from around 48 years in 1980 to more than 70 years in 2014.
In the US, life expectancy has declined for the second year in a row; among those with only a high school education, the decline has been underway for much longer.
A country with higher GDP generally has lower child mortality rates, higher life expectancy, better education, more democracy, less corruption, greater life satisfaction, and often a cleaner environment.
Rising life expectancy coupled with low birth rates shape the demography of almost all prosperous countries.
Life expectancy might well be only 80 years by mid-century – about where it is now in advanced countries – if medical progress is disappointing or is offset by new threats or hazards.
For the one billion people represented at the G-8 Summit, life is extremely good in comparison with the rest of the planet, with average incomes at $25,000 per person or more and life expectancy around 80 years.
Their life expectancy is often less than 50 years, and is falling in many places.
Moreover, the unemployment rate has long been among the lowest of the wealthy economies, income inequality is the lowest in Asia, and life expectancy is the longest in the world.
Indeed, traditional medical care accounts for only a small share (perhaps 20%) of our quality of life and life expectancy, while the rest is determined by healthy behavior, social and economic factors, and the physical environment.
In 2016, for example, life expectancy fell for the second consecutive year, by 0.1 years, to 78.6.
While the rise in healthy life expectancy is a positive development, this demographic shift poses a serious threat to many economies, which are already losing vitality.
Economic globalization has been shown to reduce child mortality and extend life expectancy, owing to increased incomes and better information.
But it also shows that 80% of the benefits stand – and 80% of $11 trillion is still a whopping $9 trillion in benefits to humanity – on top of a reduction in lower poverty, child mortality, and pollution, higher life expectancy, and less gender- and race-based discrimination.
Malawi is one of the world’s least developed countries, with an infant mortality rate of 94 per thousand and a life expectancy at birth of 41 years.
Killing Non-Communicable DiseasesSEATTLE – Over the last 25 years, thanks partly to a coordinated global effort to fight infectious diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis (TB), HIV/AIDS, and polio, childhood mortality rates have been reduced by 50%, and average life expectancy has increased by more than six years.
Thirty-six per cent of Europeans will be aged 60 or over by 2050, and, despite increasing life expectancy, continued low fertility will mean the continent’s population will begin to dwindle by 2020.
And with higher life expectancy, raising the retirement age is a further sensible way to address the negative effects of an aging population.
In the Czech Republic and Slovenia, life expectancy has increased from 71 to 77, similar to other Central European countries.
In Ukraine, by contrast, under-five child mortality rates have fallen only slightly, from 25 per 10,000 live births to 24, while life expectancy has declined from 70 years to 68.
Given that most of the lives saved are those of children, who even in developing countries have a life expectancy of at least 50 years, this equates to a cost of $68 per year of life saved.
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