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Life expectancy continues to decline; investment in infrastructure, research, and education are stunted; the economy is barely able to compete internationally; and the social divide between poor and rich is deepening.
Indeed, Americans’ life expectancy beyond age 65 has increased by roughly 40%.
These decisions, along with increased life expectancy and escalating health-care costs, drove a massive increase in transfer payments over time, regardless of which party was in power.
Likewise, they should adjust eligibility ages to reflect rising life expectancy (as several other countries have).
For some, the problem is a savings glut associated with slower demographic growth, rising life expectancy, and static retirement thresholds – a combination that forces people to save more for their old age.
As a result, many gay people have less education, lower productivity, lower earnings, poorer health, and a shorter life expectancy.
Today Japan ranks first in the world in the number of patents, third in expenditure on research and development as a share of GDP, second in book sales and music sales, and highest for life expectancy.
In the past half-century, the gap in life expectancy between the world’s wealthiest and poorest countries has narrowed from 28 to 19 years.
Finally, Russia has a staggering demographic problem, characterized by a shrinking population, life expectancy far below the advanced-country average, and a growing brain drain.
Life expectancy is now higher than in the United States, and is increasing, while Americans, having chosen not to take the steps needed to improve the wellbeing of ordinary citizens, are dying sooner.
The post-Soviet economy crumbled, crime skyrocketed, and life expectancy declined.
But inequality continued to worsen – with striking data showing that average life expectancy in the US was on the decline.
These results were foreshadowed by a study last year, by Anne Case and Angus Deaton, which showed that life expectancy was on the decline for large segments of the population – including America’s so-called angry men of the Rust Belt.
Furthermore, poverty can and should be measured by many metrics other than money: life expectancy, educational attainment, health, and various other measures of human “functionings and capabilities” (as Amartya Sen calls them) are all important.
And sustained government investment in public health is reflected in steady improvement in India’s infant mortality rate, maternal mortality rate, and life expectancy.
Global average life expectancy, for example, has risen from 31 to almost 73 years in just two centuries.
Around the world, average life expectancy has increased from 48 to 71 years – albeit with significant differences between countries – and overall per capita income has grown by 500%.
America’s “healthy life expectancy” (morbidity-free years) is only 69.1 years, compared to 74.9 years in Japan and 73.1 years in Switzerland.
Even here, however, the demographic news is not all bad – and not just because the shift from higher to lower fertility typically correlates with a shift from lower to higher life expectancy.
Moreover, increased openness to trade is associated with lower rates of infant mortality and higher life expectancy, especially in developing countries.
Male life expectancy was 40 years.
When one controls for income, increasing a population’s access to sanitation by 50% is correlated with more than nine years of additional life expectancy.
Human development indicators, such as life expectancy and per capita income, remain well below the regional average.
At 74, Tunisia’s life expectancy edges out Hungary’s and Estonia’s, countries that are more than twice as wealthy.
And in the public sector, organizations such as the World Bank have adopted metrics other than GDP to assess quality of life, including life expectancy at birth and access to education.
Life expectancy has doubled in the past two decades.
This "graying of the world" is a natural result of falling fertility rates and rising life expectancy.
The Environment of PovertyCOPENHAGEN – Despite gains in life expectancy, expanded access to education, and lower rates of poverty and hunger, the world has a long way to go to improve the quality of people’s lives.
While the life expectancy gains that are driving this shift should be celebrated, their problematic consequences – forcing a declining number of working-age people to support an increasing number of retired people – must be addressed.
But I see countries around the world reducing extreme poverty, improving maternal healthcare, aiding child nutrition, expanding access to primary education, and increasing life expectancy.
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