People everywhere are living longer - on average. According to WHO stats a girl who was born in 2012 can expect to live to around 73 years, and a boy to the age of 68. This is six years longer than the average global life expectancy for a child born in 1990.
The gap between rich and poor countries is still very significant but has narrowed. Wherever they live in the world, women live longer than men. Women in Japan have the longest life expectancy in the world at 87 years, followed by Spain, Switzerland and Singapore.
Female life expectancy in all the top 10 countries was 84 years or longer. Life expectancy among men is 80 years or more in nine countries, with the longest male life expectancy in Iceland, Switzerland and Australia.
“In high-income countries, much of the gain in life expectancy is due to success in tackling non-communicable diseases,” says Dr Ties Boerma, Director of the Department of Health Statistics and Information Systems at WHO.
“Fewer men and women are dying before they get to their 60th birthday from heart disease and stroke. Richer countries have become better at monitoring and managing high blood pressure for example.”
Declining tobacco use is also a key factor in helping people live longer in several countries.
Magnets aren’t mentioned of course but it is interesting that Nikken developed in Japan in the 1970s and the majority of users are still women. Interesting.
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