You're one of those dumb people who don't understand what "cultural difference" is. US has higher incidents of sports related deaths due to its huge sports culture and that contributes to lowering life expectancy and also car accidents due to the fact that US has the highest number of car owners in developed countries.
What got me was that US life expectancy was NEVER consistently ahead of other Anglophone advanced economies like the UK or Canada. Before 1914 or so, life expectancy at birth is a useful proxy for living standards at a time when harder economic statistics were simply not collected systematically. So you can see which countries were the most prosperous. Americans prospered, yes, but not to the degree their neighbours did!
Could it not be related to the influx of immigrants after the Immigration Act of 1964? The vast majority of immigrants that flooded the US after 1964 came from countries with low life expectancies and would have drastically affected the average life expectancy of the total population.
@@gilly5094, The NHS was a true world leader until it was ruined by successive governments, especially the morally bankrupt government we have at the moment - Over the last 14 years they have done their utmost to run it into the ground.
The top countries eat much healthier and walk around everywhere. As for "heathcare" (or sickcare) the U.S. is over-medicated and over-cared for. We have too much heathcare. We need less healthcare and better diets.
@adriangogioiu2611 Hi Adrian. If you are asking me where I come from, I am an elderly lady from England. I live in a large village about 55 miles south of Birmingham. Hope that helps.
@@lorenzobianchini4095 I would argue that vaccines would have an impact, and the opposite of what they're talking about. Vaccines tend to prevent people from getting illnesses that could otherwise risk their health. In other words, vaccines make the population on average live longer, not shorter. That could help to explain rise in life expectancy in Italy as well.
We are all* doing great today, too. It's just that other countries have reached the same age expectations as us. Which is great! Except Denmark where they drink and smoke too much, in general.
These figures are somewhat misleading. The older figures are so low due to infant mortality. Because so many children died before the age of 3 it massively affects the average life expectancy. Chances are that if you lived past early childhood you would live till the age of 60 quite easily, barring no tragedies or illnesses.
Also consider how many children per family were born. When there are 10 children in one family and 8 of then die before the age of 3, and two of them become 80, the average age is below 40. With better sanitation, better health and vaccination there are less children born who are getting older.
I agree there could have been some further explanation in the caption or in the video. I wouldn't say "misleading" though. It doesn't say all the people died of old age and statistics on life expectancy always include child death and unnatural causes. I think this video is meant as a kind of tool or basis for discussion.
Non-existent health care for millions, huge ghettos & homeless camps in every community, legions of opioidheads, fentanyl, crackhead, alcoholics, obesity & overindulgers , truly tragic.
@@goran500 We agree then that if a majority were dying at age 0, they couldn't reach age 50. The ones that reached 30 could hit the 50 back then? Probably yes, but bear in mind that 200 years ago a flue or a tooth infection could make you pass away
@@leeonhell9184 Well maybe Africa is poor in general with some exemptions like RSA but I think people are still happy there although they are suffering.
@@JA53705Australians eat a lot of junk food too yet their life expectancy is about 4 years more than Americans. I put that down largely to our univeral healthcare system which is a common denominator of all the countries at the top of the list.
Very interesting and informative! Including the different names and flags of the countries during the timespan 😮🥰 Looking at the Europeen countries with the highest life expectancy at the end, I see more or less only those in which people care more about the quality of food including a healthy diet, compared to those countries in Europe which are not even left on the list...
I've just had a look at the UN figures to see where the UK is now, and it's dropped to number 30. My own diet is very poor though, and that does shame me, especially as it's my own choice. There is a big difference in life expectancy between men and women. The world average is given as 70.8 years for men and 76 years for women.
What a great democracy USA is!!! You have to rethink your society and stop propaganda from your media. Political are there for try to make the best possible life for their citizen, not for make the highest gpd possible. You country is so rich... How is it possible that your people die so young? Sanity is a right for EVERYONE, not only for rich.
Great video. I'm 42 and live in the UK, as of the 2020s the life expectancy is now double here than it was in the 1800s, and the fact that I am beyond the maximum life expectancy of that century itself, the 1800s! 😮
That's an average. The problem was that many children died at birth or in the first years of life, and that lowered the average. But people who survived childhood lived many more years than average. Perhaps a verte few lived to be eighty or ninety years old, as there are many today, but many were sixty or seventy years old.
Before 1950s many children in rural regions died before the age of 5 to contagious diseases like scarlet fever and typhus. That dragged the average estimated age down a lot
The Swiss flag should have changed as well. Before 1848 there was a "helvetic republic" with a green-red-yellow-striped flag. The now known white cross on red ground is officiallly since 1889.
It's quite interesting to observe how life expectancy is rather long in the Nordic countries, where a depressive lack of sunlight is so common, the environment is not exciting at all, and food is not very tasty or healthy. Hmm..
Not really. If this would be true, Germany, Canada, Greenland, Lativa, Estonia, Finland, Russia, Belarus and Poland would be on the list, but they aren't on the list.
I suspect that the number of children born to each family may be a factor, improving expectancy as it drops from 9 in my grandmother's down to nil in the case of my children.
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During the industrial revolution also the growth rate was quite low and too many deaths due to work in factories and coal burning pollution... Also lack of a healthy life, the country populations was made more poor cos they wanted them at cities and factories
Good question. I note that those countries would have been relatively well developed and kept pretty good records of births and deaths. My question is how have they predicted future mortality rates for births still to occur. Extrapolation based on predictions?
2050!? We're still over a quarter century AWAY from that decade! The researchers might want to defer their expectancy assessments, until we're within reach of 2050.
Questa classifica dice solo due cose inequivocabili 1) che le differenze tra il primo e il 15 posto sono passate ds 28 anni a 2 anni dal 1840 ad oggi 2) che in questi paesi non si aspettano significativi aumenti della speranza di vita da qui al 2050
I was cheering on Oz - saying C’mon!! We did remarkably well in the early part of the century - and we’re on a pretty good trajectory too. We’re a VERY lucky country. Clearly the Japanese & the Scandinavians know a thing or too about equality and healthcare for all. Hey USA, where the hell were you on this list.
The countries were not poor compared to other countries at the time. It's just that the prospects were even better in the US due to all the "empty" land and many had enough money to afford the voyage. Greater religious freedom was also a factor for the earlier emigrants.
No you would not. Life expectancy is averaging to get a number. Infants and children died disproportionately. If you lived to 35, there would be every chance you would make your 'three score years and ten' from the bible.
The US is below 50th in terms of life expectancy on the planet. The country lost 4 years in the last 10, with 2 of them being lost to opioids and 2 of them being lost to the botched Covid response. Any talk of American healthcare being great or the country being the greatest country on the planet is simply farcical.
According to this graph there are no African or Muslin countries who will make it over 60 plus are not even listed. There are those who want USA and UK citizens to retire at 70 yet they also have a short life of less than 70. Who gather this information?
My Japanese wife has told me that Japanese hospitals are very good at keeping people alive, even if they have no quality of life. Obviously this could affect useful life expectancy.
Japan does have social programmes for the retired that encourages them to continue being active, both mentally and physically. Western countries leave people to manage their own lives unsupported. The benefit for Japanese government is lower spending on geriatric healthcare.
Germany disappeared in 1989. Very sad. However, i do not think predicting life expectancy untill 2050 makes sense after the recent Vaccine Experiments because it will certainly change a lot in the countries with a high v-rate.
I also think the rapid change in technology and technological innovation will increase the life expectancy around the world. Won’t be surprised if 20% of everyone born after 1990 will be 100 before they die. Although, with many non-active people the life expectancy may also drop. We’ll never know until we’re there.
@@arvideriksson03 I also don't think we surpass the older generation is some points. Many people today are lonly and also low in social relationships and many of them are not very active. We also have a lot of fast food and the costs for living, housing, energy and food are exploding in europe, this combined with the epidemic of depressed and lonley people the increasing rate of homelessness and the low birth rate in many western and asian countries could pack a punch in the next years.
The chart lost credibility when it went past 2023 I watched to 2050 the random rankings and decided it was mostly fiction based on a little bit of truth.
no, the difference is that, for example, in Italy and Spain healthcare is free for anyone, in the United States access to medical care depends on one's income
@@lorenzobianchini4095Y la mierda de alimentación que tienen en EEUU con una tasa altísimo de infartos e ictus. La dieta es clave. En muchos otros países tienen total acceso a la sanidad y son países ricos pero están muy por debajo de España o Italia por ejemplo.
The only reason Japan doesn't age more is because of the biological and genetic limitations of humans. Now imagine how long people would live if we discovered how slow down aging further
Far too many people simply don't take care of themselfs...they smoke, eat too much and are 50 lbs overweight..they don't eat foods rich in nutrients...don't exercise and loss muscle mass...I see it..most of my friends who did those things died in their 50's
You've got "Australia" leaping into second place in 1880, or thereabouts, but of course Australia wasn't a nation until 1901. Prior to then it was a series of States having dominion status within the British Empire.
The growth is due to a massive decrease In infant mortality. Most people who lived past childhood lived till their 60s or 70s, even 200 years ago. The older figures are misleading because they are based on averages. People didn't die of old age in their 40s.
The only issue i have is from the last data point everything gets extrapolated so countries all start the same and get better. The current generation eating ultra processed crap every day means life expectancy may actually fall. Seeing as most under 30s are obese (western world).
I’m surprised that Europe performs that good in the first half of the 19th century. Chinese or middle eastern medicine should have been somewhat better back then.
There’s mitigating factors including Finland’s long frontier struggles against Russian aggression and the fact that development was held back for many generations. My grandmother is from Lithuania and it’s similar.
Would be interesting to compare with indigenous tribal people who eat organic natural food, don't live in an industrially polluted environment and aren't subjected to modern warfare.
in Europe, in the pre-industrial era, life expectancy was around 45/50 years, even if there was no pollution and people ate natural products. Modern medicine was missing.
@@lorenzobianchini4095 agreed this may have an influence, yet western medicine still doesn't have a cure for cancer and other modern lifestyle illnesses. Europe has always lacked sunlight/vitamin D too... nowadays people know to supplement. In Europe, think it's got more to do with more wealth and access to information and less inequality, exploitation, and less recent warfare, in comparison with other places. So many factors involved...
@@ashton1952Northern Europe lacks sunlight and vitamin D. Look at how Nordic countries were at the top for a century. Italy wasn't on the list until after WW2, it was a very poor country before that.
I was told that the healthiest food is Mediterranean food. Then, this video shows that people in Mediterranean countries do not have the longest live expectancy.
Really? You know where are Italy and Spain? Look video again, you can see are in the top positions. And about Greece? In the early XIX century was in the firsts positions too
Healthy diet doesn’t equate to life expectancy if there’s socio-political issues. Just as medical advancement in the US doesn’t equate to greater life expectancy because of limited access to that advanced care.
Also some time ago a woman from FMI said people life too much and it was bad for economies for paying their jubilation (that they payed with taxes) was quite polemic and now they say that never happened but on the day it was on the tv news 😂
