Japan has the highest life expectancy at 84.1 years. However, some of the more underdeveloped countries still lag. Sierra Leone, for example, has an average life expectancy of 52 years.
The number of elderly people in the world is increasing at a remarkable rate and the rate of aging in Japan is the world's highest. According to a statistical survey done in 1994, people over 65 years of age constitute 14.1% of the Japanese population. In addition, the Japanese average ...
According to some scholars, the rapid growth of China’s economy seems to have not yielded significant health benefits [12, 13]. Since the onset of economic reforms, the development of health in China has been less than satisfactory. Firstly, the improvement in life expectancy in underdeveloped...
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vast differences in approaches to the control and containment of coronavirus across the world and has demonstrated the varied success of such approaches in minimizing the transmission of coronavirus. While previous studies have demonstrated high predictive...
Japan which boasts one of the longest life expectancies for its population in the world as also having a significantly large population of centenarians (living within the region) despite being one of the poorest regions in the country (being the bottom ranked in socioeconomic indicators for Japan...
The World Health Organization estimated that 4.6% of males and 6.5% of females were obese in China in 2008. This is a much lower rate than in most other OECD countries (the average for the males/females rate combined was 15.0% in OECD countries in 2010), but higher than in Japan (3.8...
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Therefore, maintaining effective levels of muscle strength and bone properties seems to be important for preserving the mobility of older people. Currently, only 11 countries have an average male life expectancy of 80 years or more; much fewer than for women [14]. To the best of our knowledge...
Table 2 shows the LPI scores of the top 10 countries in the world (see S1 in Supplementary Materials for full data) and that of China from 2012 to 2018. As can be seen, most countries with high LPI are in Europe, while Japan and Singapore are the only two Asian countries among the ...
Suicide rates of older people vary widely across Europe [12]; the highest figures are observed in Eastern Europe and the lowest in Southern Europe [13]. Older people are more likely to experience life events that associate with suicide, such as physical illness and functional disability [14],...