World Map of the Life ExpectancyHana SevcikovaAdrian Raftery
Life expectancy has increased rapidly since the Enlightenment. Estimates suggest that in a pre-modern, poor world, life expectancy was around 30 years in all regions of the world. In the early 19th century, life expectancy started to increase in the early industrialized countries while it stayed ...
We found an 8- and 14-year range in life expectancy among the 363 cities, with the lowest values at 74.4 (95% credible interval (CrI) 73.7 to 74.9) and 63.5 (95% CrI 61.7 to 65.2) and the highest values at 82.7 (95% CrI 81.7 to 83.4) and 77.4 (95% CrI 75.3 to 78.9), in ...
Description:The map below shows how Life expectancy at birth, male (years) varies by country. The shade of the country corresponds to the magnitude of the indicator. The darker the shade, the higher the value. The country with the highest value in the world is Hong Kong SAR, China, with...
[Para 8]However, the authors also speculated that medical advances in controlling senescence and treating chronic disease could theoretically bend the curve and make that limit a routine life expectancy in the future.Questions have emerged about the flexibility of Gompertz’s model as more and more...
The present study used a spatial cluster detection approach based on individual death records to investigate the geographical footprint of life expectancy inequalities in the state of Geneva, Switzerland. Individual-level mortality data (n = 22,751) were obtained from Geneva’s official death ...
Life, Defined Life, DefinedThe course of life is like the sea; men come and go; tides rise and fall; and that is all of history —Joaquin MillerEach person’s life is like a mountain. And each person has to climb that mountain top alone —Rosamund PilcherPilcher builds on the mountain...
Using this data, Aarsh Batra visualizes a map of life expectancy gains (the deeper the hue, the higher the gain) if all people around the world breathed cleaner air. Top 500 Cities By Life Expectancy Gains From Cleaner Air Consistent exposure to particulate matter in the air with a width ...
Discover why the blue zone countries Italy, Greece, Japan, Costa Rica, and the US have the highest life expectancy and the 9 secrets to a long life.
Although the black-white gap in life expectancy has been shrinking in the U.S., national improvement conceals ongoing disparities. Nowhere is this more evident than Washington D.C., where the black-white gap has persistently exceeded 10 years. Using 1999–2017 mortality data from the National ...