Eric Zuesse – US Has the Shortest Life Expectancy of All Rich Nations | At N° 38, US Ties With Lebanon, Beats Cuba By Four Months

Make America Great Again (foto tenor.com) US Has the Shortest Life Expectancy of All Rich Nations | At N° 38, US Ties With Lebanon, Beats Cuba By Four Month According to the UN’s “Human Development Report 2019“, which is the latest available global information (published on 9 December 2019), the United States is the only country that ranks in the top 15 on “Human Development” in which the life expectancy at birth is now below 80.0 years. On “Human Development” the US ranks as being N° 5 out of the 189 ranked countries, but is N° 38 on the crucial life expectancy factor. See page 300, here, for the complete rankings. America’s life expectancy is found to be over one year shorter than the 80.8 years of the country that’s ranked N° 14 on “Human Development,” which is Denmark. That’s 80.8 years as the average age of death. America’s number is 78.9 years – almost two full years shorter than Denmark’s, which is the next better ranking country. By contrast, Japan, which ranks as being N° 19) on overall “Human Development” (and so it isn’t even among the top 15 on that) has the world’s highest life expectancy: 84.5 years. … Meer lezen over Eric Zuesse – US Has the Shortest Life Expectancy of All Rich Nations | At N° 38, US Ties With Lebanon, Beats Cuba By Four Months