- As of 2016, only ~80% of males make it to age 65 in the United States (this is as opposed to ~87% of females). https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/survival-to-age-65-of-cohort?country=~USA
- As of 2015, the slope of ‘life expectancy increases over time’ even in advanced countries like Japan is still very high, though decelerating. Caveated with next point. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy?tab=chart&country=JPN~GBR~IND~ETH~OWID_WRL~KOR~ZAF~USA®ion=World
- Are we just reducing child mortality to increase average length expectancy? Not exactly over a long time span; however, if you look carefully at the last small segment, things haven’t really increased in the last several years. Note that this graph is only for England and Wales. The flattening at the end seems to contradict the graph in the previous bullet point. Hmmm.
- Old news but we always good to have a refresher. US life expectancy surprisingly low considered by itself, but especially when considered against health expenditure per capita.
To get insight on some reasons on why — https://ourworldindata.org/us-life-expectancy-low
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