Dear MEL Topic Readers,
How long are you going to live?
Life expectancy. It is a statistical measure of the average time one is expected to live. The most popular measure of life expectancy is at birth by country and gender. For example, Japanese women are expected to live the longest in the world at 86.8 years and Swiss men are expected to live longer than any other men in the world for 81.3 years. Life expectancy at birth can be affected by living standards, lifestyle, education, and quality and availability of health services. So, you may think newborn girls in a developing country would on average live longer lives than their mothers. Not quite. That’s because grownups have already lived many years, meaning they have gone through the most critical period of life in their early periods and years. In fact, although the first 48 hours of a new life is the most crucial period for newborn survival, quality care to prevent and treat illness for newborns and their mothers are far from available in Sub-Saharan countries. As a result, their life expectancies are far shorter than the world average. More than a dozen countries have female life expectancies shorter than 60 years.
So, life expectancy varies by gender and age group even in the same country. And there is a quick calculator to find the answers in this article.
Enjoy reading and checking the life expectancies of you and others in the world.
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