@@Junior-zf7yy I am almost certain that its because the data was collected in different years. The study comparing Nigeria and Vietnam probably happened when Nigeria was at 54, but the study they used at the beginning of the video was a different, more recent one.
The fact that my country(Bangladesh) has a life expectancy that is above the average just surprises me.I guess Bangladesh government has finally taken some steps to improve the Healthcare system
Many hospitals in Bangladesh are quite low standard honestly, but certainly better than many other countries. And its improving, good job by the government. However, high levels of corruption do exist within the Health Ministry, I hope the Prime Minister does something about it like she did with the Education Ministry, which is really doing good now after she appointed Dipu Moni as Edu. Minister, in my opinion.
@Ararune If the US would introduce a Universal health care system, be it single payer like the UK NHS or a Bismarck system like France or Germany, health care costs overall would be reduced for drastically. I give you the main reasons: 1. If you are covered, you will go to the doctor earlier, therefor treatment costs are cheaper. In the current system, as you often have to pay thousands of Dollars before the insurance covers anything, therefor you delay any visit as long as possible. This alone cuts costs massivly. 2. red tape. What treatment is paid by the insurance, to what fraction, is the doctor covered, is the hospital covered? A bureaucratic nightmare and enormous costs. Completely gone, as all doctors and hospitals are covered, as well as all accepted treatments. 3. treating the problem, not the symptoms. Which brings us back to life expectancy. The US opioid crisis is the root of the reduction in US life expectancy. Its reason is that opioids are cheaper than treating the cause. 4. Extra costs like advertisement are massively reduced. 5. Costs for drugs and treatment are massively reduced, as they are not negotiated individually for each insurance and each hospital, but on block. If you do not believe me, just compare each of those factors. USA vs. Canada/GB or USA vs. France/Germany, depending if you prefer the single payer or the Bismarck system. By the way, you also have free choice of doctor, hospital and treatment in those systems, too.
@@FylinB563 While obesity is a factor, other reasons like higher infant mortality and the opioid crisis are equally important, the later is the reason for the current reduction in US life expectancy.
I am a greek and I can say that as Mediterranean countries along with Italy Spain And Portugal our diet is one of the most nutritional of the world with production and consumption of olive oil while also quite considerable healthcare advantage
if the pollution isn't going to kill you early then the fucking prices, daylight robbery bills, your salary and the government will, all of the stress accounts to something... (⌐■-■)
we also has a problem with obesity among women above the age of 35 people like to make fun of Americans for being overweight but they are nothing compare to Egyptians women
@@Ashraf-Hrira lmao, no America is still more obese, the obesity in Egypt stems from the increasing poverty and the shitty economy of Egypt, literally carbohydrates are the cheapest in Egypt, and the decades of low income have altered the Egyptian taste to prefer high calorie sweet and cheap food, BECAUSE THEY CAN'T AFFORD ANYTHING ELSE 300$ a month is nothing in Egypt I can't turn on the ac for more than 5 minutes and my electric bill starts rapidly raising above 800egp/month (that's $50 usd) the rent I share with 4 roommates alone is $300 and this place is considered "high class" more like my ass shitty ass country with lazy still underpaid undereducated people that only care about sex..
Libya was literally Africa's richest country, and a very high HDI and GDP Per Capita. So high in fact, even after the war (2011-2020), they are in a very livable position.
@@Ashraf-Hrira it's an average, meaning the life expectancy of afghans living semi-safely in Kabul or Kandahar are averaged with the people living out in the mountains and countryside where the war is being fought, i'd imagine it's much lower in the warzones and higher in the cities, and the average is overall low.
Southern African countries should be well into the 70s, if it wasn’t for HIV/AIDS. At least Botswana is almost at 70, but South Africa won’t reach 70 until the late 2030s according to some sources :(
@@KrishnaDasLessons I believe it is. People aren't responsible. South Africa focuses on contraception giving out free condoms (men & women), birth control pills, injections etc. Still the problem persists. I think it's the wealth factor. Many of the people with HIV are poor, meaning that South Africa should rather focus on creating wealth, and perhaps health will follow.
@@lu881 Yeh agreed. They try a lot with health. But not enough when it comes to sorting out inequality. It’s not a bad government but they need more effort and face problems head on.
Coming from a poorer country and after I lived in America for a while I felt we are actually richer. Loool I understand your frustration when people are denied access to healthcare and education and your political parties are bought by corporations.
@@kinfongyeung5400 yes but USA is an extreme level and they avoid addressing things like gun control, healthcare, education, climate change and the list goes on.
Americans are pretty damn wealthy. When you take currency strength in consideration with wages Americans make some of the highest wages on average in the world, which is extremely impressive given how many poor people they allow to migrate across their borders annually.
@@shubhamsagarsingh9451 Yes but Japan has a challenge supplying and paying enough younger people to look after the old people, who are no longer economically productive. All rich countries are starting to get this problem but Japan is leading the way.
Education somewhat surprised me at first but it makes so much sense. Like Lutz said, it gives you more confidence to self-govern your life, leading to healthier choices. Very interesting.
Also If they learn well to not mix unknown substances, have protected sex and avoid certain pathigens usually they tend to live a whole more. Very interesting indeed
I feel that a Singapore style healthcare system could be beneficial to the US. Granted Singapore’s government is much more different to the US and in a lot of ways has a monopoly on decision making but I think if there is a conjoined consensus amongst Americans about wanting a more reliable healthcare system it should really be worth considering as an option.
the singapore government doesn't have to listen to any company that would want to change/keep the current system. singapore-style system not happening.
I don't think anyone should have to pay to go to the doctors. The only benefit of privatized health care is the rate at which you can get ur medical needs met. We have universal health care in Canada. its great I wouldn't have $2 gazillion dollars to go to the neurologist, but because the governments control the pay, we don't have enough doctors. people go to the ER for a tiny headache or cold, which makes the wait time insane and everything else including and especially surgery can also take a while to get in for an appointment.
well Algeria seems to be doing fine lol, and yes my neighbor was 119 years for real, he died last year his wife was 95 when she died half a year after him.
They started from the bottom gradually moving up, so the dark red countries started first while everyone else is uncoloured, hopefully that helps you understand the map better, I'd like to name every thing but the world is huge 😅
@@rohankishibe8259 Yeah, the video explained it pretty well, so even without any colors it could be understood. But the quick overview the map provides is missing for me.
1. I'm from Peru, and I find it surprising how high Peru is. It had a score of 79.9 meaning that if COVID hadn't happened, Peru would've likely been one level higher this or next year. Really cool! 2. Why is Alaska one green higher than the rest of the United States?
I'm from Cyprus. It's true that people here live long lives. If someone dies before the age of 80, it is not rare to hear people saying that he/she died so young. This is not very unexpected to be honest. Although our GDP per capita is not that high (27.858 USD), people here have very high living standards. Despite the fact that there are some poor people, like everywhere, it is extremely unlikely to find people that actually struggle to survive. We don't have any homeless people and beggars are hardly seen here. This is partly a result of the small, closed society which we used to be. Most of the people inherit at least a small house somewhere in Cyprus, and finding a job is not that hard. Also, poorer people can move to villages, since most of them have demographic issues and try to attract people by offering jobs and accommodations. If your family is Cypriot, they will most probably have some fortune and you will not struggle to survive. The typical Cypriot families are not like most European ones, that try to make you independent. They will help you economically for as long as you need help. It is not rare here to see people living with their parents for their whole lives. I believe that another factor that increases our living expectancy is the low criminal rate, and especially the homicide frequency which is really low. Unfortunately it gets worst as years go by, but it is still relatively low compared to other countries. It is also worth saying that everyone has access to public hospitals when they get ill. Our health system is currently improving massively, with the introduction of a universal health care system, called GESY (Something like the NHS). Most doctors are registered in GESY and you can visit any doctor you want, whenever you want, paying only a 6 euro fee. The rest of it is paid by the government, who collects the money by relatively small health-related taxes. I believe that this system will prevent many deaths and it will increase our life expectancy. GESY was introduced just 2 years ago, so it is still evolving and changing. What I observed these 2 years is that people who almost never went to doctors, now do it quite regularly. People that never had blood analysis before, now are having once, or twice a year. Also, people who had different pains or felt unwell, often didn't want to spend 50 euros or more for a check up. This in turn lead to some deaths that could have been avoided. Therefore, although GESY is a very controversial concept here in Cyprus, since it is still new and has some gaps, so some people do not support it, I think that it will indeed help achieving higher life expectancies, and ensuring that all people, poor or rich, Cypriots or immigrants, will have exactly the same access to healthcare. Here I should also add that stress levels here are really low. People usually live quiet, easy lives, especially older ones. Don't get me wrong, I don't mean that people don't have problems or don't care about anything. Of course people get stressed, but this is usually temporal and at some point they get back to their normal lives. Unfortunately, in some other countries, many people are stressed persistently. The ease of the life here does not provoke stress about how to pay rents, how to be on time at your job (since jobs are usually 10-15 minutes distance by car, and everyone has a car), etc. Unfortunately, this is true mainly for older people, since younger generations slowly begin to synchronise with the modern living styles. The last thing that I have to mention is the Mediterranean diet, which is considered to be pretty nutritious. It is very common for older women to cook for their adult children. People have a break from their job, go to their parents and eat healthy, instead of going to fast food restaurants like in some other countries. This is partly due to the fact that all the distances are pretty small and everyone moves by car. This ensures that people have a balanced, Mediterranean diet , since the menu of each week contains legumes, pasta, meet, fish, cooked with olive oil and without unnecessary flavourings and preservatives. All in all, the fact that everyone in Cyprus lives comfortable lives, getting enough money to buy food, clothes, and also get some entertainment, the lack of extensive stress, the diet and the free healthcare system, lead to the fact that Cyprus has one of the highest life expectancies in the world.
Hong Konger here! Here we have a life expectancy of 84.9 years... Would never have guessed it since we have so much air pollution and also being one of the most expensive cities to live in :D
@@donkeycole6655 yes, and when you manipulate those extremes in order to hide the vast inequalities, people will call you out on it. what is the median?
but is not natural. COVID said the opposite. this is how you know. Life expectancy in these countries are lowered through human actions or lies YOU ARE TELLING ME PEOPLE who eat cheese, beef , drink wine and dont walk eat healthier than those who dont have toxic food, live in the sun, and walk everyday? because when they did not get 2,3,4 5, 6 waves of covid = the science community said THEY WERE HEALTHIER WITH BETTER GENES.. but if you dump all your toxic waste on their land or you have economic wars; yes those are artificial agents added ie germ warfare. you will get skewed numbers. >> the top 10 countries are the top 10 in everything positive. the most happiest the most richest the most prettiest their rivers only run straight with perfect banks, their mountains are perfect its laughable because nature isnt like that .... ..😂😭 i dont know why they do this ? because it only harms their population when the truth is reveal. ---------------------------------------------------------------- here we are now in 2022 and those to 10 countries have food shortages. and covid plummeted their life expectancy . this video was publish in the middle of Covid surve wave.. that killed millions. THE MAP IS THE OPPOSITE NOW
I don't think so dude, shorter lifespan means poor medical facilities, poor medical means die in sufferring. Those people had to endure pain in there dying days
@@evildragon1774 What null meant however, is that living longer would be worse than dying, because of exactly those things, poor medical infrastructure etc. Null says the overall suffering is greater if you would live longer in those areas.
@@michaelpapadopoulos6054 why do you hate japan? I mean... living in japan is stressful but you don't have to hate japan tho. And just because you live long dosen't mean you have to work for the rest of your life.
I mean, Latin America does well in some things and bad in many others. Their healthcare systems have actually improved a lot. The US has a high life expectancy still, it is just one of the few things that Latin America also does right (finally a good thing about this region)
From Spain, we know we have a high life expectancy, we also know we are sort of the odd one out people won't expect to be on the top 5 (we have been in the top 2 before tho). And we are rather proud of having one of the best healthcare systems in the entire world.
Yeah, although keep in mind we've gone down due to COVID. After the pandemic we'll likely go up again. Heck, some studies we may even get number 1 in 20 years or so.
El sistema sanitario de España es un asco. Lo que nos hace vivir tanto tiempo es la comida mediterránea, la mentalidad de pasarlo bien por encima de todo y la alta actividad de la población (las calles siempre están llenas de gente)
@@ivanovichdelfin8797 Depende de la comunidad (mirando a Madrid lo digo). Pero viviendo en el extranjero, en un país con un sistema sanitario "envidiable", no hay punto de comparación con la calidad de la estructura sanitaria española.
@@enricbf8475 Las instalaciones son de excelente calidad, hay recursos para tratar a todos los enfermos (la mayoría de tiempo), pero falta personal profesional, protocolos sanitarios más flexibles acorde con el paciente, detección más temprana de enfermedades y no alargar las citas. Básicamente, falta prácticamente todo
@@ivanovichdelfin8797 la mera existencia de centros de atención primaria y ambulatorios es una maravilla de por sí. Porque aquí es encuentra un médico o clínica privada (público solo hay hospital y pocos) y entonces ellos le cobran al país, no sin antes cobrarte un copago, que pelearé tu con ellos por si es el adecuado o no.
I as a Nigerian, I am just sad because most negative things about Nigeria is because of the Muslim majority northern part of the country. Northern states in Nigeria has the Lowest literacy rates, lowest life expectancy, lowest gdp per capital, very unsafe etc. The government in Northern states are prioritizing Religion first to anything else. That is why there have been call for splitting the country and major tribes wants to form their own country.
It would be interesting to make an study about why people in countries that smoke so much, such as Greece, Spain, China, life expectancy is so high despite the other factors. I am from Spain and it's true that I see many people in their 90s and in pretty good shape, but I also see many smokers and the diet that the young generation follow is getting worse, I hope that won't have a negative impact on our quality of life, stay healthy guys and take care of yourself and your beloved ones😉
There’s also some remote villages where the average life expectancy is only 25-40 years because of them having no access to any medical supplies or services in their remote locations and also because of frequent work accidents associated with dangerous working conditions. That’s especially true for the families who work on the world’s most remote salt mines as very frequently accidents like major cuts will most likely become deadly due to a lack of available medical services.
As a Czech citizen, I would say that our habits like drinking and cuisine have a greater impact than our spending on public health (this sector is underpaid, but of high quality) when compared to Spain.
@@goosenuggets9693 thank you for corroborating the education facet of the study and how your indoctrination by conservacrap media shows the world why US health care sucks.
Education = smarter women = better postnatal survival There are a stupid amount of other benefits to focusing on educating your female populous but reducing the number of dead babies and dead mums seems like a pretty compelling one.
@Ararune yeah you might be right about that but I was talking about how the rest of the US states are not colored individually, so why do this only for Alaska? It’s just probably a mistake from the map maker’s part
From Italy 🇮🇹: I believe you should at least said something about the Mediterranean diet since is one of the main reason those countries have a higher life expectancy (of course combined with health care etc)
I'm from Israel, and expected us to be lower. There are several distinct population groups - such as ultra-orthodox, Arab-Israelis, etc. And also great differences between the high population centers and the more rural areas, where the quality of healthcare is somewhat lower. I expected the average to be lower when you include all the different groups.
@@andrewjones575 On one hand. But we're talking about Israel compared to the rest of the world and not just the Middle East which is even more impressive. I already knew Israel is at the top 10 thanks to trivia mostly. Something that helped enforcing it is when I hear people from around the world and how they tend to mention 76-77 as the maximum, mostly when talking about the "best life you can have". I'm always surprised by it as almost every old person I know made it beyond 82 and most of them are still alive and in good condition for the average elderly... Grandpa from father side passed away at 86, grandpa from mother's side made it to ~86 and still kicking while grandma is close to 82. My dad's aunt made it to 91 and still kicking... And I'm just asking "Bro, only 76-77?".
I like how iran with 12k gdp and low budget for health organizations has a good life expectancy its all because all the ppl are educated and more than half the population is in colleges
Australia good healthcare,good healthy lifestyle, and good attetude towards life.And the continent of Australia the land that is sais that if you suvive whatever it throws at you ,you deserve to live longer because it made you stronger.
Thanks for the great videos you make. I am from Gozo, Malta and I am not surprised. I classify us the same or perhaps slightly higher than Italy when it comes to life expectancy.
What about these isolated places that have enormous numbers of centernarians: Hunza, Bhutan, The Valley of Vilcambama (Peru), the mountains od Georgia (Russia)-one man there lived to 155!
Yeah, same with their democracy. They're basically the only other democracy in the middle east (except for Israel), if you count them as part of the middle east.
@@smorcrux426 , these days, Iraq is a democracy too, with a fully functioning Parliamentary government, free and fair elections, and a multi -party system similar to European countries and constantly improving. So now there are 3 democracies in the Middle East, Iraq, Tunisia and Israel. NOTE: Libya has formed an interim government, and is set to have an election this December. So if all goes well, they might join the Democracy Club in 2022.
@@nuzayerov wow, I didn't know that! We three countries should hold some democratic conference (Israel, Tunisia, Iraq, and hopefully in the future Libya too)
08:00 - Ignorance is the most dangerous thing in the world. Until people were thought about bacterias and how to cope with them (i.e., wash your hands), this ignorance had a massive impact upon life-expectancy. 07:45 - IQ is a rather outdated measurement of intelligence and critical thought.
You should make a video comparing the life expectancy of individual US states. There are humongous disparities state by state by life expectancy for various reasons.
I wonder how high the world average life expectancy would be if: A) McDonalds didn't exist B) Cigarettes were never invented C) We found a cure for cancer
While a cure for cancer is nearly impossible - reducing the smoking prevalence will sure help with cancer as well, considering lung cancer is the cancer that kills the most (one of the highest prevalence + high mortality rate).
The figures include things like child mortality, and Jamaica's is high compared to, say, Cuba. So it might be that slightly fewer Jamaicans survive infancy, but the ones that do might expect a long life.
As an Indian, I have now accepted that India will always be below average. We still live in the laurels of past glory and blame everything on the British even though we have been an independent nation for 70+ years now. We Indians are a proud bunch and think we are better than all the countries surrounding us. The truth is except Pakistan, India has been overtaken in almost all socio-economic indicators by our neighbors we were ahead of a few decades earlier. And there is still no change in sight. Our prime minister bought out 3 major reforms in land, labor and agriculture laws but because of beurocracy and opposition none of them have come to action. I just hope within my lifetime we improve and show we aren't just all talk
The difference is when any other country says "I'm spending on healthcare", they mean It (or some corrupt big person Will have part of the money). But in the US they mean "let me check with the insurance"
Every health system makes decisions about what procedures it will pay for and which it won't. The difference in the US is in many cases those decisions are made by private insurers, rather than a government entity. This is mostly because of the lack of trust in government organizations.
Most of those are in Central Africa, which are generally the poorest in all of Africa. It's mostly the nations in North or East Africa that are starting to improve. There is hope! Six out of the ten fastest growing economies are in Africa!
I'm from israel and I didn't think we'd get this result considering all of the wars, but it's understandable because we have a pretty good healthcare system.
One factor that dictates the life expectancy the most is child birth and infant mortality. If you have decent maternity care in your country, you already are in the top group.
That Colombia has a better than average life expectancy, even with a low gdp per capita. Might have to do something with expenditure in healthcare, but érhaps education is a better explanation.
I mean, the gdp per capita in Colombia isn't as low as the countries that have low life expectancies. The same happens in Peru, Brasil and Ecuador that have a similar GDP per capita. There's a thing keeping it from being even higher in Mexico, Brasil, Colombia and some others, and that is violence.
I'm from India and everything was a surprise from thw point I saw it. The fact that it was lower than average as well as it being lower than Bangladesh really surprised be. Considering the great Covid-19 impact as well as government mismanagement, this is only expectrd to reduce even further.
@ARP, not really. Bangladesh has very few natural resources. Bangladesh started with almost nothing in 1971, while India has lots of resources ranging from Oil, Diamonds, Gold, HUGE Arable Land, and many others. Bangladesh also has too many people within a small area, and it is said that building infrastructure in Bangladesh is the most expensive on Earth (because of Bangladesh land and soil type and over 700 rivers in one small country, its true, look it up). Government management is also a huge thing. Bangladeshi government did something right which India could not. I don't know exactly what, but there is something.
No matter where you live, if you are wealthy or even better, part of the 1 %, you will be guaranteed a long good life, unless if you being assassinate or something, but most of the time wealth = higher life expectancy.
I'm from Indonesia, and that number really surprises me. I have thought that we are above the average in the case of Life Expectancy, because...... there are a lot of old people in Indonesia that live beyond 80 years. My own grandma is 84 this year, and my friend's grandpa reach about 100 years last year. But maybe that is just an isolated example. Indonesia is a big country, with almost 300 million people living in it. Living conditions do vary from place to place, so maybe the number is.... just right ;)
Yes , I think its because living conditions vary from place to place. Of course Jakarta, Borneo, Bali has higher Life Expectancy and better healthcare, education compared to poorer, Eastern provinces like some islands, or West Papua.
How is maternity care in Indonesia? As statistically, if an infant dies and a another person dies at a 100 years, life expectancy is 50 years. Therefor infant mortality has the most effect on life expectancy.
@@yashparekh They do. Fertility rate is negatively correlated with all three factors - wealth, health and education. All three reduce people's propensity to have children.
I disagree about reasoning the difference between Czechia and Spain. I think the explanation lies in the Czech cuisine, which is told to be one of the most underestimated in the world. But it is also not-that-healthy. Eating a lot of caloric food has a lot to do with health.
I think Morocco is below average because most old people dont have official papers so i guess thats a huge factor since most of them even remembers WW1 as childs
Yeah, it isn't because its a dictatorship with awful public services which spends millions on its army army and sends his youth to invade Spain and France. It's totally because old people don't have official papers...
Not in Norway. Fewer people died during the pandemic than the past 5 years average. This is because the very strict restrictions against Covid also affected other death causes (common flu, traffic related...). The visualization of this negative "excess mortality" on Our World in Data is striking. ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores?country=NOR~USA
It should be noted that the Japanese life expectancy rates aren't an accurate portrayal of actual age due to two factors. Before WW2 a lot of young boys lied about being older so that they could serve in the military and get increased rations for their family causing almost an entire generation to be on paper 3-6 years older than they are in reality. Then there is also the fact that a lot of families don't report their elderly family members as dead so they can keep collecting pensions, only reporting the family member dead right before the inspection turns up which only inspects once every 5 years.
Western Europe, despite being on the tier of life expectancy, has several things holding it from reaching the top : very high consumption of alcohol, high consumption of tobacco (I'm french, so yeah we still smoke quite a lot) and with a lesser impact, deadly violence, while S.Korea and Japan have lower numbers in these issues. There are other variables of course, but I think it plays a role, especially when we're speaking of a minor difference.
Living longer is by no means correlated to a better life. People should be able to live when alive. Not have to go radical measures just to pump up 2 years of personal life expectancy. A lot of human social interactions are far more important than personal survival. Survival of offspring requires social network.
Note: Korea still has a high alcohol consumption worldwide beyond Asia, and the adult smoking rate is also high. In addition, despite the unfavorable conditions of frequent quite poor air quality among major countries due to China's expansion of thermal power plants and factories over the past decade, the average life expectancy has been steadily rising, and at this point, it has become one of the world's top 5 long-lived countries. (Except for a few of city-states)
When comparing life expectancy among wealthier countries, culture, and diet really matter. You have to look at how each country's culture around hygiene, lifestyle, as well as per capita meat and vegetable consumption, cholesterol intake, etc. Japan, South Korea, and Singapore lead the chart due to our balanced diet (we eat a lot more grains, vegetables, and seafood than red meat), cultural emphasis on personal and public hygiene, and, of course, the walkability of our cities.
A lot of it is genetic, especially at the high life expectancy end of the spectrum. Your comment only applies when comparing two low or average life expectancy countries
Nigerian here, glad to see it had increase from around 54 to 57 to 60+, even during one of the country’s worst economic chapters.
Did you complete the video? They said the life expectancy is 54 years of age? 7:05
@@Junior-zf7yy I think he's referring to 1:17. It said Nigeria has a life expectancy of 60 and 65.
@@Junior-zf7yy in NIGERIA it 60 to 65
@@AnointedSage ohhh right. Why are they different then. The graphic even said 56.5
@@Junior-zf7yy I am almost certain that its because the data was collected in different years. The study comparing Nigeria and Vietnam probably happened when Nigeria was at 54, but the study they used at the beginning of the video was a different, more recent one.
The fact that my country(Bangladesh) has a life expectancy that is above the average just surprises me.I guess Bangladesh government has finally taken some steps to improve the Healthcare system
Many hospitals in Bangladesh are quite low standard honestly, but certainly better than many other countries. And its improving, good job by the government.
However, high levels of corruption do exist within the Health Ministry, I hope the Prime Minister does something about it like she did with the Education Ministry, which is really doing good now after she appointed Dipu Moni as Edu. Minister, in my opinion.
Bangladesh is an Asian Tiger. India looking at Bangladesh is same as China looking at Singapore when they were having economic boom.
@@nuzayerov are u from russia or Bangladesh?
@@mdahnaf7051 , BD
@@nuzayerov also immune systems are generally very good
Americans: “Can we have universal healthcare?”
Government: “Best I can do is lower your life expectancy.”
@Ararune The Uk spends half as much per capita than the US and has universal healthcare.
I'm pretty sure the only reason it's so low is cuz there are so many fat people
@Ararune If the US would introduce a Universal health care system, be it single payer like the UK NHS or a Bismarck system like France or Germany, health care costs overall would be reduced for drastically. I give you the main reasons:
1. If you are covered, you will go to the doctor earlier, therefor treatment costs are cheaper. In the current system, as you often have to pay thousands of Dollars before the insurance covers anything, therefor you delay any visit as long as possible. This alone cuts costs massivly.
2. red tape. What treatment is paid by the insurance, to what fraction, is the doctor covered, is the hospital covered? A bureaucratic nightmare and enormous costs. Completely gone, as all doctors and hospitals are covered, as well as all accepted treatments.
3. treating the problem, not the symptoms. Which brings us back to life expectancy. The US opioid crisis is the root of the reduction in US life expectancy. Its reason is that opioids are cheaper than treating the cause.
4. Extra costs like advertisement are massively reduced.
5. Costs for drugs and treatment are massively reduced, as they are not negotiated individually for each insurance and each hospital, but on block.
If you do not believe me, just compare each of those factors. USA vs. Canada/GB or USA vs. France/Germany, depending if you prefer the single payer or the Bismarck system.
By the way, you also have free choice of doctor, hospital and treatment in those systems, too.
@@FylinB563 While obesity is a factor, other reasons like higher infant mortality and the opioid crisis are equally important, the later is the reason for the current reduction in US life expectancy.
@@pirozigzigwam8594 the uk universal healthcare isn't that good however, singapore or any other rich country is a better example
I am a greek and I can say that as Mediterranean countries along with Italy Spain And Portugal our diet is one of the most nutritional of the world with production and consumption of olive oil while also quite considerable healthcare advantage
Chad dies 0.4 years before 60 so he doesn't get affected by the "boomer" disease.
*OUCH*
Wow 😂😂😂
What a chad
@shannon heraty There's probably boomers in Chad , probably rare to find one older than 60 Not trying to be ageist
When Egypt has a worse life expectancy than Libya: *somethings wrong I can feel it*
Libya was extremiy wealthy and egypt has a bad health system equity
if the pollution isn't going to kill you early then the fucking prices, daylight robbery bills, your salary and the government will, all of the stress accounts to something... (⌐■-■)
we also has a problem with obesity among women above the age of 35 people like to make fun of Americans for being overweight but they are nothing compare to Egyptians women
@@Ashraf-Hrira lmao, no America is still more obese, the obesity in Egypt stems from the increasing poverty and the shitty economy of Egypt, literally carbohydrates are the cheapest in Egypt, and the decades of low income have altered the Egyptian taste to prefer high calorie sweet and cheap food, BECAUSE THEY CAN'T AFFORD ANYTHING ELSE 300$ a month is nothing in Egypt I can't turn on the ac for more than 5 minutes and my electric bill starts rapidly raising above 800egp/month (that's $50 usd) the rent I share with 4 roommates alone is $300 and this place is considered "high class" more like my ass shitty ass country with lazy still underpaid undereducated people that only care about sex..
Libya was literally Africa's richest country, and a very high HDI and GDP Per Capita. So high in fact, even after the war (2011-2020), they are in a very livable position.
No mention of wars & insurgencies, which keep life expectancy low in CAR, Chad, DR Congo, Nigeria, Somalia, Afghanistan etc.
Afghanistan has a higher life expectancy than I thought
@@Ashraf-Hrira it's an average, meaning the life expectancy of afghans living semi-safely in Kabul or Kandahar are averaged with the people living out in the mountains and countryside where the war is being fought, i'd imagine it's much lower in the warzones and higher in the cities, and the average is overall low.
Southern African countries should be well into the 70s, if it wasn’t for HIV/AIDS. At least Botswana is almost at 70, but South Africa won’t reach 70 until the late 2030s according to some sources :(
Southern Africa needs to focus more on making antiretroviral therapy more accessible towards its population.
Yeah! We from Mozambique do not agree with you...all that mining is really damaging for the lungs. Not only in direct mining.
@@KrishnaDasLessons I believe it is. People aren't responsible. South Africa focuses on contraception giving out free condoms (men & women), birth control pills, injections etc. Still the problem persists.
I think it's the wealth factor.
Many of the people with HIV are poor, meaning that South Africa should rather focus on creating wealth, and perhaps health will follow.
Id live forever if I didn't die
@@lu881 Yeh agreed. They try a lot with health. But not enough when it comes to sorting out inequality. It’s not a bad government but they need more effort and face problems head on.
Health is Wealth in America.
Wealth for corporations, that is.
I thought you'd say health for corporations
Coming from a poorer country and after I lived in America for a while I felt we are actually richer. Loool I understand your frustration when people are denied access to healthcare and education and your political parties are bought by corporations.
@@gabrielmoreira5580 Living in Murica, everyone is a slave to corporations.
@@kinfongyeung5400 yes but USA is an extreme level and they avoid addressing things like gun control, healthcare, education, climate change and the list goes on.
Americans are pretty damn wealthy. When you take currency strength in consideration with wages Americans make some of the highest wages on average in the world, which is extremely impressive given how many poor people they allow to migrate across their borders annually.
Japanese politicians: we no longer want to be #1 in this category..
they're among the best aren't they?
@@shubhamsagarsingh9451 Yes but Japan has a challenge supplying and paying enough younger people to look after the old people, who are no longer economically productive. All rich countries are starting to get this problem but Japan is leading the way.
@@patriarch7237 the solution is inmigration
@@alezar2035 That is the sensible solution. However Japan isn't... great... with the idea of immigrants. Maybe that will change.
@@alezar2035 They already have some.
All power to them. Could just raise retirement age. Problem solved :)
Education somewhat surprised me at first but it makes so much sense. Like Lutz said, it gives you more confidence to self-govern your life, leading to healthier choices. Very interesting.
Well, only if someone educates you about healthy and unhealthy nutrition, you can make a educated choice...
Also If they learn well to not mix unknown substances, have protected sex and avoid certain pathigens usually they tend to live a whole more.
Very interesting indeed
it also means they can get less dangerous, and better paying, jobs. which would lead to them lving wealthier and safer lives.
Less likely to be antivaxxers too
2:00 Is Alaska’s life expectancy higher than the lower 48?
It's clearly a mistake as in fact the opposite is true.
Gosh, I thought Canada had annexed it!
another big factor is the diet of each country, mediteranean diet and japanese diet are the best ones
What about the Swiss?
@@neodym5809 Swiss eat chocolate and honey dipped in chocolate all the time
@@andrewsucksatvideos4482 yes, the Swiss only eat chocolate and cheese.
@@mypdf They also eat bread, because what else would you dip in your cheese fondue?
@@neodym5809 yeah, forgot that.
I feel that a Singapore style healthcare system could be beneficial to the US. Granted Singapore’s government is much more different to the US and in a lot of ways has a monopoly on decision making but I think if there is a conjoined consensus amongst Americans about wanting a more reliable healthcare system it should really be worth considering as an option.
the singapore government doesn't have to listen to any company that would want to change/keep the current system. singapore-style system not happening.
There is no consensus among Americans regarding healthcare, and that is unlikely to change anytime soon.
@@LiveFreeOrDieDH There is one, and it is Medicare for all. It is overwhelmingly popular among the general population.
I don't think anyone should have to pay to go to the doctors. The only benefit of privatized health care is the rate at which you can get ur medical needs met. We have universal health care in Canada. its great I wouldn't have $2 gazillion dollars to go to the neurologist, but because the governments control the pay, we don't have enough doctors. people go to the ER for a tiny headache or cold, which makes the wait time insane and everything else including and especially surgery can also take a while to get in for an appointment.
Americans reaching a consensus ?😂
Great video! The differences across the globe are huge!
I'm from Greece, and that was exactly what I was expecting. Some of our eastern islands have even higher life expectancy than Japan.
Japan has the highest life expectancy in the world
That's why I said SOME of our islands
@@tsakeboya islands? Greece has islands?
@@blacklyfe5543 Have you even seen a map before?
@@Quarequieus have you?
well Algeria seems to be doing fine lol, and yes my neighbor was 119 years for real, he died last year his wife was 95 when she died half a year after him.
I think it's the power of zit zitoun :p
Can that be verified?
@@andrewjones575 he was my neighbor dude, so yes it's real.
So many people live past 80 here, and past 90 in the Kabyle region.
Almost, congrats on your neighbor.
@@joemyk bruh 🤣🤣
Americans be like: “The country of Africa.”
Also American be like: Europe contry
I would laugh but it's true
the country of asia too lol 😂😂
Americans be like: what is south America? I thought It was a country
@@Ja-jq7pc ahhh thats the one i hear the most . they forgot America is a CONTINENT and their country is united STATES *OF* america and not america 😂
A scale from dark green to dark red :o. I hurt myself in confusing colorblindness
They started from the bottom gradually moving up, so the dark red countries started first while everyone else is uncoloured, hopefully that helps you understand the map better, I'd like to name every thing but the world is huge 😅
@@rohankishibe8259 Yeah, the video explained it pretty well, so even without any colors it could be understood. But the quick overview the map provides is missing for me.
@@MrSnepsnep It's a pretty terrible map regardless.
@@goosenuggets9693 what do you mean? It’s a very clear, comprehensive map. What’s not to like?
1. I'm from Peru, and I find it surprising how high Peru is. It had a score of 79.9 meaning that if COVID hadn't happened, Peru would've likely been one level higher this or next year. Really cool!
2. Why is Alaska one green higher than the rest of the United States?
Peru has the highest Covid death rate sadly. I'm sure things will get better as the vaccination continues though
2. Cause Alaska is it's own Republic sponsored by Canada obviously. It is the second major Canadian American land dispute lol
I'm from Cyprus. It's true that people here live long lives. If someone dies before the age of 80, it is not rare to hear people saying that he/she died so young.
This is not very unexpected to be honest. Although our GDP per capita is not that high (27.858 USD), people here have very high living standards. Despite the fact that there are some poor people, like everywhere, it is extremely unlikely to find people that actually struggle to survive. We don't have any homeless people and beggars are hardly seen here. This is partly a result of the small, closed society which we used to be. Most of the people inherit at least a small house somewhere in Cyprus, and finding a job is not that hard. Also, poorer people can move to villages, since most of them have demographic issues and try to attract people by offering jobs and accommodations.
If your family is Cypriot, they will most probably have some fortune and you will not struggle to survive. The typical Cypriot families are not like most European ones, that try to make you independent. They will help you economically for as long as you need help. It is not rare here to see people living with their parents for their whole lives.
I believe that another factor that increases our living expectancy is the low criminal rate, and especially the homicide frequency which is really low. Unfortunately it gets worst as years go by, but it is still relatively low compared to other countries.
It is also worth saying that everyone has access to public hospitals when they get ill. Our health system is currently improving massively, with the introduction of a universal health care system, called GESY (Something like the NHS). Most doctors are registered in GESY and you can visit any doctor you want, whenever you want, paying only a 6 euro fee. The rest of it is paid by the government, who collects the money by relatively small health-related taxes. I believe that this system will prevent many deaths and it will increase our life expectancy. GESY was introduced just 2 years ago, so it is still evolving and changing. What I observed these 2 years is that people who almost never went to doctors, now do it quite regularly. People that never had blood analysis before, now are having once, or twice a year. Also, people who had different pains or felt unwell, often didn't want to spend 50 euros or more for a check up. This in turn lead to some deaths that could have been avoided. Therefore, although GESY is a very controversial concept here in Cyprus, since it is still new and has some gaps, so some people do not support it, I think that it will indeed help achieving higher life expectancies, and ensuring that all people, poor or rich, Cypriots or immigrants, will have exactly the same access to healthcare.
Here I should also add that stress levels here are really low. People usually live quiet, easy lives, especially older ones. Don't get me wrong, I don't mean that people don't have problems or don't care about anything. Of course people get stressed, but this is usually temporal and at some point they get back to their normal lives. Unfortunately, in some other countries, many people are stressed persistently. The ease of the life here does not provoke stress about how to pay rents, how to be on time at your job (since jobs are usually 10-15 minutes distance by car, and everyone has a car), etc. Unfortunately, this is true mainly for older people, since younger generations slowly begin to synchronise with the modern living styles.
The last thing that I have to mention is the Mediterranean diet, which is considered to be pretty nutritious. It is very common for older women to cook for their adult children. People have a break from their job, go to their parents and eat healthy, instead of going to fast food restaurants like in some other countries. This is partly due to the fact that all the distances are pretty small and everyone moves by car. This ensures that people have a balanced, Mediterranean diet , since the menu of each week contains legumes, pasta, meet, fish, cooked with olive oil and without unnecessary flavourings and preservatives.
All in all, the fact that everyone in Cyprus lives comfortable lives, getting enough money to buy food, clothes, and also get some entertainment, the lack of extensive stress, the diet and the free healthcare system, lead to the fact that Cyprus has one of the highest life expectancies in the world.
Cyprus sounds pretty idyllic... that's without even mentioning the weather and scenery.
sounds nice
Hong Konger here! Here we have a life expectancy of 84.9 years... Would never have guessed it since we have so much air pollution and also being one of the most expensive cities to live in :D
that number is an average, the poor of the city live far less long lives than the rich who have access to filtered air of their homes or apartments.
@@cageybee7221 bad excuse, every country has extremes
@@donkeycole6655 yes, and when you manipulate those extremes in order to hide the vast inequalities, people will call you out on it. what is the median?
Hong Kong life expectancy would've been even longer if there was no air pollution
When you look at the main cousin in the top 10 countries, it seems that they also eat healthierband that might affect the life expectancy too
but is not natural. COVID said the opposite.
this is how you know. Life expectancy in these countries are lowered through human actions or lies
YOU ARE TELLING ME PEOPLE who eat cheese, beef , drink wine and dont walk eat healthier than those who dont have toxic food, live in the sun, and walk everyday?
because when they did not get 2,3,4 5, 6 waves of covid = the science community said THEY WERE HEALTHIER WITH BETTER GENES..
but if you dump all your toxic waste on their land or you have economic wars; yes those are artificial agents added ie germ warfare. you will get skewed numbers.
>> the top 10 countries are the top 10 in everything positive.
the most happiest
the most richest
the most prettiest
their rivers only run straight with perfect banks, their mountains are perfect
its laughable because nature isnt like that .... ..😂😭
i dont know why they do this ? because it only harms their population when the truth is reveal.
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here we are now in 2022 and those to 10 countries have food shortages.
and covid plummeted their life expectancy .
this video was publish in the middle of Covid surve wave.. that killed millions.
THE MAP IS THE OPPOSITE NOW
Considering how miserable life can be in some countries, a shorter lifespan is a form of mercy.
I don't think so dude, shorter lifespan means poor medical facilities, poor medical means die in sufferring. Those people had to endure pain in there dying days
@@evildragon1774 What null meant however, is that living longer would be worse than dying, because of exactly those things, poor medical infrastructure etc. Null says the overall suffering is greater if you would live longer in those areas.
imagine having to spend 84 years alive in japan 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
@@michaelpapadopoulos6054 why do you hate japan? I mean... living in japan is stressful but you don't have to hate japan tho. And just because you live long dosen't mean you have to work for the rest of your life.
@@evildragon1774 it was a joke.
You know America is doing bad when most of Latin America has the same life expectancy
I mean, Latin America does well in some things and bad in many others. Their healthcare systems have actually improved a lot. The US has a high life expectancy still, it is just one of the few things that Latin America also does right (finally a good thing about this region)
America is in no way doing “bad”
My prediction is in 2100 the USA will have the same life expectancy as Chad in 2021.
@@FfFf-gi1hd they should be in the top 10
USA is only good for making money, other than that, there is no reason to live there.
1:13 I guess Chad isn’t so Chad after all.
From Spain, we know we have a high life expectancy, we also know we are sort of the odd one out people won't expect to be on the top 5 (we have been in the top 2 before tho). And we are rather proud of having one of the best healthcare systems in the entire world.
Yeah, although keep in mind we've gone down due to COVID. After the pandemic we'll likely go up again. Heck, some studies we may even get number 1 in 20 years or so.
El sistema sanitario de España es un asco. Lo que nos hace vivir tanto tiempo es la comida mediterránea, la mentalidad de pasarlo bien por encima de todo y la alta actividad de la población (las calles siempre están llenas de gente)
@@ivanovichdelfin8797 Depende de la comunidad (mirando a Madrid lo digo). Pero viviendo en el extranjero, en un país con un sistema sanitario "envidiable", no hay punto de comparación con la calidad de la estructura sanitaria española.
@@enricbf8475 Las instalaciones son de excelente calidad, hay recursos para tratar a todos los enfermos (la mayoría de tiempo), pero falta personal profesional, protocolos sanitarios más flexibles acorde con el paciente, detección más temprana de enfermedades y no alargar las citas. Básicamente, falta prácticamente todo
@@ivanovichdelfin8797 la mera existencia de centros de atención primaria y ambulatorios es una maravilla de por sí. Porque aquí es encuentra un médico o clínica privada (público solo hay hospital y pocos) y entonces ellos le cobran al país, no sin antes cobrarte un copago, que pelearé tu con ellos por si es el adecuado o no.
Zimbabwean living in Australia here. I can clearly see the reasons these two places I call home’s life expectancy everyday.
I as a Nigerian, I am just sad because most negative things about Nigeria is because of the Muslim majority northern part of the country. Northern states in Nigeria has the Lowest literacy rates, lowest life expectancy, lowest gdp per capital, very unsafe etc. The government in Northern states are prioritizing Religion first to anything else. That is why there have been call for splitting the country and major tribes wants to form their own country.
It would be interesting to make an study about why people in countries that smoke so much, such as Greece, Spain, China, life expectancy is so high despite the other factors. I am from Spain and it's true that I see many people in their 90s and in pretty good shape, but I also see many smokers and the diet that the young generation follow is getting worse, I hope that won't have a negative impact on our quality of life, stay healthy guys and take care of yourself and your beloved ones😉
Jordan, Algeria, and Tunisia clearly broke the relation between life expectancy and GDP.. They have a low GDP but a really high life expectancy
There’s also some remote villages where the average life expectancy is only 25-40 years because of them having no access to any medical supplies or services in their remote locations and also because of frequent work accidents associated with dangerous working conditions. That’s especially true for the families who work on the world’s most remote salt mines as very frequently accidents like major cuts will most likely become deadly due to a lack of available medical services.
As an Italian living in Spain, I feel fine
As a Czech citizen, I would say that our habits like drinking and cuisine have a greater impact than our spending on public health (this sector is underpaid, but of high quality) when compared to Spain.
Dear Americans, allow me to tell you a joke: universal healthcare
Americans: I don’t get it.
Me neither :(
We understand that Universal Healthcare is a joke.
Dear 沁水灣, allow me to tell you a joke: your english
沁水灣: I don't get it.
@@goosenuggets9693 thank you for corroborating the education facet of the study and how your indoctrination by conservacrap media shows the world why US health care sucks.
I am from Romania and my grand grand mother have lived until the age of 92! And I still have all 4 grannies and grandfathers💙❤️
USA: Freedom comes at a price
largest prison population in the world, "freedom" don't make me laugh.
@@cageybee7221 I think that was the joke, but fully agree
Thanks for the video you guys are awesome!
Education = smarter women = better postnatal survival
There are a stupid amount of other benefits to focusing on educating your female populous but reducing the number of dead babies and dead mums seems like a pretty compelling one.
but what if it creates too many people
hong konger here!There's a running joke here that says we live the longest cuz we have to pay back all the mortgages before we can die
Hello from Kazakhstan, surprised that our average life expectancy is higher than 65.
Mate, you Kazakhs are fricking rich compared to many other countries. Don't look so down on your country.
Thank you for your excellent series of videos.
Interesting that Spain has such a high life expectancy despite having quite a large tobacco culture
I’m from Chile and feel proud that we are on par with the UK!
Singaporean here, excelling in all 3 indicators does somewhat explain our >83 life expectancy, I guess.
Nice flex seeing you are a city state, and not actually that comparable to other larger countries
why is Alaska a different color from the rest of the US and why is Norway mentioned in the >83 category when their life expectancy is 82.6?
@Ararune yeah you might be right about that but I was talking about how the rest of the US states are not colored individually, so why do this only for Alaska? It’s just probably a mistake from the map maker’s part
Norway wasn't mentioned in the >83 category. It was mentioned in the top 10
@@s.aslahahmadfaizi4687 oh yeah, my bad.
From Italy 🇮🇹: I believe you should at least said something about the Mediterranean diet since is one of the main reason those countries have a higher life expectancy (of course combined with health care etc)
As a Canadian ..I am really not surprised the US is falling while Canada is holding
I'm not surprised the US is falling.
I'm from Israel, and expected us to be lower. There are several distinct population groups - such as ultra-orthodox, Arab-Israelis, etc. And also great differences between the high population centers and the more rural areas, where the quality of healthcare is somewhat lower. I expected the average to be lower when you include all the different groups.
Israel has by far the highest quality of life of any country in the Middle East.
@@andrewjones575 On one hand. But we're talking about Israel compared to the rest of the world and not just the Middle East which is even more impressive.
I already knew Israel is at the top 10 thanks to trivia mostly. Something that helped enforcing it is when I hear people from around the world and how they tend to mention 76-77 as the maximum, mostly when talking about the "best life you can have". I'm always surprised by it as almost every old person I know made it beyond 82 and most of them are still alive and in good condition for the average elderly... Grandpa from father side passed away at 86, grandpa from mother's side made it to ~86 and still kicking while grandma is close to 82. My dad's aunt made it to 91 and still kicking...
And I'm just asking "Bro, only 76-77?".
I like how iran with 12k gdp and low budget for health organizations has a good life expectancy its all because all the ppl are educated and more than half the population is in colleges
Australia good healthcare,good healthy lifestyle, and good attetude towards life.And the continent of Australia the land that is sais that if you suvive whatever it throws at you ,you deserve to live longer because it made you stronger.
Thanks for the great videos you make. I am from Gozo, Malta and I am not surprised. I classify us the same or perhaps slightly higher than Italy when it comes to life expectancy.
I’m from the Netherlands and I was about right with what I thought on the beforehand.
What about these isolated places that have enormous numbers of centernarians: Hunza, Bhutan, The Valley of Vilcambama (Peru), the mountains od Georgia (Russia)-one man there lived to 155!
Tunisia doesn't stop from surprising me, one of the small African nations and somehow always surprises me.
Way to go Tunisia and Algeria ❤️
Yeah, same with their democracy. They're basically the only other democracy in the middle east (except for Israel), if you count them as part of the middle east.
@@smorcrux426 , these days, Iraq is a democracy too, with a fully functioning Parliamentary government, free and fair elections, and a multi -party system similar to European countries and constantly improving.
So now there are 3 democracies in the Middle East, Iraq, Tunisia and Israel.
NOTE: Libya has formed an interim government, and is set to have an election this December. So if all goes well, they might join the Democracy Club in 2022.
@@nuzayerov wow, I didn't know that! We three countries should hold some democratic conference (Israel, Tunisia, Iraq, and hopefully in the future Libya too)
@@smorcrux426 , Where are you from?
@@nuzayerov Israel! Where are you from?
Oh yea my grandmother died at the age of 90 and is very sad, I missed her
08:00 - Ignorance is the most dangerous thing in the world. Until people were thought about bacterias and how to cope with them (i.e., wash your hands), this ignorance had a massive impact upon life-expectancy.
07:45 - IQ is a rather outdated measurement of intelligence and critical thought.
Thanks for this 🙂
I'm from Italy: good social relations, food, public health system, clime, environment.
You should make a video comparing the life expectancy of individual US states. There are humongous disparities state by state by life expectancy for various reasons.
appalachia and mississipi delta on par with afghanistan. new england on par with switzerland
@@kairon5249 not Afghanistan more like Eastern European countries but yes it is amazing how different it is.
@@seanpruitt6801 mississipi has a life expectancy of 71, less than north korea.
@@kairon5249 DAMN…….
I wonder how high the world average life expectancy would be if:
A) McDonalds didn't exist
B) Cigarettes were never invented
C) We found a cure for cancer
> We found a cure for cancer
That alone would far outshine the other 2.
While a cure for cancer is nearly impossible - reducing the smoking prevalence will sure help with cancer as well, considering lung cancer is the cancer that kills the most (one of the highest prevalence + high mortality rate).
WOAH WE MADE IT TO THE TOP 10?? CYPRUS IS RELEVANT FOR ONCE
I'm Jamaican & seeing at how it's pretty normal for our elderly people to reach their 90s or 100s I thought we'd be higher
The figures include things like child mortality, and Jamaica's is high compared to, say, Cuba. So it might be that slightly fewer Jamaicans survive infancy, but the ones that do might expect a long life.
As an Indian, I have now accepted that India will always be below average. We still live in the laurels of past glory and blame everything on the British even though we have been an independent nation for 70+ years now. We Indians are a proud bunch and think we are better than all the countries surrounding us. The truth is except Pakistan, India has been overtaken in almost all socio-economic indicators by our neighbors we were ahead of a few decades earlier. And there is still no change in sight. Our prime minister bought out 3 major reforms in land, labor and agriculture laws but because of beurocracy and opposition none of them have come to action. I just hope within my lifetime we improve and show we aren't just all talk
This is similar for Nigerians. But there is positive growth for both💯
Funniest part of our PM three main reforms is one of them have already toppled as the prices of different things are rising
We like freebies
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@@Lordchagnon kya karu, berojgar log vele hote hai
I´m from Iceland and expected us to be mentioned, small though we are. We are very near Japan, sometimes above them.
The difference is when any other country says "I'm spending on healthcare", they mean It (or some corrupt big person Will have part of the money). But in the US they mean "let me check with the insurance"
Every health system makes decisions about what procedures it will pay for and which it won't. The difference in the US is in many cases those decisions are made by private insurers, rather than a government entity. This is mostly because of the lack of trust in government organizations.
I think having a culture of eating healthy might also help significantly with life expectancy
So sad to see so much of Africa jet black… I hope they develop soon!
same! i feel africa has a lot of potential
I'm greatful that i live in Algeria
@@mohamedtrfnx6632 wow that life expectancy is above average , 77 years
@@randombanana640 yea highest in all of africa
Most of those are in Central Africa, which are generally the poorest in all of Africa. It's mostly the nations in North or East Africa that are starting to improve. There is hope! Six out of the ten fastest growing economies are in Africa!
From Singapore here. Sounds about right!
Looks like I'll be retiring in my 70s...
I'm from israel and I didn't think we'd get this result considering all of the wars, but it's understandable because we have a pretty good healthcare system.
One factor that dictates the life expectancy the most is child birth and infant mortality. If you have decent maternity care in your country, you already are in the top group.
That Colombia has a better than average life expectancy, even with a low gdp per capita. Might have to do something with expenditure in healthcare, but érhaps education is a better explanation.
I mean, the gdp per capita in Colombia isn't as low as the countries that have low life expectancies. The same happens in Peru, Brasil and Ecuador that have a similar GDP per capita. There's a thing keeping it from being even higher in Mexico, Brasil, Colombia and some others, and that is violence.
when alaska is coloured as a part of canada:
Well done UK! Having said that, there's always room for improvement.
I'm from India and everything was a surprise from thw point I saw it. The fact that it was lower than average as well as it being lower than Bangladesh really surprised be. Considering the great Covid-19 impact as well as government mismanagement, this is only expectrd to reduce even further.
Bangladesh is more crowded, but India has worse problems with severe poverty, infectious diseases etc.
@ARP, not really. Bangladesh has very few natural resources. Bangladesh started with almost nothing in 1971, while India has lots of resources ranging from Oil, Diamonds, Gold, HUGE Arable Land, and many others. Bangladesh also has too many people within a small area, and it is said that building infrastructure in Bangladesh is the most expensive on Earth (because of Bangladesh land and soil type and over 700 rivers in one small country, its true, look it up).
Government management is also a huge thing. Bangladeshi government did something right which India could not. I don't know exactly what, but there is something.
No matter where you live, if you are wealthy or even better, part of the 1 %, you will be guaranteed a long good life, unless if you being assassinate or something, but most of the time wealth = higher life expectancy.
I'm from Indonesia, and that number really surprises me. I have thought that we are above the average in the case of Life Expectancy, because...... there are a lot of old people in Indonesia that live beyond 80 years. My own grandma is 84 this year, and my friend's grandpa reach about 100 years last year.
But maybe that is just an isolated example. Indonesia is a big country, with almost 300 million people living in it. Living conditions do vary from place to place, so maybe the number is.... just right ;)
Yes , I think its because living conditions vary from place to place. Of course Jakarta, Borneo, Bali has higher Life Expectancy and better healthcare, education compared to poorer, Eastern provinces like some islands, or West Papua.
Same in the Philippines. I was expecting for us to be even in the middle
How is maternity care in Indonesia? As statistically, if an infant dies and a another person dies at a 100 years, life expectancy is 50 years. Therefor infant mortality has the most effect on life expectancy.
I think median income would be a better indicator than gdp per capita
Totally agree. Good point.
Greetings from Switzerland, i didn't expect us to be so high up but makes sense since we're doing quite well on those three factors..
Yes BTW what language is the most used or main in Switzerland?
@@aaxe1766 they use swiss-german, swiss-french and italian, depends on the canton.
@@livethelife4833 cool
Hello from Portugal 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹 i was expecting that my country would be above 83. Great video!
Hmm, then this also explains why Americans are so bad at geography compared to other developed nations.
How?
Virgin 80 plus life expectancy
Vs
Chad sub 60 life expectancy
I'm from Spain and I wonder why I moved to the UK!!! I'm going to die sooner T_T
It makes more sense for someone from the UK to move to Spain.
🤣🤣🤣
You are still in time to move back to Spain, meanwhile keep your diet as Spanish as possible.
Gotta love that independent Alaska with a separate color from the US on the map:3
Japan has the highest life expectancy yet has one of the lowest birth rates in the world
They have no relation to each other but ok
@@yashparekh They do. Fertility rate is negatively correlated with all three factors - wealth, health and education. All three reduce people's propensity to have children.
@@ArawnOfAnnwn yeah but he was surprised that Japan had high life expectancy and low fertility rate which which didn't make any sense
Eeks ... A lot of people in my country India are now crossing 90 and even 95... scary...It would be nice if all of us could pop off at 80 sharp !!!
Food is an importan factor
A good diety let people live more and with less complication
I disagree about reasoning the difference between Czechia and Spain. I think the explanation lies in the Czech cuisine, which is told to be one of the most underestimated in the world. But it is also not-that-healthy. Eating a lot of caloric food has a lot to do with health.
I think Morocco is below average because most old people dont have official papers so i guess thats a huge factor since most of them even remembers WW1 as childs
Yeah, it isn't because its a dictatorship with awful public services which spends millions on its army army and sends his youth to invade Spain and France. It's totally because old people don't have official papers...
I was about to respond but then i checked that you're spanish so there's no point arguing with you
Nice to see Alaska become part of Canada
Life expectancy is going to drop due to Covid-19.
It has dropped, but (at least in the West) it'll rise again as many people have been vaccinated (with the notable exception of France).
Not in Norway. Fewer people died during the pandemic than the past 5 years average.
This is because the very strict restrictions against Covid also affected other death causes (common flu, traffic related...). The visualization of this negative "excess mortality" on Our World in Data is striking. ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores?country=NOR~USA
@@andreizonga4611 Yeah, if they were born in a year that’s true
US Life Expectsncy actually rose for the first time since 2016
Spain has wine, Czechia has beer!
It should be noted that the Japanese life expectancy rates aren't an accurate portrayal of actual age due to two factors. Before WW2 a lot of young boys lied about being older so that they could serve in the military and get increased rations for their family causing almost an entire generation to be on paper 3-6 years older than they are in reality.
Then there is also the fact that a lot of families don't report their elderly family members as dead so they can keep collecting pensions, only reporting the family member dead right before the inspection turns up which only inspects once every 5 years.
Didn't expect Switzerland to be second best. Seems like I get another 40 years to live 🥳
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I know it’s technically not a country but just to point out Hong Kong’s life expectancy is above 85 years
Yes and now Hong Kong overtook Japan with the worlds highest life expectancy
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#FreePalestine
Well, they didn’t mention “palestine” in this video, because, guess what, it isn’t a country.🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱
@@danielbromberg6239, They did show Palestine tho. 🇵🇸🇵🇸
Western Europe, despite being on the tier of life expectancy, has several things holding it from reaching the top : very high consumption of alcohol, high consumption of tobacco (I'm french, so yeah we still smoke quite a lot) and with a lesser impact, deadly violence, while S.Korea and Japan have lower numbers in these issues. There are other variables of course, but I think it plays a role, especially when we're speaking of a minor difference.
Living longer is by no means correlated to a better life.
People should be able to live when alive.
Not have to go radical measures just to pump up 2 years of personal life expectancy.
A lot of human social interactions are far more important than personal survival. Survival of offspring requires social network.
Note: Korea still has a high alcohol consumption worldwide beyond Asia, and the adult smoking rate is also high. In addition, despite the unfavorable conditions of frequent quite poor air quality among major countries due to China's expansion of thermal power plants and factories over the past decade, the average life expectancy has been steadily rising, and at this point, it has become one of the world's top 5 long-lived countries. (Except for a few of city-states)
2nd
+1 for pronouncing Kiribati correctly.
When comparing life expectancy among wealthier countries, culture, and diet really matter. You have to look at how each country's culture around hygiene, lifestyle, as well as per capita meat and vegetable consumption, cholesterol intake, etc. Japan, South Korea, and Singapore lead the chart due to our balanced diet (we eat a lot more grains, vegetables, and seafood than red meat), cultural emphasis on personal and public hygiene, and, of course, the walkability of our cities.
A lot of it is genetic, especially at the high life expectancy end of the spectrum.
Your comment only applies when comparing two low or average life expectancy countries
Nordics, always on top of every positive statistic.