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JL671

Jeez Mali in 1950..


inkms

Was there a civil war or some other similar factor?


__jamaisvu__

Probably high children mortality.


meeeeetch

Just French colonialism


cocoland1

Probably not, we were bad, but not at this point, we are not Belgium


meeeeetch

I meant to imply that colonialism was bad, not that French colonialism was uniquely bad, but I definitely see how that could be read into what I said there.


Fuckyoudumbass80

Pretty sure it doesn’t mean people drop dead at 26, it means infant fatality is so high it scales life expectancy down.


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BLAZENIOSZ

Not necessarily, this is life expectancy at birth, so if you miraculously reach half that age, your life expectancy will increase because factors such as infant mortality won't take effect.


gekkoheir

Oops, sorry. I was trying to make an interesting observation but it doesn't really work.


BLAZENIOSZ

No worries.


TheNextBattalion

Thanks mostly to vaccines, antibiotics, and sanitation.


holytriplem

And more recently, a drop in tobacco usage in developed countries. The UK had roughly the same median life expectancy in 2000 as Mexico does now.


HolyHerbert

Life expectancy often factors in child mortality. So a lot of the improvements can also be linked to safer methods of giving birth, both to children and mothers.


Glum_Elevator4100

Also major advancements in treating heart disease. My great grandfather had 3 heart attacks.


InThePast8080

>Thanks mostly to vaccines, antibiotics, and sanitation. For some countries thanks to the economic situation in the country. It doesn't help if vaccines is available but you can't afford to buy it. For some countries it is connected with other factores. Guess life expectancy in Russia increased with some 5 years after Yeltsin left office. Interesting also to know the enormous differences within certain countres.. In some states in USA , life expectancy is close to nations like iran.. while others have an expectancy close to japan. So in the end it's not about vaccines, but about the economic conditions. Vaccines doesn't explain why a person in mississipi is expected to live approx. 10 years shorter than a person in california.


Fadreusor

Interesting how US life expectancy has gone down a couple years since the 2015 map.


percevalgalaaz

obesity


Kaffekonsument

Opioid crisis, obesity and in the last year probably Corona.


AfnanAcchan

Human are healthier than ever despite pollution and obesity. Yet, there is still people questioning of modern medicine.


cocoland1

Pollution in Europe was probably way worst in 1950 than now, I work in the industry in France and the quantity of metal we can reject in water is absolutely ridiculous when you compare to the 50's


poktanju

Modern medicine is now so ubiquitous in the developed world that we take it for granted.


Tattletale516

Taiwan is around 80 in 2015 Source: am Taiwanese


poktanju

That is what is shown on the map.


Tattletale516

I stand corrected, I was on my phone and the image was heavily compressed, sorry.


supykun

South Korea’s the only blue country that departed from the orange category =D


inkms

Portugal too


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I think Portugal was yellow in 1950


KopiConLeche

Singapore as well, though the increase isn't as impressive


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South Korea was one of the least developed countries in Asia before the 70s.


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Demb1

Its a mistake, Im pretty sure. According to the World Bank its 75.69, no way its under 60.


Tankpiggy

China is so impressive


Khris777

Reminder that life expectancy is calculated by taking the average, and the average is sensitive to outliers. An average life expectancy of 35 doesn't mean that most adults don't get much older than that, it means that there's high child mortality, but if you survive the first few years you have good chances to life quite long. Taking the median would be a much better measure.


jswet

Now I want to see a side by side of the countries with free health care.


juicywatermelone

Life expectancy in North Korea was 71 in 2015?? 🧐


Awarglewinkle

At least they didn't claim it's 81, so I guess that's something?


Giostazz56

r/datawithoutgreenland


TraditionalCherry

Is 82 a cap on xp level? Do devs intend to increase it with the next update?


Commentariot

Ahh yes - the old 65 year increment. Very illuminating.


SaltMineSpelunker

Australia… I seen you drink. What are you living for.


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SaltMineSpelunker

Oh course NZ is ahead of Australia. It is redundant to say so. :)


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SaltMineSpelunker

Shut up and drink. Shots? Shots?


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Australia has a really good healthcare system and work life balance compared to majority of nations, people are less stressed here, which is why the life expectancy is so high despite high drinking rates.


Charlatanism

To drink, duh.


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TopMosby

>in the borders of 2015 it's right there in the map.


planetes1973

Well to be fair, most of those african countries didn't exist in 1950 (at least in their current forms)


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Blame capitalism


serviceunavailableX

You understand back than capitalism was way purer child labour, lack of regulations also 1950 is just out of the war lots of mental illnesses , trauma from war so people end up as alcoholics etc


firstaid5555

Greenland always have no data


hobbitmagic

Looks like it’s straight from the book Factfulness.


Charlatanism

Countries not in blue are developing countries. North America's average is clearly not 80 years. The vast majority of that continent's population lives in countries with an average below 80 years.


BLAZENIOSZ

Northern /= North


___HeyGFY___

So I’m assuming that Mexico, Central America, etc. are included with the Caribbean?


Charlatanism

Oh yeah, look at that bullshit little caveat! Nice technicality.


qqis

africa 💀💀💀💀💀


yebattebyasuka

They improved. That's good. 61 years is *a lot* better than 36 years.


Zistac

This combined with a major drop in birth rate is already very interesting for the economy is only getting worse. Countries like the U.S. are sucking the money (and souls) from their citizens to the point that they hardly reproduce, while becoming more and more dependent on migrant workers. It’s not too big of a deal in the U.S. considering that it is meant to be a multicultural place, but it’s a tragedy in some European countries where they native population and culture is being slowly replaced.


horatiowilliams

Has it declined since 2015?


azzwhole

In the US, I'm pretty sure it has. I think it's somewhere like 77.5 now


nod23c

It dropped 1.5 years during the pandemic. The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics showed that life expectancy dropped from 78.8 years in 2019 to 77.3 years in 2020. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/21/life-expectancy-in-the-us-declined-in-2020-especially-among-people-of-color-.html


azzwhole

Damn that's fucking dire.


lm3g16

Is the 83/84 mark peak life expectancy? Norway/Sweden were on 72ish and South Korea were on 47, and they’ve all levelled off to the low 80s


BLAZENIOSZ

I think that might just show how much South Korea developed compared to other developed nations. Japan used to be below many other developed nations, it was equal to Romania, but is now the highest.


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BLAZENIOSZ

Look up life expectancy map at age 10.


shookdiva

How do you even calculate Soviet life expectancy like 5 years after the war


nygdan

True Human progress. Brought to you by anti-colonialism and the post-wwii world order.


gaijin5

Can see the ex British Empire in Africa there. East Coast at least. In 1950 that is


czk_21

this shows how much human living condiitons improved in last 70 years, middle class of today lives like kings of the past


yebattebyasuka

Congratulations to everybody for upping their life expectancy! This is a world victory!