Life expectancy for Americans took the biggest hist of any country in the world this year. We dropped from 46th in life expectancy (which wasn’t all that good) to 64th.
At the same time, Spain came out number one in life expectancy in the world, edging out Japan for the top spot.
The bottom line is that American’s have a congregate life expectancy of 79.8 years, while people in Spain get an average of 5 1/2 years of life.
From CNN:
Spain will overtake Japan’s long-held position at the top of the world’s life expectancy table by 2040, while the United States is set to take a big fall in rankings, new research finds.
People in Spain will live for 85.8 years on average, marginally edging out expected lifespans inJapan (85.7), Singapore (85.4) and Switzerland (85.2).
The United States will take the biggest drop in ranking of all high-income countries, falling from 43rd in 2016 to 64th by 2040, with an average life expectancy of 79.8.
he US will be overtaken by China, which rises 29 places to 39th in the table.
“Whether we see significant progress or stagnation depends on how well or poorly health systems address key health drivers,” said Kyle Foreman, director of data science at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and lead author of the study.
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