Lower overall happiness, lower home ownership rates, *and* dying younger? Who says the American dream is dead?
H_Lunulata on
Curious – why Japan, SK, and UK for “peers” and not Canada, and/or Mexico?
kingbrad on
this is impossible. i was assured the US had the best healthcare!
DickinessMaximus on
Thank god why would I want to be around longer. I wish it was sooner than 4 years honestly.
EarningsPal on
It’s the food, isolation, and loneliness.
Individualism has a cost.
sgeeum on
i’ve played with this data from time to time. the cuts by race and income level, while unsurprising, are sad. wealthy ($300k HHI or higher. arbitrary, but i had to pick something) and/or white americans are still generally on par with those peers, especially when combined (wealthy and white), and often times higher. the wealthiest americans have an average life expectancy around 89. when looking at nearly every other ethnicity and income level, they are down.
it’s such a spectacular failure of a very solvable problem that it just leaves you sad.
sadly, it’s exactly what this administration wants. white peoples living longer and everyone else not.
thebestbrian on
Within the last few years since Covid, China has a higher life expectancy than the United States.
unknownpanda121 on
Now show obesity rate per country
rofnorb on
Financialization of healthcare was a huge mistake
DoublePostedBroski on
The silver lining is that I don’t have to live long in this shithole place.
jokes_on_you on
> In 2023, a Japanese newborn can expect to live to 84.0
This is not how it works. After all, there’s no way to predict a nuclear war or medical advances. Without getting too mathy, it’s how long they would be expected to live if they lived their entire life in 2023.
Zvenigora on
All the countries have improved since 1960. The other countries have just improved more than the US has.
the_mad_statter on
Obesity rates per country:
US – 43%
UK – 29%
S. Korea – 7%
Japan – 5%
May have something to do with it?
Source: WHO, 2022
hornswoggled111 on
>COVID blew the gap wide open. Between 2019 and 2021, U.S. life expectancy dropped 2.5 years, from 78.8 to 76.3. Peer nations lost just 0.2 years on average over the same period.
I’m assuming the bulk of this was due to the culture wars. That’s half the difference.
Did America really perform that badly compared to other countries during the pandemic and aftermath? Or possibly they were more vulnerable due to the other systemic diseases?
NoDoze- on
“Peers”!?! That’s a strange choice of words.
ravenx92 on
its almost as if for profit healthcare is killing us??
ChiefStrongbones on
Will this statistic reflect a COVID dividend. All the people with “risk factors” who were reaped during COVID will not be dying over the next 30 years, raising the longevity statistics.
Jmich96 on
Don’t worry; once the ruling class discovers immortality and the working class dies off, that average will climb.
wootiown on
Absolutely everyone I know avoids going to the doctor as much as they possibly can because of the insane expense. Every time I’ve seen a doctor in the past 5 years I’ve been charged at least $200 out of pocket for random bullshit despite paying $300/mo for insurance, and so has everyone else.
rewardingsnark on
4 years of trump all but guarantee decades of the lifespan of every american.
tampering on
I wonder what all those civilized developed countries have in common that the United States doesn’t? /s
Gee, sounds like life is downright shitty here in the US, and we all must be real dickheads for expecting stuff like health care, jobs, and a modern infrastructure.
![Americans used to outlive their peers. Now they die 4 years sooner on average. [OC]](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/skRj95HDLMEs57GXlWigKzWg_nh7ii7fEwN1fHRXqdY-1536x912.png "Americans used to outlive their peers. Now they die 4 years sooner on average. [OC]")
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Data source: World Bank life expectancy data
Tools: Python
Data is definitely beautifulÂ
Lower overall happiness, lower home ownership rates, *and* dying younger? Who says the American dream is dead?
Curious – why Japan, SK, and UK for “peers” and not Canada, and/or Mexico?
this is impossible. i was assured the US had the best healthcare!
Thank god why would I want to be around longer. I wish it was sooner than 4 years honestly.
It’s the food, isolation, and loneliness.
Individualism has a cost.
i’ve played with this data from time to time. the cuts by race and income level, while unsurprising, are sad. wealthy ($300k HHI or higher. arbitrary, but i had to pick something) and/or white americans are still generally on par with those peers, especially when combined (wealthy and white), and often times higher. the wealthiest americans have an average life expectancy around 89. when looking at nearly every other ethnicity and income level, they are down.
it’s such a spectacular failure of a very solvable problem that it just leaves you sad.
sadly, it’s exactly what this administration wants. white peoples living longer and everyone else not.
Within the last few years since Covid, China has a higher life expectancy than the United States.
Now show obesity rate per country
Financialization of healthcare was a huge mistake
The silver lining is that I don’t have to live long in this shithole place.
> In 2023, a Japanese newborn can expect to live to 84.0
This is not how it works. After all, there’s no way to predict a nuclear war or medical advances. Without getting too mathy, it’s how long they would be expected to live if they lived their entire life in 2023.
All the countries have improved since 1960. The other countries have just improved more than the US has.
Obesity rates per country:
US – 43%
UK – 29%
S. Korea – 7%
Japan – 5%
May have something to do with it?
Source: WHO, 2022
>COVID blew the gap wide open. Between 2019 and 2021, U.S. life expectancy dropped 2.5 years, from 78.8 to 76.3. Peer nations lost just 0.2 years on average over the same period.
I’m assuming the bulk of this was due to the culture wars. That’s half the difference.
Did America really perform that badly compared to other countries during the pandemic and aftermath? Or possibly they were more vulnerable due to the other systemic diseases?
“Peers”!?! That’s a strange choice of words.
its almost as if for profit healthcare is killing us??
Will this statistic reflect a COVID dividend. All the people with “risk factors” who were reaped during COVID will not be dying over the next 30 years, raising the longevity statistics.
Don’t worry; once the ruling class discovers immortality and the working class dies off, that average will climb.
Absolutely everyone I know avoids going to the doctor as much as they possibly can because of the insane expense. Every time I’ve seen a doctor in the past 5 years I’ve been charged at least $200 out of pocket for random bullshit despite paying $300/mo for insurance, and so has everyone else.
4 years of trump all but guarantee decades of the lifespan of every american.
I wonder what all those civilized developed countries have in common that the United States doesn’t? /s
And it’s going to get worse.
Rising Death Rate for Gen X, Elder Millennials Is ‘Genuinely Alarming’ https://share.google/x0meG8stF4d8Rh3oJ
Gee, sounds like life is downright shitty here in the US, and we all must be real dickheads for expecting stuff like health care, jobs, and a modern infrastructure.