Posted on 09/13/2024 9:20:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In this graphic, Visual Capitalist's Marcus Lu shows female life expectancy at birth across a selection of high-income countries, based on data compiled by The Commonwealth Fund.
It highlights how women’s life expectancy in the U.S. is at least two years lower than its peers, despite the country spending more on health care...
The figures we used to create this graphic are listed in the table below. Data availability for life expectancy at birth varied and is as follows: 2020 (UK), 2021 (CAN, KOR, NZ), 2022 (AUS, GER, JPN, NOR), 2023 (FRA, NETH, SWE, SWIZ).
Life expectancy can be attributed to a number of factors including living standards, lifestyle choices, quality of education, and access to health services.
Based on other data collected by The Commonwealth Fund, access and affordability appears to be a leading problem in the United States.
For example, among high-income countries, American women are the most likely to struggle with paying their medical bills, and are also the most likely to skip needed care due to costs.
America’s outlier status on this measure likely stems from the large number of working-age women who lack health insurance - nearly 10 million - as well as the high copayments, coinsurance, and deductibles that many U.S. women enrolled in commercial health plans face when seeking care.
Further data from The Commonwealth Fund shows that 14% of American women do not have health insurance, rising to 26% among Hispanics.
To see more data on this topic, check out our visual comparison of life expectancy vs. health spending across developed nations.
Korean and Japanese wow
Why is Switzerland CHE?
RE: Why is Switzerland CHE?
Switzerland’s abbreviation “CH” comes from its Latin name, “Confoederatio Helvetica”. The Latin name was chosen to maintain neutrality and avoid favoritism towards any of Switzerland’s four official languages.
Helvetica is the feminine form of “Helveticus”, which is derived from “Helvetia”, the Latin name for Switzerland. The use of Latin also ensures that the abbreviation remains consistent regardless of the language used.
What has been the age change in the last four years?
Thanks.
I did not know that.
“Korean and Japanese wow.”
Both countries live by the motto that diversity is not a good thing.
😃🤔🤔🤔
Standard of living and longevity is inversely correlated with birth rate.
The most ‘fertile’ places are places you don’t want to be.
It’s kind of interesting how the old Roman names of various places persist to various degrees.
If I mentioned “Germania,” everyone would know I was talking about modern-day Deutschland.
If I said “Hispania,” most would know I was talking about Spain.
If I talked about “Hibernia,” a lot of folks would know that as alternative name for Ireland.
Lusitania (Portugal), Caledonia (Scotland) etc. survive in the names of hotels, banks, products, etc. in those various countries, but are perhaps less well known to Americans.
Do any of the nations in which life expectancy is longer than the US is have socialized medicine?
Thanks. I love stuff like that.
If I was on a quiz show I would have guessed Hibernia was Scotland.
Just about all of them.
This data does not look correct.
There was a sharp decline in life expectancy in the United States as a consequence of COVID. Male numbers got down to the low 70s. Female numbers only one or two years above that.
The effect of Covid began to fade from the life expectancy numbers in the 2022 time frame, but the numbers did not bounce upwards spectacularly. Increased deaths from fentanyl, and the continuing increases in deaths from obesity did not go away.
The best numbers are from the social security actuarial people, and I think CDC makes use of them and fay add an adjustment for fentanyl. Regardless the US numbers were far behind those countries that did not suffer the same sort of Covid casualty counts. I haven’t checked it in a while but the last time I did I don’t think males had re-elevated to even 74, and therefore females can’t be anywhere near 80.
US life expectancy differs enormously by race and ethnicty:
Asian-Americans: 83.5 years
Hispanics: 77.8
Whites: 76.7
TOTAL POPULATION: 76.4
Blacks: 71.2
Native Americans and Native Alaskans: 65.6
p. 3 of
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr72/nvsr72-12.pdf
Life-expectancy has been falling for all demographic groups during recent years.
p. 5 of the above
The fact that Hispanics have a higher life expectancy than whites might appear curious.
This strange fact reflects that foreign-born persons who are here (whether legally or illegally) have a higher life expectancy.
see:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8426263/figure/fig2/
To explain this: (1) foreign-born person who die as young children never get here, so there is a survivorship bias; and (2) foreign-born persons who come here are healthier than those who don’t, so there is a self-selection bias.
Finally as to why Blacks and Native Americans have low life expectancy, possibly it could be because of the break-down of the family, welfare dependency, more lives of crime, and alcohol and drug abuse.
These reasons, in an opposite way, could explain the amazing longevity of Asian Americans.
The USA is filled to the brim with welfare crack whores. Throw them out of the mix and you would see the USA come much higher. /spit
Saw an older comedian clip the other day. Said he was 73 and the average life expectancy for a male is 76. Then said the average life expectancy for a woman was 86... Said he was thinking about transitioning!!
“”””For example, among high-income countries, American women are the most likely to struggle with paying their medical bills, and are also the most likely to skip needed care due to costs.
America’s outlier status on this measure likely stems from the large number of working-age women who lack health insurance — nearly 10 million — as well as the high copayments, coinsurance, and deductibles that many U.S. women enrolled in commercial health plans face when seeking care.
KFF (2023)””””
If only we had free health care for everybody, then all would be perfect.
How’s that working out for them? South Korean women have 1.1 babies per person, Japanese 1.4. Practically zero immigration to either of these countries, births are nowhere near replacement levels. Who will take care of all these 100 year old women?
Yes they do.
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