Thing people forget about ‘life-expectancy’ is that its numbers are affected by infant mortality and how infant mortality is reported. A kid in the U.S. who takes a breath outside of the womb is counted as a live birth and if he or she dies before the next breath, that’s going to make average life expectancy shorter. Many/most nations do not count infant deaths the way we do.
and amazingly we have well educated folks pointing to the US infant mortality rate-comparing it to places like Philippines and concluding it’s problem.
all the while we give life to the most difficult pregnancies on earth-same in Philippines are still born and don’t count.
Likewise eradicating child illness doubled our lifespans-not modern healthcare.