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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Life expectancy has soared globally since 1990: WHO-Nikita Mehta

Life expectancy has soared globally since 1990: WHO-Nikita Mehta

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published Published on May 17, 2014   modified Modified on May 17, 2014
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The top achiever was Liberia, where average lifespans increased by a full 20 years, from 42 to 62

New Delhi: Life expectancy has risen globally since 1990, especially in low-income countries, according to a report published by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday. Life expectancy of a girl born in 2012 is 73 years, while that of a boy is 68 years. The average life expectancy of a child born in 2012 is six years longer than one born in 1990.

 

Low-income countries have shown the most improvement, with an average increase of nine years from 1990 to 2012. The top six countries where life expectancy increased the most were Liberia (increased by 20 years from 42 years in 1990 to 62 years in 2012), Ethiopia (from 45 to 64 years), Maldives (58 to 77 years), Cambodia (54 to 72 years), Timor-Leste (50 to 66 years) and Rwanda (48 to 65 years).
 
"An important reason why global life expectancy has improved so much is that fewer children are dying before their fifth birthday," said Margaret Chan, WHO director-general. "But there is still a major rich-poor divide: people in high-income countries continue to have a much better chance of living longer than people in low-income countries."

 

A boy born in 2012 in a high-income country can expect to live to the age of 76, as opposed 60 years for a boy born in a low-income country-a difference of 16 years. With a life expectancy of 82 years, a girl born in a high-income country can expect to live 19 years longer than one born in a low-income country (63 years).

While women from Japan can expect to live the longest (87 years), men from Iceland have the highest life expectancy at 81.2 years. "In high-income countries, much of the gain in life expectancy is due to success in tackling non-communicable diseases," said Ties Boerma, director of the Department of Health Statistics and Information Systems at WHO. "Fewer men and women are dying before they get to their 60th birthday from heart disease and stroke. Richer countries have become better at monitoring and managing high blood pressure, for example."

Declining tobacco use is also a key factor in helping people live longer in several countries.

However children in Angola, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Mozambique, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, which are at the bottom of the list, can still not expect to live longer than 55 years.


Live Mint, 15 May, 2014, http://www.livemint.com/Politics/7MajyC1p7jxLTWG5nCRipK/Life-expectancy-rises-in-poor-nations-UN.html


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