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A bit of good news for Africa from the WHO Life Expectancy Report
released today. Life Expectancy in Africa has risen from a previous 57
years to 60, mainly attributed to the decline in the HIV/AIDS pandemic
and reduction in child mortality. The world average however is 71
years, and Europe is 78 years, so Africa still lags far behind, but we
salute the little prgress made. Check out Uganda on the statistics: It
spends only 9% of its GDP on health care.
Bobby
WHO | Life expectancy - World Health Organization
www.who.int/gho/mortality_burden_disease/life_tables/.../en/CachedSimilar
Life expectancy at birth reflects the overall mortality level of a
population. It
summarizes the mortality pattern that prevails across all age groups in a given
year ...
Life expectancy
Situation
Life expectancy at birth reflects the overall mortality level of a
population. It summarizes the mortality pattern that prevails across
all age groups in a given year – children and adolescents, adults and
the elderly. Global life expectancy at birth in 2015 was 71.4 years
(73.8 years for females and 69.1 years for males), ranging from 60.0
years in the WHO African Region to 76.8 years in the WHO European
Region, giving a ratio of 1.3 between the two regions. Women live
longer than men all around the world. The gap in life expectancy
between the sexes was 4.5 years in 1990 and had remained almost the
same by 2015 (4.6).
Global average life expectancy increased by 5 years between 2000 and
2015, the fastest increase since the 1960s. Those gains reverse
declines during the 1990s, when life expectancy fell in Africa because
of the AIDS epidemic, and in Eastern Europe following the collapse of
the Soviet Union. The 2000-2015 increase was greatest in the WHO
African Region, where life expectancy increased by 9.4 years to 60
years, driven mainly by improvements in child survival, and expanded
access to antiretrovirals for treatment of HIV.
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released today. Life Expectancy in Africa has risen from a previous 57
years to 60, mainly attributed to the decline in the HIV/AIDS pandemic
and reduction in child mortality. The world average however is 71
years, and Europe is 78 years, so Africa still lags far behind, but we
salute the little prgress made. Check out Uganda on the statistics: It
spends only 9% of its GDP on health care.
Bobby
WHO | Life expectancy - World Health Organization
www.who.int/gho/mortality_burden_disease/life_tables/.../en/CachedSimilar
Life expectancy at birth reflects the overall mortality level of a
population. It
summarizes the mortality pattern that prevails across all age groups in a given
year ...
Life expectancy
Situation
Life expectancy at birth reflects the overall mortality level of a
population. It summarizes the mortality pattern that prevails across
all age groups in a given year – children and adolescents, adults and
the elderly. Global life expectancy at birth in 2015 was 71.4 years
(73.8 years for females and 69.1 years for males), ranging from 60.0
years in the WHO African Region to 76.8 years in the WHO European
Region, giving a ratio of 1.3 between the two regions. Women live
longer than men all around the world. The gap in life expectancy
between the sexes was 4.5 years in 1990 and had remained almost the
same by 2015 (4.6).
Global average life expectancy increased by 5 years between 2000 and
2015, the fastest increase since the 1960s. Those gains reverse
declines during the 1990s, when life expectancy fell in Africa because
of the AIDS epidemic, and in Eastern Europe following the collapse of
the Soviet Union. The 2000-2015 increase was greatest in the WHO
African Region, where life expectancy increased by 9.4 years to 60
years, driven mainly by improvements in child survival, and expanded
access to antiretrovirals for treatment of HIV.
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