Sentences with phrase «higher life expectancies of»

The President said Ghana had the highest life expectancy of 63 years among its peers in Africa, but admitted that, there was still a lot more to be done to improve on the quality of life of the people.

Their longevity surpassed only by vegetarian Adventists in California, «giving them perhaps the highest life expectancy of any formally described population in history.»

But even in Botswana, which has the highest life expectancy of the group, people born today will live just over 53 years on average.

Not exact matches

The top countries frequently have high values for all six of the key variables that contribute to overall well - being: income (GDP per capita), healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom, trust (absence of corruption) and generosity.

It's been a busy week for health care news between some high - profile setbacks for certain major cancer drug makers, high - profile victories for others, the confirmation of a new FDA chief, health care merger drama, and a slew of public health reports about the opioid epidemic, hepatitis C, and U.S. life expectancy.

And while various troubling social factors, including unequal access to health care and the impact of the opioid crisis, have stalled the growth of the average U.S. life expectancy in recent years, odds are that America's higher earners will live longer — maybe much longer — than they expect.

Australia boasts one of world's highest life - expectancy rates, with the island - nation's inhabitants spending more than $ 8 billion a year on health and wellness.

Switzerland is the happiest place on Earth, thanks to its high performing GDP and healthy life expectancy rates of its citizens.

In a Facebook Live, high - performance coach Todd Herman shares with us the importance of expectancy and exploration.

Indeed, among Canada's 16 peer countries, the U.S. has the second - highest level of income per capita but also the highest rates of poverty and homicides and the lowest life expectancy.

With greater life expectancy, more retirement - aged individuals are remaining in the workforce, resulting in a higher share of older people in the workforce than at any point since before the creation of Medicare, reported Bloomberg, with 19 % of Americans over 65 working at least part - time in 2017.

This is one part of life where smoking, being overweight and having high cholesterol gets you the five star treatment — the lower your life expectancy, the higher the rate on your annuity.

Although this will be much easier if you have one of the highest paying college degrees as opposed to one of the worst paying college degrees, it is absolutely, mathematically, irrefutably possible for you to amass millions of dollars by the time you retire if you, like most college graduates, are in your early to mid-twenties and live a normal life expectancy.

At the same time, with rising life expectancy the number of years spent in retirement has increased dramatically, health care costs are high and rapidly rising, and interest rates are at historic lows.

But life expectancy in Sweden is about three years higher than that of the U.S. Infant mortality is half the U.S. level, and less than a third the rate in Mississippi.

The most rapidly aging nation in the world, and the one with the highest life expectancy, Japan by the year 2,000, according to government statistics, will have a population with 21 per cent of its members 65 or older — and the nation generally considers old age to begin at 55, when mandatory retirement usually occurs.

Life expectancy was low because infant mortality was unusually high and because the lack of antibiotics.

In fact, the overwhelming majority of people in the world were poor, with high infant mortality and short life expectancy.

Recently, health experts have been digging into the roots of the traditional Latin American diet, as this pattern of eating has been associated with lower rates of chronic disease and higher life expectancy.

The report takes many factors into account, including income, lack of government corruption, and life expectancy, which the Nordic countries all get high marks for.

Trucking is a profession with one of the highest rates of obesity and lowest life expectancies in the U.S. «I was almost an Olympic swimmer,» the trainer says.

According to Baleka, the average life expectancy for a long - haul truck driver in the U.S. is 61 to 64 years (10 to 15 years less than the average American male); truck drivers have the highest rate of obesity of any occupation in the U.S. (86 % are overweight, 69 % are obese); they have one of the highest rates of metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors for heart disease and diabetes; in some years they have had the highest number of fatalities of any occupation, making trucking one of the most dangerous and unhealthy occupations in the U.S.

Sweden has one of the highest life expectancy's in the world, so when naming their babies, I am sure they are taking into consideration how long their little bundle of joy will be using their name!

Besides low birth rates, higher life expectancy, longer education time and an increasing share of single - parent households, Germany is also the poster child of labour market dualisation: pampered workers in the industrial and unionised core contrast with part - time and irregular work in the peripheral service industry.

First of all, Japan is not an ageing society due to their birth rate (which is actually on the rise either way, from 1.26 in 2005 to 1.5 in 2016), but due to their high life expectancy which itself is a byproduct of a culture that generally respects the elderly far more than western countries do.

It's strange that you suggest a low birth rate isn't the cause of the aging population, but then cite a sub-replacement birthrate, which is generally accepted cause of an aging population (when combined with a high overall life expectancy).

«Primarily because of grand corruption under successive governments since the return of democracy in 1999, millions of Nigerians continue to live in extreme poverty, a condition manifested by the lack of clean water, malnutrition, high rates of child mortality and morbidity, low life expectancy, illiteracy, perception of hopelessness and social exclusion.»

The Bloomberg administration has produced a flurry of statistics to argue for the success of the policies, but the mayor prides himself on one above all others: life expectancy reached 80.9 years in the city, three years higher than it was in 2001, an increase that outpaced national gains.

At 75 years, men in the US have the lowest life expectancy in the group, while women have a life expectancy of 81 years — higher only than Denmark.

Women with a waist circumference of 37 inches or greater had about an 80 percent higher mortality risk than women with a waist circumference of 27 inches or less, and this translated to about a five - year lower life expectancy after age 40.

A life expectancy of 35 years for women, 45 for men, and an enormously high childhood mortality did not leave any doubt.

All things considered, Langa agrees it's very likely that due to higher life expectancy the absolute number of people with Alzheimer's and other dementias will go up in the coming years.

By examining rates of mortality and respiratory - related illnesses on both sides of the river, Greenstone's team identified a difference: life expectancies are lower and pollution concentrations are higher north of the Huai, where coal burning was widespread.

For most countries, changes in healthy life expectancy for males and females between 1990 and 2013 were significant and positive, but in dozens of countries including Botswana, Belize, and Syria healthy life expectancy in 2013 was not significantly higher than in 1990.

In some parts of central and Eastern Europe, not only did life expectancy rise but heart disease went down a lot: Changes away from high cholesterol and fatty diets helped that.

Among Northwestern cities, the Canadian metropolis, which is home to more than 2.3 million residents, has the highest population density; the greatest rates of cycling, walking and transit riding; and the fewest cars per capita, plus the highest life expectancy, lowest teen birth rate and lowest poverty rate.

The report stated that China had done well at raising life expectancy, adult literacy and access to higher education, though work remained in other sectors, such as adjusting the proportion of the population living in the countryside.

In rodents, differences in life expectancy and morbidity during aging are particularly high: Despite close relationships with regard to genetic aspects, small rodents like mice or rats live no longer than two to three years, whereas mole - rats or chinchillas have an average life span of 20 to 30 years while staying comparatively healthy.

Ana Rodrigues of the Centre for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology in France and her colleagues found that Amazonian towns in the midst of a deforestation binge initially see higher life expectancies, literacy rates, and incomes.

Results published in Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, also found that patients diagnosed in childhood were at higher risk of relapse, need of a liver transplant, and reduced life expectancy.

However, regular exposure to the dangers of the wild and, hence, to high levels of this hormone, has serious health consequences and shortens life expectancy.

Patients diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis in childhood had a greater relapse risk, higher risk of needing a liver transplant, and a reduced life expectancy.

Life expectancies are so high today, at least in many regions of the globe,» Sayers said.

Although Olshansky stresses that the estimate is «a first - pass approximation,» he believes the effect is large enough to demonstrate «that trends in obesity in younger ages will lead to significantly higher rates of mortality in the future — we will lose 2 to 5 or more years [of life expectancy] in the coming decades» if the obesity epidemic continues unchecked.

The demographic group with the highest percentage of Alzheimer's is Caucasian females, possibly since their life expectancy is the greatest.

Judging from the sample of open clusters within 3,000 light - years of the Sun, only half of them can withstand such tidal forces for more than 200 million years, and a mere 2 percent have life expectancies as high as 1 billion years.

(NaturalHealth365) Advances in medicine and in public health have led to an all - time high in the United States, with a life expectancy of 76 years for men and 81 for women.

The highest concentration of BHB extended life expectancy by 20 percent.

According to different data around the world, vegetarians have the lowest rates of chronic diseases and the highest adult life expectancy.

In addition to their high life expectancy, they are known for their unusually low mortality from cardiovascular disease and even certain types of cancers.