The chart also shows how low life expectancy was in some countries in the past A century ago life expectancy in India and South Korea was as low as 23 years A century later, life expectancy in India has almost tripled and in South Korea it has almost quadrupled You can switch to the map view to compare life expectancy across countriesLife expectancy Using the the mortality rates on which the above differences are based, we constructed the chart below, which shows the the probability that a child born in subSaharan Africa reaches a given age We also show life expectancies for subSaharan Africa excluding the major causes of childhood mortality (under5 deaths from malaria The negative correlation between high life expectancy and low lifespan variation has been investigated for several countries, including the USA, 4–6 7 England and Wales, 7 Sweden 6 and Japan 6 The correlation is strong, but there are discrepancies
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