Researchers from Penn State compared the mortality rates from six English-speaking nations and America doesn’t come out too well, unless you live in California or Hawaii.
Citizens of Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand have all lived longer on average since the early 1990s,Americans had the shortest life expectancy at birth, with men living to an average age of 76.5 years in 2019 and women living an average of nearly 81.5 years.
In America’s Southeast, those stats plunge to 72.6 to 79.9 years on average for women and 69.3 to 74.4 for men. “One of the main drivers of why American longevity is so much shorter than in other high-income countries is our younger people die at higher rates from largely preventable causes of death, like drug overdose, car accidents and homicide,”
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