The drop in U.S. life expectancy has put the country only a few years above the world average, while in 1960, it was 17 years ahead.
  • AntifaSuperWombat [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    571·
    11 months ago

    There is a wide disparity between ethnic groups in the U.S. as well as gender. For example, an Asian woman is expected to live to 85.6, while for a Black man, the figure is 66.7 years.

    Almost 20 fucking years! That’s beyond absurd, holy shit.

    • ihaveibs@lemmygrad.ml
      321·
      11 months ago

      And the US lectures the world on human rights and admonishes countries for how they treat minority populations

      • GaveUp [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        8·
        11 months ago

        Have you seen what white people eat and the average weight of white people and Asians in the US?

        Also that number is a bit disingenuous, should’ve compared Asian women to black women, Asian men to black men (edit: not saying that black people don’t have a much lower life expectancy than average, just that it’s a dishonest statistic for the article to compare against which hurts its credibility)

        Women live longer than men in every country because men are more likely to have heart issues and a bunch of other fatal issues later in life

          • GaveUp [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
            3·
            11 months ago

            Oh yea, idk my brain kinda short circuited cause I just woke up and the parent comment was talking about Asian women and black men and then I was responding to an asian and white life expectancy comment

            I have no idea what any of us were trying to say tbh

            • Gelamzer [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
              3·
              11 months ago

              The point was women only live 4-5 years longer thsn men so thst cant be the reason why black men life expectancy is ~67 instead of 81