The average life expectancy in the world exceeded the threshold of 2011 years in 70 (72 for women, 68 for men), but there are still dramatic differences between individual countries. In fact, while in Japan, Switzerland and San Marino people live up to 83 years, in Sierra Leone the average is 47 years, with the highest infant mortality rate on the planet: over one child in 10 dies within the first year of life. And there are even countries where in the last 20 years the expectation has decreased: North Korea, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Lesotho and Libya.
This is what emerges from the latest report of theWorld Health Organization, so that on average life expectancy at birth on the planet has increased by 6 years in the last twenty years: from 64 in 1990 to 70 in 2011, despite the difference in the quality of life and the different conditions of well-being (wars, diseases, etc) between the various areas of the world and the presence of countries where the figure is even decreasing.
And that's not all: according to WHO calculations, a 19-year-old male today can aspire to live another 81 years, and a female of the same age can even expect to still be alive, on average, at 7 years of age (two years on average). more than at an equal age twenty years ago). The first explanation for the phenomenon, according to the world body, is the significant drop in infant mortality, especially in countries such as China and India, where in fact the expectation has grown above the average, by a good 1990 years since XNUMX.
Italy, on the other hand, is on average: life expectancy at birth has risen to 82 years from 77 in 1990, with a more significant improvement for men. In fact, men have reached the threshold of 80 years (previously they were just 74), but they are still far from the expectations of the female sex, who had already exceeded that threshold twenty years ago and are now around 85. Above average instead hope for today's over-60s: they can aspire to live another generation, 23 years for men and 27 for women. Far worse goes for their peers in the Marshall Islands, who may just think they're barely over 70.
