Medical Xpress August 15, 2024
A new study has found that Americans have the lowest life expectancy of similar English-speaking countries.
The researchers from Penn State University who conducted the study compared mortality rates from 1990 to 2019 from six English-speaking nations and found that people in Canada, Ireland, the U.K., Australia, and New Zealand all on average live longer than their American counterparts.
In the U.S., the average life expectancy for men is 76.5 while the average for women is about 81.5 years. In Australia, on the other hand, women live nearly four more years and men five more years than men and women in America.
The study also found that men and women in California and Hawaii lived longer than other Americans —though...
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