The undeveloping world.<p>Widespread obesity, poor diet, sedentary lifestyles, the uniquely inefficient health care system, wealth inequality, etc, will likely cause overall expectancy to drop further.<p>Related and interesting:<p>> "As of 2010, the average, upper-income 50-year-old man was expected to live to 89. But the same man, if he's lower income, would live to just 76, according to the report."<p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/09/18/the-government-is-spending-more-to-help-rich-seniors-than-poor-ones/?utm_term=.2ff0f4046c66" rel="nofollow">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/09/18/the-g...</a>
I was kind of wondering how this didnt happen earlier.
I have been to US 3 times. NYC, Vegas, San Fran, Los angeles etc. and one thing I noticed was how unhealthy alot of americans lived compared to europe.<p>Obsese parents together with children as small as 6 years old were all dining at fast-food restaurants eating massive amount of food. The kids were very obese too.<p>The entire culture seemed for _me_ as its rather normal to eat your dinner at kfc or mcdonalds than making food at home. When we took the flight fra NYC to Vegas we noticed there were more obese people than "regular sized". But when we took fra SF to London it was opposite.<p>And whats up with the size of the meals served in restaurants? its huuge. alot food for little money. Sometimes we split one dish in between us because it was too much for a single person. The same when we went to movies, we got to choose size of coke and popcorn. So we picked medium coke. Medium is like extra-large in europe.<p>I think its sad because americans are missing out on really great food. It is the food you cook yourself thats not only healthy but tastes so much better and authentic.<p>I hope nobody is offended my post but I just felt its an area to improve on.
The quality of available food in the US is a big part of the problem. A recent TED speaker postulates 74% of food in the average US grocery store is spiked with added sugar [1]. We also eat too few vegetables and too much meat in our diets. And those foods are often raised with harmful pesticides and hormones respectively.<p>I am a discerning shopper, avoid fast food and still get surprised by food that is not good for me. For instance, I put a tiny amount of unflavored, low-fat half & half in my coffee in the morning. I checked the label today and see that it contains corn syrup. In my head, it was just skim milk and cream. Silly me.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.npr.org/2016/11/18/502171330/how-worried-should-we-be-about-sugar" rel="nofollow">http://www.npr.org/2016/11/18/502171330/how-worried-should-w...</a>
one interesting note is that life expectancy at 65 years of age did not change, Indicating that the diseases behind the lower life expectancy occur in middle age or younger.
The reasons behind the decrease. [deaths per 100K population]
The heart disease went up from 167 to 168.5
Also'Unintentional Injuries' went up from 40.5 to 43.2.<p>On the positive side, the contribution of cancer has come down.
Probably just random variance. In particular, that most categories of cause of death increased seems to point at random chance, since they should not correlated strongly. (But this is probably something to watch next year.)
I believe this is the actual report: <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db267.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db267.pdf</a><p>I noticed that the "top ten cause" chart doesn't have an "other" column, but it looks like that can be computed from the total rates for top ten causes and the total for all causes. If my math is correct, we went from 191.3 (2014) to 191.1 (2015). So I guess the good news is the death rate from unpopular or unexplained causes went down a little. :|
It's another in a long line of examples underscoring massive inequality, but it's about to be made moot by the 100's to 1000's of gigatons of methane (5 GT in the air right now) from just the ESAS going to push global warming into the +4C to +6C range within a decade. Global famines, wars, mass migrations and so on. If a person today doesn't have a completely self-sufficient, off-the-grid refuge in the far north or south, that person is suicidal or a Christian fundamentalist praying for rain.