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How The World Added Decades To Life Expectancy
How The World Added Decades To Life Expectancy
The average person today can expect to live far longer than someone born in 1960, regardless of where they live.
This chart, via Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti, tracks life expectancy at birth across four World Bank income groups. While high-income countries still have the longest lifespans, the biggest gains have come elsewhere. Upper-middle income countries have added more than three decades to life expectancy, while low-income countries have made substantial progress as well.
The data for this visualization comes from World Bank via FRED. It...
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