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Going for gold - How do countries and territories compete when it comes to healthy ageing?

12 Jul 2024

It has a population of 6 million – and its people are some of the happiest in the world (3rd on the Index). [...] Fun fact: the UK is the most successful country in the real Olympic triathlon, with the Brownlee brothers winning gold and bronze at London 2012, and gold and silver at Rio 2016. [...] Our sport climbing medalists Bronze: Republic of the Congo The Republic of the Congo ranks 94th on the Index. [...] We found the number of people in each country who were aged 100 or over and divided this by the total population to find the percentage of centenarians. [...] How did we measure our relay race? Our relay race compares the overall healthy ageing scores of the 12 political and economic blocs included in the ILC’s Index.

Authors

David Caines

Pages
93
Published in
United Kingdom

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