Life Expectancy
Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average (see below) time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of its birth, its current age, and other demographic factors including gender. The most commonly used measure is life expectancy at birth (LEB), which can be defined in two ways. Cohort LEB is the mean length of life of an actual birth cohort (all individuals born in a given year) and can be computed only for cohorts born many decades ago so that all their members have died. Period LEB is the mean length of life of a …
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WHO: World Health Organization · 14 November 2024 English
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health inequalities and differences in healthy life expectancy exist between London’s most deprived and most …
World Bank Group · 14 November 2024 English
Objective: To analyze how patterns of excess mortality varied by sex and age groups across countries during the COVID-19 pandemic and their association with country income level. Methods: We used …
of older men has driven the gender gap in life expectancy [ 6 ]. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated this … settings [ 17 ]. Meanwhile, the gender gap in life expectancy between women and men widens as country income … References [1] Barford A, Dorling D, Smith GD. Life expectancy: women now on top every- where. BMJ 2006; … at specific life stages mold the sex gap in life expectancy. PNAS 2021; 118 (20):e2010588118 . [7] Peckham …
PCNS: Policy Center for the New South · 14 November 2024 English
In the medium term, the acceleration of the structural transformation of the Moroccan economy is crucial to harness the demographic dividend. [...] ‘In view of the cumulative de!cits in employment …
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Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 13 November 2024 English
Bad election narratives; principles for the Democrats; slowing AI progress; rising life expectancy; phones are bad; solar vs. nuclear …
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ADB: Asian Development Bank · 13 November 2024 English
This report assesses how Indian ADB-backed projects to construct and upgrade some 45,000 km of rural roads are improving connectivity, opening socioeconomic opportunities, and transforming communities.
living. It is calculated using four indicators—life expectancy at birth, mean years of schooling, expected …
ADB: Asian Development Bank · 13 November 2024 English
This brief shows how civil society organizations (CSOs) in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) are rooted in strong village traditions of community support, maps their growth, and explains …
Index, which measures average achievements in life expectancy, education, and standard of living.d The proportion …
World Bank Group · 13 November 2024 English
The report outlines an agenda to strengthen information and communication technology(ICT) services in Rwanda, where network coverage has improved but broadband uptake remains low. Rwanda needs to boost digital service …
percentage points from 2001 to 2017, while life expectancy, access to health care, and educational attainment … percentage points from 2001 to 2017, and life expectancy, access to health care, and educational attainment …
World Bank Group · 13 November 2024 English
The report outlines an agenda to strengthen information and communication technology (ICT) services in Rwanda, where network coverage has improved but broadband uptake remains low. Rwanda needs to boost digital …
percentage points from 2001 to 2017, while life expectancy, access to health care, and educational attainment … percentage points from 2001 to 2017, and life expectancy, access to health care, and educational attainment …
Cato Institute · 13 November 2024 English
burden on taxpayers. Effective reforms should address cost-growth factors such as increasing life expectancy (especially among higher-income earners), the dwindling worker-to-retiree ratio, and the automatic …
address cost-growth factors such as increasing life expectancy (especially among higher-income earners), … of rising costs—these include increasing life expectancy, the steadily shrinking ratio of workers paying … spending. These issues include increasing life expectancy and the relatively slower increase in the … wage growth in the economy. Additionally, life expectancy is increasing, but Social Security’s eligibility … to account for longer life expectancies. Life expectancy has increased significantly, and Social Security’s …
World Bank Group · 13 November 2024 English
State building and state legitimacy in the states emerging from fragility are inseparable from the notion of social contract. Social contract is a dynamic agreement between the state and society, …
primarily in urban areas 56 years Average life expectancy 25% of students at school age enrolled in … among the worst in the world, with an average life expectancy of 56 years.9 Due to a combination of health …