The research group responsible for the findings were tasked with finding out why the American life expectancy rate his been rising slower than other rich countries despite spending more on health care than any other nation.
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Basic social indicators such us life expectancy, mortality rate, and water and electricity availability rank alongside countries with twice the income per person.
Demographic factors such as the growing number of single person households, longer life expectancy and a higher divorce rate have contributed to demand and the upward pressure on prices.
This and social attitudes towards men's health mean that men have a lower life expectancy, a higher suicide rate and a higher death rate from cancer than women, the Men's Health Forum said.
Average life expectancy is 79 years, a longevity rate topped in Asia only by Japan.
Things like senior population growth, economic conditions, crime rate, climate, and life expectancy.
Despite improvements in life expectancy and literacy, the current economic growth rate will not drag the average Ghanaian out of poverty for another 30 years.
Life expectancy is going up, wages are going up, the birth rate is going up, and the death rate, the suicide rate, the murder rate, and the poverty rate are all going down.
Historians will marvel at the extraordinary escalation in executive pay from 24 times worker pay in 1965 to 275 times worker pay in 2007, at a time when the rate of return on assets of US companies declined by 75% and the life expectancy of a firm in the Fortune declined from 75 years to less than 15 years.
The researchers from McGill University in Montreal noted a convergence in the rate of deaths from HIV and heart disease as contributing to the narrowing of the life expectancy gap.
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