I’ve been analyzing life expectancy numbers from the WHO’s website. The numbers run from 2000 to 2016, so they’re not fully up to date. Some things, nevertheless, stand out, and there’s got to be stories behind the numbers.
Eastern Europe, for example, has the greatest difference in life expectancy between men and women. Could that be thanks to alcoholism?
In 2000, the countries with the lowest life expectancies were all in subsaharan Africa. Here’s a chart of how they’ve faired since.
Then there’s Haiti. After the country was destroyed by an earthquake in 2010, its life expectancy dropped sharply.
