Americans Can Now Expect to Live Three Years Less than Cubans
The drop in U.S. life expectancy has put the country only a few years above the world average, while in 1960, it was 17 years ahead.
This is the ultimate irony. America spent 60 years trying to condemn Cubans to poverty. Yet Americans live less than Cubans do.
Life expectancy for men = 73.2 years in the USA.
So if I retire at 66, I can expect about 7.2 years of retirement. That would even be 1 year before my social security retirement age of 67. And I will have worked 52 years to achieve that retirement (I started a part time job at age 14). Work 52 to get 7.2.
Not exactly a great deal, is it? Shouldn't retirement be at least a decade?
If you want the government to pay for your “retirement” then the retirement age is 66. But you can retire literally whenever you want as soon as you have the resources. Which might be in your late 40s or early 50s depending on education, career, and personal goals.
Also keep in mind that “life expectancy” is an average that is reduced by men that die from car accidents, strokes, and whatever else much earlier than 66. The life expectancy of a 60 year old male in the US is 80.
Average American has around 100k of debt, and over half the population can't afford an unexpected 1,000 expense. What that says is that people are barely making enough money to make ends meet, the chances of them saving enough resources to stop working are nil. Only a tiny percentage of the population is going to be retiring at all.
You're accidentally tapping into the problem here. Wealthy Americans can and often do retire very early, enjoying decades of comfortable retirement. That is made possible by the people who break their bodies for very little pay and who get little or no opportunity to retire at all.
It's pretty bad everywhere. But in the US it is especially obscene, thanks to the lack of universal healthcare and the enormous disparity between pay at the top and bottom, and the leaky to non-existent safety nets.
I don't know how you manage to grasp half of that picture without apparently even realising that the rest of it must exist.
But I was assured by the Anti-Tankies that everyone in Cuba gets executed every hour on the hour.
As a trans person I would unironically move to Cuba if they were accepting immigrants.
I love this title. You can hear the stank when they say "Cubans".
Is this ironic?
good there's much better stuff than the cancer known as McDonalds lmao
There is one, in Gitmo base.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Other countries that are ahead of the U.S. in terms of life expectancy include: Colombia, Uruguay and Chile; Costa Rica, Panama and Puerto Rico; and Turkey, Greece and Albania.
The U.S. ranks around 50th in the world for life expectancy (depending on data and what is considered a country or territory), and this has dropped 2.7 years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
However, the decrease in mortality for pneumonia (38.5 percent) helped the other way, as did a reduction in risk from other respiratory illnesses and Alzheimer's disease.
The country has a high ratio of medical professionals and focuses on prevention and primary care.
In the years since, China's life expectancy has steadily caught up with, and could now overtake, that of the U.S., depending on the country's 2021 data.
According to the World Bank, global life expectancy dropped, from 72.76 to 72.75, for the first time in 2020, after recording 60 years of gains since 1960.
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Just here to say that Puerto Rico is not a country. It's a US territory
Thank you! I was thinking the same thing. I hate it when news sources perpetuate racist disinformation.
It makes sense that it dropped a bit during COVID, hopefully, it will pick up in the future again.
Unlikely; the effects of long COVID will probably persist for years, if not decades
mortality for pneumonia
In case anyone doesn't know where this stuff comes from: Think grandma breaking her leg getting into hospital lying in bed all the time and thereby contracting pneumonia. She had to stay that long because her bones don't heal as they once did, and she contracted and died from pneumonia because her vascular and immune systems aren't what they once were. Incredibly common cause of death among the elderly.
More yogthos propaganda.
Western Newsweek article. Try harder dumbass
exactly , it is obviously that a system that considers human live to be less valuable then Medicine will have a higer Lifeexpectation then a System that doesnt ! all who doubt that are traitors to our cause !
this guy keeps posting accurate information about how the propaganda I was fed since birth is wrong and that makes me angry and defensive
Cubans, as far as I know, are Americans too. I don't recall Cuba being part of Asia.
So the CDC chooses the year where when we where still dying from covid because an orange idiot and his group of red hat morons to set the average? No shit it will go down.
The Cubans were also dealing with Covid that year.
Fun fact: Cuba developed 5 vaccines while the US was still doing covid denialism! https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/02/01/1056952488/a-small-island-nation-has-cooked-up-not-1-not-2-but-5-covid-vaccines-its-cuba
Liberalism truly is a cancer, something that Cuba also has a vaccine used to treat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CimaVax-EGF
It was a global pandemic. So Cubans were also dealing with Covid.
Also in 2021 Biden was president. And they say life expectancy went down from 2020, the year trump was president
