The World Health Organization has stated that women from Japan have the highest life expectancy in the world with 86 years. The Geneva-based body says men from Sierra Leone are expected to live up to only 39 years. Women from Afghanistan will live only up to an average of 42 years. The global health agency says that countries like Angola, Eritrea, and Liberia have made tremendous progress while other like Botswana, Kenya, and Lesotho have witnessed a drop in life expentancy since 1990.
The leader of a new Hardvard University study on longevity was shocked to find that Asian-American women living in Bergen County, New Jersey, hold the longest life expectancy in the country, normally reaching the age of 91. The Asian women in Bergen County lived around 33 years longer than American Indian men in parts of South Dakota, who kill around the age of 58, according to the study. The life expectancy in New Jersey is 77.5 years and ranks 23rd highest out of the 50 states and Washington D.C. Dr. Christopher Murray says that where people live colliding with race and income, are factors of why many of the worst-off Americans' life expectancies are so much like other developing countries.
Sabrina, What do you think of this information? That Americans are living like they do in third world country? That America, still the richest nation in the world, doesn't have the longest life expectancy? What do you think of your source?
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