life expectancy Archives

New UN life expectancy projections might not really display what living longer will mean for the most developed nations.

Reading the 2022 World Happiness Report, I wonder whether its six variables are what we should use to rank happy countries.

Now and in the past, life expectancy is about much more than living longer when we look at consumer spending and government responsibility.

Looking back 55 years at the changes in life expectancy, we could decide to change our definition of what it means to be old.

Although the per capita GDP gap between two countries could appear large, the difference shrinks when you bring welfare into your calculations.

Led by Chinese economic growth and other emerging markets, the center of economic gravity is moving eastward from the developed world to Asia.