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| While most people who die in rich countries are old, nearly one in three deaths in poorer countries are children under five (AFP Photo/GREG BAKER) |
Geneva (AFP) - Global life expectancy grew by 5.5 years between 2000 and 2016, the World Health Organization said Thursday, warning though that unequal income and access to healthcare translates into far shorter lives for many.
The UN
health agency also stressed significant gender differences in life expectancy
worldwide.
On average,
a child born in 2016 can expect to live 72 years, up from 66.5 in 2000,
according to the annual World Health Statistics report.
The first
16 years of the century saw dramatic drops in deaths among children under five,
especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where progress has been made against malaria,
measles and other communicable diseases, WHO said.
Life
expectancy has also increased thanks to advances against HIV/AIDS, which
ravaged much of Africa in the 1990s.
But despite
progress in poorer countries, WHO said there remained significant life
expectancy gaps between developed and developing nations.
People in
low-income countries live 18 fewer years on average than those in high-income
nations, statistics showed.
In Lesotho,
for instance, people on average live to be just 52, or 53 in the Central
African Republic 53 years of age, compared to over 83 for Switzerland and over
84 in Japan.
While most
people who die in rich countries are old, nearly one in three deaths in poorer
countries are children under five, WHO said.
'Shocking
differences'
For the
first time, WHO broke down its global health statistics by sex, clearly showing
that females have better longevity prospects than males.
At birth, babies are more likely to be male than female, with some 73 million boys expected to be born this year, compared to 68 million girls, WHO said.
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Life
expectancy for people in full health and in less than full health (AFP
Photo/Jonathan WALTER)
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At birth, babies are more likely to be male than female, with some 73 million boys expected to be born this year, compared to 68 million girls, WHO said.
But due to
greater biological frailty and riskier behaviours, mortality rates tend to be
higher among boys and men, and the ratio shifts as the population ages.
At a global
scale, girls born in 2016 are expected to live to the age of 74.2, while and
boys on average will make it to 69.8 years, the report showed.
One reason
why women appear to live longer is that they tend to be better about using
available healthcare.
In
countries facing HIV epidemics, for instance, women are far more likely to take
HIV tests and access antiretroviral therapies than their male counterparts.
Female TB patients are also more likely to seek treatment, WHO said.
It is
therefore perhaps not surprising that the gap between men's and women's life
expectancy is narrowest in places where women lack access to health services.
In
low-income countries with scarcer services, one in 41 women die from maternal
causes, compared to one in 3,300 women in high-income countries.
These are
"shocking differences", WHO's head of data and analytics, Samira
Asma, told reporters.
Overall,
the statistics showed that life expectancy has risen in most countries,
including significant jumps in places like Eritrea, where people on average are
now expected to live 22 years longer than the 43 years predicted in 2000.
In Syria,
meanwhile, which has been ravaged by eight years of conflict, life expectancy
dropped by a decade, from 73 years in 2000 to 63.8 years in 2016.
People in
the United States have meanwhile seen their life expectancy slip from 79 years
in 2014 to 78.5 years two years later, the WHO numbers showed.
Asma said
the drop was in part driven by the obesity epidemic.
The answer is simple, but requires a change in thinking. The answer is a civilization on the planet who understands a new survival scenario. Instead of a basic population who has been told to have a lot of children to enhance the race [old survival], they begin to understand the logic of a new scenario. The Akashic wisdom of the ages will start to creep in with a basic survival scenario shift. Not every single woman will look at herself and say, "The clock is ticking," but instead can say, "I have been a mother 14 times in a row. I'm going to sit this one out." It's a woman who understands that there is no loss or guilt in this, and actually feels that the new survival attribute is to keep the family small or not at all! Also, as we have said before, even those who are currently ignorant of population control will figure out what is causing babies to be born [Kryon joke].
Part of the new Africa will be education and healing, and eventually a zero population growth, just like some of the first-world nations currently have. Those who are currently tied to a spiritual doctrine will actually have that doctrine changed (watch for it) regarding Human birth. Then they will be able to make free choice that is appropriate even within the establishment of organized religion. You see, things are going to change where common sense will say, "Perhaps it would help the planet if I didn't have children or perhaps just one child." Then the obvious, "Perhaps I can exist economically better and be wiser with just one. It will help the one!" Watch for these changes. For those of you who are steeped in the tradition of the doctrines and would say that sounds outrageously impossible, I give you the new coming pope [Kryon smile]. For those of you who feel that uncontrolled procreation is inevitable, I encourage you to see statistics you haven't seen or didn't care to look at yet about what first-world countries have already accomplished on their own, without any mandates. It's already happening. That was number three.….”
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"Recalibration of Free Choice"– Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: (Old) Souls, Midpoint on 21-12-2012, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, 1 - Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Loose a Pope “soon”, 2 - Humans will change react to drama, 3 - Civilizations/Population on Earth, 4 - Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Paddle wheels), Wind), 5 – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , 6 - News/Media/TV to change, 7 – Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical) 8 – Wars will be over on Earth, Global Unity, … etc.) - (Text version)
“… 3 - Longer Life is Going to Happen, But…
Here is one that is a review. We keep bringing it up because Humans don't believe it. If you're going to start living longer, there are those who are frightened that there will be overpopulation. You've seen the way it is so far, and the geometric progression of mathematics is absolute and you cannot change it. So if you look at the population of the earth and how much it has shifted in the last two decades, it's frightening to you. What would change that progression?
The answer is simple, but requires a change in thinking. The answer is a civilization on the planet who understands a new survival scenario. Instead of a basic population who has been told to have a lot of children to enhance the race [old survival], they begin to understand the logic of a new scenario. The Akashic wisdom of the ages will start to creep in with a basic survival scenario shift. Not every single woman will look at herself and say, "The clock is ticking," but instead can say, "I have been a mother 14 times in a row. I'm going to sit this one out." It's a woman who understands that there is no loss or guilt in this, and actually feels that the new survival attribute is to keep the family small or not at all! Also, as we have said before, even those who are currently ignorant of population control will figure out what is causing babies to be born [Kryon joke].
Part of the new Africa will be education and healing, and eventually a zero population growth, just like some of the first-world nations currently have. Those who are currently tied to a spiritual doctrine will actually have that doctrine changed (watch for it) regarding Human birth. Then they will be able to make free choice that is appropriate even within the establishment of organized religion. You see, things are going to change where common sense will say, "Perhaps it would help the planet if I didn't have children or perhaps just one child." Then the obvious, "Perhaps I can exist economically better and be wiser with just one. It will help the one!" Watch for these changes. For those of you who are steeped in the tradition of the doctrines and would say that sounds outrageously impossible, I give you the new coming pope [Kryon smile]. For those of you who feel that uncontrolled procreation is inevitable, I encourage you to see statistics you haven't seen or didn't care to look at yet about what first-world countries have already accomplished on their own, without any mandates. It's already happening. That was number three.….”
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