this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
115 points (97.5% liked)
World News
31895 readers
494 users here now
News from around the world!
Rules:
-
Please only post links to actual news sources, no tabloid sites, etc
-
No NSFW content
-
No hate speech, bigotry, propaganda, etc
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Huh, is this a world-wide trend? The US's life expectancy keeps falling too...
Not really, a lot of countries already reversed the trend from 2021
The US is one of the worst performers.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01450-3
There were also instances where deceased people were misrepresented as still living so relatives could collect on their pension. When the government began cracking down and the numbers corrected, the reported population of extreme elderly shrank. Obviously it isn’t the only reason, but it may have some impact.
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/scandal-missing-100-year-olds-graying-japan/story?id=11393615
wow...
Wondering if it’s Covid
From the very first line of the article and the blurb autopulled into the body of the post:
Still wondering if it’s Covid
Yeah, it’s a mystery all right.