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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The average life expectancy of Japanese people declined in 2022 for the second straight year, affected significantly by the coronavirus pandemic, according to the health ministry.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Anecdotally, I keep seeing more and more obese Japanese people and more and more eating junk. It's not terribly surprising, in that case.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Huh, is this a world-wide trend? The US's life expectancy keeps falling too...

[-] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[-] CookieJarObserver 2 points 11 months ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago
[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

From the very first line of the article and the blurb autopulled into the body of the post:

The average life expectancy of Japanese people declined in 2022 for the second straight year, affected significantly by the coronavirus pandemic, according to the health ministry.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Still wondering if it’s Covid

[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Yeah, it’s a mystery all right.

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