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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 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 year ago (1 children)

Still wondering if it’s Covid

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it’s a mystery all right.

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