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What a great honour! Thank you.
Based on @OurWorldInData's work, the Royal Statistical Society has chosen global life expectancy as their International Statistic of the Year. The UN estimate for this year is 72.6 years.
Our research if you are interested https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy https://twitter.com/HetanShah/status/1207568979272884224…
There are large inequalities in the world: – In Japan life expectancy is close to 85 years. – In the worst-off places it is still between 50 and 60 years. The Central African Republic has the lowest life expectancy with 53 years. [here is the data https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy?tab=map …]pic.twitter.com/smvvJ2qm1v
Life expectancy doubled in all regions of the world over recent history: in Oceania to 79 years in Europe to 79 years in Americas to 77 years in Asia to 73.6 years in Africa to 63 years And globally from around 29 years to 72.6 years todaypic.twitter.com/hvrE0DagUT
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