COVID-19 shrinks life expectancy in South Korea for first time since 1970
Seoul, South KoreaReuters Babies born in South Korea last year are expected to live 82.7 years, down from 83.6 years in 2021, the statistics agency said last week, after life expectancy fell in 2022 for the first time since 1970, hit by a spike in deaths linked to COVID-19. Following a global trend of such […]
Essay: Life expectancy improves in some countries after big drops in 2020 – but US and others see further falls
University of Oxford scholars JENNIFER BEAM DOWD, JOSÉ MANUEL ABURTO and RIDHI KASHYAP look – in an article first published on The Conversation – at what the latest data on life expectancy shows…
Polluted air to shorten lives by 20 months, researchers say
Thomson Reuters Foundation The life expectancy of a child born today could be reduced by an average of 20 months due to health damage caused by air pollution, researchers said on Wednesday. In South Asia, where air pollution levels are the highest, the life expectancy for children born in countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh falls […]
Deadly air pollution shortens lives by nearly two years – researchers
Thomson Reuters Foundation Air pollution, caused largely by burning fossil fuels, is cutting global life expectancy by an average of 1.8 years per person, making it the world’s top killer, researchers said on Monday. The tiny particles ingested from polluted air shorten life more than first-hand cigarette smoke, which can reduce it by 1.6 years, […]