Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

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Life expectancy: USA, Brazil, Zimbabwe

In my lifetime, here are the changes in life expectancy at birth for three countries:
* USA: up from 70 to 78 years.
* Brazil: up from 54 to 73 years.
* Zimbabwe: from 51 up to 61, then down to 51 years.

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Source: Google Public Data via the World Bank. Note that Robert Mugabe became president of Zimbabwe in 1987.

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Posted in Fruits of the Enlightenment and Politics 4 months, 2 weeks ago at 8:07 am.

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