Life Expectancy Rates Around the World

Today in class we went over more on population and settlement. First, we learned about life expectancy. Life expectancy is the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year. The average life expectancy rate for a person living in the United States is around 80 years. The highest life expectancy comes from Monaco with around 89 years and the lowest is from Afghanistan with around 52 years. We also found that women tend to have higher life expectancy's than men. A few reasons for this could be women most likely will watch see doctors when they feel sick, men do more risky jobs than women, and men take more risks and are less cautious than women. We also began to discuss our thoughts on if younger generations would have a longer life expectancy compared to some of the older generations. Some said younger generations would have a longer life expectancy based on our increase in technology and medication for health reasons, but others said younger generations would have a lower life expectancy based on the increasing rates of  drug users such. These drugs include nicotine found in cigarettes or e-cigarettes.