And the country with the highest life expectancy in the world is...
The great concerns of the Spanish According to the barometer of the Center for Sociological Research (CIS) of August 2018, they are unemployment, corruption and fraud, politicians in general, economic problems, immigration and health (in sixth place).
When Spaniards are asked about the economic situation in the country, only 5.4% consider that it is good . And, as a noteworthy fact, nobody considers it very good . However, despite this perception of the Spanish themselves, it seems that between now and 2040 the average life expectancy of the country will increase.
According to the new report on life expectancy from the ** IHME (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, of the University of Washington) ** Spain will surpass Japan, yes, Japan (the country of Ikigai, of the "recipe for longevity ") in life expectancy around the year 2040.
This means that it will be ranked number 1 in the world ranking with an average life expectancy of 85.8 years.
GOOD NEWS FOR THE PENINSULA AND FOR EUROPE
Of the top ten countries in the ranking, six are European. Another of the great readings of the study concerns Portugal , which is positioned as the country that will grow the most in the world top 20, adding between now and 2040 3.6 years at their half-life ( and moving up from 23rd -last life expectancy study published in 2016- to fifth in the world ranking ) .
The rest of the list of European "award winners" is completed by Switzerland (with an average of 85.2 years), France (with an average of 84.3 years), and Italy, which moves up one position (from seventh to sixth, with an average of 84.5 years). and from the United Kingdom also rises in the ranking with an average lifespan of 83.3.
THE BAD NEWS
Palestine is the country whose life expectancy is most affected in this forecast (falling from 114th place in 2016 to 152nd in 2040). The rest of the countries that have shown a more striking drop than the rest are:
USA , which would plummet from 43rd to 64th, with an average lifespan of 79.8 years.
Canada from position 17 to 27
Norway, from 12 to 20
Taiwan, from 35 to 42
Belgium, from 21 to 28
Netherlands from 15 to 21
Top 10 of the countries with the highest life expectancy in the world.
THE CONCLUSIONS OF THE STUDY
The forecast for 2040 is that life expectancy will increase by an average of 4.4 years in the case of men and 4.4 in the case of women.
Looking ahead to 2040, Japan, Singapore, Spain and Switzerland They have a forecast would exceed 85 years in both sexes . 59 countries, including China, are projected to exceed the median life expectancy of 80 years by 2040.
At the same time, the Central African Republic, Lesotho, Somalia and Zimbabwe , show an average of 65 years of life expectancy.
As a final icing, the study says: "it is expected that most of the health factors will improve by 2040 but 36 of them will worsen. It is possible that some of them will be corrected by 2040, although, in the case of factors such as body mass index, the quota will increase if nothing is done to prevent it ".