📊 Life Expectancy
The mixed bag of Latin Americans' longer lives
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Life Expectancy🫀
Fun fact: the average Chilean lives 3 years longer than their counterparts in the United States.
Shocked? You shouldn’t be. Chile has a notably strong mixed healthcare system which combines the public and private sectors to provide care to as many citizens as possible. Its homicide rate is also roughly a third smaller than that of the US, perhaps explaining why its life expectancy has been higher since the year 2000.
Despite having a far wealthier citizenry than its southern neighbors, the United States has an average life expectancy more akin to Costa Rica or Panama than fellow G7 members such as Germany or Japan.
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