People can expect to live 10 years longer than in 1970. But interesting variation across developed countries. @OECD pic.twitter.com/CBMqBwj34w
— Paul Kirby (@paul1kirby) November 11, 2017
Life expectancy in Korea, Chile, Mexico and Brazil has skyrocketed
30 Dec 2017 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth miracles, health economics Tags: life expectancies, The Great Escape
Lucky bastards, grizzling about #safespaces all the way to their 100th birthday
17 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in health economics, public economics Tags: ageing society, demographic crisis, life expectancies, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
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US age-adjusted Death Rates, 1950-2014
04 Aug 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: cancer survival rates, life expectancies, The Great Escape
Source: Jason Furman speaking at the World Bank via Incentives in Action – Marginal REVOLUTION.
Breast cancer death rates in the USA, Australia and England and Wales since 1950
24 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: cancer rates, life expectancies, The Great Escape
Source: HumanProgress.org from International Agency for Research on Cancer, Updated 17 June, 2015.
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Improvements in remaining life expectancy of Australians aged 25 to 29 since 1990
30 May 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics, population economics Tags: Australia, life expectancies, The Great Escape
The graph shows how many years you have left if aged 25 to 29 in 1990.
Source: Life Expectancy: progress from 1990 to 2013 | Health Intelligence.
How is The Great Escape going in #NewZealand?
30 May 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: life expectancies, The Great Escape
Extreme poverty in Uganda, Swaziland and Botswana @jasonhickel @Carolyn_nth
17 May 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: antimarket bias, Botswana, economics of AIDS, life expectancies, reactionary left, Swaziland, The Great Escape, Uganda
Since 1985, extreme poverty has halved in Botswana and dropped by a 3rd in Swaziland and Uganda.
Source: World Poverty – Our World In Data.
Life expectancies are increasing again in Swaziland and Botswana after the HIV epidemic has come under more control.
Source: Life Expectancy by Age in selected Country from 1990 to 2013 | Health Intelligence
Source: Life Expectancy by Age in selected Country from 1990 to 2013 | Health Intelligence
Closer to achieving #foodsecurity in #WestAfrica w/ 60% decline in under-nourished since 90s bit.ly/1M1Fzvt https://t.co/ezPM05lbEo—
(@OECD) October 28, 2015
The battle against Polio in Africa http://t.co/LYB2nGZlAB—
Amazing Maps™ (@amazingmap) June 30, 2015
"Freedom is making gradual progress in Africa…the trends are in the right direction" @bill_easterly #hayek15 https://t.co/Ua1GON7ha2—
IEA (@iealondon) December 02, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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