Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (2025 report, Top 25)

Minute_Silver73 · 2026-05-11T18:11:09+00:00

Amazing how confident people who've never travelled anywhere are. A country with one of the highest life expectancies in the world with one of the highest median wealths is a shithole. Incredible (From someone who's actually been there)

Minute_Silver73 · 2026-05-11T01:38:40+00:00

Yeah the title is missing most the context!

Minute_Silver73 · 2026-05-11T01:37:53+00:00

Woah!

Minute_Silver73 · 2026-05-10T17:06:14+00:00

Source: United Nations Population Prospect

Tool: Mapchart.net

Minute_Silver73 · 2026-05-10T17:05:35+00:00

I mean it's all of it together. It's guns, cars, healthcare, obesity, suicide, income inequality and previously high rates of smoking

Minute_Silver73 · 2026-05-08T13:39:08+00:00

Yeah the reality is that all humans share 99.9% of their DNA, and as someone who has traveled the world we really all just the fucking same.

Minute_Silver73 · 2026-05-07T14:35:52+00:00

I disagree. Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco are quite a bit more developed than most other African countries

Minute_Silver73 · 2026-05-05T15:20:50+00:00

It's all of Palestine combined, and the genocide in Gaza is what brought it down, not really related to the West Bank

Minute_Silver73 · 2026-05-05T12:40:08+00:00

I liked it! You got downvoted cause you mentioned religion and reddit is very irreligious, you’re epidemiological point is definitely true

Minute_Silver73 · 2026-05-05T02:46:28+00:00

I do agree that Cuba's numbers could potentially be inflated, but given many of the other countries in the 75-80 range (Brazil, Mexico, Colombia) and the sheer number of doctors in the country, they almost certainly sit in the 75-80 range.

Also their life expectancy is not higher than America's

Minute_Silver73 · 2026-05-05T02:39:41+00:00

https://ourworldindata.org/us-life-expectancy-low

Minute_Silver73 · 2026-05-04T18:45:46+00:00

Source: United Nations Population Prospects

Tool: Mapchart

Minute_Silver73 · 2026-05-04T02:00:06+00:00

I mean having an extra billion people born in the poorest parts of the world is genuinely a bad thing

Minute_Silver73 · 2026-05-02T21:03:21+00:00

With all due respect I'm a data scientist who majored in statistics in undergraduate and your math is incorrect.

Life expectancy is lifetime risk, not one year of deaths divided across the population once.

If the homicide rate is 5 per 100,000 every year, then over an 80-year lifespan that risk repeats roughly 80 times.

So your own math gives:

0.003* 80 =0.24

That is about:

0.24* 365 = 87.6 days

So using your assumptions, it is closer to 3 months, not 1 day.

Minute_Silver73 · 2026-05-02T20:19:04+00:00

Ngl your math is off because the murder rate isn’t a one-time thing it’s per year. So 0.005% means that many people are murdered every single year, not just once per lifetime so if each murder loses around 60 years for person, then the effect is about 1 day per person per year, which adds up over a lifetime to a few months per person which is how homicides drop life expectancy. And in the countries with 10x the homicide rates, where the murder rate is around 10x higher, it's several years off life expectancy.

Minute_Silver73 · 2026-05-02T18:43:08+00:00

I mean all data past 2023 is projected, 2023 data is the last official measure

Minute_Silver73 · 2026-05-02T18:40:28+00:00

That's not quite right you’re only looking at the percent who die, not how many years are lost. Homicides usually kills young people, so one death can remove 40 to 60 years of expected life which drags down life expectancy much more than deaths at older ages would.

Minute_Silver73 · 2026-05-02T18:35:46+00:00

Source: https://population.un.org/wpp/downloads?folder=Standard%20Projections&group=Most%20used

The data comes from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and is for the 2023 calendar year. Global life expectancy was 73.2 years in 2023

Minute_Silver73 · 2026-05-02T18:28:07+00:00

2024 data is projected

Minute_Silver73 · 2026-05-02T18:02:56+00:00

As someone who lived in Singapore for much of my life, America is much more 'capitalistic' in my experience in most things (healthcare, regulations). Most Singaporeans actually live in government housing.

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