According to the World Health Organization, life expectancy in the world has increased by 5.5 years since 2000

Life expectancy in the world increased by 5.5 years between 2000 and 2016, This Thursday, the World Health Organization has revealed that income inequality and access to care translate into shorter lives for many.

In addition, the United Nations health agency has noted differences in life expectancy between the bades. On average, a child born in 2016 can expect to live 72 years instead of 66.5 in 2000according to the annual report on global health statistics.

In America, life expectancy increased from 73.6 years in 2000 to 76.8 years in 2016, despite the fact that in the United States it has been declining (from 79 years old to 78.5 years old) attributed in part to obesity.

The first 16 years of the century saw a Dramatic decrease in the number of children under 5 years, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where they were progress in the fight against malaria, measles and other contagious diseases, explained the WHO.

Statistics have also improved thanks to the progress in the fight against HIV / AIDS, which ravaged most of Africa in the 1990s.

But despite the progress made in the poorest countries, WHO emphasized the important differences between developing countries and those already developed.

People in low-income countries live 18 years younger than average that those with high incomes show statistics.

In Lesotho, for example, people live on average 52 years, far from 84 years in Japan first country in the world and 83 from Spain or Switzerland.

While the majority of people in rich countries die of old age, in the poorest countries, one in every three deaths corresponds to children under five.

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For the first time, WHO has separated its statistics by bad, clearly showing that women have a better chance of living longer than men.

Men are more likely to be born than women, and by 2019, 73 million children are expected to be born out of 68 girls., according to the WHO.

But because of greater biological fragility and higher risk behaviors, it is expected thatAmong children born in 2016, children live at 69.8 years old and girls at 74.2 years old.

One of the reasons that women seem to live longer is that they tend to better use of health resources.

So, for example, In countries where HIV is epidemic, women are more likely to be tested and to have access to antiretroviral therapy.

Nevertheless, in countries with few health services, one in 41 women dies from maternal causes, against 1 in 3,300 in high-income countries.

There are "shocking differences"Samira Asma, head of WHO data and badysis, told reporters.

Collectively, statistics show that Life expectancy has increased in most countries, with significant advances in countries like Eritrea, where people are expected to live 22 years older than the 43 years old in 2000.

In Syria, on the other hand, after 8 years of war, Life expectancy has fallen by 10 years from 73 in 2000 to 63.8 in 2016.