Blog Day Twenty-Two: Life Expectancy

Today in class we talked about life expectancy. Life expectancy is defined as the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year. America is ranked number 42 in the world for the length of our populations life expectancy. The average American life expectancy is 79.68 years. The average male life expectancy in the USA is 77.32 years, whereas the average female life expectancy is 81.97 years. The highest average life expectancy in the world is held by the country Morocco. The average amount of years is 89.52 years. The average male life expectancy is 85.93 years whereas the average life expectancy for females is 93.58 years in Morocco. In class we also talked about whether Mr. Schick's generation's life expectancy would be longer than our generation's life expectancy. Many good points were brought up. Someone mentioned that our medicine now is much more advanced and developed than the medicine used when Mr. Schick was a kid. Another support to the student's generation is that we also now know the effect of cigarettes, tobacco, and nicotine to humans. To counter that argument there are a lot of things in the students generations that would not have happened in Mr. schick's generation or even be researched yet. For example Mr. Schick's generations never had a opioid epidemic, whereas we are growing up with signs outside of every police station reminding us of how many people have had an overdose and/ or died from it. Also Mr. Schick generations never had vapes and juuls. There is plenty of advertisement to us kids to get us hooked at an early age where most of us know there is little research does on this very harmful nicotine device. In the end, only time will tell who's generation lives longer. P.S. I really like this unit so far!