Friday, November 04, 2022

5689 - World Life Expectancy


Well, Wednesday Lady M got me searching for more information about nose-picking and I found this site. Not about nose picking but about world diseases in general. It's a data junkie's dream.


This is on the first page...


Look where the US is on drug deaths. We're number 1! We're number 1!



15 comments:

Elephant's Child said...

I was appalled at how quickly the number increase on those charts...

Mike said...

Sue - They are eye-opening stats.

Cloudia said...

You have the intelligence and the imagination to see beyond mere numbers. I love to know things as well, and data is always indispensable. Thanks for always sharing worthwhile stuff and your worthwhile itself. Mike

Mike said...

Cloudia - Fuuny, worthwhile, or hopefully interesting, my three go-to posts.

River said...

We're number three on drug deaths, so we're not doing too well either. It's a sad reality.

Mike said...

River - I don't think you're going to catch us.

Lady M said...

I can't find what kind of drugs - illegal, legal, opiates? We are way out in front of the rest of the world.

Mike said...

Lady - I figure it has to be illegal drugs with possible misuse of legal drugs. Whatever it is it can't be good.

Susan Kane said...

Heavy drug use is rampant. It comes over the border and there seems to be ignored by the government.

Ole Phat Stu said...

I think you are nr 1 in deaths by school shooters too :-(

Jerry said...

It makes one skittish of engaging with people knowing so many are drugged up on one thing or another because behavior is unpredictable.

Mike said...

Susan - But you've got a better rating than us.

Stu - I don't doubt that one bit!

Jerry - I just heard on PBS that alcoholism is worse than the drug problem but no one is talking about it.

Kirk said...

I thought hypertension was bad because it was a CAUSE of heart attacks and strokes. But according to this chart, you can die some other way from it.

Mike said...

Kirk - It's a bonus way to die.

Bilbo said...

I couldn't get past the "Covid-19 Death Simulator." It sounds like a GOP argument that the pandemic was false.