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The Economics of Living Longer

Over the past 24 years, the world’s largest nations have seen colossal economic rises and falls, from China’s ascension to financial super power to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the international crisis of the late 2000s. At the same time, we’ve seen great fluctuation in how long people are expected to live. As the charts that follow illustrate, these two factors are sometimes related. When a country’s GDP is on the rise, its life expectancy is usually trending upward as well -- or vice versa.

These three charts reflect the relationship between GDP and life expectancy over a period of 22 years beginning in 1990. If a country is thriving both economically and in expected length of its citizens’ lives, the line should trend to the upper right. Inversely, a country with a foundering GDP and declining life expectancy will move downward and left. The annotations explain major events that dramatically altered the trend along the way.