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Life expectancy in U.S. States and Select Countries
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this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2026
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Not necessarily a reflection of happiness or quality of life (and health). Interesting nonetheless. I'm curious if there's correlation between general population wealth, warm weather, regional diets, potential for outdoor activities (hence warm weather, but also being coastal), and of course genetics.
I'm asking for too much, studies are long and complicated. Just want to outlive my kids here.
In broad strokes, the three biggest drivers for life expectancy are education, health care, and social safety nets (i.e. unemployment insurance, subsidized/free child care, housing support, UBI, etc). Of those, I think education is the most important because that will drive the rest to improve as well.
Well, Spain has a very good universal health care system, which by the way places an emphasis on prevention, and is universally liked for the quality of life (work to live, not live to work), people are super social, weather is generally very good, good food is a religion, people walk, etc... so we could infer some things from this.
Hawaii, from what I remember (two decades ago) had a bit of that vibe. A lot of obesity, though.
There is a strong correlation between shitty health care and low life expectancy.
Well most are less overweight, but Australia being up there throws that off I think they are overweight as all the commonwealth countries generally are?
Public health. It’s fuckin great, mate.