The World Health Organization table of healthy life expectancy lowers the level to 70 years for Americans overall, with 67.5 years for men and 72.6 years for women.
A nearby ward had life expectancy lower than Iraq's.
Higher life expectancy, lower fertility rates, improvement in health and lower mortality rates have consequences on changes in population structure.
"Indigenous peoples are too often affected by poverty and discrimination, they are more often in prison than in universities, child mortality rates are higher and life expectancy lower.
Less inequality leads to less violence, stronger community life, better health, longer life expectancy, lower teenage birth rates, as well as more social mobility and higher educational attainment.
But in only three provinces is life expectancy lower than in Qinghai, and only two have worse illiteracy rates.
At the same time, at least one of every nine counties has a life expectancy lower than Nicaragua's.
A study by uSwitch has named the UK and Ireland as the worst places in Europe for quality of life, with both suffering from lower life expectancy, lower household income and less holiday entitlement than the rest of Europe.
The French health-care system has among the highest public-satisfaction levels of any major Western country; and, compared with Americans, the French have a higher life expectancy, lower infant mortality, more physicians, and lower costs.
Along many dimensions — greater income equality, longer life expectancy, lower unemployment, greater investments in children's education and health, and even greater productivity relative to the size of the labor force — Japan has done better than the United States.
