Life expectancy was relatively low, leading to a young population, with a ruling aristocracy, freemen, and relatively large numbers of slaves.
Life expectancy is relatively high, with averages of 73 years for males and 79 years for females.
And it's not just a European phenomenon: the WHO singles out Curitiba in Brazil as an example of a city where good urban planning is contributing to higher life expectancy and relatively low infant mortality.
Within a few years life expectancy in relatively affluent Botswana, where life expectancy had been in the mid-60s, dropped below Uganda, a conflict-torn country where life expectancy had been in the 40s.
The lower probability of surviving to age 50 in the United States compared with other countries is alarming, but we need to pay attention to the good news that life expectancy is relatively high for older Americans.
Participants' effort expectancy was relatively high (M = 4.59, SD = 1.51), indicating that they believed using Handpad to be easy.
Furthermore, patients with a higher level of education ("Abitur", i.e. high-school diploma) assessed the characteristic "maximum increase of life expectancy" as relatively more important.
The yellow cluster representative of government and life expectancy is relatively central but lacks the degree of density that would connote thematic cohesion.
Though the effect of democratic politics on increasing life expectancy was relatively small in the short term when compared to the effects of the other socioeconomic factors, the long-term impact of democracy should not be underestimated.
The age of 50 years has been considered an appropriate cut-off for studying older people in sub-Saharan Africa, as life expectancy is relatively low in the region and individuals normally become grandparents by that age [ 19, 20].
