Indians live longer: WHO
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 18 May 2011, 00:35 IST
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Indians live longer: WHO
Bangalore: According to the reports of World health organization, India has recorded dramatic change in life expectancy as it rose to 65 years in 2009. The estimates of 1995 stated that an average Indian male born in the 1990s can expect to live 58.5 years and a women can expect to live only slightly longer (59.6 years). Studies have revealed that life expectancy in India, China, and elsewhere have increased by more than 50 percent since 1960. This milestone reassures the sharp footprints of modern science and technology. Globally, life expectancy at birth increased to 32.7 percent on average from 1960 to 2008. In middle income countries, people live 21 years longer than they did just 50 years ago. In many of the world's most populous countries, including Algeria, Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, and Nepal, life expectancy grew by 52.2 to 76.3 percent. When grouped by income levels, increases in life expectancy at birth ranged from an average of 15.9 percent for high income countries to 43.8 percent for middle income countries.In the United States, female life expectancy at birth averaged 81 years in 2009, up from 80 in 2000. According to WHO, American boys born in this century can expect to live for 76 years. But life expectancy in Iraq was 66 years in 2009, down from 68 in 2000. The report released by WHO stated that among all, Japan recorded the highest life expectancy of 81 years and Malawi had the lowest, at 47 years. Even China has a much higher average life expectancy of 74 years, with the average female living to 76 and the average male to 72 whereas in India, the life expectancy of women is 66 years a three years more than an average male. The biggest cause of mortality in the population aged between 0-5 years in India is poor prenatal care and ever prevalent non-communicable and malignant diseases. Pakistan, however, has a lower life expectancy than India at 64 years. The above figures call for better health polices and strict implementation of it. Targeted health expenditure and growing coverage of health insurance can make a remarkable change. . Over the years, the government has set up a variety of national programs aimed at controlling or eradicating these diseases but its execution is what is needed to be checked by the government.

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