Watch Hans Rosling's brilliant representation of changing life expectancies worldwide - 200 countries, 200 years in 4 minutes: http://on.fb.me/1Glx6kb)
This week's theme: Death and Disease
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Fact-a-Day
May 19, 2015
Old news
Average life expectancy worldwide has increased by 18.5 years since 1960, from 52.5 to 71 years in 2013. Over the same time period South Africa's life expectancy increased by 7 years from 49 years to 56.7 years in 2013. (http://bit.ly/LW1Qbh).
