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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Or a similar decline in Canada? The two nations are tied at the hip and what affects one ultimately affects the other.
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Not so far, at least in what matters most. Life expectancy changes in the last decade:
USA: 78.8 -> 77.5 (1.3 years lost)
Canada: 81.7 -> 81.6 (0.1 years lost)
It's particularly bad for men in the US; male life expectancy has dropped from 76.4 a decade ago to 73.5 now, nearly 3 years lost. While in Canada it has held roughly steady going from 79.6 to 79.3 now. The US's male life expectancy is now closer to Iraq, Egypt, or Syria's than it is to Canada's.