2017年，中国人预期寿命超过美国

世界卫生组织数据显示，中国新生儿健康寿命超过美国

汤姆·迈尔斯 2018 年 5 月 30 日
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/china-overtakes-us-for-healthy-lifespan-who-data-idUSKCN1IV15G/

日内瓦（路透社）——根据世界卫生组织的数据，中国新生儿的健康预期寿命首次超过美国。

2016 年的数据显示，中国新生儿的健康预期寿命为 68.7 年，而美国新生儿的健康预期寿命为 68.5 年。

总体而言，美国新生儿的预期寿命仍更长——78.5 年，而中国新生儿的预期寿命为 76.4 年——但美国人生命的最后 10 年预计不会是健康的。

世卫组织发言人艾莉森·克莱门茨-亨特 (Alison Clements-Hunt) 表示：“计算出生时健康预期寿命时，中国、日本、韩国和其他一些高收入亚洲国家的损失健康年限低于高收入‘西方’国家。”
据路透社对世卫组织数据的分析显示，2016 年，美国是仅有的五个出生时健康预期寿命下降的国家之一，另外四个是索马里、阿富汗、格鲁吉亚和圣文森特和格林纳丁斯。世卫组织数据于 5 月中旬发布，未进行同比对比。

前景最好的是新加坡婴儿，他们平均可以享受 76.2 年的健康寿命，其次是日本、西班牙和瑞士。美国在全球排名第 40 位，中国排名第 37 位。

在总体预期寿命方面，中国也正在赶上美国，路透社的计算表明，中国有望在 2027 年左右超过美国。

“中国人的预期寿命大幅增加，现在比一些高收入国家都要高，”克莱门茨-亨特说。

与此同时，美国人的预期寿命正在下降，2014 年达到 79 岁的峰值，这是多年来首次出现逆转，克莱门茨-亨特说。

她说，这反映了药物过量死亡率的上升，主要是阿片类药物、自杀和其他一些主要原因，这些死亡率在美国中年年轻人中尤其如此，尤其是在较不富裕的地区。

世界上预期寿命最长的国家是日本，为 84.2 岁，这意味着 2016 年在那里出生的婴儿是第一批能够期待看到下一个世纪的婴儿。

汤姆·迈尔斯报道；约翰·斯通斯特里特编辑
China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data

By Tom Miles May 30, 2018
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/china-overtakes-us-for-healthy-lifespan-who-data-idUSKCN1IV15G/

GENEVA (Reuters) - China has overtaken the United States in healthy life expectancy at birth for the first time, according to World Health Organization data.

Chinese newborns can look forward to 68.7 years of healthy life ahead of them, compared with 68.5 years for American babies, the data - which relates to 2016 - showed.

American newborns can still expect to live longer overall - 78.5 years compared to China's 76.4 - but the last 10 years of American lives are not expected to be healthy.

"The lost years of good health that are a factor in calculating healthy life expectancy at birth are lower for China, Japan, Korea and some other high income Asian countries than for high income 'Western' countries," said WHO spokeswoman Alison Clements-Hunt.
The United States was one of only five countries, along with Somalia, Afghanistan, Georgia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, where healthy life expectancy at birth fell in 2016, according to a Reuters analysis of the WHO data, which was published without year-on-year comparisons in mid-May.

The best outlook was for Singaporean babies, who can count on 76.2 years of health on average, followed by those in Japan, Spain and Switzerland. The United States came 40th in the global rankings, while China was 37th.

In terms of overall life expectancy China is also catching up with the United States, which Reuters calculations suggest it is on course to overtake around 2027.

"Chinese life expectancy has increased substantially and is now higher than for some high-income countries," said Clements-Hunt.
Meanwhile U.S. life expectancy is falling, having peaked at 79 years in 2014, the first such reversal for many years, Clements-Hunt said.

That reflected increasing rates of drug overdose deaths, mainly from opioids, suicides, and some other major causes among younger middle-aged Americans, particularly in less affluent areas, she said.

The world's longest life expectancy is in Japan, at 84.2 years, meaning that babies born there in 2016 were the first to be able to look forward to seeing the next century.
Reporting by Tom Miles; editing by John Stonestreet