Adopting a healthy diet between the ages of 20 to 60 can increase life span by at least a decade. —ELLA OLSSON/Pexels
The latest available statistics (published in 2022 for the year ending 2021) on human life expectancy from the United Nations WPP (World Population Prospects) is sober reading. The data from over 240 countries and dependent territories indicated the peak of human longevity was achieved in 2019. It also highlighted the magnitude of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in life expectancy terms.
From the peak of 2019, citizens in most countries had lost significant periods of their statistical life expectancies. By 2021, India had lost 3.7 years of their expected lifespan in 2019, Europe had lost 2.1 years, the USA had lost 1.9 years, both Germany and the UK lost a year while Malaysia lost 0.9 years although France lost only 0.2 years.
