Life+Expectancy

__Map of Global Life Expectancy __ Source: http://www.sacmeq.org/statplanet/StatPlanet.html

__Describe the Map:__ - Northern America, Europe and Oceania: they all have a life expectancy over 75. - Eastern Europe and South America have a relatively high life expectancy, around 65-75. - Africa: The Northern countries of Africa have a relatively high life expectancy of about 65-75, while Sub-Saharan and Southern Africa have quite a low life expectancy [lower than 55]. - Anomaly: Japan -> compared to the rest of the area, its life expectancy is actually very high. It is around the same as Northern America with a life expectancy over 75.

__Worldmapper Map for Life Expectancy__

Graph of Global LE Trends  [|International Human Development Indicators] to show the global trend in Life Expectancy

__Life Expectancy vs Sugar Per Person __ 

Source: http://www.gapminder.org/world/

__Describe the Trend__: - on a whole the countries have a high life expectancy except for a few countries in Africa.

__Suggest Reasons for the global trend in Life Expectancy: __ - over the decades as the world has improved in health care, the life expectancy on average has increased.

__Explain the Anomaly (i.e. Africa) __

Source: http://www.gapminder.org/world/

__Reasons for the Increase and Decline__: - disease plays a big part in the life expectancy in a country - if there is an epidemic in a country it will decrease the overall life expectancy. for example [as seen above] Zimbabwe had a decline in their life expectancy due to the AIDS epidemic.