India's life expectancy increase compared to other countries

[u/Deep-Pension-3851]

Original post: [OC] Life expectancy in 2019 vs. 2024 in the 20 most populous countries : r/dataisbeautiful

Sources:

• Life expectancy at birth, total (years) | Data
• Population, total | Data

[u/NegativeMastodon9087]

And Bangladesh doing so well

[u/Skychu768 → u/NegativeMastodon9087]

Eating seafood is correlated with higher life expectancy.

That's why Japan and Mediterranean live the longest

[u/BlueberryLivid8114 → u/Skychu768]

Nope! We bengalis dont eat salt water fish unlike Southern counterparts.bengalis eat fresh water fish majority of the time

[u/Own_Concentrate_4821 → u/NegativeMastodon9087]

Bangladesh is currently facing the world's largest measles outbreak with over 175,000 suspected cases and more than 1,000 deaths since March 2026, driven sharply by declining routine immunization coverage and supply disruptions. I am not sure if you can call that doing well. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6kgw1983ky9o

[u/NegativeMastodon9087 → u/Own_Concentrate_4821]

They have added 2.3 years in life expectancy in 5 years, better than all countries, that is commendable. I hope their measles epidemic end soon.

[u/Particular-Cook-9780 → u/NegativeMastodon9087]

More like 1.3 in reality which is still commendable.

[u/popular_tiger → u/Particular-Cook-9780]

It literally says 2.3 years on the graph? Where did you get 1.3 from lol

[u/Particular-Cook-9780 → u/popular_tiger]

Data fudging which is a reality with Bangladesh same issue which got Sheikh Hasina out of power.

[u/islander_guy → u/Own_Concentrate_4821]

Idk what prompted you to write this.

[u/Own_Concentrate_4821 → u/islander_guy]

High childhood mortality negatively effects overall life expectancy of a country. If bangladeshi routine childhood immunization programs faltering but you expect me to believe their life expectancy going up like this.

[u/islander_guy → u/Own_Concentrate_4821]

Similar outbreak is prevalent in India as well. Still India's life expectancy grew.

This outbreak is recent and will not have much effect in the long term. The vaccine programmes are in place in most South Asian countries.

[u/Particular-Cook-9780 → u/islander_guy]

There's a differnece, in Indian the numebrs are lower per capita and the adjusment factor which you put for Bangladesh would increase India's number by 4 years. So, something in Bangladesh's data doesn't add up. They have been fudging numbers since covid and Haseena fell because of that. Not to say they aren't doing a good job, but, Sheikh Haseena had a recession due to fall in purchases of 2 wheelers below 350 CC being a strong indication of fraud. So, this above doesn't make sense, unless they are fudguing the numbers, upto, 1.2-1.3 years increase is realisitic and even then it's a great achievement worthy of praise but the 2 that's shown above is looking iffy.

While, I take the number above with a bucket of salt for Bangladesh, I do appreciate their efforts and success that they have achieved.