The Lowest Life Expectancy
by In many parts of the World, Barak Obama is an old man.
November 11, 2009, was the first Armistice Day without surviving veterans as Harry Patch had died in June, at the age of 111.
Living to 100 might be exceptional in many nations. In the following alphabetical list of countries, (all but Afghanistan are located in Africa) living to 50 is exceptional.
Whether disease, war, poverty; to be reach the age of 40 in these countries means you are extremely old.
Afghanistan 
total population: 44.64 years
male: 44.47 years
female: 44.81 years (2009 est.)
Angola 
total population: 38.2 years
male: 37.24 years
female: 39.22 years (2009 est.)
Central African Republic 
total population: 44.47 years
male: 44.4 years
female: 44.54 years (2009 est.)
Chad 
total population: 47.7 years
male: 46.67 years
female: 48.77 years (2009 est.)
Djibouti 
total population: 43.37 years
male: 41.89 years
female: 44.89 years (2009 est.)
Guinea-Bissau 
total population: 47.9 years
male: 46.07 years
female: 49.79 years (2009 est.)
Liberia 
total population: 41.84 years
male: 40.71 years
female: 43 years (2009 est.)
Malawi 
total population: 43.82 years
male: 44.07 years
female: 43.57 years (2009 est.)
Mozambique 
total population: 41.18 years
male: 41.83 years
female: 40.53 years (2009 est.)
Nigeria 
total population: 46.94 years
male: 46.16 years
female: 47.76 years (2009 est.)
Sierra Leone 
total population: 41.24 years
male: 38.92 years
female: 43.64 years (2009 est.)
Somalia 
total population: 49.63 years
male: 47.78 years
female: 51.53 years (2009 est.)
South Africa 
total population: 48.98 years
male: 49.81 years
female: 48.13 years (2009 est.)
Swaziland 
total population: 31.88 years
male: 31.62 years
female: 32.15 years (2009 est.)
Zambia 
total population: 38.63 years
male: 38.53 years
female: 38.73 years (2009 est.)
Zimbabwe 
total population: 45.77 years
male: 46.36 years
female: 45.16 years (2009 est.)
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Post Commentdiamondpoet
On November 11, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Nice article interesting stats.
A. Fool
On November 11, 2009 at 5:32 pm
I decided not to pontificate nor narrate, just let the figures speak for themselves.
Kevin Forge
On November 11, 2009 at 6:26 pm
An Interesting side note. When capitalists first came up with the idea of retirement and a pension plan, the assumption was that very few workers would actually reach 65 and start collecting.
So they could blissfully guarantee 75% of your salary between when you stop working at 65 and when you die and know that for all but a tiny minority that amounted to $0.
Things changed, medicine, nutrition etc… improved and now the wealthy countries have as many retired people as working people. Having fewer children who stay in school longer just compounds the problem.
Kevin Forge
On November 11, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Some of these countries were on their way to the same success (Decades behind and moving slower), then came AIDS. As if the disease wasn\\\’t bad enough, most of them decided to treat it like a political ideology rather than a disease. No quarantines, no mandatory testing, not even telling the spouse of someone who tests positive.
In fact it’s still hard to find condoms in some of the hardest hit places.
A. Fool
On November 11, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Many people have it and don’t realise it then get Tuberculosis or some other disease because their immune is so weak. So they
die. In Swaziland, in 2000, life expectancy was 61 years.