Yes, with the exception I’m not trying to live to 86 but rather 110 so no, while Hong Kong is definitely doing something right that is not nearly good enough for me LOL
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In these populations, we found that the average probability of current birth cohorts surviving to age 100 is 5.1% for females and 1.8% for males (Fig. 2). The highest population-specific probability of surviving to 100 occurred in Hong Kong where 12.8% of females and 4.4% of males are expected to reach age 100 in their lifetime based on life tables from 2019.
The same conclusion applies
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Yeah, but at my birth and where I was born my chances of reaching 100 were literally zero% and now at sixty I think my realistic chance of reaching 100 is higher than 50% based on preventative measures and lifestyle. So again, even if I were born today, in Hong Kong I still wouldn’t like it that I only have a 4.4% chance of surviving to 100, not good enough for me. I like my chance to be higher than 50%. If you find a country with those odds let me know and I’ll run there and forget about ordering meds from
India LOL.
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At the end of the day, this is a statistics problem. It’s a different level of difficulty to be in the top 1% versus the top 5%. To give a simple example, with the same intervention, results across different ITP centers sometimes differ a lot. There are a lot of factors here that we can’t control, just like @DeStrider said, no single factor can explain why Hong Kong has the highest life expectancy. I have a lot of mixed emotions and don’t know how to express them.
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