Australia’s Life Expectancy Soars: What the U.S. Needs To Learn

Despite being home to some of the world’s most dangerous animals, Australia has led the English-speaking world in life expectancy for the last three decades. Among other high-income Anglophone nations, the Irish experienced the most significant improvements in life expectancy, while Americans have ranked dead last since the early 1990s, according to a team of social scientists led by a Penn State researcher.