Why is life expectancy way lower in the US than the other civilized countries

[Brownshoe]

(09-01-2023, 08:25 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I'd absolutely need a source for this claim.  

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161013103132.htm

"Explaining the numbers

The first nuance is one of definition. Infant mortality is defined as the death of babies under the age of one year, but some of the differences between countries can be explained by a difference in how we count. Is a baby born weighing less than a pound and after only 21 weeks' gestation actually "born?" In some countries, the answer is no, and those births would be counted as stillbirths. In the United States, on the other hand, despite these premature babies' relatively low odds of survival, they would be considered born -- thus counting toward the country's infant mortality rates."




So I was wrong about the terms. They would just consider them stillbirth but we wouldn't.