24. Mauritania. 64.86. Most of the countries with the lowest life expectancies are in Africa. 24 countries have life expectancy of less than 65 years. 23 of the 24 countries are in Africa. Afghanistan, the only country from Asia among these 24 countries, has the lowest life expectancy in the world of only 53.25 years. Female life expectancy also increased to 85.3 years from 85.0 in the previous year. ­ Life expectancy for males has improved at a faster rate than that for females. Around 30 years ago (1990), life expectancy at birth in Australia was 73.9 years for males and 80.1 years for females, a gap of 6.2 years. The cost of blood transfusion and iron chelation are covered by national health insurance. In line with the rise of life expectancy, the financial burden of thalassemia in Indonesia is increasing sharply. Thus, optimizing preventive programs may be the most suitable option for the current thalassemia condition in Indonesia. In this paper, we investigate whether population health has causal effect on per capita income and its growth or not, using an unbalanced panel of 17 advanced economies for the period 1870–2013. We use life expectancy at birth as a proxy for population health and control for endogeneity issues using panel generalised method of moments (GMM technique to identify influential variables on life expectancy at birth. Methods Data sources The data sources of this study are the databases of the World Bank, World Health Organization (WHO) and World Life Expectancy (14–16). World Life Expectancy is a free web portal developed by a private media company (16). The World Bank data meet Open WHO Excludes Cause of Death Data For the following countries: Andorra, Cook Islands, Dominica, Marshall Islands, Monaco, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Saint Kitts, San Marino, Tuvalu. World life expectancy has one of the largest global health and life expectancy databases in the world. Explore it thru thousands of pages of Maps, Charts and feature stories. For the last couple of decades, many researchers studying the biology of aging have been talking about extending life expectancy and delaying aging 1,2.However, for the last decade, those of us Perhaps unsurprisingly, the analysis found that countries that spent more on healthcare tended to have higher average life expectancies up until reaching the 80-year mark. Search: Country. Health expenditure per capita (USD, 2019) Life expectancy at birth, total (years, 2020) Japan. $4,360. sPtqOx.