Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Life Expectancy in the U.S. and China
Better nutrition, decreased smoking, safer working conditions, hygiene and healthcare have helped lengthen lives globally—but these gains are not distributed evenly.
January 28, 2021
Liang Huguo, 72, finishing the 2018 Tengchong Marathon in China. Photo: Liang Yuan
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Better nutrition, decreased smoking, safer working conditions, hygiene and healthcare have helped lengthen lives globally. Average life expectancy has risen worldwide from 69.9 years in 2008 to 72.6 years in 2018. But these averages hide a sad truth: these gains are not distributed evenly. In the U.S., life expectancy hit a plateau in 2014 at 78.8 years. In China, there has been a steady rise since 1999, hitting 76.7 years in 2018.
But even within country borders, average life expectancy can vary widely. Access to better education, jobs, healthcare and government support programs has an obvious impact. In 2015, the disparity was 6.6 years among U.S. states while the gap between regions in China was over 12 years. In the U.S. the lowest life expectancies are in the South and Southern Appalachian Mountains. In China, Western areas have lower life expectancies. The maps below reflect life expectancy at birth. On average, life expectancy in Japan is the longest, at 83.8 years in 2015.
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Please join us for the Grad Mixer! Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, Enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow students across USC Annenberg. Graduate students from any field are welcome to join, so it is a great opportunity to meet fellow students with IR/foreign policy-related research topics and interests.
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Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 3:00pm
Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow international students.
Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 4:00pm
Join us for an in-person conversation on Thursday, November 7th at 4pm with author David M. Lampton as he discusses his new book, Living U.S.-China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War. The book examines the history of U.S.-China relations across eight U.S. presidential administrations.