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Re:China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data by patrickg_zill on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @09:19PM (#17193253)
Drop out the recent immigrants, as China has virtually no net immigration. Do the numbers change?
Re:China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data by tysonzni on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @10:12PM (#17193459)
No it does not. From NIH study: (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5026916/)

>We use high-quality linked Social Security and Medicare records to estimate life tables for the older U.S. population over the full range of birth regions. In 2000–2009, the foreign-born had a 2.4-year advantage in life expectancy at age 65 relative to the U.S.-born, with Asian-born subgroups displaying exceptionally high longevity. Foreign-born individuals who migrated more recently had lower mortality compared with those who migrated earlier. Nonetheless, we also find remarkable similarities in life expectancy among many foreign-born subgroups that were born in very different geographic and socioeconomic contexts (e.g., Central America, western/eastern Europe, and Africa).