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Human beings are expected to live on average 82.6 years in Japan. An analysis published in 2011 in The Lancet attributes Japanese life expectancy to equal opportunities, excellent public health, and a healthy diet.
The earliest documented work on life expectancy dates back to the 1660s by John Graunt, Christiaan Huygens, and Lodewijck Huygens. This period marks the beginning of formal demographic studies regarding human lifespan.
The mentally ill have been shown to have a 10- to 25-year reduction in life expectancy compared to the mentally stable population. Mental illness occurs in approximately 18% of the American population and contributes to greater mortality through injury, co-morbid conditions, or medication side effects.
The locus with the largest effect is APOE. Carriers of the APOE ε4 allele live approximately one year less than average per copy of the ε4 allele.
In 2019, world LEB reached 73.3 years according to global health data. The World Health Organization announced that the COVID-19 pandemic reversed the trend of steady gain in life expectancy at birth after this figure.