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They have completely missed the incredible increase in life expectancy over the past few decades.","Source:  IHME and UN Population Division","Based on data from IHME and UNPOP, we found  that around 55% of the world population lived in countries where life expectancy was below 50 years in 1960  and no countries have had life expectancy below 50 years since 2017.  Even in the year 2020 , where we’ve taken into consideration the impact of covid 19, no countries had a life expectancy below 50 years. As uncertainty is higher, we went on and use the estimates of  life expectancy, 95% lower uncertainty bound from IHME to estimate the population in countries where life expectancy is below 50. Using  the 95% lower uncertainty bound  estimates of life expectancy, we found that  only 2 countries (Lesotho and Central African Republic) had a life expectancy below 50 years in 2019. The share of population in these countries was  0.1% of the global population. We have also tested the share of population in countries with life expectancy below 55 years to be able to confirm this fact. Four countries were in this category, with a population share of 0.3%. Based on different scenerios, we can confirm that the share of world population that live in countries where life expectancy is shorter than 50 years range from 0 to 1%, but not more that.  \n\n[1]  [Share of world population in countries  where life expectancy is below 50 years](https:\u002F\u002Fdocs.google.com\u002Fspreadsheets\u002Fd\u002F1NFJ8rJ_wEOakMqSDr42rDmy8kXEiY5Aq4Nvv4mup6vA\u002Fedit#gid=0)  ","Back in 1960, there were 71 countries where life expectancy was less than 50. In 2020, there are just two countries (Lesotho and the Central African Republic) where life expectancy was so low. Obviously, it is awful that people in those two countries still live such short lives, but the improvements in health and access to medicine that there have already been should give us hope that average lives in those countries can be longer. After all, it has been done before in countries where there was mass poverty, famine and disease.\n\n### Why is it a problem that people are wrong about this?\nIt makes it very hard to think that big challenges can be solved and progress can be made if we don't know about the gradual improvements that have gone before. Even though life is still bad in many places, it shows that things can also get better.\n\n### Why are people wrong about this?\nWe never hear about gradual improvements in the news and we can get stuck with views that are decades out of date.\n\n### Can I trust this fact?\nYes, even though there are some uncertainties since the data used to estimate life expectancy is sometimes collected as seldom as every 10 years. Data is more reliable for countries that have civil registration for births and deaths. Modelling is used to fill gaps in data. We looked at data from both IHME and the UN for this question and they both give different answers for the number of countries with a life expectancy below 50. We used the most pessimistic figures to come to a figure of 2 countries with a life expectancy below 50, as we didn't want to overstate progress.  No matter what, though, the trend is clear. ","Longer lives everywhere!"]