Life expectancy in Iran rises to 80
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An increase in life expectancy indicates that Iran is experiencing an acceleration in population aging.
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An elderly woman in Lona Park, Tabriz, Iran, photographed on June 2012 (Wikimedia Commons)
Iran's Health Ministry said on Sunday that life expectancy in the country has increased from 60 to 80 over the past years.
According to Deputy Health Minister Younes Panahi, life expectancy in Iran has increased by around 15 to 25 years over the past years, reaching 80 this year.
An increase in life expectancy indicates that Iran is experiencing an acceleration in population aging, he said, noting that the current birth rate for 2023 is on average two births per woman.
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For years, the US has been imposing its unfair and inhumane sanctions on Iran in a bid to subdue the country to the US' iron fist hegemony.
Sanctions work by choking the public sector's access to foreign exchanges, where dollars are available. With a shortage of dollars and an isolated economy, governments are forced to cut spending on critical public institutions.
While the current life expectancy in the US stands at 76.4 years, the shortest it's been in nearly two decades, the rise in Iran's life expectancy is not only proof that the quality of life has improved drastically under the rule of the current Iranian leadership but also that US sanctions have failed to work on the country.
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