한국 기대수명 82.7년, OECD 2위… 자살률은 하향곡선<br /><br />How long will South Koreans born in the year 2017 live?<br />Well, a recent report suggests.... that they are expected to live for more than 82 years on average... which is is an all-time high for the country.<br />Our Choi Si-young tells us more.<br />According to the OECD's Health Statistics, South Koreans' life expectancy at birth averaged 82-point-7 years in 2017, slightly up from the previous year's 82-point-4 years.<br />That's 2 years longer than the OECD average of 80-point-7.<br />The suicide rate for the country has also been on the decline.<br />It decreased from 29.1 people per 100-thousand in 2012 to 24.6 per 100-thousand in 2016.<br />But it is still well above the OECD average of eleven-point-seven.<br />The report also said that South Korea had just two-point-three physicians per thousand people the lowest number in the OECD.<br />The OECD average was three-point-four with Austria topping the list at five-point-two physicians per thousand people.<br />But South Korea has more medical equipment, with higher numbers of MRI and CT machines than the OECD average.<br />The chances of dying from cancer stood at one-hundred-sixty-five-point-two people per 100-thousand in 2016.<br />That's well below some other developed countries such as Germany, the U.S. and Japan.<br />The number of deaths from dementia was twelve-point-three people per hundred-thousand in 2016, far lower than the OECD average of twenty-four-point-three.<br />However, South Korea had the lowest number of people that answered positively to the OECD survey question asking them "if they feel they are healthy."<br />Choi Si-young, Arirang News.<br />
