Ich bin neulich in ein Kaninchenloch über „blaue Zonen“ geraten und wollte die Landkreise mit dem höchsten Anteil an Menschen über 100 Jahren kartieren, um zu sehen, ob es in den USA so etwas wie eine blaue Zone gibt. Ich kann nicht sagen, ob die Great Plains eine blaue Zone sind oder ob zufällig viele alte Menschen in diesen Landkreisen leben und es daher natürlich eher Hundertjährige gibt, lol.
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Most of those Great Plains counties have only a few thousand people (or not even that many) so them having a single centenarian likely would be enough for them to show up on the map. Mostly data noise.
I recall that I read the reason most of these are random rural areas is because a huge percentage of people over 100 are actually dead, but their relatives are defrauding the government or their pensions. And in the more rural areas they are simply less likely to be caught.
Zero in Arizona and one in Florida, not what I would expect.
Man, I want to move to most those places in Montana. On the HI-line
Some time ago The Economist wrote about an interesting phenomenon. The places with the highest proportion of centenarians (or long-lived people in general) are also these with the worst record keeping. When records improve, lifetimes somehow revert to normal.
These are small population rural counties that young people leave. This is what drives up the ratio of very elderly.
Isnt that the Canadian retiree railroad to mexico?
No way in heck Ferry County has the most centenarians in WA. It’s a poor rural county with a large Native population, it probably has the state’s lowest life expectancy. Highest is probably San Juan, Island, or King County.
These are many of the same counties that do not have a McDonald’s in them. I suspect lifestyle and a better diet also helps, in addition to having a low population and a high percentage of younger people moving away.