Life in Mozambique has risen to 57.6 years old

A study on social protection in Mozambique, conducted by the Institute of Social and Economic Studies (IESE), indicates that the country does not have a universal pension for the elderly because still "there are not enough incentives to replace a selective system, fragmented, discriminatory and charitable, by a comprehensive universal system and potentially structuring of new international relations in favor of an effective social cohesion. " The country, according to the survey, has the second largest elders participation rate in the labor force in the world. Most seniors working to death, but because of their contributions to the national economy, during youth and adulthood, do not obey any administrative procedure, and do not guarantee savings, they are not eligible for the current model for old age. (...) Elects up the so-called "vulnerable", "while the rest, the vast majority, who arrange itself. However, who else has supported and paid for maintaining the current formal system are the international donors. "

However, the average life expectancy in the world increased by 5 years between 2000 and 2015, the highest growth since the 60s, and now the average global life stands at 71.4 years old.According to the data of the annual report on the overall health of the WHO, there are 29 countries in the world to surpass the 80 years of average life expectancy, and in 12 of them, is greater than 82 years. The oldest in the world are in Japan (83.7 years average), Switzerland (83.4 years), Singapore (83.1 years), Australia and Spain (82.8 years), Italy (82 7 years), Iceland (82.7 years) Israel (82.5 years), France (82.4 years), Sweden (82.4 years), South Korea (82.3 years) and Canada (82 ,2 years).On the opposite side, there are still 20 countries where its inhabitants do not exceed the average of 60 years, all of them on the African continent, as well as Mozambique: Angola (52.4 years), Burkina Faso (59.9 years), Burundi (59 6 years), Cameroon (57.3 years), Central African Republic (52.5 years), Ivory Coast (53.3 years), Democratic Republic of Congo (59.8 years), Equatorial Guinea (58, 2 years), Guinea (59 years), Guinea-Bissau (58.9 years), Lesotho (53.7 years), Malawi (58.3 years), Mali (58.2 years), Nigeria (54, 5 years), Chad (53.1 years), Togo (59.9 years), Swaziland (58.9 years), Somalia (55 years) and Sierra Leone (with 50.1 years).By sex, WHO stresses that women live longer than men in all countries and regions of the world.