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by greatwave1 1399 days ago
Scotland's life expectancy at birth is ~78 [1]. Glasdow's life expectancy at birth is ~74 [2].

You're likely confusing life expectancy with "healthy life expectancy", which is a different metric that measures the number of years a person can be expected to live in good health.

[1] https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_effect