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Being born in United States
If your next life started in United States: the draw odds, life expectancy, schooling and income the game would give you — and the button to try it.
2.8%
of simulated births (birth-weighted, 118 countries) · 4.3% of people across the covered countries
79.0
Male life expectancy at birth / Female life expectancy at birth — 76.5 / 81.4 years
Reference indicators
Compared with the covered-world average · Shares sum to 100% within these 118 countries, not the whole world. GDP is economic output per person, not income. Schooling is the mean for adults aged 25+, not a newborn’s future education.
| Population | 340M | |
| Estimated annual births | ≈ 1.2M / year | |
| Male life expectancy at birth | 76.5 years | |
| Female life expectancy at birth | 81.4 years | |
| Under-five mortality | 6.5 | −18.2 |
| GDP per person | $86,170 | +$61,917 |
| Gini index | 41.8 | +7.6 |
| Mean schooling, adults aged 25+ | 13.9 years | +5.6 |
Be born in United States
Starts a new life pinned to this country. The family, the era and everything after the first breath are still up to the draw — and to you.
Be born in United States
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