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What Role Does Energy Use Play In Life Expectancy?

The Horizons Tracker

The study found that while energy usage and life expectancy were indeed correlated at specific points in time, this connection dissipated over the long-term. The link appears to be far stronger in terms of economic growth, with the research finding that 90% of the growth in GDP could be attributed to higher energy usage.

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Invest in Tomorrow’s Workforce, and World

Harvard Business Review

Whichever way you look at it, the countries producing the majority of the next generation of workers are still the ones least able to help them develop. Collectively, the UN projects, the less developed regions of the world “will grow 58% over 50 years, as opposed to 2% for more developed regions.

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