The United States is ranked 27th globally on education and health care, a new study based on 2016 data reports. This number is referred to as the “human capital” of a nation’s people. America’s human capital measurement is 23 years, that’s the amount of time a person can be expected to work at peak productivity when accounting for life expectancy, general health and education. “The decline of human capital in the United States was one of the biggest surprises in our study,” said Dr. Christopher Murray, director of IHME. At the bottom was Niger at less than 1.6 years of human capital.

Source: Huffington Post September 28, 2018 22:07 UTC