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# Part II Who is outliving us and why
- URL: https://phase-iii-life.ghost.io/part-ii-who-is-outliving-us-and-why/
- Published: 2026-10-22T12:53:44.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-22T12:53:44.000Z
- Author: kevin Jacobi
- Tags: Longevity

Blog 3/10/2025

In this installment, I list the top 10 countries and then look at the per capita data on what those populations are eating in 7 areas: Red and White meats, Fish and Seafood, milk and dairy, eggs, vegetables, starches - potatoes and rice. I will compare the USA (#49) vs East Asians (Japan and South Korea and Hong Kong). I will forgo charts on the leading Europeans (Switzerland, Italy and Spain) and summarize summarize their data at the end.

There are a ton of resources that rank countries longevity and in almost all sources I found 2 common denominators:

1) **East Asia Countries are always at the top**

2) **Spain, Italy, and the Swiss** are almost always in the top 10.

The Worldometer website ranks countries in many areas and their ranking was consistent with everything I looked at - so I will use them. Top 10 longest living countries (or districts) are: 

1\. Hong Kong (a district of China)

2\. Japan 

3\. South Korea

4\. French Polynesia

5\. Switzerland

6\. Australia

7\. Italy

8\. Singapore

9\. Spain

10\. Reunion ( a tiny French Island off the coast of South Africa, <900k people)

Before we get into per capita data, I thought this abstract was noteworthy in discussing the Asian Countries & districts.

*“the main contributors to Hong Kong's survival advantage were lower mortality from cardiovascular diseases for both males and females.*

*Among high-income populations in the world, Hong Kong recorded the lowest cardiovascular mortality and one of the lowest cancer mortalities in women.*

*Hong Kong maintains lowest absolute smoking-attributable mortality than other high-income regions.*

The report went on to say that **Hong Kong’s achievements in longevity were shared by other regions including Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan.** 

Lets get into it ..... Per capita data by type of food

![per-capita-meat-type-(4)(asians).png](https://s3.amazonaws.com/grazecart/landbasketfarm/images/1741648738_67cf7362da50e.png)

**Per capita data - Dairy** 

![per-capita-milk-consumption-(5)asoans-.png](https://s3.amazonaws.com/grazecart/landbasketfarm/images/1741648986_67cf745a325cf.png)

**Per capita data - Eggs** 

![per-capita-egg-consumption-kilograms-per-year-(asians-.png](https://s3.amazonaws.com/grazecart/landbasketfarm/images/1741649103_67cf74cf81b0e.png)

***Per capita data - Vegetables***

![vegetable-consumption-per-capita.png](https://s3.amazonaws.com/grazecart/landbasketfarm/images/1741689918_67d0143e63b50.png)

 ***Per capita data - Starches - Potatoes and Rice***   
  
![per-capita-potato-supply-per-year-(asians-)-.png](https://s3.amazonaws.com/grazecart/landbasketfarm/images/1741652287_67cf813f65687.png)

![per-capita-fat-supply-from-rice-per-day.png](https://s3.amazonaws.com/grazecart/landbasketfarm/images/1741652760_67cf8318f1cb0.png)

Summary of per capita Asian data

- With one exception **Americans eat about 2.5 times more red meat** than Asians.
- While **Asians eat about 2.5 times more fish and seafood** than the US.
- In general, **Asians eat 2-4 times more veg** than we do.
- The **US consumes 3-7 times more dairy** than Asian countries.
- We eat twice as much chicken as Asians
- And Asians eat a little more pork than we do.
- With one exception Asian counties consume 50% more eggs than the US

Summary of European data

- Europeans eat more pork than we do.
- We eat twice as much red meat as Europeans
- With one exception, Europeans eat almost twice as much fish as Americans.

In Part 3 we will look at cooking methods Asian vs US, we will also look at spices and the big difference between Asians and the US. In Part 4 - the final part of this series - we will circle back to mortality by disease type by country and see what correlations we can draw - finally we will make some obvious recommendations.

Eat Better, Live Longer

Farmer Kevin

Research Biography - all the data in this article was provided by the world by numbers data base.