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    "title": "Life expectancy followed different paths in the US and Japan",
    "subtitle": "Life expectancy at birth · Both sexes · 2000–2023",
    "unit": "Expected years of life at birth",
    "source": "World Bank WDI · SP.DYN.LE00.IN · CC BY 4.0 · Retrieved 9 Sep 2026",
    "note": "Two-country comparison · Historical data through 2023",
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    "annotations": [
      {
        "date": "2019",
        "series": 0,
        "text": "2019: US life expectancy was 78.8 years."
      },
      {
        "date": "2021",
        "series": 0,
        "text": "2021: the US estimate fell to 76.3 years."
      },
      {
        "date": "2023",
        "series": 1,
        "text": "2023: Japan 84.0 years; United States 78.4 years."
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