The Hmong are an ethnic group from the highlands of Laos. When a communist movement called the Pathet Lao began to gain power in Laos during the Vietnam War, the Central Intelligence Agency recruited the Hmong to fight the communists and attack North Vietnamese supply lines. The resulting conflict far outlasted the Vietnam War.
High suicide rate. Approximately 30,000 Japanese people commit suicide each year. Japan has the highest life expectancy rate in the world in part because of universal health insurance, compulsory primary education and a general healthy lifestyle, according to a new study.
1 A girl born in 2012 can expect to live to 73, a boy can expect to live to 68. 2  This is six years longer than the life expectancy for a child born in 1990. 3  Japanese women have the highest female life expectancy in the world at 87. 4  Iceland has the highest male life expectancy-the average man lives to 81.