Rejecting bad data is part of what we should do to get people healthy. This isn't a controlled scientific study, it's just a news article about a government supplied statistic with a lot of unsubstantiated claims as to why.

Indeed – It's true that average life expectancy is a more robust metric. But Japan is top 3 by that metric as well.

Because the places where everyone lives to 200, are also the places devastated by war or full of corruption.

It's like how every asylum seeker in the uk is born 1st of january. It's not because they're born 1st of january, it's because they burned their documents in order to illegally migrate. But if you took that at face value, you'd assume that afghanistan only ever births people on the 1st of january.