[extropy-chat] Health data

[Damien Sullivan]

Comment


My last url links two other data sources, possibly independent of the
CIA figures.  The WHO one lists Healthy Life Expectancy, at birth *and*
at age 60 (broken down by male/female.)  We're still poor.

http://www.who.int/whr/2004/annex/topic/en/annex_4_en.pdf

Healthy years from age 60

         female  male
Japan      21.7  17.5
Switzerl   20.4  17.1
France     20.4  16.6
Spain      19.9  16.4
Sweden     19.6  17.1
Australia  19.5  16.9
Italy      19.4  16.4
Canada     19.3  16.1
Germany    19    15.9
Norway     18.9  16.2
Finland    18.9  15.7
Iceland    18.7  17.5
Dutch      18.4  15.5
Israel     18.2  16.8
Greece     18.1  16.0
UK         18.1  15.7
US         17.9  15.3
Portugal   17.7  14.9
Ireland    17.5  14.8
Denmark    17.2  15.2


Note: for a male Japanese relative to a US female, being Japanese almost
makes up for being male.

For contrast

Chile      16.8  13.9
Cuba       16.7  15.2
Mexico     16.2  14.4
China      14.7  13.1
Vietnam    13.1  11.4
Zimbabwe   10.6  9.7


-xx- Damien X-)