Countries Ranked By Life Expectancy; Does This List Surprise You?

by Anjirocks Posted 2008/02/23 18:39:00

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Andorra has the highest life expectancy of 83.52 while for some African countries the life expectancy of their occupants is as low as age 32!!

view entire list here http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0934746.html

What do you think of this list? Does anything about it surprise you? Is your country at the point where you expected? I found mine to be lower down the list than i had thought!

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sd *TROUBLE* 2008/05/16 19:56:18

Yes

sad.....

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►Cesar◄ 2008/03/05 22:46:26

Yes

the last ones

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Karl 2008/02/25 12:47:28

No

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Not really surprising. The low ones are mainly due to very high infant mortality rates, but once a person has managed to survive past about 5 years old, odds are fairly good that they could live nearly as long as they do in the western world.

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dragonfli 2008/02/24 11:43:47

Yes

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There were some countries with a life expectancy of 37! I would suppose if that is all you knew it would just seem natural. I wonder why it is so low - disease, environment, economics. It has inspired me to look into it a little more - not that I can actually do anything about it. Thanks Anjirocks!

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Katy 2008/02/23 19:40:49

Yes

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I'm a little surprised. I figured the U.S. would be in the 80s or so.

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Marked for Life 2008/02/23 19:24:50

No

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I'm not suprised but, I'm gonna live to be 102 years old......LMAO!!!

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gorgeous.tragedy 2008/02/23 18:47:39

Yes

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Mine is 78! I guess that sounds young, I would have thought mid 80s-ish -- interesting!

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SearchlightMasquerade 2008/02/23 18:47:22

No

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Not surprising at all for America.
78 is a very accurate reading for our life expectancy.
We are still pretty high on the list, though. I thought all of it was pretty accurate.

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Mike 2008/02/23 18:45:58 (edited)

No

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some poor countries people die younger because of severe malnutrition and aids, while other poor countries haven't had enough connection to the outside world to catch all the nasty diseases and are only slightly malnourished and don't have access to all the refined crap we americans eat.

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