[extropy-chat] Health data

[Damien Sullivan]

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
France     20.4  16.6
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
Dutch      18.4  15.5
UK         18.1  15.7
US         17.9  15.3

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

For contrast

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-)