Posted on 09/09/2005 6:18:43 AM PDT by tomjohn77
HDI Rank Country Life expectancy at birth (years) (HDI) 2003 1
1 Norway 79.4 2 Iceland 80.7 3 Australia 80.3 4 Luxembourg 78.5 5 Canada 80.0
6 Sweden 80.2 7 Switzerland 80.5 8 Ireland 77.7 9 Belgium 78.9 10 United States 77.4
11 Japan 82.0 12 Netherlands 78.4 13 Finland 78.5 14 Denmark 77.2 15 United Kingdom 78.4
16 France 79.5 17 Austria 79.0 18 Italy 80.1 19 New Zealand 79.1 20 Germany 78.7
Life expectancy in the top 20 performing economies.
France is 79.5??
I wouldn't WANT to live that long if I were French...
I'm moving to Norway when I get around 76.
You would not want to live that long in France is what you mean
Walk around and if you don't see a bunch of people pulling the average down. Its probably you.
If you can still walk, you are not part of the statistic. Gotta be dead.
Do a blended average of 95% Switzerland and 5% Mexico and I bet you get close to the USA number of 77.4 (g)
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