At 12:27 PM 10/10/01 -0700, Zero wrote:
>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Life expectancy for Americans has reached a new high
>of 76.9 years, mostly because fewer people are dying from heart disease and
>cancer, a government report issued on Wednesday shows.
>
>http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20011010/ts/health_life_dc_1.html
>
>Ain't it grand to be a yank?
More precisely, from that URL:
< Men are still more likely to die before women, with the life expectancy
for a male born in 2000 now
being 74.1 and for a female 79.5 years. >
Even better to be a dirty pinko commie Aussie--unless you're black:
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/NT0001C73A
..........................................
Over the period 1997-99, death rates among Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people were higher
than those recorded in the general population for almost all causes of
death and for every age group. In
the age group 35-54 years, the Indigenous death rate was 5-6 times higher
than for the total Australian
population.
The life expectancy at birth for an Indigenous male was 56 years, and for
an Indigenous female, 63 years.
Comparable life expectancies were experienced by males in the total
population in 1901-10, and females
in 1920-22. Today males in the total Australian population have a life
expectancy of 76 years and females
82 years.
.................................
Damien Broderick
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