Juhana Harju wrote:
Marshall Price wrote:

I heard just recently on a show about government-sponsored health
care practices around the world that the Japanese have the longest
life expectancies. It was "Frontline: Sick Around the World."
What is remarkable is the fact that Japanese also have to longest
_healthy_ life expectancy.

http://www.who.int/inf-pr-2000/en/pr2000-life.html

More recent and detailed data can be obtained from here:

http://www.who.int/whosis/indicators/2007HALE0/en/

Juhana Harju wrote:
Juhana Harju wrote:
Marshall Price wrote:

I heard just recently on a show about government-sponsored health
care practices around the world that the Japanese have the longest
life expectancies. It was "Frontline: Sick Around the World."
What is remarkable is the fact that Japanese also have to longest
_healthy_ life expectancy.

http://www.who.int/inf-pr-2000/en/pr2000-life.html

More recent and detailed data can be obtained from here:

http://www.who.int/whosis/indicators/2007HALE0/en/

What do you do with an .xls file?

Juhana Harju wrote:
Marshall Price wrote:

I heard just recently on a show about government-sponsored health
care practices around the world that the Japanese have the longest
life expectancies. It was "Frontline: Sick Around the World."

What is remarkable is the fact that Japanese also have to longest
_healthy_ life expectancy.

http://www.who.int/inf-pr-2000/en/pr2000-life.html

I don't know why, but I didn't expect to see Australia ranking so
high. It's such a mysterious country -- sort of a cross between Wales
and Brazil.