LIFE EXPECTANCY FROM AGE 65-69

I came across a comment that said we don't live as long because we live more dangerously than people in other countries, so our life expectancy at birth is naturally less. Here we have life expectancy given that you are from 65 to 69 years old. We still do worse than two of the countries wingnuts routinely malign, France and Canada. (More info at Ezra's, Jonathan Cohn on CBS, and ABC's Political Radar.)

From WHO statistics on Mortality
BOTH SEXES


DENMARK 17.7
NETHERLANDS 18.2
BRITAIN 18.3
GERMANY 18.6
LUXEMBOURG 18.6
AMERICA 18.7
NORWAY 18.9
FINLAND 19
NEW ZEALAND 19
SWEDEN 19.3
CANADA 19.6
ITALY 19.6
SWITZERLAND 20
FRANCE 20.2
AUSTRALIA 20.2
BELGIUM 22.2
JAPAN 25.1

Here's one area where we are convincingly in the lead,
PER CAPITA EXPENDITURE ON HEALTH CARE
(in constant U.S. dollars, WHO, 2004 data)

New Zealand 2039.6
Italy 2579.6
Japan 2823.2
United Kingdom 2899.7
Canada 3037.6
Australia 3123.3
Belgium 3363.2
Netherlands 3441.7
France 3464
Germany 3521.4
Sweden 3532
Denmark 3896.6
Norway 5404.7
Switzerland 5571.9
Luxembourg 5904
America 6096.2