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. "1 Difference Between Life Expectancy in the United States and Other High-Income Countries." Explaining Divergent Levels of Longevity in High-Income Countries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2011.

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Explaining Divergent Levels of Longevity in High-Income Countries

TABLE 1-1 Life Expectancy by Country

Country	1950			1980			2007
Country	e₀	e₅₀	e₈₀	e₀	e₅₀	e₈₀	e₀	e₅₀	e₈₀
Women
Australia	71.75	26.64	6.45	78.18	30.68	8.06	83.78	35.24	10.00
Canada	70.59	26.79	6.66	78.72	31.35	8.78	82.95	34.53	10.13
Denmark	71.52	26.19	5.65	77.18	29.82	7.70	80.53	31.95	8.74
England and Wales	71.31	26.38	6.05	76.76	29.29	7.46	81.73*	33.31*	9.25*
France	69.19	26.46	6.07	78.40	31.12	7.71	84.39	35.87	10.52
Japan	60.90	23.91	5.45	78.75	30.82	7.28	85.98	37.26	11.40
Italy	67.48	26.40	5.95	77.43	30.05	7.11	84.09*	35.23*	9.83*
Netherlands	72.59	26.92	6.00	79.14	31.31	8.04	81.89*	33.31*	8.92*
Sweden	72.44	26.48	5.72	78.85	30.91	7.67	82.95	34.10	9.23
United States	71.02	26.55	6.88	77.48	30.56	8.58	80.78	33.06	9.82
Men
Australia	66.53	22.75	5.62	71.01	24.97	6.30	79.27	31.58	8.39
Canada	66.16	23.93	5.93	71.60	25.69	6.83	78.35	30.75	8.40
Denmark	69.10	25.06	5.45	71.17	24.78	6.25	76.13	28.45	7.24
England and Wales	66.51	22.51	5.03	70.74	24.07	5.72	77.46*	29.85*	7.78*
France	63.43	22.49	5.08	70.16	24.79	6.09	77.43	30.03	8.24
Japan	57.58	21.00	4.69	73.38	26.59	6.08	79.20	31.16	8.52
Italy	63.99	24.23	5.44	70.68	24.66	5.83	78.62*	30.58*	7.90*
Netherlands	70.32	25.79	5.77	72.44	25.49	6.45	77.63*	29.45*	7.13*
Sweden	69.83	25.07	5.45	72.78	26.03	6.14	78.92	30.69	7.63
United States	65.40	22.64	5.92	69.99	24.90	6.67	75.64	29.28	8.27
NOTE: e₀ = life expectancy at birth; e₅₀ = life expectancy at age 50; e₈₀ = life expectancy at age 80. *Data are for 2006. SOURCE: Data from Human Mortality Database (http://www.mortality.org/ [accessed December 8, 2010]).