If you are born in
Japan you can expect to live for 82.6 years. If you are born in
Afghanistan you have, on average, just 43.8 years to enjoy. That's some difference.
There is a marked difference in life expectancy between Southeast Asian countries, too. A
Singaporean can expect to live for 80 years, and maybe that's more than enough for the citizens of that, prim and proper, pedantically-ruled nanny-state; whilst at the other end of the scale a
Cambodian gets just 59.7 years.
59.7 years! That's not many- even the tyrants of
Burma achieve a life expectancy for their folk of 62.1 years, the one-party state of
Laos manages 64.4 and the one-party state of
Vietnam an impressive 74.2 years.
Thailand averages 70.6,
Indonesia 70.7, the
Philippines a suprisingly high 71.7 and a
Malaysian can expect to enjoy his roti and fish-head curry for 74.2 years.
They all beat
Swaziland, however, the poor citizens of that country get just 39.6 years on this earth. And they probably get bugger-all-chance to make much of those years, either.
I though this post was really interesting, where did you find the statistics, and do you know what the average life span of people born in the UK is?
ReplyDeleteThanks, this has given me an idea for my next post :)
79.4 years for people born in the UK, Funky-Facts. Hasn't it been about that same number of years since a Brit. won Wimbledon!?
ReplyDeleteStats here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
I've used the UN rather than the CIA figures from this page.