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2016 Postmortem

Algernon Moncrieff

(5,790 posts) Thu Feb 25, 2016, 09:28 PM Feb 2016

Life expectancy in the United States

U.S. expectancy in 2011 was 78.7 years, which is slightly below the OECD average of 80.1. For U.S. men, the average life expectancy is 76, while it's 81 for U.S. women. (At five years, this gap in life expectancy between men and women is smaller than the OECD average of six years).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/21/us-life-expectancy-oecd_n_4317367.html

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