[PW] ? Life Expectancy - From 65 years Onward - Country Ranking

[Sheila Martin]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Thornlow, Bruce <Thornlowb at ndu.edu> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues -
> I dearly hope you can help me with the following complicated question.
> The patron has already seen the 'CIA's Rank Order - Life expectancy at
> Birth by Countries of the World' page (the US is ranked #47) See
> https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/21
> 02rank.html<https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2102rank.html>,
> and now he wants to know if a similar list exists for 'Life
> Expectancy' beginning with 65 years forward.  In other words, when a
> person of a particular country turns 65 years old, how much longer
> should he expect to live...and the Patron needs this information by
> country ranking. What country at the top? Who's next, etc. The Patron is
> writing an article and is trying to prove that although the U.S. is #47
> in the world in general, it would rank much higher in the world after
> the age of 65, due to the availability of Medicare. Foe example, he
> makes the point that there are more MRIs given in the Detroit, then the
> entire country of Canada. I'm not inviting debate, so please bite your
> tongue before expressing personal opinions. So, is there such a list
> available?  I've checked the WHO and the UN, but not OECD yet. Does
> anyone have any ideas where I can find this type of data?  Thank you in
> advance.
> Regards,
> Bruce
> thornlowb at ndu.edu
> _______________________________________________
> Project Wombat
> list at project-wombat.org
> http://www.project-wombat.org/


There is a life expectancy chart from the United Nation's 2007/2008 Human
Development Report.  The numbers are different from the CIA World Factbook.
It appears as though the numbers where compiled in 2005.  Fewer countries
are listed, because the United Nations Development Programme gathers
information from up to 100 countries annually.  United State is listed at 12
on the UNDP list.  Here is the link if your patron chooses to look at it.

http://hdrstats.undp.org/indicators/2.html

Regards,

Sheila Martin, M.L.S.