Life Expectancy Rankings 

List goes bottom up. So the best is Andorra at Number 208. This is for both genders.

202. Sweden - 80.63 years
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172. United States - 78.00 years

So Sweden, with it's evil Socialized Health Care, is 6th on this one, and the USA with it's wonderful money-based system is 36th. Yes, behind 35 other countries yet again....

Wow Denmark 170 - 77.96 years. I guess it's because of the hectic traffic.

It's probably because it's VKO (like the republicans) that rules the country.

Wow, the average person in Swaziland only lives 32.23 years? That's so horribly depressing.

Just to point out the obvious: health care is a correlation with mortality rates, and mortality rates are the sole basis of life expectancy statistics. Therefore, things like epidemics, traffic accidents, cancer rates, obesity (and correlated life-threatening conditions like diabetes), environmental disasters, wars and domestic violence all play a direct role in effecting the statistics.

None of that is to say that countries higher on the list aren't better places to live for the people living there, on average, just that relative health care quality is not necessarily indicated by these statistics (though it likely is). They're better places to live for the people living there for a combination of many of these things...or, rather in most cases, their absence.

It would be particularly interesting to know which census figures were used, over how many years. The site says nothing about this, which I find irritating, and very sloppy. The only mention of data is in the copyright notice, which says that "portions of the site are based on public domain works from the (US government)", and that the original material on the site - not sure what that is - is copyright 2002. If we knew that the data were also from 2002, for instance, we'd know that the US statistics would be taking into account only a small part of the total Iraq war deaths (though for the US the current total number is likely statistically insignificant, but statistically significant for Iraq).

The data is from 2007. It is updated annually for the prior year.