Infant and maternal mortality rates are among the highest in the world, life-expectancy among the lowest.
But, after this week's capers, the life-expectancy of the government is in renewed doubt.
Mr Rudd says he hopes to close a 17-year gap in life-expectancy between indigenous people and other Australians.
The professional life-expectancy of a chief executive has fallen over the past decade from 8.1 years to 6.4.
The Japanese have the highest life-expectancy in the world - 83.6 years for women and 77 for men.
Botswana, the world's hardest hit country, is watching life-expectancy sink back to levels last seen 30 years ago.
Also, life-expectancy figures are average numbers, and justices and popes aren't average people.
Wealth and social gains followed, literacy soared, life-expectancy and incomes rose, and gradually Indians started decamping from villages to towns.
Biologically speaking, childbirth makes perceptibly greater demands on women than on men: you might expect female life-expectancy to be lower, accordingly.
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Due to advances in drug treatment, having HIV should not affect life-expectancy.
Life-expectancy matches that of Americans, who are eight times richer.
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Unless these are deceived, Cuba's infant mortality is 7.1 per thousand, its average life-expectancy 75 years: first-world figures which suggest that, under whatever strain, its preventive and primary health-care system is still performing well.
Looking at the life-expectancy rankings, you might conclude that the Americans are wasting their money and perhaps that the French are too, because those frugal Britons, for all their ghastly hospital waiting lists, live almost as long as their neighbours across the Channel.
Life expectancy isn't the same as healthy-life expectancy how long people live with full physical and mental health.
Over the two decades ended in 2010, each one-year increase in life expectancy at birth was associated with about a 10-month increase in healthy life expectancy, according to data published in the Lancet in December.
And while smoking is hardly the only reason--low income nations have many variables affecting life expectancy--the habit has always been picked up most heavily by the less well-to-do, exacerbating the health and earning problems even more.
The document also calls for members to link pensions to life expectancy - a move which would cause alarm in Greece, Poland and France as their public sector workers mostly retire before turning 60.
Although the average life expectancy for a 65-year old man is 85 and 88 for a woman, your life expectancy may not be average.
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Since the discovery of HIV in 1983, dozens of antiretroviral agents have been licensed and have resulted in dramatic improvements in the quality of life and life expectancy of millions of HIV-infected individuals.
According to the survey, residents in Shetland have a higher-than-average life expectancy of over 77 years.
This means that if you have a less-than-average life expectancy, you may be better off taking Social Security earlier.
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Annuities have traditionally been a good bet for those with above-average life expectancy.
The Commission examines why the male-female life expectancy gap has grown from one year in 1920 to more than five years today.
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On the other hand, if you have a longer-than-average life expectancy, you may want to consider delaying Social Security for as long as possible (but not beyond age 70).
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"Glasgow has some quite extreme challenges - it has the lowest life expectancy of any city in the UK for instance - and the hope is that if we bring together energy, transport, public safety and health it will make it more efficient and a better place to live, " said Scott Cain, the TSB's project leader for Future Cities.
Vitamin C and Vitamin E, were demonstrated in the overwhelming majority of papers to be able to increase mean life span by up to 30% or more and Coenzyme Q-10 doubled mean life expectancy in one paper, as mentioned above This writer has been taking megadoses of antioxidants ever since he has been 14 years old and today looks over 20 years younger than his 68 years.
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"Life expectancy with type-one diabetes is reduced by on average 15 years, " she said.
Meanwhile, the life expectancy of African-American women without high-school diplomas has surpassed that of similar white women.
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In contrast, the average Hungarian can expect to live to just 70.65 years - the shortest life expectancy on the continent.
How drastic is this drop in life expectancy among less-educated white women?
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