Infant Mortality Rates and Life Expectancy at Birth, by Sex, for Selected Countries, 1999

Infant Mortality Rates and Life Expectancy at Birth, by Sex, for Selected Countries, 1999

World—World Statistics

Country	Infant deaths per 1,000 live births	Infant deaths per 1,000 live births Male	Infant deaths per 1,000 live births Female	Life expectancy at birth (years)	Life expectancy at birth (years) Male	Life expectancy at birth (years) Female
North America
Canada	5.47	5.94	4.98	79.37	76.12	82.79
Mexico	24.62	27.79	21.29	72.00	68.98	75.17
United States	6.33	7.30	5.31	76.23	72.95	79.67
Central and South America
Brazil	35.37	39.15	31.40	64.06	59.35	69.01
Chile	10.02	10.66	9.34	75.46	72.33	78.75
Costa Rica	12.89	13.59	12.15	76.04	73.60	78.61
Ecuador	30.69	34.99	26.17	72.16	69.54	74.90
Guatemala	46.15	49.91	42.20	66.45	63.78	69.24
Panama	23.35	25.67	20.95	74.66	71.91	77.51
Peru	38.97	43.79	33.93	70.38	68.08	72.78
Trinidad and Tobago	18.56	21.20	15.84	70.66	68.19	73.19
Uruguay	13.49	14.92	11.99	75.83	72.69	79.15
Venezuela	26.51	29.95	22.81	72.95	69.97	76.16
Europe
Albania	42.90	45.41	40.19	69.00	65.92	72.33
Austria	5.10	5.57	4.60	77.48	74.31	80.82
Belgium	6.17	6.82	5.49	77.53	74.31	80.90
Cyprus	7.68	9.51	5.76	77.10	74.91	79.39
Czech Republic	6.67	7.68	5.61	74.35	71.01	77.88
Denmark	5.11	5.73	4.45	76.51	73.83	79.33
Finland	3.80	4.15	3.44	77.32	73.81	80.98
France	5.62	6.36	4.84	78.63	74.76	82.71
Germany	5.14	5.69	4.56	77.17	74.01	80.50
Greece	7.13	7.54	6.70	78.43	75.87	81.18
Hungary	9.46	10.64	8.22	71.18	66.85	75.74
Ireland	5.94	6.36	5.49	76.39	73.64	79.32
Italy	6.30	6.82	5.74	78.51	75.40	81.82
Netherlands	5.11	5.81	4.37	78.15	75.28	81.17
Norway	4.96	5.49	4.40	78.36	75.55	81.35
Poland	12.76	14.11	11.33	73.06	68.93	77.41
Portugal	6.73	7.45	5.97	75.88	72.51	79.46
Russia	23.00	24.79	21.11	65.12	58.83	71.72
Slovakia	9.48	10.61	8.30	73.46	69.71	77.40
Spain	6.41	7.21	5.56	77.71	73.97	81.71
Sweden	3.91	4.43	3.36	79.29	76.61	82.11
Switzerland	4.87	5.42	4.30	78.99	75.83	82.32
United Kingdom	5.78	6.41	5.11	77.37	74.73	80.15
Asia
Bangladesh	69.68	71.04	68.24	60.60	60.73	60.46
China	43.31	35.38	52.42	69.92	68.57	71.48
India	60.81	62.14	59.41	63.40	62.54	64.29
Iran	29.73	31.38	27.99	69.76	68.43	71.16
Israel	7.78	8.37	7.16	78.61	76.71	80.61
Japan	4.07	4.50	3.62	80.11	77.02	83.35
Pakistan	91.86	93.44	90.19	59.38	58.49	60.30
South Korea	7.57	7.86	7.24	74.30	70.75	78.32
Sri Lanka	16.12	17.88	14.28	72.67	69.89	75.59
Syria	36.42	37.51	35.29	68.09	66.75	69.48
Africa
Egypt	67.46	69.32	65.51	62.39	60.39	64.49
Kenya	59.07	61.81	56.25	47.02	46.56	47.49
South Africa	51.99	56.46	47.39	54.76	52.68	56.90
Oceania
Australia	5.11	5.64	4.56	80.14	77.22	83.23
New Zealand	6.22	7.28	5.10	77.82	74.55	81.27

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, International Data Base.

For "Israel"

If "jews" are "g-d's chosen race", then exactly how does God view Australians, New Zealanders, Japanese, Swiss, Swedes, Spaniards, Norwegians, French, Canadians, Netherlanders, Finns, Greeks, and Italians who all have longer life expectancies, some as much as 2-4 years longer?
MAIN FINDINGS

Life expectancy at birth in 1995-1999 was 80.5 years for women and 76.1 years for men. Among the Jewish population, life expectancy was 80.8 years for women and 76.6 years for men, and among the “other religions” population 77.8 for women and 74.1 for men.

Half of the females born between 1995 and 1999 can expect to live more than 83 years, and half of the males born in the same years can expect to live more than 79 years.

Approximately 24.7% of the women and 13.8% of the men born between 1995 and 1999 are expected to live on average 90 years (assuming that mortality patterns remain constant over time). Women aged 65 during this time period are expected to live 19.1 more years on average, and those aged 80 are expected to live another 9.1 years on average. Men who were aged 65 during the same period, are expected to live 16.4 years on average, and those aged 80 during this period are expected to live another 7.5 years on average.

In the World Health Report 2000, published by the World Health Organization, life expectancies based on assessment of life tables for each country were computed for 1999. In contrast to other industrialized countries, life expectancy of males in Israel ranks relatively high (76.2 years), just below that of Australia (76.8 years), Sweden (77.1 years) and Japan (77.6 years). The women’s situation is different. Israeli females are ranked relatively low, with a life expectancy of 79.9 years. Japan, France and Switzerland are at the top of the ranking, with life expectancies of 84.3 years, 83.6 and 83.0 years respectively. Germany, United States and United Kingdom are close to Israel at the ranking.