Oh, thanks for the direct links, saved a lot of messing around.
Total tangent (always happens to me when I get my head stuck in to these sorts of figures) but I'm interested to note (from an accompanying PDF) that the life expectancy gap between males and females has shrunk from 5.4 years in 1991/93 to 4.2 years in 2006/08 - because male life expectancy improved even more than female.
Hooray for improved life expectancy. It's a good thing to have come to expect.
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Date: 2010-02-01 08:10 pm (UTC)Total tangent (always happens to me when I get my head stuck in to these sorts of figures) but I'm interested to note (from an accompanying PDF) that the life expectancy gap between males and females has shrunk from 5.4 years in 1991/93 to 4.2 years in 2006/08 - because male life expectancy improved even more than female.
Hooray for improved life expectancy. It's a good thing to have come to expect.