Question

What are the different statistics in terms of life expectancy among the U.S and England? And why is their a difference?

Answer 1

Ans) Preliminary mortality data for 2008 indicate a very small decrease in life expectancy because of mortality increase at the oldest ages and among white women.

- The countries included in the analysis in this chapter are Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States, and West Germany. The countries omitted from the analysis include Belarus, Bulgaria, Chile, East Germany, Estonia, Hungary, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Reunified Germany, Russia, Taiwan, and Ukraine. These countries were excluded because, according to the Human Mortality Database, the data for these countries either were not robust (i.e., were corrupted or had methodological issues) or did not go back far enough.

- A similar observation has been made by Ho and Preston (2010), who use data from the Human Mortality Database for 2005 to compare age-specific death rates for the United States with those for a comparison set of 17 OECD countries. The authors demonstrate that the U.S. position improves dramatically after age 70 for men and after age.

- The measure is less attentive to mortality conditions early in the 50+ age range since as noted, mortality rises roughly exponentially above age 50. Deaths peak around age 85 in official U.S. life tables for recent years.