Life expectancy by country
The World Health Review has an interesting website. At the website, you can look up information on your country and you can compare to other countries to see how you are doing in a number of areas. I did a comparison between Canada and the United States. Here are the results, which I thought were interesting, especially life expectancy at various ages. I found it interesting that although we have the same top three diseases, Heart Disease, Alzheimer/s Lung Cancer our rates per 100,000 population was so different. Lung Cancers were similar in rate per 100,000 population and I suspect that our obsession with smoking in the last century has a part to play in this statistic.
I also found it interesting that a child born in Canada today has a longer life expectancy than a child born in the US. At birth, a male child in Canada can expect to live until they are 80.9 years and a female can expect to live until she is 84.7 years. While in the United States a male child born today can expect to live until he is 76 while a female child born today in the USA can expect to live until she is 81. I am a male in my 70's and I live in Canada so I was encouraged to see that, with good health, and by taking care of myself I should expect to live until I am 88.5 years old. Now I know that there are a lot of variables in the statistics, but as I plan the next stages of my retirement I can anticipate a few more years.
TOTAL DEATHS BY CAUSE
TOP 10 CAUSES
CANADA UNITED STATES
# of Deaths % # of Deaths %
1. Coronary Heart Disease 37,876 17.93 479,223 20.90
2. Alzheimer’s/Dementia 23,536 11.14 263,916 11.51
3. Lung Cancers 20,431 9.67 161,533 7.05
4. Lung Disease 13,408 6.35 181,735 7.93
5. Stroke 12,693 6.01 131,954 5.76
6. Colon-Rectum Cancers 9,463 4.48 60,418 2.64
7. Diabetes Mellitus 6,834 3.23 79,936 3.49
8. Influenza and Pneumonia 6,391 3.03 80,463 3.51
9. Breast Cancer 5,785 2.74 47,291 2.06
10.Falls 5,125 2.43 32,672 1.43
CANADA UNITED STATES
TOP 50 CAUSES OF DEATH Rate per 100,000 population
1. Coronary Heart Disease 55.36 86.89
2. Alzheimer’s/Dementia 32.30 44.41
3. Lung Cancers 30.94 29.82
4. Lung Disease 19.01 32.01
5. Stroke 18.22 23.69
6. Breast Cancer 17.60 17.56
7. Prostate Cancer 14.30 12.69
8. Colon-Rectum Cancers 14.28 11.50
9. Suicide 10.54 12.70
10. Diabetes Mellitus 10.27 15.21
11. Influenza and Pneumonia 9.34 14.91
12. Falls 7.42 5.95
13. Lymphomas 7.35 7.27
LIFE EXPECTANCY BY AGE
CANADA UNITED STATES
Male Female Male Female
AT BIRTH 80.9 84.7 76.0 81.0
AGE 5 81.3 85.1 76.6 81.5
AGE 10 81.3 85.1 76.6 81.5
AGE 15 81.4 85.1 76.7 81.6
AGE 20 81.5 85.2 76.9 81.7
AGE 25 81.7 85.3 77.3 81.8
AGE 30 81.9 85.4 77.7 82.0
AGE 35 82.1 85.5 78.2 82.3
AGE 40 82.3 85.6 78.7 82.6
AGE 45 82.6 85.8 79.2 82.9
AGE 50 83.0 86.1 79.8 83.3
AGE 55 83.4 86.5 80.6 84.0
AGE 60 84.2 87.0 81.8 84.7
AGE 65 85.1 87.7 83.1 85.7
AGE 70 86.3 88.5 84.7 86.8
AGE 75 87.8 89.7 86.6 88.3
AGE 80 89.7 91.1 88.7 90.1
AGE 85 91.9 93.0 91.4 92.3
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