Health > Life expectancy Stats: compare key data on North Korea & United States

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95 percent range: 95% range.
95% range: 95% range.
Men: Life expectancy for men.
Women: Life expectancy for women.

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STAT	North Korea	United States
95 percent range	(70.60-75.50)	(80.50-80.60)
95% range	(70.60-75.50)	(80.50-80.60)
Date of information	2006 est.	2006 est.
Men	66 years Ranked 77th.	76 years Ranked 30th. 15% more than North Korea
Women	72 years Ranked 79th.	81 years Ranked 33th. 13% more than North Korea

SOURCES: Wikipedia: List of countries by life expectancy (Life expectancy at birth (years), Global Burden of Disease) (Das, Pamela; Samarasekera, Udani (2012). "The story of GBD 2010: a "super-human" effort" . The Lancet 380 (9859): 2067–2070. doi : 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)62174-6 . Wang, Haidong; Dwyer-Lindgren, Laura; Lofgren, Katherine T; Rajaratnam, Julie Knoll; Marcus, Jacob R; Levin-Rector, Alison; Levitz, Carly E; Lopez, Alan D; Murray, Christopher JL (2012). "Age-specific and sex-specific mortality in 187 countries, 1970–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010". The Lancet 380 (9859): 2071–2094. doi : 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61719-X ., ); Wikipedia: List of countries by life expectancy; British Broadcasting Corporation 2014

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