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Table 1 Life expectancy at birth and measures of variance for the entire set of countries and for country groups in selected years (in years)

From: Disparities in length of life across developed countries: measuring and decomposing changes over time within and between country groups

 

Males

Females

 

1970

1984

1994

2004

2010a

1970

1984

1994

2004

2010a

Overall life expectancy

67.31

69.85

70.59

73.27

75.10

74.42

77.29

78.33

80.18

81.41

  EME

68.18

72.08

73.91

76.56

77.90

74.75

78.75

80.43

82.18

83.13

  CEE

67.00

67.32

67.98

71.27

72.46

73.06

74.68

76.19

79.03

79.94

  FSU

64.26

62.67

58.97

59.98

63.46

73.88

73.41

71.75

72.86

74.95

Max-Min range between country groups

3.91

9.41

14.94

16.58

14.44

1.69

5.34

8.68

9.32

8.18

Overall standard deviation

2.04

4.00

6.09

6.45

5.55

1.00

2.47

3.77

4.06

3.57

  EME

1.28

1.37

1.48

1.39

1.31

0.91

1.00

1.46

1.99

1.84

  CEE

1.01

1.37

1.67

2.11

2.24

0.39

0.66

1.14

1.57

1.51

  FSU

1.71

1.44

2.36

1.88

1.09

0.67

0.74

1.07

1.11

0.79

  1. Note: aYears in the range 2008–2010 depending on availability (see Appendix 3)