Life expectancy in Canada reaches 80.7 years

[OhioChick]

Last Updated: February 28, 2011 12:16pm

The life expectancy of Canadians is at 80.7 years old - up slightly from 1999, according to Statistics Canada.

StatsCan released updated figures related to life expectancy and mortality on Monday.

Life expectancy in Canada in 1999 was 79. Rates in 2005 to 2007 rose for both sexes. Men lived on average 78.3 years while women were living to about 83 years old, according to the figures.

British Columbia and Ontario had the highest life expectancy at 81.2 years old and 81 years old, respectively.

http://www.torontosun.com/life/healthandfitness/2011/02/28/17437396.html

Must be due to that awful health care they have there....
:sarcasm:

[Oak2004]

1. Isn't our life expectancy starting to decline?

Prolly a case of statistics having a liberal bias, I know.

[OhioChick]

3. Yes......

#50 United States 78.37 2011 est.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2102rank.html

[lovuian]

8. don't they have socialized Medicine

its a fantasy that we have great healtchare

[dflprincess]

9. Canada has a single payer system

Britian has a socialized system.

[FLAprogressive]

2. How does anyone live that long with all of the DEATH PANELS!?

[Kingofalldems]

4. Must be those Death Panels up there!

[TommyO]

5. But wait, don't they have that rationed "commie socialist" health care

that prevents people from getting treatment, or waiting months for it? Well imagine that.

[TBF]

6. K&R nt

[Mimosa]

7. I've long been jealous of Canadians and Brits.

I'm green. jealous. Why couldn't we have what they have? I voted for it, i thought.

[Iris]

10. They need to work on those death panels

[applegrove]

11. Yup. My grandmothers lived to be 97 and 103 respectively.