Subject: Re: OT: Highest Life Expectancy Countries
The very small countries at the top may be statistical artefacts.

For example, I imagine a lot of expats in Monaco (who make up over half the population) move back to their home countries when they get seriously old, so their deaths wouldn't show up. Health care spending would be tough to track...only households with locally employed or citizen breadwinners are covered, and there is a lot of cross border health care, both ways, between Monaco and France.

I don't know the situations for the other small fry, but stats get skewed very easily for city states.


Jim