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To: damainman who wrote (68495)	9/3/2007 5:31:02 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 116555

A system's quality is determined by broad population statistics rather than rare disasters. Otherwise, people would draw rather dire conclusions about the US, after, for example, Katrina. Here are the latest numbers of life expectancy and infant mortality for France and the US from the CIA site. The French numbers include those deaths in your link. France Infant mortality rate: total: 3.41 deaths/1,000 live births male: 3.76 deaths/1,000 live births female: 3.04 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.) Life expectancy at birth: total population: 80.59 years male: 77.35 years female: 84 years (2007 est.) US Infant mortality rate: total: 6.37 deaths/1,000 live births male: 7.02 deaths/1,000 live births female: 5.68 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.) Life expectancy at birth: total population: 78 years male: 75.15 years female: 80.97 years (2007 est.) French stats: cia.gov USA stats: cia.gov By the way, those that think that they are excluded from the above statistics because it's the higher black mortality rate that lowers US statistics, should think again. High black mortality rates only lower the US life expectancy statistics by a fraction of a year.