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To: KyrosL who wrote (68542)	9/4/2007 2:33:55 PM
From: damainman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

"997*80.59/1000 = 80.35 years" By your method, to bring down French life expectancy to 78, France would have to have 32 more infant mortalities. Are you sure this is the correct way to calculate the hypothetical effect of increased infant mortality on life expectancy? Every resource I find says infant mortality rates have a significant effect on life expectancy calculations. Your method says infant mortality has only a minor effect on life expectancy. Admittedly, I have not located the equation by which they calculate life expectancy but something seems wrong with the method you have demonstrated. "Infant mortality weighs heavily on life expectancy, which means that under-reporting of this indicator, a habitual fact in many countries, can have an important effect on the results of the tables." paho.org