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To: combjelly who wrote (358024)	11/12/2007 6:13:00 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574662

Japan is the only country, at least the only relatively highly populated country, with a noticeably higher life expectancy than the US, and a high enough suicide rate to more than make up for the difference in accident and homicide rates. Germany has a suicide rate of 13.5 per 100,000, compared to 11.5 in the US. A difference of 2 per 100,000. Using the link that you provided earlier nytimes.com shows that the difference in auto accident rates alone are more than enough to make up for the difference resulting from the suicide rate. Then you have other accidents (which I'm pretty sure have a higher rate in the US), and homicide (which definitely has a higher rate in the US. And of course your completely ignoring the countries that have a lower suicide rate than the US, such as Spain, Italy, and the UK. Both Spain and the UK also have a lower rate of deaths from auto accidents (Italy wasn't listed in your link). Combine suicide, homicide and auto accidents in the UK (using the two previous links plus en.wikipedia.org ) and you get about 15 per 100k. The same figures for the US add up to about 32 per hundred K. All three rates are higher in the US, and the total of the three is more than double, but the UK has a life expectancy of less than a year greater than the life expectancy in the US. Also see gregmankiw.blogspot.com and Message 24049025