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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2006 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Demography. 2005 Aug;42(3):575–594. doi: 10.1353/dem.2005.0021

Table 4.

Life expectancies at time t, e(t), of low-mortality countries

e1996 Median of e2050 from coherent forecast Median of e2050 from separate forecast The 95% confidence interval of e2050, from coherent forecast The 95% confidence interval of e2050, from separate forecast
Austria 77.4 84.8 84.9 3.8 4.8
Canada 78.4 86.3 85.4 4.2 3.5
Denmark 75.8 82.2 80.1 10.6 9.1
England 77.1 84.9 83.7 4.8 5.9
Finland 76.9 84.7 85.8 4.1 7.9
France 78.0 85.8 86.7 4.2 6.5
Germany(W) 77.1 84.8 84.6 3.8 4.8
Italy 78.5 86.1 87.1 4.1 6.7
Japan 80.5 88.1 90.9 4.3 4.7
The Netherlands 77.6 85.4 83.0 4.5 6.5
Norway 78.2 85.2 83.0 6.1 6.5
Spain 78.2 85.9 86.2 4.0 6.8
Sweden 79.0 86.1 85.6 4.5 6.0
Switzerland 79.1 86.5 87.5 4.5 6.1
USA 76.3 84.9 84.0 5.4 5.7
15 countries SD=1.2 SD=1.3 SD=2.5 Mean=4.9 Mean=6.1