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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 25.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet. 2009 Oct 3;374(9696):1196–1208. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61460-4

Table 1.

Oldest age at which at least 50% of a birth cohort is still alive in eight countries

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Canada 102 102 103 103 103 104 104 104
Denmark 99 99 100 100 101 101 101 101
France 102 102 103 103 103 104 104 104
Germany 99 100 100 100 101 101 101 102
Italy 102 102 102 103 103 103 104 104
Japan 104 105 105 105 106 106 106 107
UK 100 101 101 101 102 102 103 103
USA 101 102 102 103 103 103 104 104

Data are ages in years. Baseline data were obtained from the Human Mortality Database and refer to the total population of the respective countries.