Table 2.

Frequency Distribution of Records in Modal and Median Ages at Death and Life Expectancy by Country^a

Country	Females				Males
	Mode	Median	Life Expectancy	Total Record	Mode	Median	Life Expectancy	Total Record
Australia	6	2		8	2		1	3
Belgium	1			1	3			3
Canada	12	1		13	3			3
Denmark	11	3	4	18	10	10	7	27
France					6			6
Iceland	25	33	21	79	35	28	26	89
Japan	11	21	23	55	9	16	10	35
The Netherlands					4	13	7	24
Norway	63	40	41	144	60	40	35	135
New Zealand	12	52	66	130	4	45	58	107
Spain					3			3
Sweden	15	13	11	39	17	13	22	52
Switzerland	4	1		5	6	1		7
Total	160	166	166	492	162	166	166	494

Notes: Belarus emerges as the holder of several records in the 1960s, but the Human Mortality Database warns that Belarusian data for 1959–1969 are of poor quality. Thus, Belarus is not included in Figure 3 or Table 2.

Source: Human Mortality Database (2/4/2009).

^aOnly countries that have held more than any three record measures are included. The lower number of “total record” modes comes from the fact that some countries held the record modal ages at death only in one or two years.