Table 1.

 Demographic data for Germany, Netherlands, and United Kingdom by age group

Variables	Age group (years)
	0-4	5-12	13-19	20-39	40-64	≥65
Germany:
% of population*	4	9	7	25	35	20
% of population in high risk group†	0.006	0.020	0.014	0.412	0.754	1.00
Remaining life years‡	77.6	71.3	63.8	50.6	29.6	8.1
Netherlands:
% of population*	6	11	7	26	35	14
% of population in high risk group†	0.008	0.025	0.015	0.428	0.751	0.733
Remaining life years‡	78.4	72.2	64.8	51.5	30.2	8.4
United Kingdom:
% of population*	6	11	8	27	32	16
% of population in high risk group†	0.008	0.025	0.016	0.442	0.697	0.809
Remaining life years‡	88.9	81.7	73.3	58.3	36.3	10.4

*Total population: Germany 82 314 906; Netherlands 16 357 992; United Kingdom 60 587 800.

†Age group specific shares of population in high risk group based on Dutch data.¹³

‡Undiscounted projections from 2006, here calculated as averages in age group.^{39 40}