Table 1

Countries and regions in the Human Mortality Database2 used in our analysis, ranked by female life expectancy for the latest year available

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  • All other data are from the Human Mortality Database 2011.

  • See online supplementary table 1 for latest year available.

  • Life expectancy is denoted by e0, the threshold age separating ‘premature’ from ‘late’ deaths by a†, and life disparity by e†, with 95% CIs given in brackets (see supplementary material).

  • Information for Eastern European countries is shown in red and for the USA in blue. The countries used in our analyses are in regular type face. The countries in italics have less reliable data and are shown for comparison only; data for these countries comes from the WHO database 2006 and were not included in the analyses.

  • *Data sources: data for 2006 from WHO, not used in the analysis but shown here for comparative purposes.