Women's Rights - the facts

New Internationalist magazine, November 2004

 Female Life Expectancy at Birth - 2001

 Top five

Japan 84.7
France 82.6
Hong Kong 82.6
Spain 82.6
Sweden 82.4

 Bottom Five

Malawi 39.1
Rwanda 38.7
Sierra Leone 35.8
Zimbabwe 35.4
Zambia 22.4

 

On the whole, women still live longer than men. In many countries, life expectancy has increased for both women and men. But in some regions it is going down, as the divide between rich and poor increases. Between 1995 and 2001 in poorer countries, life expectancy decreased from 65 to 50.5.

 

 Countries with the Lowest Female Youth Literacy Levels - 2002

Niger 14.9
Burkino Faso 25.7
Benin 35.8
Bangladesh 41.4
Mauritania 41.8
Pakistan 44.2
Senegal 44.3
Nepal 46.0
Guinea Bissau 47.4
Mauritania 48.2


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