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.

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