Life expectancy increasing in Canada
Posted Jan 10, 2014 7:23 am.
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New parents will be happy to hear that a child born in Canada in 2013 will live an average 81 and a half years, the 12th highest life expectancy rate on the planet.
Monaco had the best.
People born there can expect to celebrate their 90th birthday.
Residents of Chad had the lowest life expectancy rate, lucky if they lived to the not-so-ripe old age of 50.
The data was compled by The Encyclopedia Britannica.
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