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Nepalese Mortality with source



>From the 1999 Economist "Pocket World in Figure"



Nepal ranks at #42 under the category Lowest Life Expectancy with an

overall life expectancy of 57.3

Female life expectancy is higher than 48.1 (the cutoff for the category)



Most countries with a lower life expectancy are in Africa.



Mortality from Cancer (a) is a problem in the developed world.  The top

20 countries are listed with the Netherlands #1 at 25.7% and Norway at

#20 with 21.6%.  The US is #16 at 22.7%



The motor vehicle death rate (a) in the States is 1.2%



(a) This data applies to a newborn baby over their lifetime.



The pocket guide is a great thing to have.  It gives lots of quick

answers to questions like this one.  You get one if you subscribe to The

Economist.



Robert J. Gunter, CHP

CHP Consultants

www.chpconsultants.com

rjgunter@chpconsultants.com

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-----Original Message-----

From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

[mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu] On Behalf Of Fritz A. Seiler

Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 5:18 PM

To: Franz Schoenhofer

Cc: hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net; Rad health;

jmuckerheide@cnts.wpi.edu; maury@WEBTEXAS.COM;

radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject: Re: Lung cancer mortality from radon versus mortality from

othercancers



Dear Franz, All,



I am afraid that it is neither funny nor ridiculous. I remember a study

made in Nepal, in a place where most houses do not have smoke-stacks

or smoke holes. As a consequence, most of the women have severe

respiratory problems and a life expectancy of less than 30 years.

Sorry, but I cannot

find the reference.



Have a nice, long or short weekend,







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