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| Average life expectancy at birth in 2004 as compared to all other countries worldwide |
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| Source: WHO (2007): The World Health
Report, 2006. Annex Table 1 Note: Data indicate average life expectancy at birth with estimated range of uncertainty. |
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China has reached a high level of average life expectancy, as compared with other developing countries. |
| Remarkably, the World Health Organization has also attributed a very low level of uncertainty to China's life expectancy estimate. Given the great diversity of living conditions in China, one might be a little skeptical about the validity of this low error margin. |
