> >Life expectancy at birth:
> >total population: 39.5 years
> >male: 40.62 years
> >female: 38.35 years (2007 est.)
Bob LeChevalier <loj...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> which is higher than it was 30 years ago.
http://globalis.gvu.unu.edu/indicator_detail.cfm?IndicatorID=18&Country=ZW
Zimbabwe: Life expectancy at birth
Description: Life expectancy at birth The number of years a newborn
infant would live if prevailing patterns of age-specific mortality
rates at the time of birth were to stay the same throughout the
child's life.
Source: UN Common Database
Category: Human Development
Ranking: 130 (2000)
Unit of measurement: Number of years
1955 47.4
1960 49.6
1970 53.9
1980 58
1990 59.9
2000 40.8
Ie it was actually going *up* prior to independence, and has declined
by about 20 years since, stabilizing at around 40, which is worse than
it was *50* years ago.
"The pressing question for Africa is whether it can recover not from
imperialism but from independence" Mark Steyn
