> > As for that average life span: I've always kind of wondered if that life span included the many babies who died very young.
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> I heard about this before at school (can't remember what class, though). From what I heard (which may not be true), they do not take babies into consideration for the life span. I'm not sure when they do start counting them.

Probably when their death is no longer considered an "Infant death". Those are another statistic - Of course, I might have the wording wrong.

I know that they take accidents into account, wich explain why men had a shorter life span (Work accidents, mostly), but they are slowly catching up to women.

Etienne