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Statistics Canada is reporting this morning that life expectancy at birth in Canada has reached 80.7 years. That's based on the three-year period 2005 to 2007, up from the average life expectancy of 80.5 between 2004 and 2006. And, up from 78.
David Helwig
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Statistics Canada is reporting this morning that life expectancy at birth in Canada has reached 80.7 years.

That's based on the three-year period 2005 to 2007, up from the average life expectancy of 80.5 between 2004 and 2006.

And, up from 78.4 years a decade earlier, between 1995 and 1997.

Over the past decade, the largest gains were among men, whose life expectancy at birth rose by 2.9 years to 78.3 in 2005-2007.

Among women, it rose by 1.8 years to 83 years.

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David Helwig's journalism career spans seven decades beginning in the 1960s. His work has been recognized with national and international awards.
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