Life longest in Iceland

Press, 25 October 1982, Page 9

Life longest in Iceland

NZPA Washington United Nations statistics indicate that life is longest tn Iceland and shortest in Ethiopia. The 1980 United Nations Demographic Yearbook says that a girl born in Iceland in the 1977-78 period can expect to live 79.3 years, but a boyborn in Ethiopia in the 19751980 period can expect to live only 37.5 years. The 973-p’age volume shows that a boy born in Iceland in 1977-78 has a life expectancy of 73 years and a

girl born in Ethiopia in 19751980 a life expectancy of 40.5 years. Women generally live longer than men. The Maldives, independent islands in the Indian Ocean, are listed as having the highest divorce rate. 92 divorces per 1000 population in 1979. and Dominica, a British Island in the Caribbean, as having the lowest, at zero. Others having high divorce rates are the United States, with 5.2. and the Soviet Union, with 3.5. both in 1980. Gibraltar is credited with

the highest marriage rate. 16.9 marriages per 1000 population in 1978. and Equatorial Guinea in West Africa, with the lowest. 0.8 marriages a year per 1000 population in 1975-1980. North Yemen is shown to have the highest death rate. 25.4 per 1000 population a year in 1975-80. Close behind are Malawi with 25.1, in 1977. and Ethiopia with 24.9. in 1975-80. The island kingdom of Tonga is credited with the lowest death rate, 1.9 per 1000 in 1976.

The Yearbook shows the world's most populous cities, according to latest available statistics, to be Shanghai with 10,820.000 people. Mexico City with 9.191.295, Tokyo with '8.448.038. Moscow with 8.099,000. Peking with 7.570.000, New York with 7.297,787. London with 6.877,000, Bombay with 5.970,000, Rio De Janeiro with 5,539,100. Cairo with 5,074,016. Leningrad with 4.638.000, Jakarta with 4.567,009. and Teheran with 4.496.159.