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by digeridoo 4905 days ago
Perhaps I'm tired, but how can the Japanese life expectancy figure be higher when considering fatal injuries?
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The article has an updated section on that question.

>I asked Robert Ohsfeldt about this, who responded that the adjustment factor was based on fatal injury rates relative to the average. Hence, the adjusted numbers shouldn’t be seen as hard numerical estimates of life expectancy, but rather as a way of understanding the true relative ranking of the various countries on life expectancy excluding fatal injuries.

The figure doesn't go up, the ranking goes up. (Meaning all the other figures go down.)