Aging population behind growing number of registered
deaths
Canwest News Service
Published:
A total of 230,132 people
died in
The agency says the trend
reflects a growing and aging population, although age-specific mortality rates
between 2004 and 2005 declined in older age groups, offsetting increases among
younger age groups.
The figures also show the
gap in the number of deaths continues to narrow between men and women, while
the average age at death continued to rise from 1990 to 2005.
Men lived an average of 3.5
years longer, while women lived an average of 3.2 years longer. In 2005, most
people lived to an average age of 74 years.
Men lived to an average
age of 71, while women lived more than six years longer to about 77 years.
On average, men died at a
younger age in all provinces and territories, with the exception of
In
Statistics
The countries with the lowest
infant mortality rate are
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Canwest News Service 2008
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