Average life expectancy of men and women in some selected nations, 2013: Notice the gap in life expectancy between the developed and developing worlds. Notice also the astonishingly high life expectancy for women in Spain, New Zealand, Israel, and Japan. Women today can expect to live close to the maximum lifespan in these developed countries. (As of 2007, the United States ranked forty-
Data from: http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/ retrieved September 3, 2014.