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Life expectancy includes all risks of death, the US has a high life expectancy which improving each year.
http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa042000b.htm

United States: 77.1 [year: 2000] 76.1 [1998]

Iran: 69.7 68.3
Iraq: 66.5 66.5
Afghanistan: 45.9 46.8
Russia: 67.2 65.0

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/story.jsp?story=541516
Aids reduces African life expectancy to 33
By Elizabeth Davies
16 July 2004

"The Aids pandemic is ravaging countries in sub-Saharan Africa, drastically reducing life expectancy in some parts to less than 33 years, a new UN report said yesterday."

Here is a graph:
http://www.worldpolicy.org/globalrights/econrights/maps-life.html

Here is another chart [2004]:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2102rank.html
US is 77.43 (estimate for 2004)

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