The World [Cup] Factbook - Table I

Not surprisingly the United States Central Intelligence Agency provides a wealth of global demographic information on its World Factbook website.* Below in the first of a series of posts is a country by country comparison of the life expectancy at birth of participating World Cup countries. Of course a number of socio-economic and national health issues factor into the numbers.**

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** South Africa's # 215 ranking [out of 224] is in no small part due to the AIDS HIV pandemic.