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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman
ok, so what makes their numbers unreliable?
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They have Oman ranked number 8......that alone discounts the ranking in my book.
Much of their results are based on infant mortality....problem is they don't have a universal definition of infant mortality and instead allow each nation to define their own.....the US considers still borns against infant mortality; most other nations{especially the high ranking ones==surprise surprise===} don't.
Life expectancy, the US ranks 30.......but we are a nation of 300 plus million so really should not be compared to Monaco or Iceland.
Our Life expentancy is the highest in the world when compared to the 8 most populous Nations on Earth(and 2nd in the world when compared to the 10 most populous).
In short, the WHO numbers are not the problem, just their conclusions.