As reported by CBC News
A Statistics Canada study that shows people in Richmond, B.C., have a higher life-expectancy than those in Japan has stumped at least one expert.
The report Health Indicators, released Tuesday, shows that babies born in Richmond today can expect to live to an impressive average of 83.4 years, two years more than the average in Japan, which tops the World Health Organization's rankings.
"That's ridiculously high," John Hsieh, a professor of biostatistics at New York's University of Rochester, told CBC News Online. Hsieh said that Richmond's average age means that there are many people living to almost 100 and very few who are dying in their 60s.
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