Life Expectancy in Canada Today

Statistics are often a way of powerful persuasion.

Any argument you have in life, from petty fact checking, to courtroom drama, becomes iron when backed and proven using numbers.

Often we look at Canadian numbers and find a sense of pride; we have been rated the number one place in the world to live by quality of life and number two over all1¹.

Stats have determined these ratings, but the numbers don’t always tell the truth. Interpretation tells us a different story.

Length of Life

In Canada the life expectancy of a person from birth is about 81.5 years.

We compare very well with the world in that number, the US is behind by three years and nations around the world struggle to get past the age of 60.

But there is one stark difference between the way we compile our statistics and the “third world” does.

Social Causes of Death

Anyone would agree that if we would like to measure the life expectancy of a people we must include all forms of death.

If our soliders die in a war we do not scrub them from the stats; if someone commits suicide we don’t say “they were never one of us to begin with.”

All causes of death are included, whether they be socially driven, biologically, politically or accidentally.

In the case of abortion we have a social and political means of death. Children, that would have lived, die prematurely.

Like anyone who dies prematurely we should include them in the statistics. But in Canada abortions are not considered in our life expectancy charts.

If we were to consider abortion in the numbers here’s how it would change our perpectives.

Canadian Rates

There were 108,844 abortions in 2011² and 242,074³ deaths at an average rate of 81.5⁴ years.

If we add the number of abortions to the death rate and calculate the average life span, the fetus at ‘0’ then we get a real shocker: the average life span of a Canadian is only 56.2 years.

Stats In Perspective

Many nations, including Canada, made abortion illegal; and it was for many years.

In 1921 the average life span of a Canadian was 59 but it wasn’t until the trend of abortion began that our life spans began to increase.

This is due to the lack of consideration of each failed pregnancy, whether due to abortion, poor health or abuse.

However, it is not contentious to propose that these are also deaths.

In the US things are not much different.

US Life Expectancy

Including the number of abortions the 2010 life expectancy for an American was 60.07.

Abortions in 2010: 765651⁵

Deaths in 2010: 2,468,435⁶

3234086 Total deaths plus abortions

CDC average age: 78.7⁷

Actual average age for 2010: 60.07

If we want to go even further, counting the beginning of years from birth, the death rate of aborted babies is actually a negative value, lowering that average to 59.93 years.

91.6% of abortions were performed at ≤13 weeks gestation⁸

Subtracting that from to the total years lived (-.6 years age per abortion)

Years lost in abortions: -459390.6

Total years lived in 2010 by dead: 194265834.5

=193806443.9

Divide that by the number of deaths

= 59.93

Total years lived in 2010 by dead plus abortions: 193821756.92

Average age considering pre-natal death: 59.93

Life expectancy was higher during WWII (64.57) and during the great depression (61.07) when abortion was still illegal⁹.

This does not include the number of people who are now not born based on a biological death rate since the death of those people was by choice and not force.

National Perspective

Now that we have a more solid number that reflects our culture, we can compare Canada to the rest of the nations.

Sudan

Sudan is know for being a place of poverty, war and famine.

It is not considered one of the worlds greatest countries, desirable places or even tourism friendly.

But when we now look at the numbers for life expectancy with our criteria in mind we come to different conclusions.

The average age for a person born in Sudan is higher than a Canadian, at 56.34.

430000 Births (12.3% abortion rate¹⁰)

52890 Abortions

384000 Deaths¹¹

=436890

Average age 64.1¹²

Average age 56.34

This is curious considering Sudan has legalized abortion but the rules are much more strict for the reasoning behind the death of a fetus.

Grounds on which abortion is permitted:

To save the life of the woman Yes

To preserve physical health No

To preserve mental health No

Rape or incest Yes

Foetal impairment No

Economic or social reasons No

Available on request No¹³

Life is expected when you are expecting.

If we are to consider all life and its potentials then we must also consider death and its ramifications.

Canadian Death Rates

What’s worse than Canada’s low average life span and of even more concern is our low birth rate.

At 1.61 children per woman in 2011 the birth rate reflects a dying culture¹⁴.

If we put this number into perceptive with Canadian abortions we can see that the birth rate would actually be about 1.24.

Finding The Calculation

number of women divided by number of births times average age

This is a different way of calculating the birth rate of Canadians.

We must now consider that children are more likely to be born if a woman has family support.

Therefore we cannot cut women out of the calculation who have passed menopause. Nor can we remove men or children.

The birth rate is not a determination of biology only, but of social, economic and political factors, as seen in abortion and poor nutrition, along with dangerous medical practices like vaccination using Thimerosal, Aluminum and Formaldehyde.

So the considered number are altered; mothers and grandmothers can often be the encouragement for a young woman to start a family.

Fathers give their daughter away in marriage and economic support encourage people to produce children without fear of poverty.

The biological calculation of our life spans is insufficient in its reasoning and practicality. We must include all factors for births.

That being said we find some interesting numbers.

If we do not include abortion in our calculations 2011 would have seen a birth rate of 1.93 births per woman.

If abortions are included the birth rate is a dismal 1.24; not a survival rate and in fact a rate that stinks of extinction.

If the children had been born instead of aborted our birth rate would be a healthy 2.48 at a life span of about 89 years.

108,844 Abortions

377,636 Births¹⁵

486480 Total

17,403,000 women¹⁶

1.93 births per woman (with 89 not including abortions)

2.48 (with 89 as death age)

1.24 (birth rate considering actual death age of 57.5)

Interpretable Conclusions

It is no wonder that Canada, in spite of its rich resources, freedom and spacious living cannot seem to grow a population that is healthy.

Our fears of overpopulation for the world seem to be inappropriate, making ourselves the harbingers of life and death.

It is not the determination of men to choose who should live and die; yet this has been done in a subtle way that has murdered Canadian living.

I conclude these things and also conclude that I cannot see any reason to deny the numbers.

 

Sources:

¹ http://dailyhive.com/toronto/canada-quality-of-life-2017

²http://www.arcc-cdac.ca/backrounders/statistics-abortion-in-canada.pdf

³https://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/91-209-x/2013001/article/11867-eng.htm

⁴http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-630-x/11-630-x2016002-eng.htm

⁵Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2010 - Surveillance Summaries November 29, 2013 / 62(ss08);1-44

⁶Natl Vital Stat Rep. 2013 May 8;61(4):1-117.

⁷National Vital Statistics Reports Volume 63, Number 7 United States Life Tables, 2010 - November 6, 2014

⁸National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 61, No. 3, September 24, 2012 46-47

¹⁰World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision Archived May 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.

¹²http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/sudan-life-expectancy

¹³https://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/91-209-x/2013001/article/11784-eng.htm

¹⁵https://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/91-209-x/2013001/article/11784/c-g/desc/desc01-eng.htm

¹⁶https://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-503-x/2010001/article/11475/tbl/tbl001-eng.htm