Japan Tops ‘Healthy Life Expectancy’ List, Singapore Second

London (PNA/Kyodo) — Japan ranked first in “healthy life expectancy” followed by Singapore in the 2013 study of 188 countries released Thursday by the British medical journal Lancet.

Japanese men scored 71.11 years and Japanese women 75.56 years on the list measuring the probable period of life where people are expected to live on their own without the aid of nursing and without getting so sick that their daily activities are interrupted.

Singapore ranked second averaging 72.1 years for men and women, followed by Ireland, Iceland and Cyprus, according to the study conducted by a team of researchers from the University of Washington in the U.S. state of Washington and other institutions.(PNA/Kyodo) JBP/PJN