Life expectancy of countries in descending order:

* Australia: . . 80 years in 2002, 80.39 years in 2005
* Italy:. . . . . . 79.25 years in 2002, 79.68 years in 2005
* France: . . . .79.05 years in 2002, 79.60 years in 2005
* Germany: . . 77.78 years in 2002, 78.65 years in 2005
* UK: . . . . . . 77.99 years in 2002, 78.4 years in 2005
* USA: . . . . . 77.4 years in 2002, 77.7 years in 2005


That's really not a huge difference between the USA and Australia, a whole 2.69 years.