The highest life expectancy : well I can tell you the post totally missed the main reason for this in their article a few weeks back on this topic : the boring reason is rigid control of cardiovascular risk factor on a captive population wide basis : Hong Kong government general practice lead the world in control of cholesterol blood pressure diabetes marker levels etc etc : key performance indicators here beat anywhere : captive largely compliant population 'free public healthcare 'computerised record and medical culture make this possible : so there are huge numbers of centenarians out there now : this sort of stuff is not exciting or visible to the public but it shows up in cardiovascular stat relatively to other countries which drive life expectancy figures :