The bright side of life expectancy?

This is a nice graph which illustrates effectively the variation in male life expectancy: how many years a newborn baby boy can currently expect to live.
Actually, no, its a horrible graph because it shows that in many parts of the world, especially sub-Saharan Africa, people don't live much beyond 40, about half what we can expect in rich countries.
For the raw data & the graph for females see here.

Life expectancy and socio-economic status

A useful Irish Times article documents CSO data on how life expectancy varies with socio-economic status and other variables: "Life expectancy is longest among those with the highest social class and the highest level of education. Male professional workers have a life expectancy of 81.4 years, for example, 6.1 years higher than their unskilled counterparts...For women, professional workers have the highest life expectancy, at 86 years, while unskilled workers have the lowest, 81 years."