4-5  Population Life Expectancy by Region
					(years old)
Region	Life			Life
	Expectancy	Male	Female	Expectancy	Male	Female
	in 1990			in 2000
National Total	68.55	66.84	70.47	71.40	69.63	73.33
Beijing	72.86	71.07	74.93	76.10	74.33	78.01
Tianjin	72.32	71.03	73.73	74.91	73.31	76.63
Hebei	70.35	68.47	72.53	72.54	70.68	74.57
Shanxi	68.97	67.33	70.93	71.65	69.96	73.57
Inner Mongolia	65.68	64.47	67.22	69.87	68.29	71.79
Liaoning	70.22	68.72	71.94	73.34	71.51	75.36
Jilin	67.95	66.65	69.49	73.10	71.38	75.04
Heilongjiang	66.97	65.50	68.73	72.37	70.39	74.66
Shanghai	74.90	72.77	77.02	78.14	76.22	80.04
Jiangsu	71.37	69.26	73.57	73.91	71.69	76.23
Zhejiang	71.78	69.66	74.24	74.70	72.50	77.21
Anhui	69.48	67.75	71.36	71.85	70.18	73.59
Fujian	68.57	66.49	70.93	72.55	70.30	75.07
Jiangxi	66.11	64.87	67.49	68.95	68.37	69.32
Shandong	70.57	68.64	72.67	73.92	71.70	76.26
Henan	70.15	67.96	72.55	71.54	69.67	73.41
Hubei	67.25	65.51	69.23	71.08	69.31	73.02
Hunan	66.93	65.41	68.70	70.66	69.05	72.47
Guangdong	72.52	69.71	75.43	73.27	70.79	75.93
Guangxi	68.72	67.17	70.34	71.29	69.07	73.75
Hainan	70.01	66.93	73.28	72.92	70.66	75.26
Chongqing				71.73	69.84	73.89
Sichuan	66.33	65.06	67.70	71.20	69.25	73.39
Guizhou	64.29	63.04	65.63	65.96	64.54	67.57
Yunnan	63.49	62.08	64.98	65.49	64.24	66.89
Tibet	59.64	57.64	61.57	64.37	62.52	66.15
Shaanxi	67.40	66.23	68.79	70.07	68.92	71.30
Gansu	67.24	66.35	68.25	67.47	66.77	68.26
Qinghai	60.57	59.29	61.96	66.03	64.55	67.70
Ningxia	66.94	65.95	68.05	70.17	68.71	71.84
Xinjiang	62.59	61.95	63.26	67.41	65.98	69.14
a) Life expectancy in 2000 by region is calculated by the death data of 2000's Population Census, which modified by the mortality rates  from the
annual national sample surveys on population changes since 1990.