Life expectancy at birth is perhaps the most important social indicator, and rightly has been given one third of the HDI's share. However, a high or low life expectancy is a very late result of good or bad policy choices - this indicator judges governments that have been in power decades ago! Fortunately,  life expectancy is perfectly correlated with the Social index. The latter is composed of indicators that can indeed be influenced by current governments, and therefore the message of the Social index is much more policy-relevant than the message of "Life expectancy at birth".      
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