Productivity and life expectancy are inversely correlated

Here's an interesting, and probably statistically spurious, factoid: economic output per person seems to be inversely correlated with life expectancy.

Best illustrated by the graphic above (which I had to scan from the print copy of the Globe and Mail article for some reason), GDP per person (what you might call productivity) of G7 countries, in order, are: USA, Germany, Canada, France, Italy, Britain, Japan. Average life expectancy in those countries, IN REVERSE ORDER (worst to best) are: USA, Britain, Germany, Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Japan.

Almost an exact match (apart from Britain, which seems to manage poor productivity AND short lives).

While this is not necessarily a causative relationship, it COULD be. It is certainly a striking correspondence.