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Sub-Saharan Africa Compared by Health > Life expectancy at birth > Total > Years

DEFINITION: Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.

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# COUNTRY AMOUNT DATE GRAPH HISTORY
1 Mauritius 73.02 years 2005
2 Seychelles 72.95 years 2002
3 Cape Verde 70.71 years 2005
4 Sao Tome and Principe 63.49 years 2005
5 Comoros 62.64 years 2005
6 Ghana 57.48 years 2005
7 The Gambia 56.79 years 2005
8 Sudan 56.66 years 2005
9 Senegal 56.45 years 2005
10 Madagascar 55.82 years 2005
11 Togo 55.1 years 2005
12 Benin 54.99 years 2005
13 Eritrea 54.9 years 2005
14 Guinea 54.05 years 2005
15 Gabon 53.83 years 2005
16 Mauritania 53.66 years 2005
17 Djibouti 53.39 years 2005
18 Uganda 49.95 years 2005
19 Kenya 48.99 years 2005
20 Mali 48.62 years 2005
21 Burkina Faso 48.48 years 2005
22 Somalia 47.73 years 2005
23 South Africa 47.66 years 2005
24 Namibia 46.93 years 2005
25 Tanzania 46.3 years 2005
26 Cote d'Ivoire 46.18 years 2005
27 Cameroon 46.06 years 2005
28 Guinea-Bissau 45.12 years 2005
29 Niger 44.93 years 2005
30 Burundi 44.65 years 2005
31 Rwanda 44.12 years 2005
32 Democratic Republic of the Congo 44.03 years 2005
33 Chad 44.02 years 2005
34 Nigeria 43.83 years 2005
35 Ethiopia 42.65 years 2005
36 Liberia 42.47 years 2005
37 Equatorial Guinea 42.28 years 2005
38 Mozambique 41.81 years 2005
39 Swaziland 41.46 years 2005
40 Angola 41.42 years 2005
41 Sierra Leone 41.36 years 2005
42 Malawi 40.52 years 2005
43 Central African Republic 39.43 years 2005
44 Zambia 38.41 years 2005
45 Zimbabwe 37.26 years 2005
46 Lesotho 35.16 years 2005
47 Botswana 34.97 years 2005

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