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Health > Life expectancy at birth > Female > Years: Countries Compared

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.

CONTENTS

# COUNTRY AMOUNT DATE GRAPH HISTORY
1 Japan 85.63 years 2005
2 Hong Kong 84.5 years 2005
=3 Switzerland 83.9 years 2005
=3 Spain 83.9 years 2005
5 France 83.8 years 2005
6 Italy 83.2 years 2005
7 Australia 83.16 years 2005
8 Iceland 83.1 years 2005
9 Sweden 82.8 years 2005
Group of 7 countries (G7) average (profile) 82.7 years 2005
10 Canada 82.68 years 2005
11 Norway 82.5 years 2005
12 Belgium 82.4 years 2005
13 Macau 82.38 years 2005
=14 Luxembourg 82.3 years 2005
=14 Finland 82.3 years 2005
16 Austria 82.2 years 2005
17 Israel 81.82 years 2005
18 Puerto Rico 81.81 years 2005
=19 Germany 81.8 years 2005
=19 Ireland 81.8 years 2005
High income OECD countries average (profile) 81.8 years 2005
21 New Zealand 81.79 years 2005
22 Cyprus 81.7 years 2005
=23 Singapore 81.6 years 2005
=23 Netherlands 81.6 years 2005
25 United Arab Emirates 81.55 years 2005
26 Greece 81.5 years 2005
Eurozone average (profile) 81.45 years 2005
=27 Malta 81.4 years 2005
=27 Portugal 81.4 years 2005
29 Bermuda 81.34 years 2005
30 Slovenia 81.3 years 2005
31 Chile 81.24 years 2005
32 Costa Rica 81.2 years 2005
33 South Korea 81.12 years 2005
34 United Kingdom 81.1 years 2005
35 United States 80.67 years 2005
European Union average (profile) 80.49 years 2005
36 Denmark 80.2 years 2005
Non-religious countries average (profile) 80.1 years 2005
NATO countries average (profile) 80.08 years 2005
37 Virgin Islands 79.98 years 2005
38 Kuwait 79.73 years 2005
39 Netherlands Antilles 79.52 years 2005
=40 Uruguay 79.4 years 2005
=40 Poland 79.4 years 2005
42 Brunei 79.38 years 2005
Europe average (profile) 79.32 years 2005
=43 Cuba 79.2 years 2005
=43 Croatia 79.2 years 2005
45 Czech Republic 79.1 years 2005
46 Dominica 78.8 years 2002
47 Argentina 78.68 years 2005
48 Albania 78.5 years 2005
49 Antigua and Barbuda 78.2 years 2002
50 Barbados 78.19 years 2004
51 Estonia 78.14 years 2005
52 New Caledonia 77.99 years 2005
53 Slovakia 77.9 years 2005
=54 Panama 77.89 years 2005
=54 Mexico 77.89 years 2005
56 Ecuador 77.69 years 2005
57 Guam 77.58 years 2005
=58 Lithuania 77.4 years 2005
=58 Latvia 77.4 years 2005
60 Sri Lanka 77.38 years 2005
61 Venezuela 77.2 years 2005
62 Bosnia and Herzegovina 77.18 years 2005
Cold countries average (profile) 77.15 years 2005
63 Seychelles 77 years 2002
64 Hungary 76.9 years 2005
65 Libya 76.75 years 2005
66 Qatar 76.57 years 2005
67 Mauritius 76.52 years 2005
Eastern Europe average (profile) 76.5 years 2005
68 Armenia 76.4 years 2005
69 French Polynesia 76.38 years 2005
70 Bahrain 76.31 years 2005
=71 Bulgaria 76.3 years 2005
=71 Grenada 76.3 years 2002
73 Oman 76.29 years 2005
74 Malaysia 76.06 years 2005
75 Saint Lucia 75.94 years 2005
76 Colombia 75.89 years 2005
77 Syria 75.67 years 2005
Heavily indebted countries average (profile) 75.6 years 2005
=78 Serbia and Montenegro 75.5 years 2005
=78 Tunisia 75.5 years 2005
80 Romania 75.4 years 2005
81 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 75.26 years 2005
82 Brazil 75.2 years 2005
Middle Eastern and North Africa average (profile) 75.16 years 2005
83 Azerbaijan 75.1 years 2005
84 Georgia 74.9 years 2005
85 Lebanon 74.79 years 2005
86 Saudi Arabia 74.57 years 2005
87 Thailand 74.46 years 2005
88 El Salvador 74.45 years 2005
89 Belarus 74.38 years 2005
Latin America and Caribbean average (profile) 74.26 years 2002
=90 The Bahamas 74.24 years 2005
=90 Belize 74.24 years 2005
92 Saint Kitts and Nevis 74 years 2002
93 Tonga 73.99 years 2005
94 Ukraine 73.97 years 2005
95 Samoa 73.91 years 2005
96 Cape Verde 73.88 years 2005
Former Spanish colonies average (profile) 73.88 years 2005
Emerging markets average (profile) 73.84 years 2005
97 Turkey 73.8 years 2005
98 Paraguay 73.77 years 2005
99 China 73.69 years 2005
100 Jordan 73.61 years 2005
Former Soviet republics average (profile) 73.41 years 2005
101 Peru 73.31 years 2005
102 Philippines 73.24 years 2005
103 Vietnam 73.21 years 2005
104 Algeria 73.13 years 2005
105 Suriname 73.01 years 2005
106 Nicaragua 72.86 years 2005
107 Egypt 72.81 years 2005
108 Iran 72.76 years 2005
109 Trinidad and Tobago 72.72 years 2005
Catholic countries average (profile) 72.71 years 2002
110 Morocco 72.66 years 2005
111 Jamaica 72.65 years 2005
112 Greenland 72.5 years 2002
113 Russia 72.4 years 2005
114 Kyrgyzstan 72.38 years 2005
115 Moldova 72.2 years 2005
116 Kazakhstan 71.85 years 2005
117 Dominican Republic 71.71 years 2005
118 Guatemala 71.6 years 2005
East Asia and Pacific average (profile) 71.5 years 2005
119 Vanuatu 71.42 years 2005
120 Uzbekistan 70.71 years 2005
121 Honduras 70.69 years 2005
122 Fiji 70.62 years 2005
OPEC countries average (profile) 69.92 years 2005
123 Indonesia 69.69 years 2005
124 Federated States of Micronesia 68.81 years 2005
125 Mongolia 68.48 years 2005
Christian countries average (profile) 68.46 years 2002
South and Central Asia average (profile) 68.05 years 2005
126 Marshall Islands 67.8 years 2000
127 Guyana 67.39 years 2005
128 Maldives 67.35 years 2005
129 Turkmenistan 67.21 years 2005
130 Bolivia 67.02 years 2005
Religious countries average (profile) 66.95 years 1997
131 North Korea 66.92 years 2005
132 Tajikistan 66.75 years 2005
Muslim countries average (profile) 66.4 years 2005
133 Kiribati 66 years 2002
134 Pakistan 65.46 years 2005
135 Bhutan 65.25 years 2005
Sparsely populated countries average (profile) 65.19 years 2005
South Asia average (profile) 64.96 years 2005
136 Bangladesh 64.82 years 2005
137 Sao Tome and Principe 64.59 years 2005
138 India 64.32 years 2005
139 Burma 64.07 years 2005
140 Comoros 64.02 years 2005
Former British colonies average (profile) 63.89 years 2005
Hot countries average (profile) 63.77 years 2005
141 Solomon Islands 63.74 years 2005
142 Yemen 63.16 years 2005
143 Nepal 63.15 years 2005
144 Cambodia 60.63 years 2005
145 Iraq 60.4 years 1997
146 The Gambia 58.16 years 2005
147 Sudan 58.07 years 2005
148 Ghana 57.97 years 2005
149 East Timor 57.85 years 2005
150 Senegal 57.74 years 2005
151 Madagascar 57.1 years 2005
Former French colonies average (profile) 57.06 years 2005
152 Papua New Guinea 56.97 years 2005
153 Togo 56.96 years 2005
154 Laos 56.95 years 2005
155 Eritrea 56.81 years 2005
156 Benin 55.79 years 2005
157 Mauritania 55.3 years 2005
158 Djibouti 54.55 years 2005
159 Gabon 54.31 years 2005
160 Guinea 54.29 years 2005
161 Congo, Republic of the 54.14 years 2005
162 Haiti 53.31 years 2005
163 Uganda 50.64 years 2005
failed states average (profile) 49.82 years 2005
Sub-Saharan Africa average (profile) 49.53 years 2005
164 Mali 49.28 years 2005
165 Burkina Faso 49.27 years 2005
166 Somalia 48.97 years 2005
167 South Africa 48.68 years 2005
168 Kenya 48.11 years 2005
169 Cote d'Ivoire 46.94 years 2005
170 Namibia 46.81 years 2005
171 Tanzania 46.65 years 2005
172 Cameroon 46.64 years 2005
173 Guinea-Bissau 46.51 years 2005
174 Rwanda 45.73 years 2005
175 Burundi 45.67 years 2005
176 Chad 45.11 years 2005
177 Democratic Republic of the Congo 45.1 years 2005
178 Niger 44.97 years 2005
179 Afghanistan 44.78 years 1987
180 Nigeria 44 years 2005
181 Ethiopia 43.43 years 2005
182 Liberia 43.3 years 2005
183 Angola 42.92 years 2005
184 Sierra Leone 42.78 years 2005
185 Equatorial Guinea 42.6 years 2005
186 Mozambique 42.25 years 2005
187 Swaziland 40.71 years 2005
188 Malawi 40.22 years 2005
189 Central African Republic 40.13 years 2005
190 Zambia 37.9 years 2005
191 Zimbabwe 36.55 years 2005
192 Lesotho 35.86 years 2005
193 Botswana 34.47 years 2005

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