yo mom
31st January 2013 |
My dad is almost 45. I'm glad we dont live in afganistan. |
snakegladiator
11th September 2012 |
yes plenty more time |
Anonymous
23rd August 2012 |
Please, do moderate short, meaningless and abusive comments. |
llerehtem yrrah
17th April 2012 |
I thought that this page was really helpful and just quite interesting to scroll down. |
alexis
13th March 2012 |
yahhhhhh ecuador not a bad state |
seth
19th January 2012 |
hey people stop arguing.the point of this site is to just look up the life expectancy and not baost or point out the bad things of the lower ones or the higher ones. |
oliver
11th September 2011 |
my grand mother eats rice and she is now 80 years. so i guess rice can be good. |
dedelou
8th March 2011 |
Statistics about mortality are sensitive values and should be provided in stages. The average life span once given as a row number, should be broken down by quarter. What percentage of the population under 15 make it to the next stage. The mortality of 15 to 30 often reflects the wars that country experience. the stage between 30 years old to 60 years old can reflect the presence of serious deadly illnesses such as cancer and other incurable deseases. The phase over 60 will show a very different ranking. those results should evidence the difference between wealthy and sick elderlies. Developped countries with sophisticated health care systems, can maintain sick old people for years in nursing homes. Creating a semi zombie population in vegetative state. |
Tom
14th December 2010 |
Swaziland is 31.99
So if you are 29, you have less than 3 years left to live! |
lola hoi
26th November 2010 |
What about the quality of life? What is the big deal about living longer if your life sucks with pain and mental decline due to old age.
I would rather live a shorter life but filled with good health both physical and mental, then aging to the max and just rust away physically and mentally. |
Lolo
9th September 2010 |
It would have a greater credibility in my opinion, if it wasn't the CIA the one to measure this, any educated and well informed person knows Cubans for instance enjoy a higher life expectancy than that of the US population. |
Fintan
7th September 2010 |
Macau and Andora should be excluded as they are not countries in the proper sense,but more importantly they are tax havens which attract wealthy,often elderly, foreign residents who skew the figures. |
Ding Dong
28th July 2010 |
Ding Dong Ching Chong |
Bob K.
11th July 2010 |
It's not really surprising to see that countries with a higher standard of living generally have longer-living people. But there are distortions that can effect the numbers, such as war (where men are more often in combat), starvation and disease affecting the very old and very young harder. I would be interesting to see "life expectancy at age X" for each country and displayed properly on a graph.
It might also be interesting to see a chart or race / ethnic backround, and perhaps diet as well. |
chrizz
6th July 2010 |
thanks... ive searched many sites already... only this one gives me the exact detailes i needed... thankyou once again... more power to you! |
ian_is_homer
12th May 2010 |
All
Whilst I agree with many of the comments, nutrition is definately a factor (amongst other things)especially with the so called "developed" nations. Compare the obesity levels to the life expectancy, there are a few anomolies but the fattest nations lose 6 years! Thanks you McDonalds.
And as an aside, rice (the brown variety) is good for you! |
george lopez
9th May 2010 |
i asked 4 chart from turkeys population from the past 100 years and i get this |
Nicole Skiles
19th April 2010 |
That's right is not rite to tell people that if you eat rice you can live longer then people will eat rice all the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!AND THANKS GABE FOR YOUR HELP TELLING PEOPLE THAT RICE IS ACTUALLY BAD FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Nicole Skiles
19th April 2010 |
That's right is not rite to tell people that if you eat rice you can live longer then people will eat rice all the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
pbj
31st March 2010 |
i cant find wat im lookin for |
siya
12th March 2010 |
where do you get these figures? In some african countries the elderly are not even accounted for. |
Ageless+Wonder
8th March 2010 |
Gabe, this Website is NOT crazy actually it is amazingly accurate considering all the data NationMaster has compiled... Asians live longer because of their diet consisting primarily of vegetables, and their state of consciousness. Ever heard of Tai Chi pal? Go have your fried fish and chips and see how long that will keep your arteries cleared of FAT!!! |
gabe
28th February 2010 |
THIS SITE IS CRAZY.
you just assume people live longer because
they eat rice. rice isnt even good. infact its
down right bad. im leaving and going to gap minder.
thats the pickle. |
April
29th November 2009 |
You should know that Macou is a Special Administrative Region of China. Have you considered Alaska as a country?! You are doing science, then perform like a scientist! |
chris b
18th November 2009 |
This is crazy stuff; where doo people find the time to do this!?!?!?!?
If you wanna do statistics, make statistics telling which mathematical graphs are used the most, that would be pretty interesting |
edward
16th November 2009 |
Amazing, great help thanks!! |
elyse welscher
22nd October 2009 |
i cannot find Kenya on this thing, and i am getting very frustrated! |
Muyinda Bruhan
4th September 2009 |
Every time around 200,000 Children aged less than 4 years kick the bucket in the Pearl of AAfrica,Uganda. Those who survive experience disabilities, ill health and as well as poor growth thus Malnourished generation. This is caused due to poor Breast feeding. |
To m
28th July 2009 |
I think these statistics are a credit to the people of canada and their ongooing influence in the econonomic and social landscape of their great nation. |
brad
27th July 2009 |
any stats on average lifespan of those who live healthy lives? for example those people who avoid cigarettes alcohol drugs and non obese....im interested in knowing the lifespan of healthy people excluding those who lead unhealthy lives. |
Andrew in Ireland
13th July 2009 |
I have often wondered about life expectancy figures and how their values don't distinguish between high infant mortality, and deaths in later life.
In other words, if you live in a country with a life expectancy of 65 years, or a country with one of 80 years, once you have made it past twenty (say) presumably the figures come much closer together.
Is there an accepted measure of life expectancy that reflects the actual age of mortality of the people?
just curious! |
imp
7th May 2009 |
Of course organic food, tofu and seafood is not helping. It's just a try to make business on low quality and highly priced food. Tofu companies want you to think it's more healthy than standard beacon, egg, fruits, cornflakes etc. But if you like seafood or anything, well, it won't hurt you. |
christina
5th May 2009 |
I've heard that eating organic food, tofu and seafood help to prolong life. Is it true? |
Shaun
4th May 2009 |
Wow, there are sopme horrible life expectancies at the bottom of that list. I can't imagine being as old as I am (not yet middle aged) and feeling lucky to be alive because so many people I grew up with are not.
anger management techniques |
sam houston (republic of Texas)
6th September 2008 |
Thats ok ..they left off Texas because Texans never die. Also, I was thinking we just might lower the life expectancy of alot of these countries like Russia unless they get their commie asses out of Georgia. Don't mess with Texas! |
Joseph (NYC)
16th November 2007 |
To Hakan of Turkey,
Infant mortality has a big effect on life expectancy. Many childhood diseases kill people between ages 0 and 5, which brings down the average a few years even in industrialized countries. Someone who lives long enough to be a parent has survived those risky years and will probably live past the life expectancy. |
Muyinda Bruhan (Uganda)
26th October 2007 |
Great to read from this web. Hope you're still providing us the required. A question; Why is it that Ugandans their (our) life expectancy at birth is more low than any other nation?
Eager to hear your response on muyinda2007@yahoo.com |
David Gillies (San Jose, Costa Rica)
3rd August 2006 |
I'd give Cuban healthcare statistics as much credence as Soviet tractor production figures from Stalin's time. |
Cesar (Mexico)
31st July 2006 |
It is a BIG LIE about the "excellent" healthcare facilities in Cuba; there is no such thing. They have a good life expectancy because they don't have a lot of leisure. Their healthcare, though it's universal, is horrible, but they do have the VERY basics. Also their meal is very simple, meaning they do not have the freedom to eat what they want, including non-healthy meals. |
Martha (Viña del Mar, Chile)
16th May 2006 |
These statistics must be updated! the lates statistics shows that CHILE and COSTA RICA life expectancy is 77 years after CUBA with 78 years which has the highest in Latin America. |
demographer from HongKong
27th November 2005 |
Faclicia: the lady that used to work for your dad died at age 130? According to Guinness Record the longest living person was a french women who lives to 121. If you look at the result from census being carried out in Africa. you see a lot of people being age 60, 70, age 80, and age 90 but very few in between. They simply have no idea about their actual ages and they just guess them. Therefore it is fair to say that the self-report ages from most elderly African are very unreliable. Furthermore, most people in the western world do acknowledge there is widespread poverty in USA. We do talk about this and most people understand it is just as difficult to tackle as poverty in anywhere else. |
Enlightened One
25th November 2005 |
What are you going on about Felicia Johnson!
Fact: African poverty and political problems cause them to have low education levels.
Fact: Africans work hard labour as they are developing - westerners type on a PC as I am doing.
Fact: Stop saying blessed
Fact: Media exposes Africa in a negative and sad way usually for charities to need to buy Western pity
Fact westerners live in USA Europe where did you find out they live in Africa - in Southern Africa they are hunted |
HK demographer
16th October 2005 |
David Gealikman: partly true. But obesity and overweight among Australian and the Swedes are just as serious; American smokes much less than the Japanese, the Swiss and the Greek. Drugs is more or less a similar problem in most of the western world. However the countries I mentioned all live 3-5 years longer than American. Actually the white, suburban middle class in USA lives just as long as their European counterpart. One major reason responsible for the difference: the 'black-spots' of extreme poverty in inner city urban areas. In places such NYC's Harlem and Michigan downtown, unemployment, very high violent crime rate, lack of medical cover etc. all result a life expectancy at birth of around 60 years. (much lower than what is recorded in North Korea or Iraq or Vietnam now) It is these Blackspots which are dragging down the average life expectancy at birth of the whole USA overall. |
David Gealikman
15th October 2005 |
The reason so many American die young is obesity cigarettes and drugs. |
HK demographer
13th October 2005 |
Westpoint: Botswana, Mozambique and South Africa have very short life expectancy because currently about 30% of the adults are HIV positive. |
austin merritt
10th October 2005 |
Where does the Wisconsin River rank in length and size with other rivers? |
austin
10th October 2005 |
Where does the Wisconsin River rank in lenth and size with other rivers |
austin
10th October 2005 |
Where does the Wisconsin River rank in lenth and size with other rivers |
29th September 2005 |
Your comment on the Mediterranean diet prolonging life is generally well known. But as your graph clearly shows, Japan's life expectancy is one of the highest. I would be interested to read more information on the health benefits of the traditional Japanese diet. Kyoto, Japan 2005-09-30 |
iyul
29th September 2005 |
why the human poverty index uses age of 40 to measure the longitivity |
Bernhard Pelzl
13th September 2005 |
I need for a big exhibition special information of historical development of life expectancy in total Europe since 500 BC. Please can you help me? |
Me
5th August 2005 |
Canada is bigger then the US |
Jeanne
28th July 2005 |
Have you got any stats to compare overall life expectancy in Europe / EU 25 / OECD now with approx 100 years ago? |
12th July 2005 |
In response to Italy:
Cuba has excellent healthcare facilities and an unusually high ratio of doctors per 1,000 people. In fact, Cuba was the first country in the world to establish an AIDs awareness program (1982). There is however little correlation between life expectancy and political freedoms and transparency. As per this list, N. Korea has a higher life expectancy than Latvia and Lithuania. |
WestPoint
6th July 2005 |
Why is the life expectancy for Botswan and Mozambique so low? They both average out to about 30-31 years. |
sic
4th July 2005 |
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107386.html\
life expentancy for Canada is actually 80.2
Canada should be moved up to 6th place |
Itay
22nd June 2005 |
Please notice - life expectancy in Cuba and US is almost the same!
Now what can you say about it? |
Fred
14th June 2005 |
Im 105 years old and i can still lay the whuppin on all you lil rotters! |
Edgeworth
25th May 2005 |
As you point out, women live longer than men in most countries. But this is a recent phenomenon, is it not, the result of the large reduction in deaths of women in childbirth? At what point did this change occur? I would guess that until after 1850 in Europe and N America, men had the edge. Are there countries where they still do? |
chimene
10th May 2005 |
why do we have to listen to people when we dont want to caus i always listen to them for like the hole year and i dont now why my mom sais no for me to have msn if you now what msn is it is where you can talk to people and meet them and chat to your friends and lots of other people but i will try to not fight with her thanks for reading this bye! |
6th March 2005 |
What is the life expectancy in the world? |
Edria Murray
Staff editor
2nd March 2005 |
Life expectancy at birth is one of indicators
of the United Nations
href=/graph/eco_hum_dev_ind&int=-1>human
development index.
Life expectancy at birth is the average
lifespan for people born in that country.
Life expectancy is typically lower in
developing nations due to the high rate of
href=http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_inf_m
or_rat>infant mortality in those countries.
For example in Angola, almost 60% of people will
live to be over 40 and about 35% will reach 65
years. However 19.2% of children die in their
first year, which results in a low average life
expectancy of 36.96 years.
For a different perspective on life expectancy
see also the
href=/graph/hea_pro_of_not_rea_40>probability of
not reaching 40 years and the
probability of reaching age 65 (
href=/graph/hea_pro_of_rea_65_mal>male and
href=/graph/hea_pro_of_rea_65_fem&int=-1>female<
/a>) |
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