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Health Statistics > Life expectancy at birth > female (2008) by country

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Rank   Countries  Amount  Date  
# 1     Macau: 87.45 years   2008 Time series
# 2     San Marino: 85.64 years   2008 Time series
# 3     Japan: 85.59 years   2008 Time series
# 4     Andorra: 85.14 years   2008 Time series
# 5     Hong Kong: 84.69 years   2008 Time series
# 6     Singapore: 84.68 years   2008 Time series
# 7     France: 84.23 years   2008 Time series
# 8     Australia: 84.02 years   2008 Time series
# 9     Monaco: 83.97 years   2008 Time series
# 10     Canada: 83.81 years   2008 Time series
# 11     Guernsey: 83.76 years   2008 Time series
# 12     Switzerland: 83.71 years   2008 Time series
# 13     Liechtenstein: 83.52 years   2008 Time series
# 14     Spain: 83.45 years   2008 Time series
# 15     Italy: 83.2 years   2008 Time series
# 16     Sweden: 83.13 years   2008 Time series
# 17     Anguilla: 83.12 years   2008 Time series
# 18     Gibraltar: 83.09 years   2008 Time series
# 19     Cayman Islands: 83 years   2008 Time series
# 20     Israel: 82.79 years   2008 Time series
# 21     Iceland: 82.76 years   2008 Time series
# 22     Puerto Rico: 82.73 years   2008 Time series
# 23     Luxembourg: 82.67 years   2008 Time series
# 24     Norway: 82.6 years   2008 Time series
# 25     Finland: 82.46 years   2008 Time series
# 26     Austria: 82.41 years   2008 Time series
# 27     Belgium: 82.38 years   2008 Time series
# 28     Jersey: 82.35 years   2008 Time series
# 29     Man, Isle of: 82.32 years   2008 Time series
# 30     Germany: 82.26 years   2008 Time series
# 31     New Zealand: 82.25 years   2008 Time series
# 32     Greece: 82.21 years   2008 Time series
# 33     Bosnia and Herzegovina: 82.19 years   2008 Time series
# 34     Guam: 82.19 years   2008 Time series
# 35     Korea, South: 82.17 years   2008 Time series
# 36     Virgin Islands: 82.11 years   2008 Time series
# 37     Netherlands: 81.98 years   2008 Time series
# 38     Faroe Islands: 81.89 years   2008 Time series
# 39     Malta: 81.64 years   2008 Time series
# 40     Portugal: 81.53 years   2008 Time series
# 41     United Kingdom: 81.46 years   2008 Time series
# 42     Saint Pierre and Miquelon: 81.4 years   2008 Time series
# 43     Jordan: 81.39 years   2008 Time series
# 44     Saint Helena: 81.33 years   2008 Time series
# 45     United States: 81.13 years   2008 Time series
# 46     Taiwan: 80.89 years   2008 Time series
# 47     Ireland: 80.88 years   2008 Time series
# 48     Albania: 80.71 years   2008 Time series
# 49     Cyprus: 80.67 years   2008 Time series
# 50     Slovenia: 80.66 years   2008 Time series
# 51     Denmark: 80.59 years   2008 Time series
# 52     Chile: 80.59 years   2008 Time series
# 53     Bermuda: 80.48 years   2008 Time series
# 54     Georgia: 80.26 years   2008 Time series
# 55     Costa Rica: 80.14 years   2008 Time series
# 56     Czech Republic: 80.08 years   2008 Time series
# 57     Lithuania: 79.89 years   2008 Time series
# 58     Ecuador: 79.84 years   2008 Time series
# 59     Panama: 79.81 years   2008 Time series
# 60     Argentina: 79.77 years   2008 Time series
# 61     Poland: 79.65 years   2008 Time series
# 62     Cuba: 79.64 years   2008 Time series
# 63     Uruguay: 79.51 years   2008 Time series
# 64     Libya: 79.44 years   2008 Time series
# 65     Slovakia: 79.32 years   2008 Time series
# 66     Northern Mariana Islands: 79.26 years   2008 Time series
# 67     French Polynesia: 79.08 years   2008 Time series
# 68     Saint Lucia: 79.05 years   2008 Time series
# 69     Croatia: 78.97 years   2008 Time series
# 70     Netherlands Antilles: 78.87 years   2008 Time series
# 71     Mexico: 78.78 years   2008 Time series
# 72     Kuwait: 78.73 years   2008 Time series
# 73     United Arab Emirates: 78.56 years   2008 Time series
# 74     Dominica: 78.41 years   2008 Time series
# 75     British Virgin Islands: 78.32 years   2008 Time series
# 76     Estonia: 78.3 years   2008 Time series
# 77     Paraguay: 78.26 years   2008 Time series
# 78     Saudi Arabia: 78.25 years   2008 Time series
# 79     Aruba: 78.14 years   2008 Time series
# 80     Seychelles: 78.1 years   2008 Time series
# 81     Serbia and Montenegro: 78.09 years   2008 Time series
# 82     New Caledonia: 77.88 years   2008 Time series
# 83     Brunei: 77.83 years   2008 Time series
# 84     Hungary: 77.62 years   2008 Time series
# 85     Turks and Caicos Islands: 77.59 years   2008 Time series
# 86     Bahrain: 77.5 years   2008 Time series
# 87     Tunisia: 77.46 years   2008 Time series
# 88     Mauritius: 77.4 years   2008 Time series
# 89     Latvia: 77.35 years   2008 Time series
# 90     Macedonia, Republic of: 77.13 years   2008 Time series
# 91     Sri Lanka: 77.08 years   2008 Time series
# 92     Qatar: 76.98 years   2008 Time series
# 93     Bulgaria: 76.66 years   2008 Time series
# 94     Venezuela: 76.65 years   2008 Time series
# 95     American Samoa: 76.56 years   2008 Time series
# 96     Armenia: 76.55 years   2008 Time series
# 97     Colombia: 76.5 years   2008 Time series
# 98     Belarus: 76.4 years   2008 Time series
# 99     Suriname: 76.39 years   2008 Time series
# 100     West Bank: 76.38 years   2008 Time series
# 101     Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 76.31 years   2008 Time series
# 102     Oman: 76.29 years   2008 Time series
# 103     Antigua and Barbuda: 76.26 years   2008 Time series
# 104     Solomon Islands: 76.1 years   2008 Time series
# 105     Lebanon: 76.04 years   2008 Time series
# 106     Maldives: 76.01 years   2008 Time series
# 107     Saint Kitts and Nevis: 75.98 years   2008 Time series
# 108     Malaysia: 75.94 years   2008 Time series
# 109     Romania: 75.89 years   2008 Time series
# 110     El Salvador: 75.84 years   2008 Time series
# 111     Turkey: 75.73 years   2008 Time series
# 112     Algeria: 75.49 years   2008 Time series
# 113     Brazil: 75.45 years   2008 Time series
# 114     Jamaica: 75.38 years   2008 Time series
# 115     Thailand: 75.27 years   2008 Time series
# 116     Dominican Republic: 75.24 years   2008 Time series
# 117     Barbados: 75.24 years   2008 Time series
# 118     China: 75.18 years   2008 Time series
# 119     Korea, North: 75.08 years   2008 Time series
# 120     Uzbekistan: 74.87 years   2008 Time series
# 121     Gaza Strip: 74.83 years   2008 Time series
# 122     Cape Verde: 74.76 years   2008 Time series
# 123     Samoa: 74.55 years   2008 Time series
# 124     Egypt: 74.52 years   2008 Time series
# 125     Moldova: 74.41 years   2008 Time series
# 126     Palau: 74.36 years   2008 Time series
# 127     Vietnam: 74.33 years   2008 Time series
# 128     Ukraine: 74.24 years   2008 Time series
# 129     Morocco: 74 years   2008 Time series
# 130     Philippines: 73.85 years   2008 Time series
# 131     Nicaragua: 73.44 years   2008 Time series
# 132     Kyrgyzstan: 73.33 years   2008 Time series
# 133     Kazakhstan: 73.16 years   2008 Time series
# 134     Tonga: 73.1 years   2008 Time series
# 135     Fiji: 73.1 years   2008 Time series
# 136     Russia: 73.1 years   2008 Time series
# 137     Indonesia: 73.07 years   2008 Time series
# 138     Marshall Islands: 73.03 years   2008 Time series
# 139     Micronesia, Federated States of: 72.61 years   2008 Time series
# 140     Iran: 72.4 years   2008 Time series
# 141     Peru: 72.37 years   2008 Time series
# 142     Syria: 72.35 years   2008 Time series
# 143     Greenland: 72.25 years   2008 Time series
# 144     India: 71.9 years   2008 Time series
# 145     Guatemala: 71.86 years   2008 Time series
# 146     Turkmenistan: 71.82 years   2008 Time series
# 147     Tuvalu: 71.36 years   2008 Time series
# 148     Honduras: 71.01 years   2008 Time series
# 149     Azerbaijan: 71 years   2008 Time series
# 150     Iraq: 70.99 years   2008 Time series
# 151     Montserrat: 70.44 years   2008 Time series
# 152     Belize: 70.08 years   2008 Time series
# 153     Mongolia: 69.84 years   2008 Time series
# 154     São Tomé and Príncipe: 69.69 years   2008 Time series
# 155     East Timor: 69.39 years   2008 Time series
# 156     Bolivia: 69.33 years   2008 Time series
# 157     Guyana: 69.18 years   2008 Time series
# 158     Bahamas, The: 69 years   2008 Time series
# 159     Papua New Guinea: 68.35 years   2008 Time series
# 160     Tajikistan: 68.15 years   2008 Time series
# 161     Trinidad and Tobago: 67.98 years   2008 Time series
# 162     Nauru: 67.6 years   2008 Time series
# 163     Grenada: 67.47 years   2008 Time series
# 164     Bhutan: 66.35 years   2008 Time series
# 165     Kiribati: 66.06 years   2008 Time series
# 166     Comoros: 65.55 years   2008 Time series
# 167     Burma: 65.28 years   2008 Time series
# 168     Vanuatu: 65.27 years   2008 Time series
# 169     Pakistan: 65.25 years   2008 Time series
# 170     Yemen: 64.94 years   2008 Time series
# 171     Mayotte: 64.85 years   2008 Time series
# 172     Madagascar: 64.51 years   2008 Time series
# 173     Cambodia: 63.83 years   2008 Time series
# 174     Eritrea: 63.46 years   2008 Time series
# 175     Bangladesh: 63.28 years   2008 Time series
# 176     Equatorial Guinea: 62.13 years   2008 Time series
# 177     Nepal: 60.75 years   2008 Time series
# 178     Togo: 60.43 years   2008 Time series
# 179     Ghana: 60.35 years   2008 Time series
# 180     Benin: 59.76 years   2008 Time series
# 181     Haiti: 59.35 years   2008 Time series
# 182     Senegal: 58.5 years   2008 Time series
# 183     Laos: 58.47 years   2008 Time series
# 184     Guinea: 58.08 years   2008 Time series
# 185     Ethiopia: 57.51 years   2008 Time series
# 186     Gambia, The: 56.9 years   2008 Time series
# 187     Kenya: 56.87 years   2008 Time series
# 188     Western Sahara: 56.31 years   2008 Time series
# 189     Mauritania: 56.28 years   2008 Time series
# 190     Congo, Democratic Republic of the: 55.8 years   2008 Time series
# 191     Côte d'Ivoire: 55.35 years   2008 Time series
# 192     Congo, Republic of the: 55 years   2008 Time series
# 193     Gabon: 54.57 years   2008 Time series
# 194     Burkina Faso: 54.49 years   2008 Time series
# 195     Cameroon: 54.08 years   2008 Time series
# 196     Uganda: 53.4 years   2008 Time series
# 197     Tanzania: 52.88 years   2008 Time series
# 198     Burundi: 52.6 years   2008 Time series
# 199     Mali: 51.94 years   2008 Time series
# 200     Sudan: 51.23 years   2008 Time series
# 201     Somalia: 51.12 years   2008 Time series
# 202     Rwanda: 51 years   2008 Time series
# 203     Guinea-Bissau: 49.39 years   2008 Time series
# 204     Namibia: 49.38 years   2008 Time series
# 205     Botswana: 49.02 years   2008 Time series
# 206     Chad: 48.5 years   2008 Time series
# 207     South Africa: 48.15 years   2008 Time series
# 208     Nigeria: 47.32 years   2008 Time series
# 209     Djibouti: 44.77 years   2008 Time series
# 210     Afghanistan: 44.39 years   2008 Time series
# 211     Central African Republic: 44.29 years   2008 Time series
# 212     Niger: 44.26 years   2008 Time series
# 213     Zimbabwe: 43.46 years   2008 Time series
# 214     Sierra Leone: 43.28 years   2008 Time series
# 215     Malawi: 43.15 years   2008 Time series
# 216     Liberia: 42.46 years   2008 Time series
# 217     Mozambique: 40.44 years   2008 Time series
# 218     Lesotho: 39.34 years   2008 Time series
# 219     Angola: 38.9 years   2008 Time series
# 220     Zambia: 38.7 years   2008 Time series
# 221     Swaziland: 32.3 years   2008 Time series
Weighted average: 71.1 years  

Historical countries, unions or other regions:
European Union 80.84 years   


DEFINITION: The average number of years to be lived by a females in this nation born in the same year, if mortality at each age remains constant in the future. Life expectancy at birth is also a measure of overall quality of life in a country and summarizes the mortality at all ages. It can also be thought of as indicating the potential return on investment in human capital and is necessary for the calculation of various actuarial measures.

SOURCE: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011

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"Life expectancy at birth > female (2008) by country", CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011. Retrieved from http://www.NationMaster.com/graph/hea_lif_exp_at_bir_fem-health-life-expectancy-birth-female&date=2008

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Amy+Becker
28th July 2010 		Edria, you said: "life expectancy for females is typically higher than that of males for discrepancies due to certain factors but often when all things are equal, males do die earlier. Unborn males die at almost twice the rate as unborn girls and newborn males have a higher death rate than newborn girls. I think the best reason for this was written about by Ashley Montagu who wrote "The Natural Superiority of Women" which shows that instead of being the superior gender as most males brag about, males as a whole are actually much weaker than women. It is this natural weakness which causes males to die sooner and it is our superiority as women which make us the stronger gender. Along with biological weakness, males also have a higher tendency for violence in which they most often kill other males thus reducing the male life expectancy even further.
Edria Murray
Staff editor
2nd March 2005

Life expectancy at birth is one of the

indicators of the United Nations
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development index.


In developing countries male and female life

expectancy are very close, due largely to the

risks of childbirth.



However in developed countries, life expectancy

for females is typically higher than that of

males. This discrepancy is due to the followng

factors:


  • Young males (15 to 24 years) are four to five

    times more likely to die than women of the same

    age. In this age group, the major causes of death

    are motor vehicle accidents, followed by homicide,

    suicide, cancer, and drownings.


  • Middle aged men (55 to 64 years) also die more

    often than women of the same age. In this age

    group the major causes of death are heart disease,

    suicide, motor vehicle accidents, and illnesses

    related to smoking and alcohol use.


For further comparison of life expectency see

the probability of reaching age 65 (
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href=/graph/hea_pro_of_rea_65_fem&int=-1>female<

/a>).

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