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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.
Health Statistics > Life expectancy at birth, total > years (most recent) by country
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Rank
Countries
Amount
Date
# 1
Japan :
82.08 years
2005
# 2
Hong Kong :
81.58 years
2005
# 3
Switzerland :
81.24 years
2005
# 4
Iceland :
81.1 years
2005
# 5
Australia :
80.63 years
2005
# 6
Spain :
80.57 years
2005
# 7
Sweden :
80.55 years
2005
# 8
Italy :
80.33 years
2005
# 9
Macau :
80.28 years
2005
# 10
France :
80.21 years
2005
# 11
Canada :
80.18 years
2005
# 12
Norway :
80.04 years
2005
# 13
Israel :
79.72 years
2005
# 14
Singapore :
79.7 years
2005
# 15
New Zealand :
79.62 years
2005
# 16
Malta :
79.5 years
2005
# 17
Belgium :
79.48 years
2005
# 18
Ireland :
79.39 years
2005
# 19
Austria :
79.38 years
2005
# 20
Netherlands :
79.35 years
2005
# 21
Cyprus :
79.29 years
2005
= 22
Luxembourg :
79.18 years
2005
= 22
United Arab Emirates :
79.18 years
2005
# 24
Greece :
78.99 years
2005
= 25
Costa Rica :
78.95 years
2005
= 25
United Kingdom :
78.95 years
2005
# 27
Germany :
78.93 years
2005
# 28
Finland :
78.82 years
2005
# 29
Bermuda :
78.58 years
2005
# 30
Virgin Islands :
78.55 years
2005
# 31
Chile :
78.15 years
2005
# 32
Portugal :
78.07 years
2005
# 33
Man, Isle of :
77.97 years
2002
# 34
Denmark :
77.84 years
2005
# 35
United States :
77.71 years
2005
# 36
Puerto Rico :
77.65 years
2005
# 37
Slovenia :
77.61 years
2005
# 38
Korea, South :
77.57 years
2005
# 39
Kuwait :
77.54 years
2005
# 40
Cuba :
77.25 years
2005
# 41
Brunei :
76.97 years
2005
# 42
Dominica :
76.6 years
2002
# 43
Netherlands Antilles :
76.39 years
2005
# 44
Czech Republic :
75.91 years
2005
# 45
Croatia :
75.67 years
2005
# 46
Uruguay :
75.61 years
2005
# 47
Albania :
75.48 years
2005
# 48
Barbados :
75.4 years
2004
# 49
Mexico :
75.37 years
2005
# 50
Antigua and Barbuda :
75.28 years
2002
# 51
Panama :
75.24 years
2005
# 52
Guam :
75.18 years
2005
# 53
New Caledonia :
75.16 years
2005
# 54
Poland :
75 years
2005
# 55
Bahrain :
74.86 years
2005
# 56
Argentina :
74.83 years
2005
# 57
Oman :
74.76 years
2005
= 58
Ecuador :
74.67 years
2005
= 58
Sri Lanka :
74.67 years
2005
# 60
Bosnia and Herzegovina :
74.41 years
2005
# 61
Libya :
74.35 years
2005
# 62
Venezuela :
74.22 years
2005
# 63
Saint Lucia :
74.17 years
2005
# 64
Qatar :
74.1 years
2005
# 65
Slovakia :
73.9 years
2005
# 66
Macedonia, Republic of :
73.84 years
2005
# 67
Syria :
73.82 years
2005
# 68
French Polynesia :
73.76 years
2005
# 69
Malaysia :
73.7 years
2005
# 70
Tunisia :
73.45 years
2005
# 71
Armenia :
73.33 years
2005
# 72
Mauritius :
73.02 years
2005
# 73
Grenada :
72.97 years
2002
# 74
Seychelles :
72.95 years
2002
# 75
Colombia :
72.81 years
2005
# 76
Serbia and Montenegro :
72.79 years
2005
= 77
Hungary :
72.65 years
2005
= 77
Tonga :
72.65 years
2005
# 79
Estonia :
72.57 years
2005
= 80
Bulgaria :
72.56 years
2005
= 80
Saudi Arabia :
72.56 years
2005
# 82
Lebanon :
72.54 years
2005
# 83
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines :
72.33 years
2005
# 84
Azerbaijan :
72.28 years
2005
# 85
Jordan :
72.02 years
2005
# 86
China :
71.83 years
2005
# 87
Belize :
71.81 years
2005
# 88
Algeria :
71.73 years
2005
# 89
Romania :
71.71 years
2005
# 90
Paraguay :
71.45 years
2005
# 91
Latvia :
71.36 years
2005
# 92
Saint Kitts and Nevis :
71.34 years
2002
= 93
El Salvador :
71.31 years
2005
= 93
Georgia :
71.31 years
2005
# 95
Turkey :
71.29 years
2005
# 96
Lithuania :
71.25 years
2005
# 97
Brazil :
71.24 years
2005
# 98
Iran :
71.13 years
2005
# 99
Philippines :
71.04 years
2005
# 100
Bahamas, The :
70.96 years
2005
= 101
Thailand :
70.9 years
2005
= 101
Jamaica :
70.9 years
2005
# 103
Samoa :
70.74 years
2005
# 104
Cape Verde :
70.71 years
2005
# 105
Peru :
70.66 years
2005
# 106
Vietnam :
70.65 years
2005
# 107
Egypt :
70.53 years
2005
# 108
Nicaragua :
70.39 years
2005
# 109
Morocco :
70.38 years
2005
# 110
Trinidad and Tobago :
69.97 years
2005
# 111
Suriname :
69.71 years
2005
# 112
Vanuatu :
69.49 years
2005
# 113
Greenland :
68.86 years
2002
# 114
Honduras :
68.57 years
2005
# 115
Belarus :
68.48 years
2005
# 116
Kyrgyzstan :
68.34 years
2005
# 117
Fiji :
68.33 years
2005
# 118
Moldova :
68.26 years
2005
# 119
Dominican Republic :
68.13 years
2005
# 120
Micronesia, Federated States of :
68.07 years
2005
# 121
Ukraine :
67.96 years
2005
# 122
Guatemala :
67.85 years
2005
# 123
Indonesia :
67.79 years
2005
# 124
Maldives :
67.64 years
2005
# 125
Uzbekistan :
67.37 years
2005
# 126
Mongolia :
66.84 years
2005
# 127
Kazakhstan :
66.25 years
2005
# 128
Russia :
65.47 years
2005
# 129
Marshall Islands :
65.24 years
2000
# 130
Pakistan :
64.86 years
2005
# 131
Bolivia :
64.85 years
2005
# 132
Guyana :
64.26 years
2005
# 133
Tajikistan :
64.02 years
2005
# 134
Bhutan :
63.98 years
2005
# 135
Korea, North :
63.92 years
2005
# 136
Bangladesh :
63.9 years
2005
# 137
India :
63.5 years
2005
# 138
São Tomé and Príncipe :
63.49 years
2005
# 139
Solomon Islands :
62.94 years
2005
# 140
Turkmenistan :
62.86 years
2005
# 141
Kiribati :
62.82 years
2002
# 142
Nepal :
62.65 years
2005
# 143
Comoros :
62.64 years
2005
# 144
Yemen :
61.73 years
2005
# 145
Burma :
61.11 years
2005
# 146
Iraq :
58.81 years
1997
# 147
Ghana :
57.48 years
2005
# 148
Cambodia :
57.03 years
2005
# 149
Gambia, The :
56.79 years
2005
# 150
East Timor :
56.72 years
2005
# 151
Sudan :
56.66 years
2005
# 152
Senegal :
56.45 years
2005
# 153
Papua New Guinea :
56.39 years
2005
# 154
Madagascar :
55.82 years
2005
# 155
Laos :
55.67 years
2005
# 156
Togo :
55.1 years
2005
# 157
Benin :
54.99 years
2005
# 158
Eritrea :
54.9 years
2005
# 159
Guinea :
54.05 years
2005
# 160
Gabon :
53.83 years
2005
# 161
Mauritania :
53.66 years
2005
# 162
Djibouti :
53.39 years
2005
# 163
Congo, Republic of the :
52.81 years
2005
# 164
Haiti :
52.61 years
2005
# 165
Uganda :
49.95 years
2005
# 166
Kenya :
48.99 years
2005
# 167
Mali :
48.62 years
2005
# 168
Burkina Faso :
48.48 years
2005
# 169
Somalia :
47.73 years
2005
# 170
South Africa :
47.66 years
2005
# 171
Namibia :
46.93 years
2005
# 172
Tanzania :
46.3 years
2005
# 173
Côte d'Ivoire :
46.18 years
2005
# 174
Cameroon :
46.06 years
2005
# 175
Guinea-Bissau :
45.12 years
2005
# 176
Niger :
44.93 years
2005
# 177
Afghanistan :
44.67 years
1987
# 178
Burundi :
44.65 years
2005
# 179
Rwanda :
44.12 years
2005
# 180
Congo, Democratic Republic of the :
44.03 years
2005
# 181
Chad :
44.02 years
2005
# 182
Nigeria :
43.83 years
2005
# 183
Ethiopia :
42.65 years
2005
# 184
Liberia :
42.47 years
2005
# 185
Equatorial Guinea :
42.28 years
2005
# 186
Mozambique :
41.81 years
2005
# 187
Swaziland :
41.46 years
2005
# 188
Angola :
41.42 years
2005
# 189
Sierra Leone :
41.36 years
2005
# 190
Malawi :
40.52 years
2005
# 191
Central African Republic :
39.43 years
2005
# 192
Zambia :
38.41 years
2005
# 193
Zimbabwe :
37.26 years
2005
# 194
Lesotho :
35.16 years
2005
# 195
Botswana :
34.97 years
2005
Weighted average:
66.6 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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