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Years > Life Expectancy At Birth, Total statistics - countries compared - NationMaster
 

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

SOURCE: World Development Indicators database via NationMaster

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