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Rank   Countries  Amount  (top to bottom)   
#1  Andorra: 83.52 years  
#2  Macau: 82.27 years  
#3  Japan: 82.02 years  
#4  San Marino: 81.8 years  
#5  Singapore: 81.8 years  
#6  Hong Kong: 81.68 years  
#7  Sweden: 80.63 years  
#8  Australia: 80.62 years  
#9  Switzerland: 80.62 years  
#10  France: 80.59 years  
#11  Guernsey: 80.53 years  
#12  Iceland: 80.43 years  
#13  Canada: 80.34 years  
#14  Cayman Islands: 80.2 years  
#15  Italy: 79.94 years  
#16  Gibraltar: 79.93 years  
#17  Monaco: 79.82 years  
#18  Liechtenstein: 79.81 years  
#19  Spain: 79.78 years  
#20  Norway: 79.67 years  
#21  Israel: 79.59 years  
#22  Jersey: 79.51 years  
#23  Faroe Islands: 79.49 years  
#24  Greece: 79.38 years  
#25  Austria: 79.21 years  
#26  Virgin Islands: 79.2 years  
#27  Malta: 79.15 years  
#28  Netherlands: 79.11 years  
#29  Luxembourg: 79.03 years  
#30  Montserrat: 79 years  
#31  New Zealand: 78.96 years  
#32  Germany: 78.95 years  
#33  Belgium: 78.92 years  
#34  Saint Pierre and Miquelon: 78.76 years  
#35  Guam: 78.76 years  
#36  United Kingdom: 78.7 years  
#37  Finland: 78.66 years  
#38  Man, Isle of: 78.64 years  
#39  Jordan: 78.55 years  
#40  Puerto Rico: 78.54 years  
#41  Bosnia and Herzegovina: 78.17 years  
#42  Bermuda: 78.13 years  
#43  Saint Helena: 78.09 years  
#44  United States: 78 years  
#45  Cyprus: 77.98 years  
#46  Denmark: 77.96 years  
#47  Ireland: 77.9 years  
#48  Portugal: 77.87 years  
#49  Albania: 77.6 years  
#50  Taiwan: 77.56 years  
#51  Anguilla: 77.46 years  
#52  Kuwait: 77.36 years  
#53  Korea, South: 77.23 years  
#54  Costa Rica: 77.21 years  
#55  Cuba: 77.08 years  
#56  Chile: 76.96 years  
#57  Libya: 76.88 years  
#58  British Virgin Islands: 76.86 years  
#59  Ecuador: 76.62 years  
#60  Slovenia: 76.53 years  
#61  Czech Republic: 76.42 years  
#62  Argentina: 76.32 years  
#63  French Polynesia: 76.31 years  
#64  Georgia: 76.3 years  
#65  Northern Mariana Islands: 76.29 years  
#66  American Samoa: 76.25 years  
#67  Netherlands Antilles: 76.24 years  
#68  Uruguay: 75.93 years  
#69  Saudi Arabia: 75.88 years  
#70  United Arab Emirates: 75.69 years  
#71  Mexico: 75.63 years  
#72  Tunisia: 75.34 years  
#73  Paraguay: 75.34 years  
#74  Brunei: 75.3 years  
#75  Panama: 75.19 years  
#76  Poland: 75.19 years  
#77  Dominica: 75.1 years  
#78  Serbia and Montenegro: 75.06 years  
#79  Turks and Caicos Islands: 74.95 years  
#80  Slovakia: 74.95 years  
#81  Croatia: 74.9 years  
#82  Aruba: 74.83 years  
#83  Sri Lanka: 74.8 years  
#84  Bahrain: 74.68 years  
#85  New Caledonia: 74.5 years  
#86  Lithuania: 74.44 years  
#87  Macedonia, Republic of: 74.21 years  
#88  Qatar: 74.14 years  
#89  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 74.09 years  
#90  Saint Lucia: 74.08 years  
#91  Oman: 73.62 years  
#92  Algeria: 73.52 years  
#93  West Bank: 73.46 years  
#94  Venezuela: 73.28 years  
#95  Suriname: 73.23 years  
#96  Solomon Islands: 73.16 years  
#97  Lebanon: 73.15 years  
#98  Jamaica: 73.12 years  
#99  Dominican Republic: 73.07 years  
#100  Barbados: 73 years  
#101  Hungary: 72.92 years  
#102  China: 72.88 years  
#103  Turkey: 72.88 years  
#104  Mauritius: 72.88 years  
#105  Malaysia: 72.76 years  
#106  Saint Kitts and Nevis: 72.66 years  
#107  Bulgaria: 72.57 years  
#108  Thailand: 72.55 years  
#109  Antigua and Barbuda: 72.42 years  
#110  Seychelles: 72.34 years  
#111  Estonia: 72.3 years  
#112  Colombia: 72.27 years  
#113  Brazil: 72.24 years  
#114  Gaza Strip: 72.16 years  
#115  Armenia: 72.12 years  
#116  Korea, North: 71.92 years  
#117  Romania: 71.91 years  
#118  El Salvador: 71.78 years  
#119  Latvia: 71.6 years  
#120  Egypt: 71.57 years  
#121  Samoa: 71.3 years  
#122  Morocco: 71.22 years  
#123  Vietnam: 71.07 years  
#124  Cape Verde: 71.02 years  
#125  Nicaragua: 70.92 years  
#126  Palau: 70.71 years  
#127  Marshall Islands: 70.61 years  
#128  Syria: 70.61 years  
#129  Iran: 70.56 years  
#130  Philippines: 70.51 years  
#131  Micronesia, Federated States of: 70.35 years  
#132  Greenland: 70.23 years  
#133  Moldova: 70.2 years  
#134  Indonesia: 70.16 years  
#135  Peru: 70.14 years  
#136  Fiji: 70.12 years  
#137  Tonga: 70.12 years  
#138  Belarus: 70.05 years  
#139  Guatemala: 69.69 years  
#140  Honduras: 69.35 years  
#141  Iraq: 69.31 years  
#142  Kyrgyzstan: 68.81 years  
#143  Tuvalu: 68.63 years  
#144  India: 68.59 years  
#145  Turkmenistan: 68.3 years  
#146  Belize: 68.25 years  
#147  Ukraine: 67.88 years  
#148  São Tomé and Príncipe: 67.64 years  
#149  Kazakhstan: 67.22 years  
#150  Mongolia: 66.99 years  
#151  Trinidad and Tobago: 66.85 years  
#152  East Timor: 66.6 years  
#153  Bolivia: 66.19 years  
#154  Guyana: 66.17 years  
#155  Azerbaijan: 65.96 years  
#156  Russia: 65.87 years  
#157  Bahamas, The: 65.66 years  
#158  Papua New Guinea: 65.62 years  
#159  Grenada: 65.21 years  
#160  Uzbekistan: 64.98 years  
#161  Maldives: 64.76 years  
#162  Tajikistan: 64.61 years  
#163  Pakistan: 63.75 years  
#164  Nauru: 63.44 years  
#165  Vanuatu: 63.22 years  
#166  Bangladesh: 62.84 years  
#167  Comoros: 62.73 years  
#168  Yemen: 62.52 years  
#169  Burma: 62.49 years  
#170  Kiribati: 62.45 years  
#171  Mayotte: 62.16 years  
#172  Madagascar: 62.14 years  
#173  Cambodia: 61.29 years  
#174  Nepal: 60.56 years  
#175  Eritrea: 59.55 years  
#176  Ghana: 59.12 years  
#177  Togo: 57.86 years  
#178  Congo, Democratic Republic of the: 57.2 years  
#179  Haiti: 57.03 years  
#180  Senegal: 56.69 years  
#181  Laos: 55.89 years  
#182  Kenya: 55.31 years  
#183  Bhutan: 55.17 years  
#184  Gambia, The: 54.54 years  
#185  Gabon: 53.99 years  
#186  Mauritania: 53.51 years  
#187  Benin: 53.44 years  
#188  Congo, Republic of the: 53.29 years  
#189  Cameroon: 52.86 years  
#190  Uganda: 51.75 years  
#191  Burundi: 51.29 years  
#192  Tanzania: 50.71 years  
#193  Botswana: 50.58 years  
#194  Guinea: 49.65 years  
#195  Equatorial Guinea: 49.51 years  
#196  Mali: 49.51 years  
#197  Ethiopia: 49.23 years  
#198  Burkina Faso: 49.21 years  
#199  Sudan: 49.11 years  
#200  Côte d'Ivoire: 49 years  
#201  Rwanda: 48.99 years  
#202  Somalia: 48.84 years  
#203  Nigeria: 47.44 years  
#204  Chad: 47.2 years  
#205  Guinea-Bissau: 47.18 years  
#206  Niger: 44.03 years  
#207  Afghanistan: 43.77 years  
#208  Central African Republic: 43.74 years  
#209  Djibouti: 43.25 years  
#210  Namibia: 43.11 years  
#211  Malawi: 42.98 years  
#212  South Africa: 42.45 years  
#213  Mozambique: 40.9 years  
#214  Sierra Leone: 40.58 years  
#215  Liberia: 40.39 years  
#216  Lesotho: 39.97 years  
#217  Zimbabwe: 39.5 years  
#218  Zambia: 38.44 years  
#219  Angola: 37.63 years  
#220  Swaziland: 32.23 years  
Weighted average: 68.4 years   


DEFINITION: The average number of years to be lived by a group of people 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 Factbook, 14 June, 2007

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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?
Hakan , Turkey
28th October 2005 		My both side grantparentts are all alive and they are all over 75 years old. (75,75,76,76).
And two of them look very healthy and it looks like they will live another 10 years, hopefully.
The other two has health problems and looks like they will live maybe 2-3 more years.
Now, how come average of Turkey is 71.8? Some deviation from the statistics here?
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.
David Gillies (San Jose, Costa Rica)
4th August 2006 		I'd give Cuban healthcare statistics as much credence as Soviet tractor production figures from Stalin's time.
Denny (Ohio,U.S.A)
13th August 2007 		I have to wonder what effect violence,and traffic accidents have on the bottom line. i would love to see the average life span, discounting these factors. modern medicine should certainly. bring the major nations to the top of the chart
Joseph (NYC)
17th 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.
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