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  • 95 percent range: 95% range.
  • 95% range: 95% range.
  • Female: 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.
  • Inequality adjusted index: Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index.
  • Male: 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.
  • Men: Life expectancy for men.
  • Women: Life expectancy for women.
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95 percent range (83.70-85.00) (78.90-81.40)
95% range (83.70-85.00) (78.90-81.40)
Date of information 2006 est. 2006 est.
Female 83.25
Ranked 12th. 9% more than Syria 		76.19
Ranked 82nd.
Inequality adjusted index 0.945
Ranked 3rd. 19% more than Syria 		0.793
Ranked 55th.
Male 79.98
Ranked 2nd. 11% more than Syria 		72.36
Ranked 57th.
Men 80 years
Ranked 2nd. 8% more than Syria 		74 years
Ranked 42nd.
Women 84 years
Ranked 9th. 8% more than Syria 		78 years
Ranked 47th.

SOURCES: Wikipedia: List of countries by life expectancy (Life expectancy at birth (years), Global Burden of Disease) (Das, Pamela; Samarasekera, Udani (2012). "The story of GBD 2010: a "super-human" effort" . The Lancet 380 (9859): 2067–2070. doi : 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)62174-6 . Wang, Haidong; Dwyer-Lindgren, Laura; Lofgren, Katherine T; Rajaratnam, Julie Knoll; Marcus, Jacob R; Levin-Rector, Alison; Levitz, Carly E; Lopez, Alan D; Murray, Christopher JL (2012). "Age-specific and sex-specific mortality in 187 countries, 1970–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010". The Lancet 380 (9859): 2071–2094. doi : 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61719-X ., ); Wikipedia: List of countries by life expectancy; (1) United Nations Population Division. 2009. World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision. New York, United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (advanced Excel tables), (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (4) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (5) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; United Nations Development Programme. Source tables; British Broadcasting Corporation 2014

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