Country Comparison :: Life expectancy at birth

This entry contains 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. The entry includes total population as well as the male and female components. 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.

All data in the table below is based on 2010 estimates except for World (2009 est.) and Haiti (2011 est.).

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Rank	Country	(Years)
1	Monaco	89.78
2	Macau	84.38
3	San Marino	82.95
4	Andorra	82.36
5	Japan	82.17
6	Guernsey	82.08
7	Singapore	82.06
8	Hong Kong	81.96
9	Australia	81.72
10	Canada	81.29
11	Jersey	81.28
12	France	81.09
13	Spain	81.07
14	Sweden	80.97
15	Switzerland	80.97
16	Israel	80.86
17	Iceland	80.79
18	Anguilla	80.77
19	Bermuda	80.60
20	Cayman Islands	80.57
21	Isle of Man	80.53
22	New Zealand	80.48
23	Italy	80.33
24	Liechtenstein	80.19
25	Norway	80.08
26	Ireland	80.07
27	Jordan	79.92
28	United Kingdom	79.92
29	Greece	79.80
30	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	79.74
31	Austria	79.65
32	Malta	79.59
33	Faroe Islands	79.58
34	Netherlands	79.55
35	Luxembourg	79.48
36	Germany	79.41
37	Belgium	79.37
38	Virgin Islands	79.19
39	Finland	79.13
40	Wallis and Futuna	78.83
41	European Union	78.82
42	Korea, South	78.81
43	Puerto Rico	78.77
44	Bosnia and Herzegovina	78.66
45	Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha	78.60
46	Gibraltar	78.53
47	Denmark	78.47
48	Portugal	78.38
49	United States	78.24
50	Taiwan	78.15
51	Kuwait	77.89
52	Cyprus	77.66
53	Cuba	77.64
54	Panama	77.61
55	Costa Rica	77.54
56	Chile	77.53
57	Libya	77.47
58	British Virgin Islands	77.45
59	Albania	77.22
60	Dominican Republic	77.15
61	Slovenia	77.12
62	Czech Republic	77.01
63	Georgia	76.93
64	French Polynesia	76.91
65	Northern Mariana Islands	76.90
66	Argentina	76.76
67	Saint Lucia	76.65
68	New Caledonia	76.56
69	Uruguay	76.55
70	United Arab Emirates	76.32
71	Mexico	76.26
72	Paraguay	75.99
73	Tunisia	75.99
74	Brunei	75.96
75	Poland	75.85
76	Dominica	75.77
77	Morocco	75.69
78	Turks and Caicos Islands	75.64
79	Slovakia	75.62
80	Croatia	75.58
81	Ecuador	75.52
82	Aruba	75.51
83	Qatar	75.51
84	Bahrain	75.40
85	Sri Lanka	75.30
86	Antigua and Barbuda	75.26
87	Lithuania	75.12
88	Thailand	75.02
89	Macedonia	74.92
90	Lebanon	74.79
91	West Bank	74.78
92	Hungary	74.57
93	China	74.51
94	Cook Islands	74.47
95	Syria	74.46
96	Saint Kitts and Nevis	74.37
97	Colombia	74.31
98	Algeria	74.26
99	Mauritius	74.25
100	Maldives	74.21
101	Barbados	74.14
102	Serbia	74.09
103	Suriname	73.98
104	American Samoa	73.97
105	Oman	73.97
106	Solomon Islands	73.94
107	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	73.90
108	Saudi Arabia	73.87
109	Venezuela	73.77
110	Romania	73.74
111	Gaza Strip	73.68
112	Malaysia	73.55
113	Jamaica	73.48
114	Bulgaria	73.35
115	Seychelles	73.28
116	El Salvador	73.18
117	Estonia	73.08
118	Armenia	72.96
119	Montserrat	72.91
120	Grenada	72.79
121	Latvia	72.42
122	Egypt	72.40
123	Brazil	72.26
124	Uzbekistan	72.24
125	Turkey	72.23
126	Samoa	72.13
127	Vietnam	71.94
128	Nicaragua	71.78
129	Palau	71.51
130	Marshall Islands	71.48
131	Philippines	71.38
132	Micronesia, Federated States of	71.23
133	Moldova	71.09
134	Trinidad and Tobago	71.09
135	Indonesia	71.05
136	Fiji	71.03
137	Tonga	71.03
138	Peru	71.03
139	Belarus	70.92
140	Bahamas, The	70.84
141	Greenland	70.67
142	Guatemala	70.59
143	Honduras	70.51
144	Cape Verde	70.41
145	Iraq	70.25
146	Iran	69.77
147	Kyrgyzstan	69.74
148	Bangladesh	69.44
149	Ukraine	68.46
150	Belize	68.23
151	Turkmenistan	68.20
152	Kazakhstan	68.19
153	Mongolia	67.98
154	Timor-Leste	67.61
155	Bolivia	67.23
156	Azerbaijan	67.01
157	Guyana	66.74
158	Bhutan	66.71
159	India	66.46
160	Russia	66.16
161	World	66.12
162	Papua New Guinea	65.99
163	Nepal	65.81
164	Tajikistan	65.68
165	Pakistan	65.63
166	Nauru	64.99
167	Burma	64.52
168	Tuvalu	64.39
169	Vanuatu	64.33
170	Korea, North	64.13
171	Kiribati	64.03
172	Comoros	63.83
173	Yemen	63.36
174	Mayotte	63.28
175	Madagascar	63.26
176	Sao Tome and Principe	62.73
177	Cambodia	62.28
178	Togo	62.25
179	Haiti	62.17
180	Eritrea	62.15
181	Laos	62.00
182	Equatorial Guinea	61.98
183	Botswana	60.93
184	Mauritania	60.75
185	Western Sahara	60.74
186	Djibouti	60.73
187	Ghana	60.55
188	Benin	59.42
189	Senegal	59.38
190	Kenya	58.82
191	Burundi	58.29
192	Guinea	57.60
193	Rwanda	57.46
194	Liberia	56.58
195	Cote d’Ivoire	56.19
196	Ethiopia	55.80
197	Sierra Leone	55.69
198	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	54.73
199	Congo, Republic of the	54.54
200	Sudan	54.21
201	Gambia, The	54.07
202	Cameroon	54.04
203	Burkina Faso	53.32
204	Niger	52.99
205	Uganda	52.98
206	Gabon	52.75
207	Tanzania	52.49
208	Mali	52.17
209	Zambia	52.03
210	Namibia	51.95
211	Malawi	50.92
212	Lesotho	50.67
213	Somalia	50.00
214	Central African Republic	49.68
215	South Africa	49.20
216	Guinea-Bissau	48.30
217	Chad	47.99
218	Swaziland	47.97
219	Zimbabwe	47.55
220	Nigeria	47.24
221	Afghanistan	44.65
222	Mozambique	41.37
223	Angola	38.48

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