List of countries by life expectancy

2008/9 Schools Wikipedia Selection. Related subjects: Geography

CIA World Factbook 2007 Estimates for Life Expectancy at birth (years).

over 80      77.5-80.0      75.0-77.5      72.5-75.0      70.0-72.5      67.5-70.0      65.0-67.5

60-65      55-60      50-55      45-50      40-45      under 40      not available

This is a list of countries by life expectancy at birth, 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. Several non-sovereign entities are also included in this list. Figures are from the 2008 CIA World Factbook and from the 2006 revision of the United Nations World Population Prospects report, for the period 2005- 2010 . Only countries/territories with a population of 100,000 or more in 2007 are included in the United Nations list.

The life expectancy (both sexes, at birth) of the world is 65.82 years (63.89 years for males and 67.84 years for females) for 2007 according to CIA World Factbook 2008 and 67.2 years (65.0 years for males and 69.5 years for females) for 2005-2010 according to United Nations World Population Prospects 2006. Life expectancy ranges from 83.52 years in Andorra to 32.23 years in Swaziland. Many of the countries with the lowest life expectancies, namely Swaziland, Botswana, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, Zambia, Malawi, Central African Republic, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau, are suffering from very high rates of HIV/AIDS infection, with adult prevalence rates ranging from 10 to 38.8 percent . Also note that in countries with high infant mortality rates, the life expectancy at birth will be lower and may not reflect the life expectancy a person who has survived his/her first year of life would have.

List by the CIA World Factbook (2007 estimates)

Rank by UN member state	Rank by entity	Entity	Overall life expectancy at birth	Male life expectancy at birth	Female life expectancy at birth
1	1	Andorra	83.52	80.62	86.23
	2	Macau ( PRC)	82.27	79.44	85.25
2	3	Japan	82.02	78.67	85.56
3	4	San Marino	81.8	78.33	85.57
3	4	Singapore	81.8	79.21	84.59
	6	Hong Kong ( PRC)	81.68	78.99	84.6
	7	Gibraltar ( UK)	80.9	78.5	83.3
5	8	Sweden	80.63	78.39	83
6	9	Australia	80.62	77.8	83.59
6	10	Switzerland	80.62	77.75	83.63
8	11	France ( metropolitan)	80.59	77.35	84
	12	Guernsey ( UK)	80.53	77.53	83.64
9	13	Iceland	80.43	78.33	82.62
10	14	Canada	80.34	76.98	83.86
	15	Cayman Islands ( UK)	80.2	77.57	82.87
11	16	Italy	79.94	77.01	83.07
12	17	Monaco	79.82	75.99	83.85
13	18	Liechtenstein	79.81	76.24	83.4
14	19	Spain	79.78	76.46	83.32
14	19	Norway	79.78	76.46	83.32
14	19	Israel	79.78	76.46	83.32
	22	Jersey ( UK)	79.51	77.02	82.2
	23	Faroe Islands ( Denmark)	79.49	76.06	82.93
17	24	Greece	79.38	76.85	82.06
18	25	Austria	79.21	76.32	82.26
	26	U.S. Virgin Islands ( US)	79.2	75.4	83.22
19	27	Malta	79.15	76.95	81.47
20	28	Netherlands	79.11	76.52	81.82
21	29	Luxembourg	79.03	75.76	82.52
	30	Montserrat ( UK)	79	76.8	81.31
22	31	New Zealand	78.96	75.97	82.08
23	32	Germany	78.95	75.96	82.11
24	33	Belgium	78.92	75.75	82.24
	34	Guam ( US)	78.76	75.69	82.01
	34	Saint Pierre and Miquelon ( France)	78.76	76.41	81.23
25	36	United Kingdom	78.7	76.23	81.3
	36	European Union	78.7	75.6	82
26	38	Finland	78.66	75.15	82.31
	39	Isle of Man ( UK)	78.64	75.3	82.17
27	40	Jordan	78.55	76.04	81.22
	41	Puerto Rico ( US)	78.54	74.6	82.67
28	42	Bosnia and Herzegovina	78.17	74.57	82.03
	43	Bermuda ( UK)	78.13	76	80.29
	44	Saint Helena ( UK)	78.09	75.19	81.15
29	45	United States	78.06	75.15	80.97
30	46	Cyprus	77.98	75.6	80.49
31	47	Denmark	77.96	75.65	80.41
32	48	Ireland	77.9	75.27	80.7
33	49	Portugal	77.87	74.6	81.36
34	50	Albania	77.6	74.95	80.53
	51	Taiwan	77.56	74.65	80.74
	52	Anguilla ( UK)	77.46	74.53	80.49
35	53	Kuwait	77.36	76.25	78.52
36	54	South Korea	77.23	73.81	80.93
37	55	Costa Rica	77.21	74.61	79.94
38	56	Cuba	77.08	74.85	79.43
39	57	Chile	76.96	73.69	80.4
40	58	Libya	76.88	74.64	79.23
	59	British Virgin Islands ( UK)	76.86	75.71	78.07
41	60	Ecuador	76.62	73.74	79.63
42	61	Slovenia	76.53	72.84	80.47
43	62	Czech Republic	76.42	73.14	79.88
44	63	Argentina	76.32	72.6	80.24
	64	French Polynesia ( France)	76.31	73.88	78.86
45	65	Georgia	76.3	73	80.07
	66	Northern Mariana Islands ( US)	76.29	73.7	79.05
	67	American Samoa ( US)	76.25	72.69	80.02
	68	Netherlands Antilles ( Netherlands)	76.24	73.96	78.65
46	69	Uruguay	75.93	72.68	79.3
47	70	Saudi Arabia	75.88	73.85	78.02
48	71	United Arab Emirates	75.69	73.16	78.35
49	72	Mexico	75.63	72.84	78.56
50	73	Paraguay	75.34	72.78	78.02
50	73	Tunisia	75.34	73.6	77.21
52	75	Brunei	75.3	73.12	77.59
53	76	Panama	75.19	72.69	77.8
53	76	Poland	75.19	71.18	79.44
55	78	Dominica	75.1	72.17	78.18
56	79	Serbia	75.06	72.49	77.86
57	80	Slovakia	74.95	71	79.11
	80	Turks and Caicos Islands ( UK)	74.95	72.69	77.32
58	82	Croatia	74.9	71.26	78.75
	83	Aruba ( Netherlands)	74.83	71.8	77.91
59	84	Sri Lanka	74.8	72.81	76.88
60	85	Bahrain	74.68	72.18	77.25
	86	New Caledonia ( France)	74.5	71.52	77.63
61	87	Lithuania	74.44	69.46	79.69
62	88	Macedonia	74.21	71.73	76.88
63	89	Qatar	74.14	71.6	76.82
64	90	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	74.09	72.21	76.04
65	91	Saint Lucia	74.08	70.53	77.88
66	92	Oman	73.62	71.37	75.99
67	93	Algeria	73.52	71.91	75.21
	94	West Bank	73.46	71.68	75.35
68	95	Venezuela	73.28	70.24	76.48
69	96	Suriname	73.23	70.52	76.12
70	97	Solomon Islands	73.16	70.64	75.81
71	98	Lebanon	73.15	70.67	75.77
72	99	Jamaica	73.12	71.43	74.9
73	100	Dominican Republic	73.07	71.34	74.87
74	101	Barbados	73	71.02	75.01
75	102	Hungary	72.92	68.73	77.38
76	103	Mauritius	72.88	68.92	76.9
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