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Field Listing :: 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.

Country Comparison to the World

Country	Life expectancy at birth(years)


Afghanistan	total population: 45.02 years male: 44.79 years female: 45.25 years (2011 est.)


Albania	total population: 77.41 years male: 74.82 years female: 80.3 years (2011 est.)


Algeria	total population: 74.5 years male: 72.78 years female: 76.31 years (2011 est.)


American Samoa	total population: 74.21 years male: 71.27 years female: 77.32 years (2011 est.)


Andorra	total population: 82.43 years male: 80.35 years female: 84.64 years (2011 est.)


Angola	total population: 38.76 years male: 37.74 years female: 39.83 years (2011 est.)


Anguilla	total population: 80.87 years male: 78.32 years female: 83.51 years (2011 est.)


Antigua and Barbuda	total population: 75.48 years male: 73.47 years female: 77.59 years (2011 est.)


Argentina	total population: 76.95 years male: 73.71 years female: 80.36 years (2011 est.)


Armenia	total population: 73.23 years male: 69.59 years female: 77.31 years (2011 est.)


Aruba	total population: 75.72 years male: 72.68 years female: 78.82 years (2011 est.)


Australia	total population: 81.81 years male: 79.4 years female: 84.35 years (2011 est.)


Austria	total population: 79.78 years male: 76.87 years female: 82.84 years (2011 est.)


Azerbaijan	total population: 67.36 years male: 63.2 years female: 72.01 years (2011 est.)


Bahamas, The	total population: 71.18 years male: 68.8 years female: 73.63 years (2011 est.)


Bahrain	total population: 78.15 years male: 76.03 years female: 80.33 years (2011 est.)


Bangladesh	total population: 69.75 years male: 67.93 years female: 71.65 years (2011 est.)


Barbados	total population: 74.34 years male: 72.07 years female: 76.64 years (2011 est.)


Belarus	total population: 71.2 years male: 65.57 years female: 77.18 years (2011 est.)


Belgium	total population: 79.51 years male: 76.35 years female: 82.81 years (2011 est.)


Belize	total population: 68.23 years male: 66.53 years female: 70.02 years (2011 est.)


Benin	total population: 59.84 years male: 58.61 years female: 61.14 years (2011 est.)


Bermuda	total population: 80.71 years male: 77.49 years female: 83.99 years (2011 est.)


Bhutan	total population: 67.3 years male: 66.46 years female: 68.19 years (2011 est.)


Bolivia	total population: 67.57 years male: 64.84 years female: 70.42 years (2011 est.)


Bosnia and Herzegovina	total population: 78.81 years male: 75.25 years female: 82.63 years (2011 est.)


Botswana	total population: 58.05 years male: 58.78 years female: 57.3 years (2011 est.)


Brazil	total population: 72.53 years male: 68.97 years female: 76.27 years (2011 est.)


British Virgin Islands	total population: 77.63 years male: 76.32 years female: 78.99 years (2011 est.)


Brunei	total population: 76.17 years male: 73.91 years female: 78.53 years (2011 est.)


Bulgaria	total population: 73.59 years male: 69.99 years female: 77.41 years (2011 est.)


Burkina Faso	total population: 53.7 years male: 51.75 years female: 55.71 years (2011 est.)


Burma	total population: 64.88 years male: 62.57 years female: 67.33 years (2011 est.)


Burundi	total population: 58.78 years male: 57.09 years female: 60.52 years (2011 est.)


Cambodia	total population: 62.67 years male: 60.31 years female: 65.13 years (2011 est.)


Cameroon	total population: 54.39 years male: 53.52 years female: 55.28 years (2011 est.)


Canada	total population: 81.38 years male: 78.81 years female: 84.1 years (2011 est.)


Cape Verde	total population: 70.7 years male: 68.51 years female: 72.96 years (2011 est.)


Cayman Islands	total population: 80.68 years male: 78.02 years female: 83.39 years (2011 est.)


Central African Republic	total population: 50.07 years male: 48.84 years female: 51.35 years (2011 est.)


Chad	total population: 48.33 years male: 47.28 years female: 49.43 years (2011 est.)


Chile	total population: 77.7 years male: 74.44 years female: 81.13 years (2011 est.)


China	total population: 74.68 years male: 72.68 years female: 76.94 years (2011 est.)


Christmas Island	total population: NA male: NA female: NA


Cocos (Keeling) Islands	total population: NA male: NA female: NA


Colombia	total population: 74.55 years male: 71.27 years female: 78.03 years (2011 est.)


Comoros	total population: 64.2 years male: 61.76 years female: 66.72 years (2011 est.)


Congo, Democratic Republic of the	total population: 55.33 years male: 53.9 years female: 56.8 years (2011 est.)


Congo, Republic of the	total population: 54.91 years male: 53.62 years female: 56.25 years (2011 est.)


Cook Islands	total population: 74.7 years male: 71.91 years female: 77.62 years (2011 est.)


Costa Rica	total population: 77.72 years male: 75.1 years female: 80.46 years (2011 est.)


Cote d'Ivoire	total population: 56.78 years male: 55.79 years female: 57.81 years (2011 est.)


Croatia	total population: 75.79 years male: 72.17 years female: 79.6 years (2011 est.)


Cuba	total population: 77.7 years male: 75.46 years female: 80.08 years (2011 est.)


Curacao	total: NA males: 72.4 years females: 80.1 years (2009)


Cyprus	total population: 77.82 years male: 75.04 years female: 80.74 years (2011 est.)


Czech Republic	total population: 77.19 years male: 73.93 years female: 80.66 years (2011 est.)


Denmark	total population: 78.63 years male: 76.25 years female: 81.14 years (2011 est.)


Djibouti	total population: 61.14 years male: 58.69 years female: 63.66 years (2011 est.)


Dominica	total population: 75.98 years male: 73.03 years female: 79.08 years (2011 est.)


Dominican Republic	total population: 77.31 years male: 75.16 years female: 79.55 years (2011 est.)


Ecuador	total population: 75.73 years male: 72.79 years female: 78.82 years (2011 est.)


Egypt	total population: 72.66 years male: 70.07 years female: 75.38 years (2011 est.)


El Salvador	total population: 73.44 years male: 70.16 years female: 76.87 years (2011 est.)


Equatorial Guinea	total population: 62.37 years male: 61.4 years female: 63.36 years (2011 est.)


Eritrea	total population: 62.52 years male: 60.4 years female: 64.69 years (2011 est.)


Estonia	total population: 73.33 years male: 68.02 years female: 78.97 years (2011 est.)


Ethiopia	total population: 56.19 years male: 53.64 years female: 58.81 years (2011 est.)


European Union	total population: 78.82 years male: 75.7 years female: 82.13 years (2010 est.)


Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	total population: NA male: NA female: NA


Faroe Islands	total population: 79.72 years male: 77.25 years female: 82.35 years (2011 est.)


Fiji	total population: 71.31 years male: 68.73 years female: 74.03 years (2011 est.)


Finland	total population: 79.27 years male: 75.79 years female: 82.89 years (2011 est.)


France	total population: 81.19 years male: 78.02 years female: 84.54 years (2011 est.)


French Polynesia	total population: 77.1 years male: 74.62 years female: 79.7 years (2011 est.)


Gabon	total population: 52.49 years male: 51.78 years female: 53.22 years (2011 est.)


Gambia, The	total population: 63.51 years male: 61.23 years female: 65.86 years (2011 est.)


Gaza Strip	total population: 73.92 years male: 72.27 years female: 75.68 years (2011 est.)


Georgia	total population: 77.12 years male: 73.8 years female: 80.82 years (2011 est.)


Germany	total population: 80.07 years male: 77.82 years female: 82.44 years (2011 est.)


Ghana	total population: 61 years male: 59.78 years female: 62.25 years (2011 est.)


Gibraltar	total population: 78.68 years male: 75.84 years female: 81.72 years (2011 est.)


Greece	total population: 79.92 years male: 77.36 years female: 82.65 years (2011 est.)


Greenland	total population: 70.96 years male: 68.33 years female: 73.74 years (2011 est.)


Grenada	total population: 73.04 years male: 70.51 years female: 75.82 years (2011 est.)


Guam	total population: 78.34 years male: 75.3 years female: 81.57 years (2011 est.)


Guatemala	total population: 70.88 years male: 69.03 years female: 72.83 years (2011 est.)


Guernsey	total population: 82.16 years male: 79.5 years female: 84.95 years (2011 est.)


Guinea	total population: 58.11 years male: 56.63 years female: 59.64 years (2011 est.)


Guinea-Bissau	total population: 48.7 years male: 46.8 years female: 50.67 years (2011 est.)


Guyana	total population: 67.08 years male: 63.27 years female: 71.07 years (2011 est.)


Haiti	total population: 62.17 years male: 60.84 years female: 63.53 years note: the preliminary 2011 numbers differ significantly from those of 2010, which were strongly influenced by the demographic effect of the January 2010 earthquake; the latest figures more closely correspond to those of 2009 (2011 est.)


Honduras	total population: 70.61 years male: 68.93 years female: 72.37 years (2011 est.)


Hong Kong	total population: 82.04 years male: 79.32 years female: 84.97 years (2011 est.)


Hungary	total population: 74.79 years male: 71.04 years female: 78.76 years (2011 est.)


Iceland	total population: 80.9 years male: 78.72 years female: 83.17 years (2011 est.)


India	total population: 66.8 years male: 65.77 years female: 67.95 years (2011 est.)


Indonesia	total population: 71.33 years male: 68.8 years female: 73.99 years (2011 est.)


Iran	total population: 70.06 years male: 68.58 years female: 71.61 years (2011 est.)


Iraq	total population: 70.55 years male: 69.15 years female: 72.02 years (2011 est.)


Ireland	total population: 80.19 years male: 77.96 years female: 82.55 years (2011 est.)


Isle of Man	total population: 80.64 years male: 79.09 years female: 82.32 years (2011 est.)


Israel	total population: 80.96 years male: 78.79 years female: 83.24 years (2011 est.)


Italy	total population: 81.77 years male: 79.16 years female: 84.53 years (2011 est.)


Jamaica	total population: 73.45 years male: 71.79 years female: 75.19 years (2011 est.)


Japan	total population: 82.25 years male: 78.96 years female: 85.72 years (2011 est.)


Jersey	total population: 81.38 years male: 78.96 years female: 83.94 years (2011 est.)


Jordan	total population: 80.05 years male: 78.73 years female: 81.45 years (2011 est.)


Kazakhstan	total population: 68.51 years male: 63.24 years female: 74.08 years (2011 est.)


Kenya	total population: 59.48 years male: 58.91 years female: 60.07 years (2011 est.)


Kiribati	total population: 64.39 years male: 62.03 years female: 66.88 years (2011 est.)


Korea, North	total population: 68.89 years male: 65.03 years female: 72.93 years (2011 est.)


Korea, South	total population: 79.05 years male: 75.84 years female: 82.49 years (2011 est.)


Kuwait	total population: 77.09 years male: 75.95 years female: 78.3 years (2011 est.)


Kyrgyzstan	total population: 70.04 years male: 66.04 years female: 74.24 years (2011 est.)


Laos	total population: 62.39 years male: 60.5 years female: 64.36 years (2011 est.)


Latvia	total population: 72.68 years male: 67.56 years female: 78.07 years (2011 est.)


Lebanon	total population: 75.01 years male: 73.48 years female: 76.62 years (2011 est.)


Lesotho	total population: 51.63 years male: 51.51 years female: 51.76 years (2011 est.)


Liberia	total population: 57 years male: 55.44 years female: 58.6 years (2011 est.)


Libya	total population: 77.65 years male: 75.34 years female: 80.08 years (2011 est.)


Liechtenstein	total population: 80.31 years male: 76.86 years female: 83.77 years (2011 est.)


Lithuania	total population: 75.34 years male: 70.48 years female: 80.48 years (2011 est.)


Luxembourg	total population: 79.61 years male: 76.36 years female: 83.08 years (2011 est.)


Macau	total population: 84.41 years male: 81.45 years female: 87.52 years (2011 est.)


Macedonia	total population: 75.14 years male: 72.61 years female: 77.87 years (2011 est.)


Madagascar	total population: 63.63 years male: 61.62 years female: 65.7 years (2011 est.)


Malawi	total population: 51.7 years male: 50.93 years female: 52.48 years (2011 est.)


Malaysia	total population: 73.79 years male: 71.05 years female: 76.73 years (2011 est.)


Maldives	total population: 74.45 years male: 72.22 years female: 76.8 years (2011 est.)


Mali	total population: 52.61 years male: 51.01 years female: 54.26 years (2011 est.)


Malta	total population: 79.72 years male: 77.45 years female: 82.12 years (2011 est.)


Marshall Islands	total population: 71.76 years male: 69.67 years female: 73.95 years (2011 est.)


Mauritania	total population: 61.14 years male: 58.94 years female: 63.41 years (2011 est.)


Mauritius	total population: 74.48 years male: 71.01 years female: 78.12 years (2011 est.)


Mexico	total population: 76.47 years male: 73.65 years female: 79.43 years (2011 est.)


Micronesia, Federated States of	total population: 71.52 years male: 69.58 years female: 73.55 years (2011 est.)


Moldova	total population: 71.37 years male: 67.68 years female: 75.28 years (2011 est.)


Monaco	total population: 89.73 years male: 85.77 years female: 93.84 years (2011 est.)


Mongolia	total population: 68.31 years male: 65.85 years female: 70.89 years (2011 est.)


Montserrat	total population: 73.16 years male: 74.99 years female: 71.24 years (2011 est.)


Morocco	total population: 75.9 years male: 72.84 years female: 79.11 years (2011 est.)


Mozambique	total population: 51.78 years male: 51.01 years female: 52.57 years (2011 est.)


Namibia	total population: 52.19 years male: 52.48 years female: 51.89 years (2011 est.)


Nauru	total population: 65.35 years male: 61.27 years female: 68.75 years (2011 est.)


Nepal	total population: 66.16 years male: 64.94 years female: 67.44 years (2011 est.)


Netherlands	total population: 79.68 years male: 77.06 years female: 82.44 years (2011 est.)


New Caledonia	total population: 76.75 years male: 72.67 years female: 81.03 years (2011 est.)


New Zealand	total population: 80.59 years male: 78.61 years female: 82.67 years (2011 est.)


Nicaragua	total population: 71.9 years male: 69.82 years female: 74.09 years (2011 est.)


Niger	total population: 53.4 years male: 52.13 years female: 54.7 years (2011 est.)


Nigeria	total population: 47.56 years male: 46.76 years female: 48.41 years (2011 est.)


Niue	total population: NA male: NA female: NA


Norfolk Island	total population: NA male: NA female: NA


Northern Mariana Islands	total population: 77.08 years male: 74.45 years female: 79.87 years (2011 est.)


Norway	total population: 80.2 years male: 77.53 years female: 83.02 years (2011 est.)


Oman	total population: 74.22 years male: 72.38 years female: 76.16 years (2011 est.)


Pakistan	total population: 65.99 years male: 64.18 years female: 67.9 years (2011 est.)


Palau	total population: 71.78 years male: 68.63 years female: 75.12 years (2011 est.)


Panama	total population: 77.79 years male: 75.02 years female: 80.68 years (2011 est.)


Papua New Guinea	total population: 66.24 years male: 64.02 years female: 68.56 years (2011 est.)


Paraguay	total population: 76.19 years male: 73.59 years female: 78.93 years (2011 est.)


Peru	total population: 72.47 years male: 70.55 years female: 74.48 years (2011 est.)


Philippines	total population: 71.66 years male: 68.72 years female: 74.74 years (2011 est.)


Pitcairn Islands	total population: NA male: NA female: NA


Poland	total population: 76.05 years male: 72.1 years female: 80.25 years (2011 est.)


Portugal	total population: 78.54 years male: 75.28 years female: 82.01 years (2011 est.)


Puerto Rico	total population: 78.92 years male: 75.31 years female: 82.71 years (2011 est.)


Qatar	total population: 75.7 years male: 73.96 years female: 77.53 years (2011 est.)


Romania	total population: 73.98 years male: 70.5 years female: 77.66 years (2011 est.)


Russia	total population: 66.29 years male: 59.8 years female: 73.17 years (2011 est.)


Rwanda	total population: 58.02 years male: 56.57 years female: 59.52 years (2011 est.)


Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha	total population: 78.76 years male: 75.83 years female: 81.83 years (2011 est.)


Saint Kitts and Nevis	total population: 74.6 years male: 72.25 years female: 77.01 years (2011 est.)


Saint Lucia	total population: 76.84 years male: 74.15 years female: 79.68 years (2011 est.)


Saint Pierre and Miquelon	total population: 79.87 years male: 77.61 years female: 82.26 years (2011 est.)


Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	total population: 74.15 years male: 72.26 years female: 76.09 years (2011 est.)


Samoa	total population: 72.4 years male: 69.55 years female: 75.39 years (2011 est.)


San Marino	total population: 83.01 years male: 80.5 years female: 85.74 years (2011 est.)


Sao Tome and Principe	total population: 63.11 years male: 61.93 years female: 64.33 years (2011 est.)


Saudi Arabia	total population: 74.11 years male: 72.15 years female: 76.16 years (2011 est.)


Senegal	total population: 59.78 years male: 57.85 years female: 61.77 years (2011 est.)


Serbia	total population: 74.32 years male: 71.49 years female: 77.34 years (2011 est.)


Seychelles	total population: 73.52 years male: 68.87 years female: 78.32 years (2011 est.)


Sierra Leone	total population: 56.13 years male: 53.69 years female: 58.65 years (2011 est.)


Singapore	total population: 82.14 years male: 79.53 years female: 84.96 years (2011 est.)


Sint Maarten	total population: NA male: 73.1 years female: 78.2 years (2009)


Slovakia	total population: 75.83 years male: 71.92 years female: 79.93 years (2011 est.)


Slovenia	total population: 77.3 years male: 73.64 years female: 81.2 years (2011 est.)


Solomon Islands	total population: 74.18 years male: 71.6 years female: 76.89 years (2011 est.)


Somalia	total population: 50.4 years male: 48.49 years female: 52.37 years (2011 est.)


South Africa	total population: 49.33 years male: 50.24 years female: 48.39 years (2011 est.)


Spain	total population: 81.17 years male: 78.16 years female: 84.37 years (2011 est.)


Sri Lanka	total population: 75.73 years male: 72.21 years female: 79.38 years (2011 est.)


Sudan	total population: 55.42 years male: 54.18 years female: 56.71 years (2011 est.)


Suriname	total population: 74.22 years male: 71.47 years female: 77.16 years (2011 est.)


Svalbard	total population: NA male: NA female: NA


Swaziland	total population: 48.66 years male: 48.93 years female: 48.39 years (2011 est.)


Sweden	total population: 81.07 years male: 78.78 years female: 83.51 years (2011 est.)


Switzerland	total population: 81.07 years male: 78.24 years female: 84.05 years (2011 est.)


Syria	total population: 74.69 years male: 72.31 years female: 77.21 years (2011 est.)


Taiwan	total population: 78.32 years male: 75.5 years female: 81.36 years (2011 est.)


Tajikistan	total population: 66.03 years male: 62.97 years female: 69.25 years (2011 est.)


Tanzania	total population: 52.85 years male: 51.34 years female: 54.42 years (2011 est.)


Thailand	total population: 73.6 years male: 71.24 years female: 76.08 years (2011 est.)


Timor-Leste	total population: 67.95 years male: 65.54 years female: 70.47 years (2011 est.)


Togo	total population: 62.71 years male: 60.19 years female: 65.3 years (2011 est.)


Tokelau	total population: NA male: NA female: NA


Tonga	total population: 75.16 years male: 73.79 years female: 76.58 years (2011 est.)


Trinidad and Tobago	total population: 71.37 years male: 68.51 years female: 74.3 years (2011 est.)


Tunisia	total population: 75.01 years male: 73 years female: 77.17 years (2011 est.)


Turkey	total population: 72.5 years male: 70.61 years female: 74.49 years (2011 est.)


Turkmenistan	total population: 68.52 years male: 65.57 years female: 71.63 years (2011 est.)


Turks and Caicos Islands	total population: 79.11 years male: 76.39 years female: 81.97 years (2011 est.)


Tuvalu	total population: 64.75 years male: 62.7 years female: 66.9 years (2011 est.)


Uganda	total population: 53.24 years male: 52.17 years female: 54.33 years (2011 est.)


Ukraine	total population: 68.58 years male: 62.79 years female: 74.75 years (2011 est.)


United Arab Emirates	total population: 76.51 years male: 73.94 years female: 79.22 years (2011 est.)


United Kingdom	total population: 80.05 years male: 77.95 years female: 82.25 years (2011 est.)


United States	total population: 78.37 years male: 75.92 years female: 80.93 years (2011 est.)


Uruguay	total population: 76.21 years male: 73.07 years female: 79.46 years (2011 est.)


Uzbekistan	total population: 72.51 years male: 69.48 years female: 75.71 years (2011 est.)


Vanuatu	total population: 64.7 years male: 63.04 years female: 66.44 years (2011 est.)


Venezuela	total population: 73.93 years male: 70.84 years female: 77.17 years (2011 est.)


Vietnam	total population: 72.18 years male: 69.72 years female: 74.92 years (2011 est.)


Virgin Islands	total population: 79.33 years male: 76.29 years female: 82.55 years (2011 est.)


Wallis and Futuna	total population: 78.98 years male: 76 years female: 82.11 years (2011 est.)


West Bank	total population: 75.01 years male: 72.97 years female: 77.17 years (2011 est.)


Western Sahara	total population: 61.13 years male: 58.94 years female: 63.41 years (2011 est.)


World	total population: 67.07 years male: 65.21 years female: 69.05 years (2011 est.)


Yemen	total population: 63.74 years male: 61.7 years female: 65.87 years (2011 est.)


Zambia	total population: 52.36 years male: 51.13 years female: 53.63 years (2011 est.)


Zimbabwe	total population: 49.64 years male: 49.93 years female: 49.34 years (2011 est.)

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