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CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007
DEFINITION
The average number of years to be lived by a females in this nation 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.
Health Statistics > Life expectancy at birth > Female (most recent) by country
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| Rank |
Countries
|
Amount
(top to bottom)
|
| #1 | Andorra: |
86.62 years
| |
| #2 | San Marino: |
85.57 years
| |
| #3 | Japan: |
85.56 years
| |
| #4 | Macau: |
85.25 years
| |
| #5 | Hong Kong: |
84.6 years
| |
| #6 | Singapore: |
84.59 years
| |
| #7 | France: |
84 years
| |
| #8 | Canada: |
83.86 years
| |
| #9 | Monaco: |
83.85 years
| |
| #10 | Guernsey: |
83.64 years
| |
| #11 | Australia: |
83.63 years
| |
| #12 | Switzerland: |
83.59 years
| |
| #13 | Liechtenstein: |
83.4 years
| |
| #14 | Spain: |
83.32 years
| |
| #15 | Virgin Islands: |
83.22 years
| |
| #16 | Italy: |
83.07 years
| |
| #17 | Sweden: |
83 years
| |
| #18 | Gibraltar: |
82.96 years
| |
| #19 | Faroe Islands: |
82.93 years
| |
| #20 | Cayman Islands: |
82.87 years
| |
| #21 | Puerto Rico: |
82.67 years
| |
| #22 | Iceland: |
82.62 years
| |
| #23 | Luxembourg: |
82.52 years
| |
| #24 | Norway: |
82.46 years
| |
| #25 | Finland: |
82.31 years
| |
| #26 | Austria: |
82.26 years
| |
| #27 | Belgium: |
82.24 years
| |
| #28 | Jersey: |
82.2 years
| |
| #29 | Man, Isle of: |
82.17 years
| |
| #30 | Germany: |
82.11 years
| |
| #31 | New Zealand: |
82.08 years
| |
| #32 | Greece: |
82.06 years
| |
| #33 | Bosnia and Herzegovina: |
82.03 years
| |
| #34 | Guam: |
82.01 years
| |
| #35 | Israel: |
81.85 years
| |
| #36 | Netherlands: |
81.82 years
| |
| #37 | Malta: |
81.47 years
| |
| #38 | Portugal: |
81.36 years
| |
| #39 | Montserrat: |
81.31 years
| |
| #40 | United Kingdom: |
81.3 years
| |
| #41 | Saint Pierre and Miquelon: |
81.23 years
| |
| #42 | Jordan: |
81.22 years
| |
| #43 | Saint Helena: |
81.15 years
| |
| #44 | United States: |
80.97 years
| |
| #45 | Korea, South: |
80.93 years
| |
| #46 | Taiwan: |
80.74 years
| |
| #47 | Ireland: |
80.7 years
| |
| #48 | Albania: |
80.53 years
| |
| #49 | Anguilla: |
80.49 years
| |
| #50 | Cyprus: |
80.49 years
| |
| #51 | Slovenia: |
80.47 years
| |
| #52 | Denmark: |
80.41 years
| |
| #53 | Chile: |
80.4 years
| |
| #54 | Bermuda: |
80.29 years
| |
| #55 | Argentina: |
80.24 years
| |
| #56 | Georgia: |
80.07 years
| |
| #57 | American Samoa: |
80.02 years
| |
| #58 | Costa Rica: |
79.94 years
| |
| #59 | Czech Republic: |
79.88 years
| |
| #60 | Lithuania: |
79.69 years
| |
| #61 | Ecuador: |
79.63 years
| |
| #62 | Poland: |
79.44 years
| |
| #63 | Cuba: |
79.43 years
| |
| #64 | Uruguay: |
79.3 years
| |
| #65 | Libya: |
79.23 years
| |
| #66 | Slovakia: |
79.11 years
| |
| #67 | Northern Mariana Islands: |
79.05 years
| |
| #68 | French Polynesia: |
78.86 years
| |
| #69 | Croatia: |
78.75 years
| |
| #70 | Netherlands Antilles: |
78.65 years
| |
| #71 | Mexico: |
78.56 years
| |
| #72 | Kuwait: |
78.52 years
| |
| #73 | United Arab Emirates: |
78.35 years
| |
| #74 | Dominica: |
78.18 years
| |
| #75 | British Virgin Islands: |
78.07 years
| |
| #76 | Estonia: |
78.07 years
| |
| #77 | Paraguay: |
78.02 years
| |
| #78 | Saudi Arabia: |
78.02 years
| |
| #79 | Aruba: |
77.91 years
| |
| #80 | Saint Lucia: |
77.88 years
| |
| #81 | Seychelles: |
77.86 years
| |
| #82 | Serbia and Montenegro: |
77.86 years
| |
| #83 | Panama: |
77.8 years
| |
| #84 | New Caledonia: |
77.63 years
| |
| #85 | Brunei: |
77.59 years
| |
| #86 | Hungary: |
77.38 years
| |
| #87 | Turks and Caicos Islands: |
77.32 years
| |
| #88 | Bahrain: |
77.25 years
| |
| #89 | Tunisia: |
77.21 years
| |
| #90 | Latvia: |
77.1 years
| |
| #91 | Mauritius: |
76.9 years
| |
| #92 | Macedonia, Republic of: |
76.88 years
| |
| #93 | Sri Lanka: |
76.88 years
| |
| #94 | Qatar: |
76.82 years
| |
| #95 | Venezuela: |
76.48 years
| |
| #96 | Bulgaria: |
76.4 years
| |
| #97 | Brazil: |
76.38 years
| |
| #98 | Armenia: |
76.29 years
| |
| #99 | Colombia: |
76.24 years
| |
| #100 | Belarus: |
76.14 years
| |
| #101 | Suriname: |
76.12 years
| |
| #102 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: |
76.04 years
| |
| #103 | Oman: |
75.99 years
| |
| #104 | Solomon Islands: |
75.81 years
| |
| #105 | Lebanon: |
75.77 years
| |
| #106 | Saint Kitts and Nevis: |
75.69 years
| |
| #107 | Malaysia: |
75.65 years
| |
| #108 | Romania: |
75.62 years
| |
| #109 | El Salvador: |
75.57 years
| |
| #110 | Turkey: |
75.46 years
| |
| #111 | West Bank: |
75.35 years
| |
| #112 | Algeria: |
75.21 years
| |
| #113 | Barbados: |
75.01 years
| |
| #114 | Thailand: |
74.98 years
| |
| #115 | Antigua and Barbuda: |
74.94 years
| |
| #116 | Jamaica: |
74.9 years
| |
| #117 | Dominican Republic: |
74.87 years
| |
| #118 | China: |
74.82 years
| |
| #119 | Korea, North: |
74.8 years
| |
| #120 | Cape Verde: |
74.44 years
| |
| #121 | Samoa: |
74.26 years
| |
| #122 | Egypt: |
74.22 years
| |
| #123 | Moldova: |
74.11 years
| |
| #124 | Vietnam: |
74.08 years
| |
| #125 | Palau: |
74.06 years
| |
| #126 | Ukraine: |
73.96 years
| |
| #127 | Greenland: |
73.9 years
| |
| #128 | Morocco: |
73.67 years
| |
| #129 | Philippines: |
73.55 years
| |
| #130 | Gaza Strip: |
73.54 years
| |
| #131 | Nicaragua: |
73.13 years
| |
| #132 | Russia: |
73.03 years
| |
| #133 | Kyrgyzstan: |
73.02 years
| |
| #134 | Kazakhstan: |
72.84 years
| |
| #135 | Fiji: |
72.76 years
| |
| #136 | Indonesia: |
72.76 years
| |
| #137 | Tonga: |
72.76 years
| |
| #138 | Marshall Islands: |
72.71 years
| |
| #139 | Micronesia, Federated States of: |
72.28 years
| |
| #140 | Iran: |
72.07 years
| |
| #141 | Peru: |
72.04 years
| |
| #142 | Syria: |
72.02 years
| |
| #143 | Turkmenistan: |
71.54 years
| |
| #144 | Guatemala: |
71.52 years
| |
| #145 | India: |
71.17 years
| |
| #146 | Honduras: |
70.99 years
| |
| #147 | Tuvalu: |
70.99 years
| |
| #148 | Azerbaijan: |
70.66 years
| |
| #149 | Iraq: |
70.65 years
| |
| #150 | Belize: |
70.16 years
| |
| #151 | Mongolia: |
69.48 years
| |
| #152 | São Tomé and Príncipe: |
69.3 years
| |
| #153 | East Timor: |
69.04 years
| |
| #154 | Bahamas, The: |
69.02 years
| |
| #155 | Bolivia: |
68.97 years
| |
| #156 | Guyana: |
68.95 years
| |
| #157 | Uzbekistan: |
68.56 years
| |
| #158 | Papua New Guinea: |
67.95 years
| |
| #159 | Trinidad and Tobago: |
67.87 years
| |
| #160 | Tajikistan: |
67.78 years
| |
| #161 | Nauru: |
67.21 years
| |
| #162 | Grenada: |
67.05 years
| |
| #163 | Maldives: |
66.19 years
| |
| #164 | Kiribati: |
65.63 years
| |
| #165 | Comoros: |
65.15 years
| |
| #166 | Vanuatu: |
64.84 years
| |
| #167 | Burma: |
64.83 years
| |
| #168 | Pakistan: |
64.83 years
| |
| #169 | Yemen: |
64.54 years
| |
| #170 | Mayotte: |
64.45 years
| |
| #171 | Madagascar: |
64.1 years
| |
| #172 | Cambodia: |
63.4 years
| |
| #173 | Bangladesh: |
62.86 years
| |
| #174 | Eritrea: |
61.28 years
| |
| #175 | Nepal: |
60.33 years
| |
| #176 | Togo: |
59.96 years
| |
| #177 | Ghana: |
59.95 years
| |
| #178 | Congo, Democratic Republic of the: |
59.5 years
| |
| #179 | Haiti: |
58.75 years
| |
| #180 | Senegal: |
58.09 years
| |
| #181 | Laos: |
58.04 years
| |
| #182 | Gambia, The: |
56.46 years
| |
| #183 | Mauritania: |
55.85 years
| |
| #184 | Kenya: |
55.37 years
| |
| #185 | Gabon: |
55.17 years
| |
| #186 | Bhutan: |
54.96 years
| |
| #187 | Benin: |
54.63 years
| |
| #188 | Congo, Republic of the: |
54.52 years
| |
| #189 | Cameroon: |
53.59 years
| |
| #190 | Uganda: |
52.73 years
| |
| #191 | Burundi: |
52.12 years
| |
| #192 | Tanzania: |
52.04 years
| |
| #193 | Côte d'Ivoire: |
51.66 years
| |
| #194 | Mali: |
51.46 years
| |
| #195 | Equatorial Guinea: |
50.95 years
| |
| #196 | Guinea: |
50.84 years
| |
| #197 | Burkina Faso: |
50.8 years
| |
| #198 | Somalia: |
50.69 years
| |
| #199 | Ethiopia: |
50.44 years
| |
| #200 | Rwanda: |
50.16 years
| |
| #201 | Sudan: |
50.03 years
| |
| #202 | Botswana: |
49.58 years
| |
| #203 | Guinea-Bissau: |
49.04 years
| |
| #204 | Chad: |
48.27 years
| |
| #205 | Nigeria: |
48.07 years
| |
| #206 | Djibouti: |
44.65 years
| |
| #207 | Niger: |
44 years
| |
| #208 | Afghanistan: |
43.96 years
| |
| #209 | Central African Republic: |
43.79 years
| |
| #210 | Sierra Leone: |
42.87 years
| |
| #211 | Malawi: |
42.61 years
| |
| #212 | Liberia: |
41.89 years
| |
| #213 | Namibia: |
41.79 years
| |
| #214 | South Africa: |
41.66 years
| |
| #215 | Mozambique: |
40.4 years
| |
| #216 | Lesotho: |
39.18 years
| |
| #217 | Angola: |
38.57 years
| |
| #218 | Zambia: |
38.54 years
| |
| #219 | Zimbabwe: |
38.35 years
| |
| #220 | Swaziland: |
32.62 years
| |
| |
Weighted average: |
70.9 years
|
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DEFINITION: The average number of years to be lived by a females in this nation 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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