List of countries by life expectancy

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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^[1] and from the 2006 revision of the United Nations World Population Prospects report, for the period 2005-2010 ^[2]. 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 ^[3]. 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.

[edit] 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	86.62
	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)^[4]	80.9	78.5	83.3
5	8	Sweden	80.63	78.39	83
6	9	Australia	80.62	77.8	83.59
7	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	South Korea	79.10	78.10	80.10
22	30	Luxembourg	79.03	75.76	82.52
	31	Montserrat ( UK)	79	76.8	81.31
23	32	New Zealand	78.96	75.97	82.08
24	33	Germany	78.95	75.96	82.11
25	34	Belgium	78.92	75.75	82.24
	35	Guam ( US)	78.76	75.69	82.01
	36	Saint Pierre and Miquelon ( France)	78.76	76.41	81.23
	37	United Kingdom	78.7	76.23	81.3
	38	European Union	78.7	75.6	82
26	39	Finland	78.66	75.15	82.31
		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 ( ROC)	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	55	Costa Rica	77.21	74.61	79.94
37	56	Cuba	77.08	74.85	79.43
38	57	Chile	76.96	73.69	80.4
39	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	75.84	73.05	78.78
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
76	103	Turkey	72.88	70.43	75.46
76	103	People's Republic of China (mainland)	72.88	71.13	74.82
79	106	Malaysia	72.76	70.05	75.65
80	114	Brazil	72.70	69.0	76.50
81	107	Saint Kitts and Nevis	72.66	69.81	75.69
82	108	Bulgaria	72.57	68.95	76.4
83	109	Thailand	72.55	70.24	74.98
84	110	Antigua and Barbuda	72.42	70.03	74.94
85	111	Seychelles	72.34	66.98	77.86
86	112	Estonia	72.3	66.87	78.07
87	113	Colombia	72.27	68.44	76.24
	115	Gaza Strip	72.16	70.84	73.54
88	116	Armenia	72.12	68.52	76.29
89	117	North Korea	71.92	69.18	74.8
90	118	Romania	71.91	68.41	75.62
91	119	El Salvador	71.78	68.18	75.57
92	120	Latvia	71.6	66.39	77.1
93	121	Egypt	71.57	69.04	74.22
94	122	Samoa	71.3	68.49	74.26
95	123	Morocco	71.22	68.88	73.67
96	124	Vietnam	71.07	68.27	74.08
97	125	Cape Verde	71.02	67.69	74.44
98	126	Nicaragua	70.92	68.82	73.13
99	127	Palau	70.71	67.54	74.06
100	128	Syria	70.61	69.27	72.02
100	128	Marshall Islands	70.61	68.61	72.71
102	130	Iran	70.56	69.12	72.07
103	131	Philippines	70.51	67.61	73.55
104	132	Federated States of Micronesia	70.35	68.52	72.28
	133	Greenland ( Denmark)	70.23	66.65	73.9
105	134	Moldova	70.2	66.51	74.11
106	135	Indonesia	70.16	67.69	72.76
107	136	Peru	70.14	68.33	72.04
108	137	Fiji	70.12	67.6	72.76
108	137	Tonga	70.12	67.6	72.76
110	139	Belarus	70.05	64.31	76.14
111	140	Guatemala	69.69	67.94	71.52
112	141	Honduras	69.35	67.78	70.99
113	142	Iraq	69.31	68.04	70.65
114	143	Kyrgyzstan	68.81	64.8	73.02
115	144	Tuvalu	68.63	66.38	70.99
116	145	India	68.59	66.28	71.17
117	146	Turkmenistan	68.3	65.23	71.54
118	147	Belize	68.25	66.44	70.16
119	148	Ukraine	67.88	62.16	73.96
120	149	Sao Tome and Principe	67.64	66.03	69.3
121	150	Kazakhstan	67.22	61.9	72.84
122	151	Mongolia	66.99	64.61	69.48
123	152	Trinidad and Tobago	75.98	76.81	74.12
124	153	East Timor	66.6	64.28	69.04
125	154	Bolivia	66.19	63.53	68.97
126	155	Guyana	66.17	63.52	68.95
127	156	Azerbaijan	65.96	61.86	70.66
128	157	Russia	65.87	59.12	73.03
129	158	The Bahamas	65.66	62.37	69.02
130	159	Papua New Guinea	65.62	63.41	67.95
131	160	Grenada	65.21	63.38	67.05
132	161	Uzbekistan	64.98	61.57	68.56
133	162	Maldives	64.76	63.41	66.19
134	163	Tajikistan	64.61	61.6	67.78
135	164	Pakistan	63.75	62.73	64.83
136	165	Nauru	63.44	59.85	67.21
137	166	Vanuatu	63.22	61.67	64.84
138	167	Bangladesh	62.84	62.81	62.86
139	168	Comoros	62.73	60.37	65.15
140	169	Yemen	62.52	60.61	64.54
141	170	Burma	62.49	60.29	64.83
142	171	Kiribati	62.45	59.41	65.63
	172	Mayotte ( France)	62.16	59.94	64.45
143	173	Madagascar	62.14	60.23	64.1
144	174	Cambodia	61.29	59.27	63.4
145	175	Nepal	60.56	60.78	60.33
146	176	Eritrea	59.55	57.88	61.28
147	177	Ghana	59.49	58.65	60.35
148	178	Togo	57.86	55.81	59.96
149	179	Democratic Republic of the Congo	57.2	54.97	59.5
150	180	Haiti	57.03	55.35	58.75
151	181	Senegal	56.69	55.34	58.09
152	182	Laos	55.89	53.82	58.04
153	183	Kenya	55.31	55.24	55.37
154	184	Bhutan	55.17	55.38	54.96
155	185	The Gambia	54.54	52.68	56.46
156	186	Gabon	53.99	52.85	55.17
157	187	Mauritania	53.51	51.24	55.85
158	188	Benin	53.44	52.28	54.63
159	189	Republic of the Congo	53.29	52.1	54.52
160	190	Cameroon	52.86	52.15	53.59
161	191	Uganda	51.75	50.78	52.73
162	192	Burundi	51.29	50.48	52.12
163	193	Tanzania	50.71	49.41	52.04
164	194	Botswana	50.58	51.55	49.58
165	195	Guinea	49.65	48.5	50.84
166	196	Equatorial Guinea	49.51	48.11	50.95
166	196	Mali	49.51	47.6	51.46
168	198	Ethiopia	49.23	48.06	50.44
169	199	Burkina Faso	49.21	47.68	50.8
170	200	Sudan	49.11	48.24	50.03
171	201	Côte d'Ivoire	49	46.43	51.66
172	202	Rwanda	48.99	47.87	50.16
173	203	Somalia	48.84	47.06	50.69
174	204	Nigeria	47.44	46.83	48.07
175	205	Chad	47.2	46.17	48.27
176	206	Guinea-Bissau	47.18	45.37	49.04
177	207	Niger	44.03	44.05	44
178	208	Afghanistan	43.77	43.6	43.96
179	209	Central African Republic	43.74	43.69	43.79
180	210	Djibouti	43.25	41.88	44.65
181	211	Namibia	43.11	44.39	41.79
182	212	Malawi	42.98	43.35	42.61
183	213	South Africa	42.45	43.21	41.66
184	214	Mozambique	40.9	41.4	40.4
185	215	Sierra Leone	40.58	38.36	42.87
186	216	Liberia	40.39	38.93	41.89
187	217	Lesotho	39.97	40.73	39.18
188	218	Zimbabwe	39.5	40.62	38.35
189	219	Zambia	38.44	38.34	38.54
190	220	Angola	37.63	36.73	38.57
191	221	Swaziland	32.23	31.84	32.62
World Average			65.82	63.89	67.84