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Health > Life expectancy at birth > Male > Years: Countries Compared

DEFINITION: Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.

CONTENTS

# COUNTRY AMOUNT DATE GRAPH HISTORY
1 Iceland 79.2 years 2005
2 Hong Kong 78.8 years 2005
3 Switzerland 78.7 years 2005
4 Japan 78.69 years 2005
5 Sweden 78.4 years 2005
6 Macau 78.29 years 2005
7 Australia 78.21 years 2005
8 Singapore 77.9 years 2005
9 Canada 77.8 years 2005
10 Israel 77.72 years 2005
=11 Malta 77.7 years 2005
=11 Norway 77.7 years 2005
13 Italy 77.6 years 2005
14 New Zealand 77.56 years 2005
15 Spain 77.4 years 2005
=16 Virgin Islands 77.2 years 2005
=16 Netherlands 77.2 years 2005
18 Ireland 77.1 years 2005
19 Cyprus 77 years 2005
Group of 7 countries (G7) average (profile) 76.98 years 2005
20 United Arab Emirates 76.93 years 2005
21 United Kingdom 76.9 years 2005
=22 Costa Rica 76.8 years 2005
=22 France 76.8 years 2005
=24 Belgium 76.7 years 2005
=24 Austria 76.7 years 2005
26 Greece 76.6 years 2005
=27 Germany 76.2 years 2005
=27 Luxembourg 76.2 years 2005
High income OECD countries average (profile) 75.96 years 2005
29 Bermuda 75.94 years 2005
30 Denmark 75.6 years 2005
31 Finland 75.5 years 2005
32 Kuwait 75.44 years 2005
33 Cuba 75.4 years 2005
34 Chile 75.21 years 2005
Eurozone average (profile) 75.04 years 2005
35 Portugal 74.9 years 2005
36 United States 74.89 years 2005
Non-religious countries average (profile) 74.79 years 2005
37 Brunei 74.68 years 2005
38 Dominica 74.5 years 2002
39 South Korea 74.18 years 2005
40 Slovenia 74.1 years 2005
European Union average (profile) 73.88 years 2005
41 Puerto Rico 73.68 years 2005
42 Bahrain 73.48 years 2005
NATO countries average (profile) 73.43 years 2005
43 Netherlands Antilles 73.41 years 2005
44 Oman 73.31 years 2005
45 Mexico 72.98 years 2005
46 Guam 72.9 years 2005
47 Czech Republic 72.88 years 2005
48 Barbados 72.75 years 2004
49 Panama 72.71 years 2005
50 Albania 72.6 years 2005
Europe average (profile) 72.54 years 2005
51 Antigua and Barbuda 72.5 years 2002
52 Saint Lucia 72.48 years 2005
53 New Caledonia 72.46 years 2005
54 Croatia 72.3 years 2005
55 Sri Lanka 72.09 years 2005
56 Libya 72.07 years 2005
57 Syria 72.05 years 2005
58 Uruguay 72 years 2005
59 Ecuador 71.79 years 2005
60 Bosnia and Herzegovina 71.78 years 2005
61 Qatar 71.75 years 2005
62 Tunisia 71.5 years 2005
63 Malaysia 71.46 years 2005
64 Venezuela 71.38 years 2005
65 Tonga 71.36 years 2005
Middle Eastern and North Africa average (profile) 71.34 years 2005
66 French Polynesia 71.26 years 2005
67 Argentina 71.18 years 2005
Heavily indebted countries average (profile) 70.97 years 2005
68 Poland 70.8 years 2005
69 Saudi Arabia 70.64 years 2005
70 Jordan 70.51 years 2005
Cold countries average (profile) 70.47 years 2005
=71 Algeria 70.4 years 2005
=71 Armenia 70.4 years 2005
=71 Lebanon 70.4 years 2005
74 Serbia and Montenegro 70.2 years 2005
75 Slovakia 70.1 years 2005
76 China 70.07 years 2005
77 Colombia 69.87 years 2005
78 Grenada 69.8 years 2002
79 Mauritius 69.68 years 2005
80 Azerbaijan 69.6 years 2005
81 Iran 69.57 years 2005
82 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 69.55 years 2005
83 Belize 69.49 years 2005
84 Paraguay 69.24 years 2005
85 Jamaica 69.22 years 2005
86 Seychelles 69.1 years 2002
87 Bulgaria 69 years 2005
88 Philippines 68.93 years 2005
89 Turkey 68.9 years 2005
90 Saint Kitts and Nevis 68.8 years 2002
Latin America and Caribbean average (profile) 68.77 years 2002
Eastern Europe average (profile) 68.63 years 2005
Former Spanish colonies average (profile) 68.62 years 2005
91 Hungary 68.6 years 2005
92 Egypt 68.36 years 2005
93 El Salvador 68.33 years 2005
94 Vietnam 68.22 years 2005
=95 Romania 68.2 years 2005
=95 Morocco 68.2 years 2005
97 Peru 68.14 years 2005
98 Nicaragua 68.05 years 2005
99 Maldives 67.93 years 2005
100 Georgia 67.9 years 2005
101 The Bahamas 67.84 years 2005
102 Samoa 67.72 years 2005
103 Cape Verde 67.69 years 2005
104 Vanuatu 67.65 years 2005
105 Thailand 67.51 years 2005
106 Brazil 67.47 years 2005
107 Federated States of Micronesia 67.36 years 2005
108 Trinidad and Tobago 67.35 years 2005
109 Estonia 67.27 years 2005
East Asia and Pacific average (profile) 67.2 years 2005
Catholic countries average (profile) 67.16 years 2002
Emerging markets average (profile) 67.15 years 2005
110 Suriname 66.56 years 2005
111 Honduras 66.55 years 2005
OPEC countries average (profile) 66.18 years 2005
112 Fiji 66.15 years 2005
113 Indonesia 65.99 years 2005
114 Latvia 65.6 years 2005
=115 Lithuania 65.4 years 2005
=115 Greenland 65.4 years 2002
117 Mongolia 65.28 years 2005
118 Dominican Republic 64.72 years 2005
=119 Kyrgyzstan 64.5 years 2005
=119 Moldova 64.5 years 2005
121 Pakistan 64.3 years 2005
Former Soviet republics average (profile) 64.29 years 2005
122 Guatemala 64.29 years 2005
123 Uzbekistan 64.19 years 2005
Christian countries average (profile) 63.78 years 2002
South and Central Asia average (profile) 63.73 years 2005
South Asia average (profile) 63.2 years 2005
124 Bangladesh 63.02 years 2005
125 Belarus 62.86 years 2005
126 Marshall Islands 62.8 years 2000
Muslim countries average (profile) 62.79 years 2005
127 Bolivia 62.78 years 2005
128 Bhutan 62.77 years 2005
129 India 62.72 years 2005
130 Sao Tome and Principe 62.44 years 2005
131 Ukraine 62.23 years 2005
Religious countries average (profile) 62.21 years 1997
=132 Solomon Islands 62.18 years 2005
=132 Nepal 62.18 years 2005
134 Tajikistan 61.42 years 2005
135 Comoros 61.33 years 2005
136 Guyana 61.29 years 2005
Sparsely populated countries average (profile) 61.22 years 2005
Former British colonies average (profile) 61.15 years 2005
137 North Korea 61.05 years 2005
138 Kazakhstan 60.91 years 2005
Hot countries average (profile) 60.46 years 2005
139 Yemen 60.38 years 2005
140 Kiribati 59.8 years 2002
141 Russia 58.87 years 2005
142 Turkmenistan 58.71 years 2005
143 Burma 58.29 years 2005
144 Iraq 57.3 years 1997
145 Ghana 57.02 years 2005
146 Papua New Guinea 55.84 years 2005
147 East Timor 55.64 years 2005
148 The Gambia 55.49 years 2005
149 Sudan 55.32 years 2005
150 Senegal 55.23 years 2005
151 Madagascar 54.59 years 2005
Former French colonies average (profile) 54.58 years 2005
152 Laos 54.45 years 2005
153 Benin 54.23 years 2005
154 Guinea 53.83 years 2005
155 Cambodia 53.59 years 2005
156 Gabon 53.36 years 2005
157 Togo 53.33 years 2005
158 Eritrea 53.09 years 2005
159 Djibouti 52.28 years 2005
160 Mauritania 52.1 years 2005
161 Haiti 51.95 years 2005
162 Congo, Republic of the 51.54 years 2005
163 Kenya 49.82 years 2005
164 Uganda 49.3 years 2005
failed states average (profile) 48.3 years 2005
165 Mali 47.98 years 2005
Sub-Saharan Africa average (profile) 47.89 years 2005
166 Burkina Faso 47.73 years 2005
167 Namibia 47.04 years 2005
168 South Africa 46.69 years 2005
169 Somalia 46.54 years 2005
170 Tanzania 45.98 years 2005
171 Cameroon 45.51 years 2005
172 Cote d'Ivoire 45.45 years 2005
173 Niger 44.9 years 2005
174 Afghanistan 44.57 years 1987
175 Guinea-Bissau 43.79 years 2005
176 Burundi 43.67 years 2005
177 Nigeria 43.66 years 2005
178 Democratic Republic of the Congo 43.01 years 2005
179 Chad 42.98 years 2005
180 Rwanda 42.58 years 2005
181 Swaziland 42.17 years 2005
182 Equatorial Guinea 41.98 years 2005
183 Ethiopia 41.91 years 2005
184 Liberia 41.68 years 2005
185 Mozambique 41.39 years 2005
186 Malawi 40.81 years 2005
187 Sierra Leone 40.01 years 2005
188 Angola 39.98 years 2005
189 Zambia 38.89 years 2005
190 Central African Republic 38.77 years 2005
191 Zimbabwe 37.94 years 2005
192 Botswana 35.44 years 2005
193 Lesotho 34.49 years 2005

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