Life expectancy at birth, total (years) - Mortality - Health - World Development Indicators

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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.

Rank	Country	Value
Life expectancy at birth, total (years) - Mortality - Health - World Development Indicators (2008)
1	Liechtenstein	82.63
2	Japan	82.59
3	Hong Kong	82.34
4	Switzerland	82.16
5	Italy	81.95
6	Iceland	81.58
7	France	81.52
8	Australia	81.40
9	Sweden	81.24
10	Spain	81.09
11	Israel	81
12	Canada	80.96
13	Singapore	80.74
14	Norway	80.74
15	Euro area	80.73
16	Macau	80.67
17	Luxembourg	80.52
18	Austria	80.45
19	Netherlands	80.40
20	New Zealand	80.15
21	Belgium	80.11
22	Germany	80.09
23	High income: OECD	80.08
24	Greece	79.96
25	United Kingdom	79.90
26	Ireland	79.86
27	South Korea	79.83
28	North Korea	79.83
29	High income	79.81
30	Finland	79.79
31	Cyprus	79.66
32	Malta	79.64
33	Portugal	79.25
34	Channel Islands	79.10
35	Bermuda	79
36	Slovenia	78.97
37	Virgin Islands (U.S.)	78.93
38	Costa Rica	78.92
39	Cuba	78.72
40	Denmark	78.70
41	Chile	78.61
42	Puerto Rico	78.56
43	United States	78.44
44	Kuwait	77.97
45	United Arab Emirates	77.75
46	Brunei Darussalam	77.36
47	Czech Republic	77.21
48	High income: nonOECD	77.05
49	Barbados	77.01
50	Albania	76.63
51	Belize	76.32
52	New Caledonia	76.12
53	Mayotte	76.07
54	Netherlands Antilles	76.03
55	Uruguay	75.98
56	Qatar	75.94
57	Croatia	75.91
58	Bahrain	75.91
59	Oman	75.91
60	Panama	75.66
61	Guam	75.62
62	Poland	75.53
63	Argentina	75.33
64	Grenada	75.32
65	Ecuador	75.13
66	Bosnia and Herzegovina	75.11
67	Mexico	75.07
68	Slovakia	74.81
69	Aruba	74.69
70	French Polynesia	74.49
71	Malaysia	74.38
72	Vietnam	74.37
73	Libya	74.33
74	Tunisia	74.30
75	Syria	74.23
76	Macedonia	74.21
77	Sri Lanka	74.13
78	Montenegro	74.10
79	Hungary	74.01
80	Estonia	73.97
81	Serbia	73.64
82	Venezuela	73.55
83	Armenia	73.54
84	Bahamas	73.49
85	West Bank and Gaza	73.47
86	Romania	73.37
87	Latin America & Caribbean	73.34
88	Bulgaria	73.32
89	Peru	73.26
90	Seychelles	73.16
91	Nicaragua	73.14
92	Saudi Arabia	73.12
93	China	73.12
94	Colombia	72.98
95	Jordan	72.71
96	Mauritius	72.57
97	Dominican Republic	72.57
98	Brazil	72.40
99	Algeria	72.39
100	Latvia	72.24
101	Honduras	72.20
102	East Asia & Pacific	72.16
103	Lebanon	72.05
104	Turkey	71.89
105	Tonga	71.88
106	Paraguay	71.88
107	Jamaica	71.84
108	Philippines	71.83
109	Lithuania	71.82
110	Samoa	71.75
111	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	71.66
112	Maldives	71.58
113	Georgia	71.55
114	Iran	71.44
115	Upper middle income	71.40
116	Morocco	71.29
117	El Salvador	71.26
118	Cape Verde	71.04
119	Indonesia	70.79
120	Belarus	70.63
121	Middle East & North Africa	70.61
122	Guatemala	70.34
123	Vanuatu	70.29
124	Azerbaijan	70.18
125	Egypt	70.14
126	Europe & Central Asia	69.98
127	Kosovo	69.42
128	Trinidad and Tobago	69.34
129	Suriname	69.02
130	Fiji	68.87
131	Thailand	68.86
132	Micronesia	68.58
133	Middle income	68.55
134	Moldova	68.44
135	Greenland	68.35
136	Ukraine	68.25
137	Iraq	67.93
138	Russia	67.84
139	Lower middle income	67.82
140	Uzbekistan	67.76
141	Kyrgyzstan	67.37
142	Guyana	67.11
143	Low & middle income	66.89
144	Tajikistan	66.75
145	Nepal	66.69
146	Mongolia	66.57
147	Pakistan	66.53
148	Kazakhstan	66.44
149	Solomon Islands	66.26
150	Bangladesh	66.14
151	Bhutan	66.13
152	Bolivia	65.68
153	Sao Tome and Principe	65.53
154	Comoros	65.35
155	Laos	64.97
156	Turkmenistan	64.82
157	South Asia	64.09
158	India	63.72
159	Yemen	62.92
160	Togo	62.51
161	Burma	61.55
162	Benin	61.38
163	Haiti	61.21
164	Timor-Leste	61.12
165	Papua New Guinea	61.10
166	Namibia	61.01
167	Cambodia	60.97
168	Gabon	60.44
169	Madagascar	60.34
170	Eritrea	59.45
171	Low income	58.96
172	Liberia	58.26
173	Sudan	58.15
174	Guinea	57.82
175	Ivory Coast	57.44
176	Least developed countries: UN classification	56.88
177	Mauritania	56.73
178	Ghana	56.62
179	Gambia	55.93
180	Tanzania	55.65
181	Senegal	55.60
182	Djibouti	55.39
183	Ethiopia	55.20
184	Kenya	54.24
185	Botswana	54.24
186	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	53.86
187	Republic of the Congo	53.55
188	Malawi	53.06
189	Burkina Faso	52.99
190	Uganda	52.67
191	Sub-Saharan Africa	52.11
192	South Africa	51.48
193	Niger	51.40
194	Cameroon	51.06
195	Burundi	50.43
196	Equatorial Guinea	50.23
197	Rwanda	50.13
198	Somalia	49.84
199	Chad	48.73
200	Mali	48.43
201	Nigeria	47.91
202	Mozambique	47.89
203	Guinea-Bissau	47.82
204	Democratic Republic of the Congo	47.65
205	Sierra Leone	47.60
206	Angola	47.04
207	Central African Republic	46.96
208	Swaziland	45.77
209	Zambia	45.40
210	Lesotho	44.99
211	Zimbabwe	44.21
212	Afghanistan	43.95

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