Life expectancy at birth, male (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, male (years) - Mortality - Health - World Development Indicators (2008)
1	Liechtenstein	80
2	Iceland	79.98
3	Switzerland	79.83
4	Hong Kong	79.33
5	Japan	79.29
6	Sweden	79.28
7	Italy	79.26
8	Australia	79.20
9	Israel	79.10
10	Canada	78.76
11	Macau	78.59
12	Netherlands	78.43
13	Norway	78.40
14	Singapore	78.40
15	New Zealand	78.20
16	Luxembourg	78.11
17	France	78.02
18	Spain	78.01
19	Euro area	77.90
20	United Kingdom	77.88
21	Austria	77.75
22	Greece	77.69
23	Germany	77.63
24	Ireland	77.53
25	Belgium	77.45
26	High income: OECD	77.39
27	Cyprus	77.38
28	High income	77.14
29	Malta	77.08
30	Channel Islands	76.76
31	Cuba	76.72
32	United Arab Emirates	76.71
33	Costa Rica	76.56
34	South Korea	76.54
35	North Korea	76.54
36	Denmark	76.52
37	Finland	76.47
38	Bermuda	76.36
39	Portugal	76.24
40	Kuwait	76.09
41	United States	76
42	Chile	75.63
43	Virgin Islands (U.S.)	75.58
44	Slovenia	75.53
45	Brunei Darussalam	75.05
46	Qatar	74.97
47	Puerto Rico	74.64
48	Belize	74.45
49	Bahrain	74.35
50	Oman	74.34
51	Barbados	74.31
52	High income: nonOECD	74.11
53	Czech Republic	74.06
54	Grenada	73.81
55	Albania	73.56
56	Guam	73.33
57	Panama	73.11
58	Netherlands Antilles	72.76
59	Mexico	72.74
60	Bosnia and Herzegovina	72.54
61	Vietnam	72.47
62	Uruguay	72.41
63	Tunisia	72.40
64	Croatia	72.40
65	Syria	72.36
66	Ecuador	72.24
67	Mayotte	72.13
68	Aruba	72.11
69	Malaysia	72.09
70	French Polynesia	72.08
71	New Caledonia	71.92
72	West Bank and Gaza	71.92
73	Macedonia	71.88
74	Libya	71.81
75	Montenegro	71.76
76	Argentina	71.65
77	China	71.45
78	Poland	71.26
79	Serbia	71.10
80	Algeria	70.99
81	Saudi Arabia	70.98
82	Jordan	70.92
83	Slovakia	70.84
84	Bahamas	70.76
85	Peru	70.64
86	Venezuela	70.63
87	Sri Lanka	70.43
88	East Asia & Pacific	70.38
89	Armenia	70.35
90	Latin America & Caribbean	70.27
91	Nicaragua	70.12
92	Iran	70.12
93	Maldives	70.07
94	Hungary	69.97
95	Lebanon	69.94
96	Dominican Republic	69.90
97	Honduras	69.86
98	Paraguay	69.84
99	Bulgaria	69.78
100	Romania	69.71
101	Philippines	69.65
102	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	69.56
103	Turkey	69.51
104	Colombia	69.38
105	Mauritius	69.20
106	Tonga	69.12
107	Morocco	69.10
108	Indonesia	68.84
109	Brazil	68.83
110	Middle East & North Africa	68.76
111	Estonia	68.70
112	Samoa	68.68
113	Jamaica	68.57
114	Cape Verde	68.44
115	Egypt	68.41
116	Vanuatu	68.40
117	Georgia	68.15
118	Upper middle income	68.03
119	Azerbaijan	67.89
120	Micronesia	67.78
121	Seychelles	67.70
122	Kosovo	67.34
123	Latvia	66.97
124	Guatemala	66.90
125	Fiji	66.66
126	El Salvador	66.62
127	Middle income	66.56
128	Lithuania	66.29
129	Pakistan	66.21
130	Lower middle income	66.20
131	Greenland	66.12
132	Nepal	66.03
133	Trinidad and Tobago	65.87
134	Thailand	65.77
135	Europe & Central Asia	65.57
136	Suriname	65.50
137	Solomon Islands	65.34
138	Bangladesh	65.13
139	Low & middle income	65.04
140	Belarus	64.99
141	Moldova	64.74
142	Uzbekistan	64.66
143	Bhutan	64.34
144	Guyana	64.27
145	Iraq	64.24
146	Tajikistan	64.13
147	Sao Tome and Principe	63.65
148	Bolivia	63.59
149	Laos	63.59
150	Mongolia	63.39
151	Comoros	63.17
152	Kyrgyzstan	62.96
153	South Asia	62.81
154	Ukraine	62.51
155	India	62.26
156	Russia	61.83
157	Yemen	61.31
158	Turkmenistan	60.83
159	Togo	60.81
160	Kazakhstan	60.69
161	Benin	60.26
162	Timor-Leste	60.26
163	Namibia	60.14
164	Haiti	59.46
165	Burma	59.39
166	Cambodia	59.19
167	Gabon	59.14
168	Papua New Guinea	58.98
169	Madagascar	58.76
170	Low income	57.66
171	Eritrea	57.18
172	Liberia	56.93
173	Sudan	56.64
174	Ivory Coast	56.18
175	Guinea	55.85
176	Ghana	55.73
177	Least developed countries: UN classification	55.67
178	Tanzania	54.88
179	Mauritania	54.82
180	Gambia	54.33
181	Botswana	54.30
182	Senegal	54.11
183	Djibouti	54.04
184	Kenya	53.84
185	Ethiopia	53.80
186	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	52.64
187	Republic of the Congo	52.61
188	Uganda	52.10
189	Malawi	52.10
190	Burkina Faso	51.72
191	Sub-Saharan Africa	51.07
192	Niger	50.54
193	Cameroon	50.52
194	South Africa	49.97
195	Equatorial Guinea	49.07
196	Burundi	49
197	Somalia	48.43
198	Rwanda	48.39
199	Mali	47.75
200	Chad	47.48
201	Nigeria	47.41
202	Mozambique	47.11
203	Swaziland	46.39
204	Sierra Leone	46.36
205	Guinea-Bissau	46.30
206	Democratic Republic of the Congo	46.11
207	Central African Republic	45.48
208	Angola	45.09
209	Zambia	44.91
210	Lesotho	44.45
211	Afghanistan	43.98
212	Zimbabwe	43.91

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