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Rank	Country	Life expectancy at birth (years)
1	Monaco	89.68
2	Macau	84.43
3	Japan	83.91
4	Singapore	83.75
5	San Marino	83.07
6	Andorra	82.5
7	Guernsey	82.24
8	Hong Kong	82.12
9	Australia	81.9
10	Italy	81.86
11	Liechtenstein	81.5
12	Canada	81.48
13	Jersey	81.47
14	France	81.46
15	Spain	81.27
16	Sweden	81.18
17	Switzerland	81.17
18	Israel	81.07
19	Iceland	81
20	Anguilla	80.98
21	Netherlands	80.91
22	Bermuda	80.82
23	Cayman Islands	80.8
24	Isle of Man	80.76
25	New Zealand	80.71
26	Norway	80.32
27	Ireland	80.32
28	Germany	80.19
29	Jordan	80.18
30	United Kingdom	80.17
31	Greece	80.05
32	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	80
33	Austria	79.91
34	Faroe Islands	79.85
35	Malta	79.85
36	Luxembourg	79.75
37	Belgium	79.65
38	Virgin Islands	79.47
39	Finland	79.41
40	Korea, South	79.3
41	Turks and Caicos Islands	79.26
42	Wallis and Futuna	79.12
43	Puerto Rico	79.07
44	Bosnia and Herzegovina	78.96
45	Saint Helena	78.91
46	Gibraltar	78.83
47	Denmark	78.78
48	Portugal	78.7
49	Guam	78.5
50	United States	78.49
51	Taiwan	78.48
52	Bahrain	78.29
53	Chile	78.1
54	Qatar	78.09
55	Panama	77.96
56	British Virgin Islands	77.95
57	Costa Rica	77.89
58	Cuba	77.87
59	Libya	77.83
60	Albania	77.59
61	Slovenia	77.48
62	Dominican Republic	77.44
63	Czech Republic	77.38
64	Georgia	77.32
65	Kuwait	77.28
66	Northern Mariana Islands	77.27
67	Argentina	77.14
68	Saint Lucia	77.04
69	New Caledonia	76.94
70	United Arab Emirates	76.71
71	Mexico	76.66
72	Uruguay	76.41
73	Paraguay	76.4
74	French Polynesia	76.39
75	Brunei	76.37
76	Poland	76.25
77	Dominica	76.18
78	Morocco	76.11
79	Slovakia	76.03
80	Croatia	75.99
81	Ecuador	75.94
82	Sri Lanka	75.94
83	Aruba	75.93
84	Antigua and Barbuda	75.69
85	Lithuania	75.55
86	Tonga	75.38
87	Macedonia	75.36
88	Tunisia	75.24
89	West Bank	75.24
90	Lebanon	75.23
91	Hungary	75.02
92	Cook Islands	74.92
93	Syria	74.92
94	Saint Kitts and Nevis	74.84
95	China	74.84
96	Colombia	74.79
97	Algeria	74.73
98	Mauritius	74.71
99	Maldives	74.69
100	Serbia	74.56
101	Barbados	74.52
102	Oman	74.47
103	American Samoa	74.44
104	Solomon Islands	74.42
105	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	74.39
106	Saudi Arabia	74.35
107	Romania	74.22
108	Gaza Strip	74.16
109	Venezuela	74.08
110	Malaysia	74.04
111	Bulgaria	73.84
112	Thailand	73.83
113	Seychelles	73.77
114	El Salvador	73.69
115	Estonia	73.58
116	Armenia	73.49
117	Jamaica	73.43
118	Montserrat	73.41
119	Grenada	73.3
120	Latvia	72.93
121	Egypt	72.93
122	Brazil	72.79
123	Uzbekistan	72.77
124	Turkey	72.77
125	Peru	72.73
126	Samoa	72.66
127	Vietnam	72.41
128	Nicaragua	72.18
129	Palau	72.06
130	Marshall Islands	72.03
131	Philippines	71.94
132	Micronesia, Federated States of	71.8
133	Trinidad and Tobago	71.67
134	Indonesia	71.62
135	Fiji	71.59
136	Belarus	71.48
137	Bahamas, The	71.44
138	Azerbaijan	71.32
139	Greenland	71.25
140	Guatemala	71.17
141	Suriname	71.12
142	Cape Verde	71
143	Iraq	70.85
144	Honduras	70.71
145	Iran	70.35
146	Bangladesh	70.06
147	Kazakhstan	69.63
148	Moldova	69.51
149	Kyrgyzstan	69.45
150	Korea, North	69.2
151	Turkmenistan	68.84
152	Ukraine	68.74
153	Mongolia	68.63
154	Belize	68.28
155	East Timor	68.27
156	Bolivia	67.9
157	Bhutan	67.88
158	Guyana	67.39
159	India	67.14
160	Nepal	66.51
161	Papua New Guinea	66.46
162	Russia	66.46
163	Tajikistan	66.38
164	Pakistan	66.35
165	Nauru	65.7
166	Burma	65.24
167	Tuvalu	65.11
168	Vanuatu	65.06
169	Kiribati	64.76
170	Yemen	64.11
171	Madagascar	64
172	Gambia, The	63.82
173	Sao Tome and Principe	63.49
174	Togo	63.17
175	Kenya	63.07
176	Cambodia	63.04
177	Eritrea	62.86
178	Laos	62.77
179	Equatorial Guinea	62.75
180	Comoros	62.74
181	Sudan	62.57
182	Haiti	62.51
183	Djibouti	61.57
184	Mauritania	61.53
185	Western Sahara	61.52
186	Ghana	61.45
187	Benin	60.26
188	Senegal	60.18
189	Burundi	59.24
190	Guinea	58.61
191	Rwanda	58.44
192	Liberia	57.41
193	Cote d'Ivoire	57.25
194	Ethiopia	56.56
195	Sierra Leone	56.55
196	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	55.74
197	Botswana	55.74
198	Congo, Republic of the	55.27
199	Cameroon	54.71
200	Angola	54.59
201	Burkina Faso	54.07
202	Niger	53.8
203	Uganda	53.45
204	Tanzania	53.14
205	Mali	53.06
206	Zambia	52.57
207	Malawi	52.31
208	Gabon	52.29
209	Namibia	52.17
210	Nigeria	52.05
211	Mozambique	52.02
212	Lesotho	51.86
213	Zimbabwe	51.82
214	Somalia	50.8
215	Central African Republic	50.48
216	Afghanistan	49.72
217	Swaziland	49.42
218	South Africa	49.41
219	Guinea-Bissau	49.11
220	Chad	48.69

Definition: This entry contains 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. 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 - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of January 1, 2012

See also: Life expectancy at birth map

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