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Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1957

1957, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Life expectancy at 65 is how many more years a person who has reached 65 would live if that year's death rates held for the rest of their life. Because it starts the count after childhood, it measures old-age health directly, free of the child deaths that pull life expectancy at birth down in poorer countries.

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1957 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Gibraltar is highest, at 15.4959; Mali is lowest, at 8.9913. The middle country reads 11.8485. Against 1956, 222 values changed (187 up, 35 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Age 65 · Data for 1957

HighestGibraltar

15.4959

LowestMali

8.9913

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1957, as published. UN DESA Population Division ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 222 countries · select a heading to sort

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1957: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe15.495916.208214.1753
2IcelandISLNorthern Europe15.485616.167914.7353
3NorwayNORNorthern Europe15.459716.054914.7783
4San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe14.876616.425213.2520
5NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe14.788615.346214.2052
6Isle of ManIMNNorthern Europe14.559915.426313.3803
7CanadaCANNorthern America14.547915.847613.4088
8Puerto RicoPRICaribbean14.403514.759514.0677
9SwedenSWENorthern Europe14.386314.975913.7472
10MonacoMCOWestern Europe14.382215.390913.0642
11AndorraANDSouthern Europe14.368215.292913.0660
12DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe14.301314.884113.6809
13BulgariaBGREastern Europe14.289014.771113.7156
14United StatesUSANorthern America14.286215.698212.8624
15RussiaRUSEastern Europe14.184315.178612.2463
16LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe14.021214.817912.7462
17LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe14.018915.145212.8133
18LatviaLVANorthern Europe13.972614.923812.3775
19AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand13.955715.379712.4554
20UruguayURYSouth America13.950415.489012.4367
21FranceFRAWestern Europe13.943015.204412.2426
22New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand13.925615.356012.5030
23EstoniaESTNorthern Europe13.914614.940811.8910
24GreeceGRCSouthern Europe13.910314.965412.6811
25Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe13.874414.839612.9630

02In 1957

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. 1Gibraltar15.4959
  2. 2Iceland15.4856
  3. 3Norway15.4597
  4. 4San Marino14.8766
  5. 5Netherlands14.7886

Lowest

  1. 222Mali8.9913
  2. 221Afghanistan9.0133
  3. 220Eritrea9.0190
  4. 219Niger9.0741
  5. 218Timor-Leste9.1017

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 11.8485. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Women (further years at 65)

    HighestSan Marino16.4252

    LowestNiger9.1659

    Middle country: 12.4492

  • Men (further years at 65)

    HighestNorway14.7783

    LowestSuriname8.1164

    Middle country: 11.1935

031956 → 1957

Since 1956

What changed between 1956 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 187 · 35rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2024 release

    Every year in this series comes from UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1957.

  • The position is ours

    UN DESA Population Division publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

05The files

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The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

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Cite this edition

UN DESA Population Division (1957). Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1957 [data set], describing 1957. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy-at-65/1957

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