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Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1968

1968, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1968 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Gibraltar is highest, at 16.0268; South Sudan is lowest, at 8.0438. The middle country reads 12.4602. Against 1967, 221 values changed (170 up, 51 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Age 65 · Data for 1968

HighestGibraltar

16.0268

LowestSouth Sudan

8.0438

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, 1968, 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, 1968: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe16.026816.713914.8983
2IcelandISLNorthern Europe15.955416.793015.0876
3AndorraANDSouthern Europe15.703917.561713.7453
4LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe15.699816.745414.1550
5Puerto RicoPRICaribbean15.645716.684414.6912
6Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe15.523217.039214.0835
7San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe15.416117.150913.7147
8CanadaCANNorthern America15.343617.136813.6135
9NorwayNORNorthern Europe15.242616.435713.9262
10MonacoMCOWestern Europe15.235616.655713.4434
11NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe15.096416.419913.6829
12SwedenSWENorthern Europe15.083616.193613.8896
13LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe15.028416.790213.1781
14DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe15.001916.238613.6638
15BelarusBLREastern Europe14.958216.032613.1963
16LatviaLVANorthern Europe14.829815.848413.0166
17FranceFRAWestern Europe14.815916.415412.7172
18GreeceGRCSouthern Europe14.806615.791113.6686
19Hong KongHKGEastern Asia14.799816.282811.7805
20SpainESPSouthern Europe14.782915.988013.3028
21Isle of ManIMNNorthern Europe14.721115.680513.3907
22United StatesUSANorthern America14.683416.470512.7575
23RussiaRUSEastern Europe14.671215.677212.4682
24UkraineUKREastern Europe14.649015.846812.6127
25SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe14.593915.887313.0033

02In 1968

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Gibraltar16.0268
  2. 2Iceland15.9554
  3. 3Andorra15.7039
  4. 4Lithuania15.6998
  5. 5Puerto Rico15.6457

Lowest

  1. 222South Sudan8.0438
  2. 221Mali9.2272
  3. 220Niger9.2319
  4. 219Afghanistan9.7631
  5. 218Timor-Leste9.8305

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 12.4602. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Women (further years at 65)

    HighestAndorra17.5617

    LowestSouth Sudan8.5960

    Middle country: 13.1886

  • Men (further years at 65)

    HighestIceland15.0876

    LowestSouth Sudan7.4475

    Middle country: 11.6497

031967 → 1968

Since 1967

What changed between 1967 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 221values changed, of 222 in both
  • 170 · 51rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

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 1968.

  • 221 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 4 decimals. 2 countries share 11.7604. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • 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

Download and cite

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.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UN DESA Population Division (1968). Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1968 [data set], describing 1968. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy-at-65/1968

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1968: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy at 65 in Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1968?

Gibraltar, at 16.0268, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1968 describe?

1968.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1968 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1968?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1968 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2023.

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