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Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1969

1969, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1969 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Gibraltar is highest, at 16.0689; South Sudan is lowest, at 7.8594. The middle country reads 12.5460. Against 1968, 222 values changed (181 up, 41 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Age 65 · Data for 1969

HighestGibraltar

16.0689

LowestSouth Sudan

7.8594

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, 1969, 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, 1969: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe16.068916.785714.9094
2AndorraANDSouthern Europe15.710717.552913.7916
3IcelandISLNorthern Europe15.599116.498714.6472
4Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe15.582317.083714.1494
5Puerto RicoPRICaribbean15.568716.240314.9126
6CanadaCANNorthern America15.482417.323413.6870
7San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe15.473817.198513.7524
8LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe15.438616.593013.8115
9MonacoMCOWestern Europe15.253216.666213.4727
10NorwayNORNorthern Europe15.165916.541713.6732
11SwedenSWENorthern Europe15.154816.393513.8348
12LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe15.136716.970113.1978
13GreeceGRCSouthern Europe15.094116.160313.8784
14GrenadaGRDCaribbean15.075815.688114.0910
15NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe15.075016.393713.6465
16DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe15.037316.363813.6040
17United StatesUSANorthern America14.885516.690212.9184
18BelarusBLREastern Europe14.884716.000613.0662
19Hong KongHKGEastern Asia14.866616.440711.9350
20Isle of ManIMNNorthern Europe14.736915.699213.4075
21LatviaLVANorthern Europe14.660315.790912.7263
22SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe14.643115.951013.0315
23UkraineUKREastern Europe14.628515.856112.5441
24FranceFRAWestern Europe14.605116.267312.4659
25Saint MartinMAFCaribbean14.584615.913912.8011

02In 1969

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Gibraltar16.0689
  2. 2Andorra15.7107
  3. 3Iceland15.5991
  4. 4Faroe Islands15.5823
  5. 5Puerto Rico15.5687

Lowest

  1. 222South Sudan7.8594
  2. 221Niger9.2304
  3. 220Mali9.2404
  4. 219Afghanistan9.8283
  5. 218Timor-Leste9.9072

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 12.5460. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

031968 → 1969

Since 1968

What changed between 1968 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 181 · 41rose · 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 1969.

  • 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 (1969). Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1969 [data set], describing 1969. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy-at-65/1969

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1969: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy at 65 in Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1969?

Gibraltar, at 16.0689, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1969 describe?

1969.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1969 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1969?

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, 1969 the newest?

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

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