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Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1972

1972, 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, 1972 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Iceland is highest, at 16.2614; South Sudan is lowest, at 9.1096. The middle country reads 12.7806. Against 1971, 222 values changed (189 up, 33 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Age 65 · Data for 1972

HighestIceland

16.2614

LowestSouth Sudan

9.1096

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, 1972, 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, 1972: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1IcelandISLNorthern Europe16.261417.350715.1356
2GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe16.227817.000915.0360
3AndorraANDSouthern Europe15.897617.851613.9935
4Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe15.747817.288914.2836
5CanadaCANNorthern America15.680117.577913.7764
6San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe15.659417.376613.8757
7Puerto RicoPRICaribbean15.658016.605114.7351
8SwedenSWENorthern Europe15.642117.082314.1087
9NorwayNORNorthern Europe15.463016.889113.8851
10LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe15.462616.638913.8568
11LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe15.442117.316713.3857
12GrenadaGRDCaribbean15.401516.033114.4089
13SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe15.330716.730213.6000
14FranceFRAWestern Europe15.300917.019913.1113
15GreeceGRCSouthern Europe15.276216.388814.0057
16MonacoMCOWestern Europe15.269116.663313.5333
17SpainESPSouthern Europe15.226216.489813.6734
18DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe15.208116.688813.5942
19Hong KongHKGEastern Asia15.180516.869012.4274
20United StatesUSANorthern America15.132617.008513.0440
21NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe15.080716.602213.4154
22BelarusBLREastern Europe15.034416.265013.0421
23ItalyITASouthern Europe15.030616.385913.4268
24Saint MartinMAFCaribbean14.971516.467312.9553
25JapanJPNEastern Asia14.816216.184213.2803

02In 1972

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Iceland16.2614
  2. 2Gibraltar16.2278
  3. 3Andorra15.8976
  4. 4Faroe Islands15.7478
  5. 5Canada15.6801

Lowest

  1. 222South Sudan9.1096
  2. 221Niger9.3118
  3. 220Mali9.4203
  4. 219Burundi9.4784
  5. 218Afghanistan10.0319

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 12.7806. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Women (further years at 65)

    HighestAndorra17.8516

    LowestNiger9.4802

    Middle country: 13.5118

  • Men (further years at 65)

    HighestIceland15.1356

    LowestSouth Sudan8.5833

    Middle country: 11.8323

031971 → 1972

Since 1971

What changed between 1971 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 189 · 33rose · 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 1972.

  • 220 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 4 decimals. 3 countries share 11.8271. 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.

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Cite this edition

UN DESA Population Division (1972). Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1972 [data set], describing 1972. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy-at-65/1972

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