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Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1973

1973, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1973 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Gibraltar is highest, at 16.3492; Niger is lowest, at 9.3912. The middle country reads 12.8626. Against 1972, 222 values changed (190 up, 32 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Age 65 · Data for 1973

HighestGibraltar

16.3492

LowestNiger

9.3912

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, 1973, 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, 1973: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe16.349217.168415.1146
2IcelandISLNorthern Europe16.226017.510514.8981
3AndorraANDSouthern Europe15.991918.036714.0581
4CanadaCANNorthern America15.813417.740513.8677
5Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe15.808817.363614.3339
6LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe15.773616.961614.1864
7San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe15.731717.455513.9412
8Puerto RicoPRICaribbean15.688016.707314.6945
9SwedenSWENorthern Europe15.623917.173913.9880
10LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe15.517917.336013.4787
11NorwayNORNorthern Europe15.508317.017213.8448
12NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe15.421517.015113.6687
=13DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe15.390917.008413.6402
=13SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe15.390916.765913.6833
15GreeceGRCSouthern Europe15.361416.489814.0723
16Hong KongHKGEastern Asia15.305816.981912.6005
17MonacoMCOWestern Europe15.262216.653413.5365
18United StatesUSANorthern America15.256117.148613.1280
19FranceFRAWestern Europe15.253316.940813.1125
20GrenadaGRDCaribbean15.159315.798414.1688
21Saint MartinMAFCaribbean15.058416.593212.9877
22BelarusBLREastern Europe14.984316.218912.9813
23SpainESPSouthern Europe14.920416.184313.3799
24Isle of ManIMNNorthern Europe14.833615.812713.5254
25JapanJPNEastern Asia14.779016.106113.2817

02In 1973

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Gibraltar16.3492
  2. 2Iceland16.2260
  3. 3Andorra15.9919
  4. 4Canada15.8134
  5. 5Faroe Islands15.8088

Lowest

  1. 222Niger9.3912
  2. 221Mali9.4822
  3. 220Afghanistan10.1082
  4. 219South Sudan10.1094
  5. 218Timor-Leste10.1784

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 12.8626. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Women (further years at 65)

    HighestAndorra18.0367

    LowestNiger9.5853

    Middle country: 13.6158

  • Men (further years at 65)

    HighestGibraltar15.1146

    LowestNiger9.1132

    Middle country: 11.8494

031972 → 1973

Since 1972

What changed between 1972 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 190 · 32rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Fiji11.8947 → 11.4242−0.4705
  • Romania13.5619 → 13.1023−0.4596
  • Spain15.2262 → 14.9204−0.3058
  • Italy15.0306 → 14.7652−0.2654
  • Grenada15.4015 → 15.1593−0.2422

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 1973.

  • 221 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 4 decimals. 2 countries share 15.3909. 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 (1973). Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1973 [data set], describing 1973. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy-at-65/1973

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1973: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy at 65 in Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1973?

Gibraltar, at 16.3492, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1973 describe?

1973.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1973 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1973?

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, 1973 the newest?

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

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