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Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1974

1974, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1974 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Gibraltar is highest, at 16.4870; Niger is lowest, at 9.5001. The middle country reads 12.9252. Against 1973, 222 values changed (184 up, 38 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Age 65 · Data for 1974

HighestGibraltar

16.4870

LowestNiger

9.5001

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, 1974, 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, 1974: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe16.487017.344915.2096
2IcelandISLNorthern Europe16.413418.029614.7828
3AndorraANDSouthern Europe16.093718.243014.1231
4LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe16.007017.169314.4549
5Puerto RicoPRICaribbean15.865716.914214.8410
6San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe15.842617.530614.0640
7Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe15.818917.343414.3740
8CanadaCANNorthern America15.792717.712813.8370
9NorwayNORNorthern Europe15.769817.209814.1571
10SwedenSWENorthern Europe15.740617.322714.0674
11NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe15.641217.243213.8548
12LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe15.637217.390313.6157
13SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe15.627917.190213.7220
14GreeceGRCSouthern Europe15.619516.711414.3583
15United StatesUSANorthern America15.553417.458113.3840
16FranceFRAWestern Europe15.453817.203613.2530
17Hong KongHKGEastern Asia15.374917.029312.7424
18DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe15.372417.026213.5814
19MonacoMCOWestern Europe15.292816.722213.5323
20Saint MartinMAFCaribbean15.125916.689313.0102
21SpainESPSouthern Europe15.085916.394213.4960
22ItalyITASouthern Europe15.075216.498113.4002
23Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe15.002216.190113.4419
24BelarusBLREastern Europe14.965916.209412.9404
25JapanJPNEastern Asia14.931116.221613.4579

02In 1974

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Gibraltar16.4870
  2. 2Iceland16.4134
  3. 3Andorra16.0937
  4. 4Lithuania16.0070
  5. 5Puerto Rico15.8657

Lowest

  1. 222Niger9.5001
  2. 221Mali9.5671
  3. 220Timor-Leste9.7525
  4. 219Eritrea10.0668
  5. 218South Sudan10.1527

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 12.9252. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Women (further years at 65)

    HighestAndorra18.2430

    LowestNiger9.7212

    Middle country: 13.7516

  • Men (further years at 65)

    HighestGibraltar15.2096

    LowestNiger9.1860

    Middle country: 11.8902

031973 → 1974

Since 1973

What changed between 1973 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 184 · 38rose · 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 1974.

  • 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 (1974). Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1974 [data set], describing 1974. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy-at-65/1974

0674 held

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1974: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy at 65 in Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1974?

Gibraltar, at 16.4870, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1974 describe?

1974.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1974 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1974?

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, 1974 the newest?

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

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