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Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1980

1980, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1980 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Iceland is highest, at 17.2852; Timor-Leste is lowest, at 9.1104. The middle country reads 13.2055. Against 1979, 222 values changed (176 up, 46 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Age 65 · Data for 1980

HighestIceland

17.2852

LowestTimor-Leste

9.1104

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, 1980, 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, 1980: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1IcelandISLNorthern Europe17.285218.962815.5663
2AndorraANDSouthern Europe16.962319.768414.7834
3GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe16.801117.730615.3935
4Puerto RicoPRICaribbean16.729517.812015.6689
5CanadaCANNorthern America16.683818.735814.4883
6San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe16.426018.037314.6818
7SpainESPSouthern Europe16.422017.866814.6334
8United StatesUSANorthern America16.395118.311714.1130
9SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe16.377518.079314.2976
10FranceFRAWestern Europe16.315418.229013.9504
11NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe16.272518.339613.9380
12NorwayNORNorthern Europe16.254518.030214.2897
13JapanJPNEastern Asia16.250717.663314.5765
14SwedenSWENorthern Europe16.198117.956414.3198
15Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe16.033917.431414.7060
16AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand16.008218.026213.7589
17MonacoMCOWestern Europe15.926217.558513.9676
18LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe15.800517.241614.0234
19GreeceGRCSouthern Europe15.769617.144714.4652
20CubaCUBCaribbean15.764217.320514.5492
21Hong KongHKGEastern Asia15.713917.199713.6648
22DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe15.680917.553113.6316
23Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe15.616417.165013.7258
24ItalyITASouthern Europe15.455317.106713.5130
25LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe15.450516.842613.4849

02In 1980

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Iceland17.2852
  2. 2Andorra16.9623
  3. 3Gibraltar16.8011
  4. 4Puerto Rico16.7295
  5. 5Canada16.6838

Lowest

  1. 222Timor-Leste9.1104
  2. 221Afghanistan9.9524
  3. 220Mali10.1458
  4. 219South Sudan10.2757
  5. 218Niger10.3608

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 13.2055. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

031979 → 1980

Since 1979

What changed between 1979 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 176 · 46rose · 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 1980.

  • 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 (1980). Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1980 [data set], describing 1980. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy-at-65/1980

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1980: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy at 65 in Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1980?

Iceland, at 17.2852, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1980 describe?

1980.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1980 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1980?

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, 1980 the newest?

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

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