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Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1984

1984, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1984 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Iceland is highest, at 17.3994; Afghanistan is lowest, at 8.3297. The middle country reads 13.3970. Against 1983, 222 values changed (183 up, 39 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Age 65 · Data for 1984

HighestIceland

17.3994

LowestAfghanistan

8.3297

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, 1984, 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, 1984: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1IcelandISLNorthern Europe17.399418.755815.9288
2AndorraANDSouthern Europe17.340620.483415.0906
3JapanJPNEastern Asia17.314718.795115.5005
4GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe17.288218.254415.7973
5CanadaCANNorthern America17.178219.211414.9178
6SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe17.165318.981314.9560
7SpainESPSouthern Europe17.002018.560715.0669
8FranceFRAWestern Europe16.862318.794514.4776
9SwedenSWENorthern Europe16.837718.701714.8200
10Puerto RicoPRICaribbean16.787017.803215.7456
11San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe16.770918.329415.0592
12United StatesUSANorthern America16.748218.625314.4767
13MonacoMCOWestern Europe16.661818.646614.4010
14LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe16.623818.776314.1719
15NorwayNORNorthern Europe16.620918.594214.4413
16NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe16.532018.673514.0588
17AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand16.457018.350814.2995
18GreeceGRCSouthern Europe16.405917.686115.0604
19IsraelISRWestern Asia16.324717.269915.3506
20Hong KongHKGEastern Asia16.217617.614414.4150
21ItalyITASouthern Europe16.207917.896514.1822
22CubaCUBCaribbean16.191517.337115.1941
23Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe16.174417.837514.6140
24Costa RicaCRICentral America16.158617.237615.0243
25BahamasBHSCaribbean16.050417.749214.1651

02In 1984

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Iceland17.3994
  2. 2Andorra17.3406
  3. 3Japan17.3147
  4. 4Gibraltar17.2882
  5. 5Canada17.1782

Lowest

  1. 222Afghanistan8.3297
  2. 221South Sudan9.7894
  3. 220Timor-Leste9.8494
  4. 219Eritrea9.9241
  5. 218Ethiopia10.1945

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 13.3970. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Women (further years at 65)

    HighestAndorra20.4834

    LowestAfghanistan8.9313

    Middle country: 14.4679

  • Men (further years at 65)

    HighestIceland15.9288

    LowestAfghanistan7.7602

    Middle country: 12.2629

031983 → 1984

Since 1983

What changed between 1983 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 183 · 39rose · 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 1984.

  • 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 (1984). Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1984 [data set], describing 1984. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy-at-65/1984

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1984: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy at 65 in Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1984?

Iceland, at 17.3994, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1984 describe?

1984.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1984 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1984?

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, 1984 the newest?

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

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