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Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1985

1985, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1985 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Japan is highest, at 17.4814; Afghanistan is lowest, at 8.4287. The middle country reads 13.4652. Against 1984, 222 values changed (170 up, 52 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Age 65 · Data for 1985

HighestJapan

17.4814

LowestAfghanistan

8.4287

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, 1985, 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, 1985: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1JapanJPNEastern Asia17.481418.999615.6107
2GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe17.437618.450715.8959
3AndorraANDSouthern Europe17.383720.600515.1198
4IcelandISLNorthern Europe17.258518.606915.8104
5MonacoMCOWestern Europe17.172919.179114.8597
6SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe17.156219.021314.9020
7CanadaCANNorthern America17.116319.167614.8365
8LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe16.939019.244914.3292
9SpainESPSouthern Europe16.837118.391514.9158
10FranceFRAWestern Europe16.832618.787214.4400
11San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe16.798518.332515.1219
12United StatesUSANorthern America16.707018.577314.4481
13SwedenSWENorthern Europe16.672118.526814.6711
14Hong KongHKGEastern Asia16.596418.058914.7100
15GreeceGRCSouthern Europe16.588517.766215.3128
16Puerto RicoPRICaribbean16.535517.628415.4202
17IsraelISRWestern Asia16.508217.261015.7058
18NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe16.502018.639514.0261
19NorwayNORNorthern Europe16.459318.395314.3160
20AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand16.346018.178914.2627
21Costa RicaCRICentral America16.226617.231315.1521
22Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe16.218317.918914.6127
23Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe16.176817.926614.1103
24ItalyITASouthern Europe16.170617.837814.1644
25CubaCUBCaribbean16.142417.215915.1880

02In 1985

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Japan17.4814
  2. 2Gibraltar17.4376
  3. 3Andorra17.3837
  4. 4Iceland17.2585
  5. 5Monaco17.1729

Lowest

  1. 222Afghanistan8.4287
  2. 221Timor-Leste9.8010
  3. 220South Sudan9.9309
  4. 219Eritrea10.0595
  5. 218Ethiopia10.3574

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 13.4652. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

031984 → 1985

Since 1984

What changed between 1984 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 170 · 52rose · 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 1985.

  • 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 (1985). Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1985 [data set], describing 1985. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy-at-65/1985

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1985: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy at 65 in Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1985?

Japan, at 17.4814, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1985 describe?

1985.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1985 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1985?

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, 1985 the newest?

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

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