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Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1987

1987, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1987 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Monaco is highest, at 18.2841; South Sudan is lowest, at 8.4822. The middle country reads 13.6845. Against 1986, 222 values changed (172 up, 50 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Age 65 · Data for 1987

HighestMonaco

18.2841

LowestSouth Sudan

8.4822

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, 1987, 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, 1987: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1MonacoMCOWestern Europe18.284120.35715.8609
2JapanJPNEastern Asia18.138319.70216.1664
3GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe17.794118.92016.1137
4SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe17.504219.35115.2585
5LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe17.491919.83614.7789
6AndorraANDSouthern Europe17.477120.87315.1771
7FranceFRAWestern Europe17.442119.44814.9734
8SpainESPSouthern Europe17.412218.99215.4573
9CanadaCANNorthern America17.382019.36415.1277
10IcelandISLNorthern Europe17.351518.97815.6488
11Hong KongHKGEastern Asia17.129018.79615.0188
12SwedenSWENorthern Europe17.027018.89114.9945
13United StatesUSANorthern America16.890318.70314.6802
14San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe16.862018.33915.2199
15NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe16.860119.02714.3162
16ItalyITASouthern Europe16.753618.47114.6609
17Puerto RicoPRICaribbean16.732818.02115.4259
18IsraelISRWestern Asia16.732117.64715.7653
19AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand16.715918.59914.5875
20NorwayNORNorthern Europe16.602918.57114.4116
21GreeceGRCSouthern Europe16.559417.76715.2332
22Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe16.551518.41514.3724
23GuamGUMMicronesia16.548517.84315.1682
24Costa RicaCRICentral America16.532917.65015.3428
25Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe16.349018.07514.6959

02In 1987

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Monaco18.2841
  2. 2Japan18.1383
  3. 3Gibraltar17.7941
  4. 4Switzerland17.5042
  5. 5Liechtenstein17.4919

Lowest

  1. 222South Sudan8.4822
  2. 221Afghanistan9.6390
  3. 220Timor-Leste10.0317
  4. 219Angola10.5559
  5. 218Mali10.7415

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 13.6845. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Women (further years at 65)

    HighestAndorra20.873

    LowestSouth Sudan8.913

    Middle country: 14.689

  • Men (further years at 65)

    HighestJapan16.1664

    LowestSouth Sudan7.9797

    Middle country: 12.4609

031986 → 1987

Since 1986

What changed between 1986 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 172 · 50rose · 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 1987.

  • 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 (1987). Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1987 [data set], describing 1987. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy-at-65/1987

0674 held

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1987: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy at 65 in Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1987?

Monaco, at 18.2841, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1987 describe?

1987.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1987 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1987?

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, 1987 the newest?

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

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