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Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1996

1996, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1996 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Monaco is highest, at 19.5553; Rwanda is lowest, at 10.2967. The middle country reads 14.1290. Against 1995, 222 values changed (166 up, 56 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Age 65 · Data for 1996

HighestMonaco

19.5553

LowestRwanda

10.2967

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, 1996, 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, 1996: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1MonacoMCOWestern Europe19.555322.445116.4934
2JapanJPNEastern Asia19.446021.438916.9787
3GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe19.282820.212917.8529
4AndorraANDSouthern Europe19.274921.984517.2343
5FranceFRAWestern Europe18.610820.711316.0748
6Hong KongHKGEastern Asia18.516620.450716.4830
7SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe18.505520.257816.3350
8SpainESPSouthern Europe18.369920.214416.1921
9GuamGUMMicronesia18.259319.574116.9257
10ItalyITASouthern Europe18.117919.955315.8845
11CanadaCANNorthern America18.052019.841615.9689
12IsraelISRWestern Asia18.038318.981616.9267
13San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe18.011519.500516.2925
14SwedenSWENorthern Europe18.010119.713816.0866
15AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand17.983719.772715.9877
16Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe17.841919.914815.4097
17IcelandISLNorthern Europe17.745919.218716.1790
18NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.597519.452815.4811
19United StatesUSANorthern America17.547519.101415.6451
20GreeceGRCSouthern Europe17.520719.020915.8621
21LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe17.462019.714914.7971
22BermudaBMUNorthern America17.416319.833914.6928
23Costa RicaCRICentral America17.328618.528716.0184
24BelgiumBELWestern Europe17.279619.226614.9394
25EcuadorECUSouth America17.241518.670515.5650

02In 1996

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Monaco19.5553
  2. 2Japan19.4460
  3. 3Gibraltar19.2828
  4. 4Andorra19.2749
  5. 5France18.6108

Lowest

  1. 222Rwanda10.2967
  2. 221South Sudan10.3743
  3. 220Burundi10.4975
  4. 219Mali10.9466
  5. 218Timor-Leste11.0328

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 14.1290. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Women (further years at 65)

    HighestMonaco22.4451

    LowestRwanda10.4970

    Middle country: 15.1964

  • Men (further years at 65)

    HighestGibraltar17.8529

    LowestSouth Sudan9.8036

    Middle country: 12.7738

031995 → 1996

Since 1995

What changed between 1995 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 166 · 56rose · 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 1996.

  • 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 (1996). Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1996 [data set], describing 1996. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy-at-65/1996

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1996: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy at 65 in Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1996?

Monaco, at 19.5553, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1996 describe?

1996.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1996 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1996?

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, 1996 the newest?

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

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