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Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1997

1997, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1997 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Monaco is highest, at 19.6990; Rwanda is lowest, at 10.3067. The middle country reads 14.0981. Against 1996, 222 values changed (169 up, 53 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Age 65 · Data for 1997

HighestMonaco

19.6990

LowestRwanda

10.3067

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, 1997, 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, 1997: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1MonacoMCOWestern Europe19.699022.567816.6541
2JapanJPNEastern Asia19.598821.654717.0754
3GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe19.493720.353618.1788
4AndorraANDSouthern Europe19.366322.133417.2913
5FranceFRAWestern Europe18.783320.865016.2637
6Hong KongHKGEastern Asia18.709720.636216.6913
7SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe18.618420.318916.5017
8SpainESPSouthern Europe18.534520.396216.3409
9GuamGUMMicronesia18.463619.900417.0136
10San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe18.236919.733916.5141
11ItalyITASouthern Europe18.192920.006315.9894
12AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand18.185519.889316.2744
13SwedenSWENorthern Europe18.167819.879016.2350
14IcelandISLNorthern Europe18.154819.940516.3318
15CanadaCANNorthern America18.109619.848916.0830
16IsraelISRWestern Asia18.030519.072016.8036
17GreeceGRCSouthern Europe17.757419.198716.1428
18BermudaBMUNorthern America17.698720.123314.9412
19Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe17.629519.578015.3323
20United StatesUSANorthern America17.618819.154015.7464
21New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand17.617619.309615.7034
22NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.596619.390915.5449
23BelgiumBELWestern Europe17.446619.349315.1494
24LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe17.431619.733814.7394
25MacauMACEastern Asia17.408718.955015.5051

02In 1997

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Monaco19.6990
  2. 2Japan19.5988
  3. 3Gibraltar19.4937
  4. 4Andorra19.3663
  5. 5France18.7833

Lowest

  1. 222Rwanda10.3067
  2. 221South Sudan10.5278
  3. 220Burundi10.7329
  4. 219Burkina Faso11.0140
  5. 218Mali11.0209

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 14.0981. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Women (further years at 65)

    HighestMonaco22.5678

    LowestRwanda10.5529

    Middle country: 15.2054

  • Men (further years at 65)

    HighestGibraltar18.1788

    LowestRwanda9.9890

    Middle country: 12.7824

031996 → 1997

Since 1996

What changed between 1996 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 169 · 53rose · 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 1997.

  • 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 (1997). Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1997 [data set], describing 1997. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy-at-65/1997

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1997: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy at 65 in Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1997?

Monaco, at 19.6990, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1997 describe?

1997.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1997 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1997?

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, 1997 the newest?

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

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