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Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1998

1998, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1998 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Monaco is highest, at 19.859; South Sudan is lowest, at 7.966. The middle country reads 14.237. Against 1997, 222 values changed (167 up, 55 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Age 65 · Data for 1998

HighestMonaco

19.859

LowestSouth Sudan

7.966

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, 1998, 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, 1998: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1MonacoMCOWestern Europe19.85922.670716.8655
2JapanJPNEastern Asia19.75521.867617.1855
3GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe19.70720.522418.4663
4AndorraANDSouthern Europe19.47122.244717.3560
5Hong KongHKGEastern Asia18.90120.840316.8697
6FranceFRAWestern Europe18.84920.938716.3299
7SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe18.77520.566716.5673
8AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand18.52120.271416.5609
9SpainESPSouthern Europe18.45020.337916.2457
10San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe18.39319.922016.6455
11GuamGUMMicronesia18.28119.739516.8125
12SwedenSWENorthern Europe18.27219.995016.3291
13IcelandISLNorthern Europe18.25619.788716.6268
14New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand18.19619.838816.2960
15CanadaCANNorthern America18.18419.951116.1386
16ItalyITASouthern Europe18.15919.993115.9451
17IsraelISRWestern Asia18.00519.030016.7875
18BermudaBMUNorthern America17.94320.403215.1729
19NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.79819.607915.7332
20Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe17.73419.774715.3476
21GreeceGRCSouthern Europe17.65819.076116.0700
22United StatesUSANorthern America17.64419.120115.8446
23AustriaAUTWestern Europe17.58719.199715.3490
24MacauMACEastern Asia17.56919.119915.6642
25Costa RicaCRICentral America17.55518.890416.1102

02In 1998

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Monaco19.859
  2. 2Japan19.755
  3. 3Gibraltar19.707
  4. 4Andorra19.471
  5. 5Hong Kong18.901

Lowest

  1. 222South Sudan7.966
  2. 221Rwanda10.556
  3. 220Sierra Leone10.915
  4. 219Burundi10.977
  5. 218Timor-Leste11.042

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 14.237. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Women (further years at 65)

    HighestMonaco22.6707

    LowestSouth Sudan8.3490

    Middle country: 15.3782

  • Men (further years at 65)

    HighestGibraltar18.4663

    LowestSouth Sudan7.4751

    Middle country: 12.8651

031997 → 1998

Since 1997

What changed between 1997 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 167 · 55rose · 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 1998.

  • 221 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 4 decimals. 2 countries share 14.391. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • 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 (1998). Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1998 [data set], describing 1998. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy-at-65/1998

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1998: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy at 65 in Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1998?

Monaco, at 19.859, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1998 describe?

1998.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1998 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1998?

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, 1998 the newest?

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

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