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Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2001

2001, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2001 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Monaco is highest, at 20.4708; Zimbabwe is lowest, at 10.9385. The middle country reads 14.4207. Against 2000, 221 values changed (197 up, 24 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Age 65 · Data for 2001

HighestMonaco

20.4708

LowestZimbabwe

10.9385

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, 2001, 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, 2001: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1MonacoMCOWestern Europe20.470823.300417.4734
2JapanJPNEastern Asia20.389522.597517.7329
3GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe20.277721.132519.0097
4AndorraANDSouthern Europe20.088322.468818.1620
5Hong KongHKGEastern Asia19.571921.596017.4489
6FranceFRAWestern Europe19.331921.379816.8541
7SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe19.291920.990417.1977
8IcelandISLNorthern Europe19.238720.886817.4929
9AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand19.136620.737017.3397
10SpainESPSouthern Europe19.052220.945216.8399
11San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe18.993420.411917.3576
12ItalyITASouthern Europe18.925020.709216.7411
13CanadaCANNorthern America18.792820.375716.9241
14IsraelISRWestern Asia18.737919.842117.4199
15Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe18.656120.567716.3389
16SwedenSWENorthern Europe18.565620.027416.8800
17BermudaBMUNorthern America18.501420.976915.7429
18AustriaAUTWestern Europe18.325619.826716.2638
19LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe18.295120.298815.8322
20ChileCHLSouth America18.256219.840516.3172
21French PolynesiaPYFPolynesia18.241820.137416.3000
22New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand18.240119.774516.4998
23MacauMACEastern Asia18.204419.778816.3016
24NorwayNORNorthern Europe18.122519.797716.1886
25GreeceGRCSouthern Europe18.055319.576716.3582

02In 2001

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Monaco20.4708
  2. 2Japan20.3895
  3. 3Gibraltar20.2777
  4. 4Andorra20.0883
  5. 5Hong Kong19.5719

Lowest

  1. 222Zimbabwe10.9385
  2. 221Lesotho11.0920
  3. 220Sierra Leone11.1611
  4. 219Togo11.1690
  5. 218Burkina Faso11.1700

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 14.4207. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Women (further years at 65)

    HighestMonaco23.3004

    LowestTogo11.3530

    Middle country: 15.6718

  • Men (further years at 65)

    HighestGibraltar19.0097

    LowestLesotho10.0742

    Middle country: 13.0806

032000 → 2001

Since 2000

What changed between 2000 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 221values changed, of 222 in both
  • 197 · 24rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

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 2001.

  • 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 (2001). Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2001 [data set], describing 2001. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy-at-65/2001

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2001: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy at 65 in Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2001?

Monaco, at 20.4708, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2001 describe?

2001.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2001 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2001?

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, 2001 the newest?

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

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