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Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2002

2002, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2002 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Monaco is highest, at 20.8867; Lesotho is lowest, at 10.8769. The middle country reads 14.4519. Against 2001, 222 values changed (187 up, 35 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Age 65 · Data for 2002

HighestMonaco

20.8867

LowestLesotho

10.8769

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, 2002, 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, 2002: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1MonacoMCOWestern Europe20.886723.857017.7684
2JapanJPNEastern Asia20.614822.866117.9155
3GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe20.385621.292819.0607
4AndorraANDSouthern Europe20.290922.441918.4988
5Hong KongHKGEastern Asia19.721221.755417.5956
6FranceFRAWestern Europe19.411621.407416.9923
7SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe19.407220.990217.4408
8San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe19.183220.589817.5607
9IcelandISLNorthern Europe19.150820.604917.6051
10AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand19.105920.710317.3237
11SpainESPSouthern Europe19.086620.982016.8862
12ItalyITASouthern Europe19.056520.824716.8946
13CanadaCANNorthern America18.871420.431317.0377
14IsraelISRWestern Asia18.786719.766217.6032
15Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe18.715820.603816.4290
16LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe18.626820.529616.2670
17BermudaBMUNorthern America18.579121.041815.8211
18SwedenSWENorthern Europe18.542819.990116.8859
19ChileCHLSouth America18.501920.144316.5061
20French PolynesiaPYFPolynesia18.388320.303416.4186
21New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand18.384819.823016.7374
22MacauMACEastern Asia18.371219.937316.4864
23Puerto RicoPRICaribbean18.335519.709316.7714
24AustriaAUTWestern Europe18.294019.764416.2945
25Costa RicaCRICentral America18.288719.626216.8035

02In 2002

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Monaco20.8867
  2. 2Japan20.6148
  3. 3Gibraltar20.3856
  4. 4Andorra20.2909
  5. 5Hong Kong19.7212

Lowest

  1. 222Lesotho10.8769
  2. 221Togo11.1810
  3. 220Zimbabwe11.1904
  4. 219Burkina Faso11.1917
  5. 218Sierra Leone11.1984

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 14.4519. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Women (further years at 65)

    HighestMonaco23.8570

    LowestTogo11.3580

    Middle country: 15.7769

  • Men (further years at 65)

    HighestGibraltar19.0607

    LowestLesotho9.8848

    Middle country: 13.2103

032001 → 2002

Since 2001

What changed between 2001 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 187 · 35rose · 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 2002.

  • 221 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 4 decimals. 2 countries share 12.9646. 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 (2002). Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2002 [data set], describing 2002. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy-at-65/2002

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2002: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy at 65 in Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2002?

Monaco, at 20.8867, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2002 describe?

2002.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2002 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2002?

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, 2002 the newest?

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

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