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Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2005

2005, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2005 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Monaco is highest, at 21.7960; Lesotho is lowest, at 10.4631. The middle country reads 14.7745. Against 2004, 222 values changed (185 up, 37 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Age 65 · Data for 2005

HighestMonaco

21.7960

LowestLesotho

10.4631

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, 2005, 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, 2005: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1MonacoMCOWestern Europe21.796024.496918.904
2JapanJPNEastern Asia20.767923.083718.062
3AndorraANDSouthern Europe20.759522.547619.188
4GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe20.647521.832419.074
5FranceFRAWestern Europe20.014222.013117.589
6Hong KongHKGEastern Asia19.990922.073817.854
7AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand19.925321.433918.246
8SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe19.893421.458317.965
9San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe19.798421.182718.198
10IcelandISLNorthern Europe19.561720.755418.244
11ItalyITASouthern Europe19.540421.253217.453
12LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe19.490521.357917.238
13CanadaCANNorthern America19.359920.826917.633
14New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand19.355020.634317.870
15SpainESPSouthern Europe19.306221.194317.138
16IsraelISRWestern Asia19.265920.251818.075
17United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia19.167419.686218.822
18Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe19.158420.979916.943
19SwedenSWENorthern Europe19.065120.571717.362
20Costa RicaCRICentral America19.060620.412217.538
21NorwayNORNorthern Europe19.018720.630917.144
22SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia18.996521.194016.627
23FinlandFINNorthern Europe18.989720.725216.759
24AustriaAUTWestern Europe18.844220.300816.935
25ChileCHLSouth America18.800820.292517.036

02In 2005

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Monaco21.7960
  2. 2Japan20.7679
  3. 3Andorra20.7595
  4. 4Gibraltar20.6475
  5. 5France20.0142

Lowest

  1. 222Lesotho10.4631
  2. 221Eswatini11.0296
  3. 220Nauru11.0361
  4. 219Togo11.2610
  5. 218Zimbabwe11.3268

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 14.7745. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Women (further years at 65)

    HighestMonaco24.4969

    LowestLesotho11.2070

    Middle country: 16.0412

  • Men (further years at 65)

    HighestAndorra19.188

    LowestLesotho9.521

    Middle country: 13.309

032004 → 2005

Since 2004

What changed between 2004 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 185 · 37rose · 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 2005.

  • 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 (2005). Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2005 [data set], describing 2005. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy-at-65/2005

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2005: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy at 65 in Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2005?

Monaco, at 21.7960, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2005 describe?

2005.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2005 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2005?

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, 2005 the newest?

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

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