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Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2008

2008, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Life expectancy at 65 is how many more years a person who has reached 65 would live if that year's death rates held for the rest of their life. Because it starts the count after childhood, it measures old-age health directly, free of the child deaths that pull life expectancy at birth down in poorer countries.

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2008 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Monaco is highest, at 21.3710; Lesotho is lowest, at 10.5325. The middle country reads 15.1043. Against 2007, 222 values changed (204 up, 18 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Age 65 · Data for 2008

HighestMonaco

21.3710

LowestLesotho

10.5325

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, 2008, 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, 2008: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1MonacoMCOWestern Europe21.371023.882318.8245
2AndorraANDSouthern Europe21.326423.316119.6254
3JapanJPNEastern Asia21.189723.523118.4965
4GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe21.004622.490019.1792
5FranceFRAWestern Europe20.544722.467318.2086
6Hong KongHKGEastern Asia20.494522.645018.3295
7San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe20.456921.848518.8394
8SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe20.365321.809118.5923
9AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand20.045021.484718.4775
10SpainESPSouthern Europe20.002921.838317.8922
11LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe19.985721.785717.8273
12ItalyITASouthern Europe19.969621.603017.9867
13IsraelISRWestern Asia19.879520.850718.7138
14CanadaCANNorthern America19.800321.241118.1181
15Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe19.638021.414017.4939
16United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia19.575220.135919.2931
17SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia19.531621.284617.5149
18Costa RicaCRICentral America19.460920.871217.8791
19SwedenSWENorthern Europe19.449820.802217.9223
20FinlandFINNorthern Europe19.377421.040217.3017
21IcelandISLNorthern Europe19.361720.430918.2072
22AustriaAUTWestern Europe19.348620.782217.5203
23New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand19.341820.596417.9459
24Isle of ManIMNNorthern Europe19.291020.268818.1258
25NorwayNORNorthern Europe19.262020.778217.5122

02In 2008

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Monaco21.3710
  2. 2Andorra21.3264
  3. 3Japan21.1897
  4. 4Gibraltar21.0046
  5. 5France20.5447

Lowest

  1. 222Lesotho10.5325
  2. 221Nauru11.0652
  3. 220Togo11.3050
  4. 219Mozambique11.4065
  5. 218Eswatini11.4179

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 15.1043. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Women (further years at 65)

    HighestMonaco23.8823

    LowestLesotho11.3388

    Middle country: 16.4568

  • Men (further years at 65)

    HighestAndorra19.6254

    LowestLesotho9.4995

    Middle country: 13.5723

032007 → 2008

Since 2007

What changed between 2007 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 204 · 18rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Myanmar12.7431 → 12.1782−0.5649
  • Venezuela16.9306 → 16.7516−0.1790
  • Iceland19.4783 → 19.3617−0.1166
  • Benin13.3577 → 13.2684−0.0893
  • Monaco21.4417 → 21.3710−0.0707

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 2008.

  • 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.

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Cite this edition

UN DESA Population Division (2008). Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2008 [data set], describing 2008. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy-at-65/2008

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