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Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2010

2010, 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, 2010 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Monaco is highest, at 21.9437; Haiti is lowest, at 10.5874. The middle country reads 15.2244. Against 2009, 222 values changed (197 up, 25 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Age 65 · Data for 2010

HighestMonaco

21.9437

LowestHaiti

10.5874

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, 2010, 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, 2010: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1MonacoMCOWestern Europe21.943723.91619.9140
2AndorraANDSouthern Europe21.582823.61719.8383
3JapanJPNEastern Asia21.380423.72918.7004
4GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe21.352322.92419.4562
5Hong KongHKGEastern Asia20.914323.09318.7461
6San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe20.860422.24219.2429
7FranceFRAWestern Europe20.823622.71718.5375
8AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand20.526721.91619.0110
9SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe20.512121.98318.7441
10SpainESPSouthern Europe20.478822.36518.3219
11IsraelISRWestern Asia20.402221.45919.1473
12ItalyITASouthern Europe20.277121.89518.3260
13CanadaCANNorthern America20.252621.61018.6632
14LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe20.098621.80618.1035
15MaltaMLTSouthern Europe20.035721.39018.3377
16New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand19.989621.18018.6580
17SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia19.880621.42618.0975
18IcelandISLNorthern Europe19.756821.20418.2473
19Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe19.740821.43817.7058
20Isle of ManIMNNorthern Europe19.715020.67618.5845
21United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia19.705620.10619.3478
22SwedenSWENorthern Europe19.684421.00318.2052
23Costa RicaCRICentral America19.626321.01218.0704
24NorwayNORNorthern Europe19.541220.98417.8880
25AustriaAUTWestern Europe19.524921.02017.6856

02In 2010

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Monaco21.9437
  2. 2Andorra21.5828
  3. 3Japan21.3804
  4. 4Gibraltar21.3523
  5. 5Hong Kong20.9143

Lowest

  1. 222Haiti10.5874
  2. 221Lesotho10.8805
  3. 220Central African Republic11.0006
  4. 219Nauru11.1799
  5. 218Togo11.3680

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 15.2244. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Women (further years at 65)

    HighestMonaco23.916

    LowestHaiti11.015

    Middle country: 16.604

  • Men (further years at 65)

    HighestMonaco19.9140

    LowestLesotho9.7325

    Middle country: 13.7397

032009 → 2010

Since 2009

What changed between 2009 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 197 · 25rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Haiti12.7128 → 10.5874−2.1254
  • Somalia12.4476 → 11.9676−0.4800
  • Argentina17.5272 → 17.3404−0.1868
  • Albania18.3900 → 18.2454−0.1446
  • Japan21.4799 → 21.3804−0.0995

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 2010.

  • 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 (2010). Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2010 [data set], describing 2010. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy-at-65/2010

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