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Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2016

2016, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2016 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Monaco is highest, at 22.6508; South Sudan is lowest, at 9.7296. The middle country reads 15.9811. Against 2015, 222 values changed (193 up, 29 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Age 65 · Data for 2016

HighestMonaco

22.6508

LowestSouth Sudan

9.7296

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, 2016, 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, 2016: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1MonacoMCOWestern Europe22.650824.877920.7007
2Hong KongHKGEastern Asia22.237724.459120.0283
3JapanJPNEastern Asia22.070124.356719.5214
4San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe21.869623.196220.3300
5AndorraANDSouthern Europe21.813623.451120.1546
6GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe21.760923.451419.8452
7FranceFRAWestern Europe21.424623.234819.2927
8MaltaMLTSouthern Europe21.300222.637419.6670
9SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe21.248922.521519.7450
10AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand21.150622.450719.7761
11SpainESPSouthern Europe21.096322.959719.0041
12CanadaCANNorthern America20.919522.207819.4617
13ItalyITASouthern Europe20.908122.412219.1386
14SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia20.798722.354419.0309
15IsraelISRWestern Asia20.740321.730819.6042
16Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe20.666622.243318.7958
17LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe20.648922.091919.0145
18New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand20.612921.730619.4000
19South KoreaKOREastern Asia20.609322.786317.8590
20LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe20.415622.031218.5967
21French PolynesiaPYFPolynesia20.398922.489818.4156
22NorwayNORNorthern Europe20.391821.572219.0590
23MacauMACEastern Asia20.382122.387618.3224
24Puerto RicoPRICaribbean20.334121.957218.5271
25SwedenSWENorthern Europe20.293421.462619.0100

02In 2016

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Monaco22.6508
  2. 2Hong Kong22.2377
  3. 3Japan22.0701
  4. 4San Marino21.8696
  5. 5Andorra21.8136

Lowest

  1. 222South Sudan9.7296
  2. 221Central African Republic11.6819
  3. 220Fiji11.7219
  4. 219Togo11.7360
  5. 218Chad11.7405

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 15.9811. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Women (further years at 65)

    HighestMonaco24.8779

    LowestSouth Sudan10.2496

    Middle country: 17.3667

  • Men (further years at 65)

    HighestMonaco20.7007

    LowestSouth Sudan9.1094

    Middle country: 14.1963

032015 → 2016

Since 2015

What changed between 2015 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 193 · 29rose · 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 2016.

  • 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 (2016). Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2016 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy-at-65/2016

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2016: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy at 65 in Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2016?

Monaco, at 22.6508, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2016 describe?

2016.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2016 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2016?

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, 2016 the newest?

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

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