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Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2021

2021, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2021 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Hong Kong is highest, at 22.788; Central African Republic is lowest, at 9.263. The middle country reads 14.674. Against 2020, 222 values changed (78 up, 144 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Age 65 · Data for 2021

HighestHong Kong

22.788

LowestCentral African Republic

9.263

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, 2021, 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, 2021: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1Hong KongHKGEastern Asia22.78823.797221.7886
2JapanJPNEastern Asia22.40724.755419.8820
3MonacoMCOWestern Europe22.03323.891020.4005
4AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand21.83623.018420.5890
5South KoreaKOREastern Asia21.65023.828718.9857
6SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia21.53123.141519.7341
7SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe21.36522.700919.8674
8Puerto RicoPRICaribbean21.25722.566519.7366
9FranceFRAWestern Europe21.19923.094019.0586
10CanadaCANNorthern America21.09922.507719.5825
11MacauMACEastern Asia21.07422.149519.9704
12IcelandISLNorthern Europe21.04821.786920.2717
13SpainESPSouthern Europe20.99322.939318.8593
14New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand20.96622.050519.8114
15San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe20.91122.390719.3534
16NorwayNORNorthern Europe20.82621.851019.7097
17SwedenSWENorthern Europe20.75621.982319.4468
18ItalyITASouthern Europe20.75522.284919.0402
19Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe20.70422.359518.8503
20MaltaMLTSouthern Europe20.60721.878419.1564
21IsraelISRWestern Asia20.58921.784719.2401
22LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe20.45422.027718.7610
23LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe20.45221.975518.8021
24BermudaBMUNorthern America20.40323.026417.5937
25FinlandFINNorthern Europe20.29821.940818.4620

02In 2021

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Hong Kong22.788
  2. 2Japan22.407
  3. 3Monaco22.033
  4. 4Australia21.836
  5. 5South Korea21.650

Lowest

  1. 222Central African Republic9.263
  2. 221Bolivia10.481
  3. 220Fiji10.805
  4. 219Egypt11.101
  5. 218Mozambique11.321

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 14.674. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032020 → 2021

Since 2020

What changed between 2020 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 78 · 144rose · 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 2021.

  • 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 (2021). Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy-at-65/2021

0674 held

Other years

07Questions

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2021: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy at 65 in Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2021?

Hong Kong, at 22.788, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2021 describe?

2021.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2021 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2021?

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, 2021 the newest?

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

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