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Report year 1950Data year 1950
Years a newborn would live at current death ratesHigher is better — rank 1 leadsPublished by UN DESA Population Division
74 editions, 1950 to 2023, imported from the UN Population Division's own demographic-indicators CSV. ⚠ ESTIMATES ONLY: World Population Prospects publishes through 2100, and everything from 2024 on is a projection carrying eighteen variants, so the series stops at the last measured year. ⚠ Not the World Bank's version of this series: the Bank blends the UN's estimates with national statistical offices and Eurostat, while this is the one compilation that measures every country the same way. The UN publishes no rank, so the position shown here is this site's own ordering of the published figure.
World Population Prospects 2024: life expectancy at birth, 1950 — UN DESA Population Division
Cite as: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. New York: United Nations.
Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO
Life expectancy at birth for both sexes, as published by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, in World Population Prospects 2024. Read from the Population Division's own CSV download rather than from a redistributor: the World Bank's version of this series blends the UN's estimates with national statistical offices and Eurostat, while this is the one compilation that measures every country the same way. ⚠ ESTIMATES ONLY: WPP publishes 1950–2100, and everything from 2024 on is a projection carrying eighteen variants, so the series stops at 2023. ⚠ A life expectancy at birth is not a forecast of how long anyone will live: it is how long a newborn would live if today's death rates held for their whole life, so it falls sharply in a year of famine or war and recovers as sharply afterwards. The UN ranks nobody on it; any position shown here is this site's own ordering of the published figure.
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