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Life Expectancy at Birth, 1960

Figures for 1960, as UN DESA Population Division published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1960 covers 222 countries. Iceland is highest, at 74.0493; South Sudan is lowest, at 28.0538. The middle country reads 56.6020. Against 1959, 222 values changed (208 up, 14 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Birth · Data for 1960

HighestIceland

74.0493

LowestSouth Sudan

28.0538

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 Birth, 1960, 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 Birth, 1960: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1IcelandISLNorthern Europe74.0493
2NorwayNORNorthern Europe73.5639
3NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe73.3538
4San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe73.1971
5SwedenSWENorthern Europe73.0365
6DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe72.1960
7AndorraANDSouthern Europe72.0941
8Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe72.0184
9MonacoMCOWestern Europe71.8614
10SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe71.4137
11New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand71.2235
12United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe71.0251
13CanadaCANNorthern America70.9728
14LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe70.8957
15AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand70.8652
16GreeceGRCSouthern Europe70.5236
17CzechiaCZEEastern Europe70.4521
18FranceFRAWestern Europe70.3675
19SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe70.3364
20LatviaLVANorthern Europe70.3316
21LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe70.2890
22GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe70.2091
23IrelandIRLNorthern Europe70.1705
24United StatesUSANorthern America69.8293
25IsraelISRWestern Asia69.7535

02In 1960

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Iceland74.0493
  2. 2Norway73.5639
  3. 3Netherlands73.3538
  4. 4San Marino73.1971
  5. 5Sweden73.0365

Lowest

  1. 222South Sudan28.0538
  2. 221Mali30.4589
  3. 220Timor-Leste32.4018
  4. 219Afghanistan32.7987
  5. 218Sierra Leone33.0904

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 56.6020. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031959 → 1960

Since 1959

What changed between 1959 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 208 · 14rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • China40.1699 → 33.4190−6.7509
  • Cameroon39.8041 → 34.6667−5.1374
  • Anguilla59.8471 → 58.8326−1.0145
  • Morocco42.6783 → 41.7302−0.9481
  • Belgium70.3138 → 69.6237−0.6901

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. 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

  • 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 (1960). Life Expectancy at Birth, 1960 [data set], describing 1960. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy/1960

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1960: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy in Life Expectancy at Birth, 1960?

Iceland, at 74.0493, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1960 describe?

1960.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1960 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Birth, 1960?

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 Birth, 1960 the newest?

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

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