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Life Expectancy at Birth, 1965

Figures for 1965, as UN DESA Population Division published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1965 covers 222 countries. Faroe Islands is highest, at 73.9610; South Sudan is lowest, at 28.7806. The middle country reads 59.0896. Against 1964, 222 values changed (194 up, 28 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Birth · Data for 1965

HighestFaroe Islands

73.9610

LowestSouth Sudan

28.7806

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, 1965, 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, 1965: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe73.9610
2SwedenSWENorthern Europe73.8726
3AndorraANDSouthern Europe73.8557
4IcelandISLNorthern Europe73.7964
5NorwayNORNorthern Europe73.7260
6San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe73.7227
7NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe73.6055
8MonacoMCOWestern Europe72.8663
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe72.3884
10SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe72.3180
11CanadaCANNorthern America71.7479
12LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe71.6943
13BelarusBLREastern Europe71.6312
14United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe71.5157
15GreeceGRCSouthern Europe71.4608
16BulgariaBGREastern Europe71.3063
17LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe71.2406
18LatviaLVANorthern Europe71.2237
19New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand71.2151
20UkraineUKREastern Europe71.1431
21FranceFRAWestern Europe71.1067
22SpainESPSouthern Europe70.9000
23AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand70.8021
24GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe70.7550
25EstoniaESTNorthern Europe70.7150

02In 1965

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Faroe Islands73.9610
  2. 2Sweden73.8726
  3. 3Andorra73.8557
  4. 4Iceland73.7964
  5. 5Norway73.7260

Lowest

  1. 222South Sudan28.7806
  2. 221Mali31.5285
  3. 220Timor-Leste34.6532
  4. 219Afghanistan35.1245
  5. 218Yemen35.5922

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 59.0896. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031964 → 1965

Since 1964

What changed between 1964 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 194 · 28rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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 (1965). Life Expectancy at Birth, 1965 [data set], describing 1965. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy/1965

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1965: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy in Life Expectancy at Birth, 1965?

Faroe Islands, at 73.9610, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1965 describe?

1965.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1965 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Birth, 1965?

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, 1965 the newest?

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

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