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Life Expectancy at Birth, 1966

Figures for 1966, as UN DESA Population Division published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1966 covers 222 countries. Faroe Islands is highest, at 74.1634; South Sudan is lowest, at 25.6329. The middle country reads 59.3764. Against 1965, 222 values changed (199 up, 23 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Birth · Data for 1966

HighestFaroe Islands

74.1634

LowestSouth Sudan

25.6329

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, 1966, 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, 1966: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe74.1634
2SwedenSWENorthern Europe74.1010
3AndorraANDSouthern Europe74.0199
4NorwayNORNorthern Europe74.0066
5San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe73.8391
6NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe73.5541
7IcelandISLNorthern Europe73.1407
8MonacoMCOWestern Europe73.0300
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe72.4665
10SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe72.4497
11LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe71.8729
12CanadaCANNorthern America71.8676
13GreeceGRCSouthern Europe71.8588
14BelarusBLREastern Europe71.7979
15LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe71.6387
16FranceFRAWestern Europe71.5138
17United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe71.4329
18BulgariaBGREastern Europe71.2179
19LatviaLVANorthern Europe71.1798
20GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe71.1780
21UkraineUKREastern Europe71.1629
22SpainESPSouthern Europe71.1603
23New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand71.0730
24JapanJPNEastern Asia71.0552
25ItalyITASouthern Europe70.9989

02In 1966

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Faroe Islands74.1634
  2. 2Sweden74.1010
  3. 3Andorra74.0199
  4. 4Norway74.0066
  5. 5San Marino73.8391

Lowest

  1. 222South Sudan25.6329
  2. 221Mali31.7920
  3. 220Timor-Leste35.1737
  4. 219Afghanistan35.5831
  5. 218Malawi35.8305

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 59.3764. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031965 → 1966

Since 1965

What changed between 1965 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 199 · 23rose · 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 (1966). Life Expectancy at Birth, 1966 [data set], describing 1966. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy/1966

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1966: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy in Life Expectancy at Birth, 1966?

Faroe Islands, at 74.1634, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1966 describe?

1966.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1966 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Birth, 1966?

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, 1966 the newest?

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

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