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Life Expectancy at Birth, 1968

Figures for 1968, as UN DESA Population Division published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1968 covers 222 countries. Faroe Islands is highest, at 74.5535; South Sudan is lowest, at 26.1030. The middle country reads 60.7664. Against 1967, 222 values changed (185 up, 37 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Birth · Data for 1968

HighestFaroe Islands

74.5535

LowestSouth Sudan

26.1030

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, 1968, 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, 1968: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe74.5535
2AndorraANDSouthern Europe74.2199
3San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe74.0622
4SwedenSWENorthern Europe74.0005
5NorwayNORNorthern Europe73.9448
6IcelandISLNorthern Europe73.8982
7NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe73.6374
8MonacoMCOWestern Europe73.1696
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe73.1469
10SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe72.7054
11LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe72.3471
12CanadaCANNorthern America72.2375
13BelarusBLREastern Europe71.8652
14GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe71.7092
15United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe71.6842
16SpainESPSouthern Europe71.6743
17JapanJPNEastern Asia71.6718
18LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe71.6307
19FranceFRAWestern Europe71.4857
20GreeceGRCSouthern Europe71.4658
21BulgariaBGREastern Europe71.2001
22New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand71.0880
23UkraineUKREastern Europe70.9677
24IrelandIRLNorthern Europe70.8842
25ItalyITASouthern Europe70.8687

02In 1968

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Faroe Islands74.5535
  2. 2Andorra74.2199
  3. 3San Marino74.0622
  4. 4Sweden74.0005
  5. 5Norway73.9448

Lowest

  1. 222South Sudan26.1030
  2. 221Mali32.5682
  3. 220Malawi36.0850
  4. 219Niger36.1276
  5. 218Timor-Leste36.2408

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 60.7664. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031967 → 1968

Since 1967

What changed between 1967 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 185 · 37rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Palestine50.9362 → 54.0872+3.1510
  • India46.1835 → 47.9249+1.7414
  • Libya52.4615 → 53.8490+1.3875
  • Oman43.1773 → 44.3948+1.2175
  • Bahrain61.0362 → 62.2534+1.2172

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 (1968). Life Expectancy at Birth, 1968 [data set], describing 1968. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy/1968

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1968: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy in Life Expectancy at Birth, 1968?

Faroe Islands, at 74.5535, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1968 describe?

1968.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1968 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Birth, 1968?

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, 1968 the newest?

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

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