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Life Expectancy at Birth, 1970

Figures for 1970, as UN DESA Population Division published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1970 covers 222 countries. Faroe Islands is highest, at 74.8493; South Sudan is lowest, at 25.6322. The middle country reads 61.4181. Against 1969, 222 values changed (201 up, 21 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Birth · Data for 1970

HighestFaroe Islands

74.8493

LowestSouth Sudan

25.6322

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, 1970, 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, 1970: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe74.8493
2SwedenSWENorthern Europe74.6641
3AndorraANDSouthern Europe74.4520
4San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe74.2691
5NorwayNORNorthern Europe74.0705
6IcelandISLNorthern Europe73.7797
7NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe73.6279
8DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe73.3640
9MonacoMCOWestern Europe73.3485
10SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe73.1238
11LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe72.8200
12GreeceGRCSouthern Europe72.7479
13CanadaCANNorthern America72.6092
14SpainESPSouthern Europe72.1491
15FranceFRAWestern Europe72.0915
16JapanJPNEastern Asia72.0073
17GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe71.8882
18United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe71.8819
19BelarusBLREastern Europe71.6772
20ItalyITASouthern Europe71.6296
21Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe71.4792
22Hong KongHKGEastern Asia71.2703
23BulgariaBGREastern Europe71.2505
24New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand71.2192
25IsraelISRWestern Asia71.1575

02In 1970

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Faroe Islands74.8493
  2. 2Sweden74.6641
  3. 3Andorra74.4520
  4. 4San Marino74.2691
  5. 5Norway74.0705

Lowest

  1. 222South Sudan25.6322
  2. 221Equatorial Guinea31.0861
  3. 220Mali33.3960
  4. 219Niger35.9190
  5. 218Malawi36.6380

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 61.4181. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031969 → 1970

Since 1969

What changed between 1969 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 201 · 21rose · 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 (1970). Life Expectancy at Birth, 1970 [data set], describing 1970. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy/1970

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1970: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy in Life Expectancy at Birth, 1970?

Faroe Islands, at 74.8493, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1970 describe?

1970.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1970 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Birth, 1970?

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, 1970 the newest?

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

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