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Life Expectancy at Birth, 1971

Figures for 1971, as UN DESA Population Division published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1971 covers 222 countries. Faroe Islands is highest, at 74.9927; Bangladesh is lowest, at 26.5218. The middle country reads 61.7625. Against 1970, 222 values changed (199 up, 23 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Birth · Data for 1971

HighestFaroe Islands

74.9927

LowestBangladesh

26.5218

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, 1971, 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, 1971: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe74.9927
2AndorraANDSouthern Europe74.6146
3SwedenSWENorthern Europe74.6006
4San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe74.4036
5NorwayNORNorthern Europe74.1747
6NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe73.8712
7IcelandISLNorthern Europe73.4918
8DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe73.4274
9MonacoMCOWestern Europe73.3650
10SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe73.2406
11LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe73.0312
12CanadaCANNorthern America72.9489
13GreeceGRCSouthern Europe72.9390
14JapanJPNEastern Asia72.8270
15United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe72.2340
16GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe72.1031
17FranceFRAWestern Europe72.0735
18LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe72.0393
19ItalyITASouthern Europe71.8827
20IsraelISRWestern Asia71.8316
21Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe71.7431
22SpainESPSouthern Europe71.7353
23New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand71.7167
24IrelandIRLNorthern Europe71.6213
25BelarusBLREastern Europe71.5899

02In 1971

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Faroe Islands74.9927
  2. 2Andorra74.6146
  3. 3Sweden74.6006
  4. 4San Marino74.4036
  5. 5Norway74.1747

Lowest

  1. 222Bangladesh26.5218
  2. 221South Sudan30.9930
  3. 220Mali33.8044
  4. 219Niger35.2935
  5. 218Malawi37.0950

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 61.7625. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031970 → 1971

Since 1970

What changed between 1970 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

  • Bangladesh42.6672 → 26.5218−16.1454
  • Pakistan52.9434 → 49.0016−3.9418
  • Uganda49.6210 → 47.1465−2.4745
  • Niger35.9190 → 35.2935−0.6255
  • Chad41.3855 → 40.8688−0.5167

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 (1971). Life Expectancy at Birth, 1971 [data set], describing 1971. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy/1971

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1971: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy in Life Expectancy at Birth, 1971?

Faroe Islands, at 74.9927, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1971 describe?

1971.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1971 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Birth, 1971?

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, 1971 the newest?

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

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