Skip to content
Nations Inquiry — home

Data for 1972

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1972

Figures for 1972, as UN DESA Population Division published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1972 covers 222 countries. Faroe Islands is highest, at 75.0853; Burundi is lowest, at 25.7768. The middle country reads 62.5039. Against 1971, 222 values changed (196 up, 26 down), the same countries are covered.

Download CSVCite this year
Share

Share this page

Life Expectancy at Birth · Data for 1972

HighestFaroe Islands

75.0853

LowestBurundi

25.7768

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, 1972, 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, 1972: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe75.0853
2AndorraANDSouthern Europe74.8635
3SwedenSWENorthern Europe74.7048
4San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe74.5921
5IcelandISLNorthern Europe74.3954
6NorwayNORNorthern Europe74.3493
7NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe73.7829
8SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe73.7591
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe73.4675
10MonacoMCOWestern Europe73.3806
11LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe73.3725
12JapanJPNEastern Asia73.2584
13SpainESPSouthern Europe72.9533
14CanadaCANNorthern America72.8259
15GreeceGRCSouthern Europe72.7238
16GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe72.3560
17FranceFRAWestern Europe72.3134
18ItalyITASouthern Europe72.1451
19United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe71.9882
20Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe71.9717
21New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand71.8235
22AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand71.7682
23BelarusBLREastern Europe71.7636
24Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean71.7294
25Hong KongHKGEastern Asia71.6747

02In 1972

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Faroe Islands75.0853
  2. 2Andorra74.8635
  3. 3Sweden74.7048
  4. 4San Marino74.5921
  5. 5Iceland74.3954

Lowest

  1. 222Burundi25.7768
  2. 221South Sudan31.2905
  3. 220Mali34.5068
  4. 219Niger35.8130
  5. 218Malawi37.6084

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 62.5039. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031971 → 1972

Since 1971

What changed between 1971 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 196 · 26rose · 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 (1972). Life Expectancy at Birth, 1972 [data set], describing 1972. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy/1972

0674 held

Other years

07Questions

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1972: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy in Life Expectancy at Birth, 1972?

Faroe Islands, at 75.0853, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1972 describe?

1972.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1972 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Birth, 1972?

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, 1972 the newest?

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

Feedback

Feedback

How are we doing?

Two answers are required — a rating and your email. The rest is up to you.