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Life Expectancy at Birth, 1976

Figures for 1976, as UN DESA Population Division published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1976 covers 222 countries. Iceland is highest, at 76.6333; Cambodia is lowest, at 11.6323. The middle country reads 63.7100. Against 1975, 222 values changed (196 up, 26 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Birth · Data for 1976

HighestIceland

76.6333

LowestCambodia

11.6323

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, 1976, 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, 1976: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1IcelandISLNorthern Europe76.6333
2AndorraANDSouthern Europe75.8689
3San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe75.4309
4Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe75.3987
5NorwayNORNorthern Europe75.0479
6SwedenSWENorthern Europe74.9728
7SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe74.9059
8JapanJPNEastern Asia74.7611
9NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe74.6717
10LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe74.5722
11CanadaCANNorthern America73.8700
12SpainESPSouthern Europe73.8069
13MonacoMCOWestern Europe73.7974
14DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe73.7697
15GreeceGRCSouthern Europe73.7477
16GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe73.4429
17FranceFRAWestern Europe73.1220
18ItalyITASouthern Europe73.0698
19Hong KongHKGEastern Asia73.0402
20Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe72.9288
21United StatesUSANorthern America72.8448
22AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand72.7871
23IsraelISRWestern Asia72.6728
24United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe72.6341
25New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand72.3966

02In 1976

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Iceland76.6333
  2. 2Andorra75.8689
  3. 3San Marino75.4309
  4. 4Faroe Islands75.3987
  5. 5Norway75.0479

Lowest

  1. 222Cambodia11.6323
  2. 221Timor-Leste25.8634
  3. 220Equatorial Guinea30.5369
  4. 219Lebanon36.4358
  5. 218South Sudan37.0922

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 63.7100. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031975 → 1976

Since 1975

What changed between 1975 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 (1976). Life Expectancy at Birth, 1976 [data set], describing 1976. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy/1976

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1976: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy in Life Expectancy at Birth, 1976?

Iceland, at 76.6333, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1976 describe?

1976.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1976 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Birth, 1976?

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, 1976 the newest?

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

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