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Life Expectancy at Birth, 1979

Figures for 1979, as UN DESA Population Division published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1979 covers 222 countries. Andorra is highest, at 76.8187; Timor-Leste is lowest, at 24.1718. The middle country reads 64.9049. Against 1978, 222 values changed (195 up, 27 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Birth · Data for 1979

HighestAndorra

76.8187

LowestTimor-Leste

24.1718

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, 1979, 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, 1979: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1AndorraANDSouthern Europe76.8187
2IcelandISLNorthern Europe76.5347
3JapanJPNEastern Asia76.1671
4San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe76.1223
5Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe75.6673
6NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe75.6466
7SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe75.6078
8SwedenSWENorthern Europe75.5230
9NorwayNORNorthern Europe75.4155
10SpainESPSouthern Europe74.9895
11MonacoMCOWestern Europe74.8700
12CanadaCANNorthern America74.8362
13LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe74.7396
14GreeceGRCSouthern Europe74.6714
15AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand74.3270
16DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe74.2409
17FranceFRAWestern Europe74.1250
18ItalyITASouthern Europe74.1060
19Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe73.9911
20Hong KongHKGEastern Asia73.9009
21United StatesUSANorthern America73.8331
22GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe73.5853
23IsraelISRWestern Asia73.3862
24FinlandFINNorthern Europe73.3600
25BelgiumBELWestern Europe73.1993

02In 1979

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Andorra76.8187
  2. 2Iceland76.5347
  3. 3Japan76.1671
  4. 4San Marino76.1223
  5. 5Faroe Islands75.6673

Lowest

  1. 222Timor-Leste24.1718
  2. 221South Sudan37.8051
  3. 220Afghanistan38.8441
  4. 219Niger38.8893
  5. 218Mali39.5061

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 64.9049. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031978 → 1979

Since 1978

What changed between 1978 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 195 · 27rose · 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 (1979). Life Expectancy at Birth, 1979 [data set], describing 1979. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy/1979

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1979: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy in Life Expectancy at Birth, 1979?

Andorra, at 76.8187, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1979 describe?

1979.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1979 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Birth, 1979?

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, 1979 the newest?

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

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