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Life Expectancy at Birth, 1980

Figures for 1980, as UN DESA Population Division published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1980 covers 222 countries. Andorra is highest, at 77.1371; Timor-Leste is lowest, at 30.1957. The middle country reads 65.0751. Against 1979, 222 values changed (190 up, 32 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Birth · Data for 1980

HighestAndorra

77.1371

LowestTimor-Leste

30.1957

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, 1980, 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, 1980: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1AndorraANDSouthern Europe77.1371
2IcelandISLNorthern Europe76.5969
3San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe76.3709
4JapanJPNEastern Asia76.1408
5NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe75.7719
6Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe75.7515
7SwedenSWENorthern Europe75.7431
8NorwayNORNorthern Europe75.6726
9SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe75.5898
10SpainESPSouthern Europe75.5259
11CanadaCANNorthern America75.0612
12MonacoMCOWestern Europe74.9484
13LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe74.7834
14AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand74.5655
15GreeceGRCSouthern Europe74.4811
16Hong KongHKGEastern Asia74.2474
17FranceFRAWestern Europe74.2335
18DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe74.1295
19Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe74.1287
20ItalyITASouthern Europe74.0518
21GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe73.7548
22United StatesUSANorthern America73.7300
23IsraelISRWestern Asia73.6825
24FinlandFINNorthern Europe73.6489
25United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe73.5906

02In 1980

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Andorra77.1371
  2. 2Iceland76.5969
  3. 3San Marino76.3709
  4. 4Japan76.1408
  5. 5Netherlands75.7719

Lowest

  1. 222Timor-Leste30.1957
  2. 221South Sudan38.0343
  3. 220Afghanistan39.2581
  4. 219Niger39.3440
  5. 218Mali40.2659

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 65.0751. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031979 → 1980

Since 1979

What changed between 1979 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 190 · 32rose · 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 (1980). Life Expectancy at Birth, 1980 [data set], describing 1980. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy/1980

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1980: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy in Life Expectancy at Birth, 1980?

Andorra, at 77.1371, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1980 describe?

1980.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1980 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Birth, 1980?

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, 1980 the newest?

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

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