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Life Expectancy at Birth, 1986

Figures for 1986, as UN DESA Population Division published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1986 covers 222 countries. Monaco is highest, at 78.3999; South Sudan is lowest, at 32.8159. The middle country reads 67.3854. Against 1985, 222 values changed (200 up, 22 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Birth · Data for 1986

HighestMonaco

78.3999

LowestSouth Sudan

32.8159

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, 1986, 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, 1986: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1MonacoMCOWestern Europe78.3999
2JapanJPNEastern Asia78.2119
3AndorraANDSouthern Europe78.1066
4IcelandISLNorthern Europe77.8702
5San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe77.3769
6LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe77.2302
7SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe77.0403
8SwedenSWENorthern Europe76.9546
9SpainESPSouthern Europe76.7034
10Hong KongHKGEastern Asia76.6914
11GreeceGRCSouthern Europe76.5361
12CanadaCANNorthern America76.4911
13NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe76.3549
14NorwayNORNorthern Europe76.2533
15Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe76.1619
16AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand76.0716
17ItalyITASouthern Europe75.9188
18IsraelISRWestern Asia75.9098
19Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe75.7490
20FranceFRAWestern Europe75.5776
21GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe75.5571
22MacauMACEastern Asia74.9816
23Costa RicaCRICentral America74.9488
24CyprusCYPWestern Asia74.9298
25United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe74.7948

02In 1986

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Monaco78.3999
  2. 2Japan78.2119
  3. 3Andorra78.1066
  4. 4Iceland77.8702
  5. 5San Marino77.3769

Lowest

  1. 222South Sudan32.8159
  2. 221Timor-Leste34.7636
  3. 220Ethiopia38.3711
  4. 219Afghanistan38.4001
  5. 218Eritrea39.5411

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 67.3854. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031985 → 1986

Since 1985

What changed between 1985 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 200 · 22rose · 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 (1986). Life Expectancy at Birth, 1986 [data set], describing 1986. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy/1986

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1986: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy in Life Expectancy at Birth, 1986?

Monaco, at 78.3999, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1986 describe?

1986.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1986 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Birth, 1986?

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, 1986 the newest?

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

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