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Life Expectancy at Birth, 1987

Figures for 1987, as UN DESA Population Division published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1987 covers 222 countries. Monaco is highest, at 79.2571; South Sudan is lowest, at 20.7211. The middle country reads 67.8080. Against 1986, 222 values changed (188 up, 34 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Birth · Data for 1987

HighestMonaco

79.2571

LowestSouth Sudan

20.7211

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, 1987, 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, 1987: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1MonacoMCOWestern Europe79.2571
2JapanJPNEastern Asia78.6307
3AndorraANDSouthern Europe78.1885
4LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe77.7530
5San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe77.4528
6SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe77.3317
7SwedenSWENorthern Europe77.1087
8Hong KongHKGEastern Asia77.0571
9IcelandISLNorthern Europe77.0507
10SpainESPSouthern Europe76.9564
11NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe76.8133
12CanadaCANNorthern America76.7975
13IsraelISRWestern Asia76.3764
14ItalyITASouthern Europe76.3436
15Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe76.3056
16Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe76.1969
17FranceFRAWestern Europe76.1465
18GreeceGRCSouthern Europe76.1047
19NorwayNORNorthern Europe76.1020
20AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand76.0830
21GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe75.8713
22MaltaMLTSouthern Europe75.3019
23BelgiumBELWestern Europe75.2903
24CyprusCYPWestern Asia75.2645
25Costa RicaCRICentral America75.2236

02In 1987

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Monaco79.2571
  2. 2Japan78.6307
  3. 3Andorra78.1885
  4. 4Liechtenstein77.7530
  5. 5San Marino77.4528

Lowest

  1. 222South Sudan20.7211
  2. 221Timor-Leste35.9743
  3. 220Afghanistan38.8312
  4. 219Niger40.4678
  5. 218Angola40.7857

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 67.8080. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031986 → 1987

Since 1986

What changed between 1986 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 188 · 34rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • South Sudan32.8159 → 20.7211−12.0948
  • Chad45.5980 → 43.0710−2.5270
  • Angola42.7391 → 40.7857−1.9534
  • Iceland77.8702 → 77.0507−0.8195
  • Zambia51.1489 → 50.4211−0.7278

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 (1987). Life Expectancy at Birth, 1987 [data set], describing 1987. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy/1987

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1987: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy in Life Expectancy at Birth, 1987?

Monaco, at 79.2571, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1987 describe?

1987.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1987 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Birth, 1987?

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, 1987 the newest?

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

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