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Life Expectancy at Birth, 1988

Figures for 1988, as UN DESA Population Division published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1988 covers 222 countries. Monaco is highest, at 79.4083; South Sudan is lowest, at 10.9891. The middle country reads 68.0023. Against 1987, 222 values changed (180 up, 42 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Birth · Data for 1988

HighestMonaco

79.4083

LowestSouth Sudan

10.9891

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, 1988, 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, 1988: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1MonacoMCOWestern Europe79.4083
2JapanJPNEastern Asia78.5454
3AndorraANDSouthern Europe78.3641
4LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe77.9933
5San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe77.5444
6SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe77.3646
7Hong KongHKGEastern Asia77.0901
8GreeceGRCSouthern Europe77.0015
9NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe77.0001
10SwedenSWENorthern Europe76.9978
11SpainESPSouthern Europe76.9491
12IcelandISLNorthern Europe76.8934
13IsraelISRWestern Asia76.8910
14CanadaCANNorthern America76.8618
15ItalyITASouthern Europe76.5324
16Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe76.4861
17FranceFRAWestern Europe76.3980
18Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe76.3708
19AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand76.3443
20NorwayNORNorthern Europe76.2709
21GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe76.1795
22MaltaMLTSouthern Europe75.8669
23BelgiumBELWestern Europe75.5907
24Costa RicaCRICentral America75.5459
25MacauMACEastern Asia75.5439

02In 1988

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Monaco79.4083
  2. 2Japan78.5454
  3. 3Andorra78.3641
  4. 4Liechtenstein77.9933
  5. 5San Marino77.5444

Lowest

  1. 222South Sudan10.9891
  2. 221Timor-Leste36.0471
  3. 220Niger40.7909
  4. 219Angola41.4711
  5. 218Burundi42.8894

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 68.0023. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031987 → 1988

Since 1987

What changed between 1987 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 180 · 42rose · 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 (1988). Life Expectancy at Birth, 1988 [data set], describing 1988. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy/1988

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1988: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy in Life Expectancy at Birth, 1988?

Monaco, at 79.4083, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1988 describe?

1988.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1988 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Birth, 1988?

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, 1988 the newest?

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

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