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Life Expectancy at Birth, 1989

Figures for 1989, as UN DESA Population Division published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1989 covers 222 countries. Monaco is highest, at 79.4156; South Sudan is lowest, at 28.2167. The middle country reads 68.2175. Against 1988, 222 values changed (172 up, 50 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Birth · Data for 1989

HighestMonaco

79.4156

LowestSouth Sudan

28.2167

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, 1989, 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, 1989: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1MonacoMCOWestern Europe79.4156
2JapanJPNEastern Asia78.9799
3AndorraANDSouthern Europe78.5571
4LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe78.2839
5IcelandISLNorthern Europe77.9323
6SwedenSWENorthern Europe77.6540
7San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe77.6471
8IsraelISRWestern Asia77.6378
9SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe77.5573
10Hong KongHKGEastern Asia77.2288
11GreeceGRCSouthern Europe77.1329
12CanadaCANNorthern America77.1239
13SpainESPSouthern Europe76.9980
14ItalyITASouthern Europe76.9269
15NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe76.8363
16Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe76.7935
17Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe76.7012
18NorwayNORNorthern Europe76.5435
19FranceFRAWestern Europe76.5432
20GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe76.4744
21MacauMACEastern Asia76.2247
22AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand76.1973
23MaltaMLTSouthern Europe76.1680
24Costa RicaCRICentral America75.8502
25CyprusCYPWestern Asia75.8415

02In 1989

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Monaco79.4156
  2. 2Japan78.9799
  3. 3Andorra78.5571
  4. 4Liechtenstein78.2839
  5. 5Iceland77.9323

Lowest

  1. 222South Sudan28.2167
  2. 221Niger41.1878
  3. 220Angola41.6977
  4. 219Malawi43.5152
  5. 218Sierra Leone43.7413

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 68.2175. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031988 → 1989

Since 1988

What changed between 1988 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 172 · 50rose · 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 (1989). Life Expectancy at Birth, 1989 [data set], describing 1989. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy/1989

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1989: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy in Life Expectancy at Birth, 1989?

Monaco, at 79.4156, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1989 describe?

1989.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1989 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Birth, 1989?

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, 1989 the newest?

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

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