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Life Expectancy at Birth, 1990

Figures for 1990, as UN DESA Population Division published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1990 covers 222 countries. Monaco is highest, at 79.436; South Sudan is lowest, at 28.628. The middle country reads 68.690. Against 1989, 222 values changed (166 up, 56 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Birth · Data for 1990

HighestMonaco

79.436

LowestSouth Sudan

28.628

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, 1990, 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, 1990: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1MonacoMCOWestern Europe79.436
2JapanJPNEastern Asia78.993
3AndorraANDSouthern Europe78.961
4LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe78.510
5IsraelISRWestern Asia78.039
6San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe77.783
7IcelandISLNorthern Europe77.741
8SwedenSWENorthern Europe77.589
9Hong KongHKGEastern Asia77.448
10CanadaCANNorthern America77.433
11SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe77.385
12GreeceGRCSouthern Europe77.299
13AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand77.041
14NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe77.012
15SpainESPSouthern Europe77.000
16ItalyITASouthern Europe76.994
17Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe76.902
18Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe76.894
19FranceFRAWestern Europe76.835
20GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe76.814
21NorwayNORNorthern Europe76.586
22MacauMACEastern Asia76.572
23MaltaMLTSouthern Europe76.160
24Costa RicaCRICentral America76.094
25BelgiumBELWestern Europe76.059

02In 1990

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Monaco79.436
  2. 2Japan78.993
  3. 3Andorra78.961
  4. 4Liechtenstein78.510
  5. 5Israel78.039

Lowest

  1. 222South Sudan28.628
  2. 221Liberia37.644
  3. 220Niger41.732
  4. 219Angola41.854
  5. 218Malawi43.575

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 68.690. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031989 → 1990

Since 1989

What changed between 1989 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 166 · 56rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Liberia43.863 → 37.644−6.220
  • Kuwait75.027 → 72.854−2.173
  • Rwanda49.485 → 47.763−1.722
  • Kenya59.990 → 58.334−1.656
  • Chad46.434 → 45.074−1.360

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 (1990). Life Expectancy at Birth, 1990 [data set], describing 1990. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy/1990

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1990: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy in Life Expectancy at Birth, 1990?

Monaco, at 79.436, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1990 describe?

1990.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1990 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Birth, 1990?

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, 1990 the newest?

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

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