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Life Expectancy at Birth, 1991

Figures for 1991, as UN DESA Population Division published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1991 covers 222 countries. Monaco is highest, at 79.7494; Somalia is lowest, at 25.4184. The middle country reads 69.0186. Against 1990, 222 values changed (172 up, 50 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Birth · Data for 1991

HighestMonaco

79.7494

LowestSomalia

25.4184

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, 1991, 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, 1991: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1MonacoMCOWestern Europe79.7494
2AndorraANDSouthern Europe79.3458
3JapanJPNEastern Asia79.2620
4LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe78.6597
5San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe77.9435
6IcelandISLNorthern Europe77.7575
7SwedenSWENorthern Europe77.7285
8Hong KongHKGEastern Asia77.6926
9SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe77.6485
10CanadaCANNorthern America77.5939
11IsraelISRWestern Asia77.5834
12AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand77.4806
13GreeceGRCSouthern Europe77.3860
14NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe77.1617
15SpainESPSouthern Europe77.1285
16GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe77.1177
17Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe77.0876
18NorwayNORNorthern Europe77.0382
19FranceFRAWestern Europe77.0162
20ItalyITASouthern Europe76.9898
21Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe76.9221
22MacauMACEastern Asia76.6378
23MaltaMLTSouthern Europe76.4884
24CyprusCYPWestern Asia76.2464
25Costa RicaCRICentral America76.2375

02In 1991

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Monaco79.7494
  2. 2Andorra79.3458
  3. 3Japan79.2620
  4. 4Liechtenstein78.6597
  5. 5San Marino77.9435

Lowest

  1. 222Somalia25.4184
  2. 221South Sudan29.1851
  3. 220Niger42.2892
  4. 219Sierra Leone43.2870
  5. 218Malawi43.5397

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 69.0186. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031990 → 1991

Since 1990

What changed between 1990 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

  • Liberia37.6435 → 43.5745+5.9310
  • Lebanon65.4790 → 70.8648+5.3858
  • Iraq57.5872 → 61.3381+3.7509
  • Iran64.0656 → 66.2325+2.1669
  • Angola41.8542 → 43.8116+1.9574

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 (1991). Life Expectancy at Birth, 1991 [data set], describing 1991. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy/1991

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1991: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy in Life Expectancy at Birth, 1991?

Monaco, at 79.7494, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1991 describe?

1991.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1991 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Birth, 1991?

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, 1991 the newest?

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

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