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Life Expectancy at Birth, 1992

Figures for 1992, as UN DESA Population Division published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1992 covers 222 countries. Monaco is highest, at 80.0654; South Sudan is lowest, at 21.9378. The middle country reads 68.6837. Against 1991, 222 values changed (164 up, 58 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Birth · Data for 1992

HighestMonaco

80.0654

LowestSouth Sudan

21.9378

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, 1992, 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, 1992: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1MonacoMCOWestern Europe80.0654
2AndorraANDSouthern Europe79.7941
3JapanJPNEastern Asia79.3030
4LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe78.6540
5IcelandISLNorthern Europe78.5865
6San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe78.1335
7SwedenSWENorthern Europe78.0712
8Hong KongHKGEastern Asia77.9881
9SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe77.9441
10CanadaCANNorthern America77.8525
11SpainESPSouthern Europe77.5888
12AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand77.4731
13GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe77.4120
14NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe77.3648
15ItalyITASouthern Europe77.3647
16Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe77.3160
17GreeceGRCSouthern Europe77.3061
18FranceFRAWestern Europe77.2973
19IsraelISRWestern Asia77.2727
20Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe77.2675
21NorwayNORNorthern Europe77.2461
22MacauMACEastern Asia77.0697
23MaltaMLTSouthern Europe76.6800
24Costa RicaCRICentral America76.3849
25BelgiumBELWestern Europe76.3582

02In 1992

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Monaco80.0654
  2. 2Andorra79.7941
  3. 3Japan79.3030
  4. 4Liechtenstein78.6540
  5. 5Iceland78.5865

Lowest

  1. 222South Sudan21.9378
  2. 221Somalia25.0342
  3. 220Angola42.2673
  4. 219Niger43.0644
  5. 218Sierra Leone43.4510

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 68.6837. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031991 → 1992

Since 1991

What changed between 1991 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 164 · 58rose · 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 (1992). Life Expectancy at Birth, 1992 [data set], describing 1992. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy/1992

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1992: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy in Life Expectancy at Birth, 1992?

Monaco, at 80.0654, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1992 describe?

1992.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1992 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Birth, 1992?

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, 1992 the newest?

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

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