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Life Expectancy at Birth, 1994

Figures for 1994, as UN DESA Population Division published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1994 covers 222 countries. Monaco is highest, at 80.6543; Rwanda is lowest, at 12.1575. The middle country reads 69.0628. Against 1993, 222 values changed (166 up, 56 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Birth · Data for 1994

HighestMonaco

80.6543

LowestRwanda

12.1575

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, 1994, 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, 1994: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1MonacoMCOWestern Europe80.6543
2AndorraANDSouthern Europe80.5868
3JapanJPNEastern Asia79.8366
4IcelandISLNorthern Europe79.0221
5SwedenSWENorthern Europe78.7471
6Hong KongHKGEastern Asia78.7177
7San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe78.6700
8SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe78.4946
9LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe78.1798
10SpainESPSouthern Europe78.1141
11GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe78.0515
12IsraelISRWestern Asia78.0448
13CanadaCANNorthern America77.9007
14ItalyITASouthern Europe77.8725
15GreeceGRCSouthern Europe77.8579
16AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand77.8515
17NorwayNORNorthern Europe77.7728
18FranceFRAWestern Europe77.7681
19Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe77.6575
20Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe77.5418
21NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe77.5183
22MacauMACEastern Asia77.4279
23MaltaMLTSouthern Europe76.9457
24New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand76.9178
25United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe76.7198

02In 1994

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Monaco80.6543
  2. 2Andorra80.5868
  3. 3Japan79.8366
  4. 4Iceland79.0221
  5. 5Sweden78.7471

Lowest

  1. 222Rwanda12.1575
  2. 221Liberia42.6212
  3. 220Sierra Leone42.8080
  4. 219Angola43.5671
  5. 218Malawi43.8000

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 69.0628. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031993 → 1994

Since 1993

What changed between 1993 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

  • Rwanda42.9371 → 12.1575−30.7796
  • Estonia68.2217 → 66.7441−1.4776
  • Eswatini58.0917 → 56.6433−1.4484
  • Latvia66.6288 → 65.1828−1.4460
  • Zimbabwe53.9764 → 52.5367−1.4397

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 (1994). Life Expectancy at Birth, 1994 [data set], describing 1994. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy/1994

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1994: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy in Life Expectancy at Birth, 1994?

Monaco, at 80.6543, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1994 describe?

1994.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1994 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Birth, 1994?

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, 1994 the newest?

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

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