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Life Expectancy at Birth, 1996

Figures for 1996, as UN DESA Population Division published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1996 covers 222 countries. Monaco is highest, at 81.1335; South Sudan is lowest, at 32.1240. The middle country reads 69.6812. Against 1995, 222 values changed (184 up, 38 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Birth · Data for 1996

HighestMonaco

81.1335

LowestSouth Sudan

32.1240

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, 1996, 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, 1996: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1MonacoMCOWestern Europe81.1335
2AndorraANDSouthern Europe81.0090
3JapanJPNEastern Asia80.3627
4Hong KongHKGEastern Asia79.4544
5San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe79.3324
6SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe79.0494
7SwedenSWENorthern Europe79.0447
8GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe78.6957
9IcelandISLNorthern Europe78.6456
10IsraelISRWestern Asia78.5705
11Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe78.5087
12ItalyITASouthern Europe78.4381
13AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand78.3436
14SpainESPSouthern Europe78.3389
15CanadaCANNorthern America78.2720
16NorwayNORNorthern Europe78.2326
17FranceFRAWestern Europe78.0613
18GreeceGRCSouthern Europe78.0364
19Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe77.7640
20LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe77.6657
21NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe77.5561
22MacauMACEastern Asia77.4285
23BelgiumBELWestern Europe77.1847
24AustriaAUTWestern Europe77.0256
25CyprusCYPWestern Asia76.8797

02In 1996

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Monaco81.1335
  2. 2Andorra81.0090
  3. 3Japan80.3627
  4. 4Hong Kong79.4544
  5. 5San Marino79.3324

Lowest

  1. 222South Sudan32.1240
  2. 221Rwanda42.4858
  3. 220Sierra Leone43.5283
  4. 219Malawi44.0051
  5. 218Burundi44.8069

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 69.6812. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031995 → 1996

Since 1995

What changed between 1995 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 184 · 38rose · 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

  • 221 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 4 decimals. 2 countries share 63.4551. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • 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 (1996). Life Expectancy at Birth, 1996 [data set], describing 1996. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy/1996

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Birth, 1996: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy in Life Expectancy at Birth, 1996?

Monaco, at 81.1335, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1996 describe?

1996.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Birth, 1996 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Birth, 1996?

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, 1996 the newest?

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

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