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Life Expectancy at Birth, 2000

Figures for 2000, as UN DESA Population Division published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Birth, 2000 covers 222 countries. Monaco is highest, at 82.1207; Sierra Leone is lowest, at 44.8341. The middle country reads 70.6775. Against 1999, 222 values changed (201 up, 21 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Birth · Data for 2000

HighestMonaco

82.1207

LowestSierra Leone

44.8341

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, 2000, 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, 2000: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1MonacoMCOWestern Europe82.1207
2AndorraANDSouthern Europe81.8633
3JapanJPNEastern Asia81.1788
4Hong KongHKGEastern Asia80.7045
5San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe80.5036
6GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe80.1446
7SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe79.8340
8SwedenSWENorthern Europe79.7387
9AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand79.6207
10ItalyITASouthern Europe79.6070
11IcelandISLNorthern Europe79.5485
12MacauMACEastern Asia79.4292
13SpainESPSouthern Europe79.4123
14Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe79.3373
15CanadaCANNorthern America79.2330
16IsraelISRWestern Asia79.1797
17FranceFRAWestern Europe79.0438
18French PolynesiaPYFPolynesia79.0001
19NorwayNORNorthern Europe78.6916
20New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand78.6681
21LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe78.5757
22GreeceGRCSouthern Europe78.4420
23BermudaBMUNorthern America78.2508
24Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe78.2507
25AustriaAUTWestern Europe78.2350

02In 2000

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Monaco82.1207
  2. 2Andorra81.8633
  3. 3Japan81.1788
  4. 4Hong Kong80.7045
  5. 5San Marino80.5036

Lowest

  1. 222Sierra Leone44.8341
  2. 221Zimbabwe46.0339
  3. 220Malawi46.1698
  4. 219Angola46.5005
  5. 218Zambia46.5771

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 70.6775. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031999 → 2000

Since 1999

What changed between 1999 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 201 · 21rose · 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 (2000). Life Expectancy at Birth, 2000 [data set], describing 2000. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy/2000

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Birth, 2000: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy in Life Expectancy at Birth, 2000?

Monaco, at 82.1207, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Birth, 2000 describe?

2000.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Birth, 2000 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Birth, 2000?

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, 2000 the newest?

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

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