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Life Expectancy at Birth, 2001

Figures for 2001, as UN DESA Population Division published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Birth, 2001 covers 222 countries. Monaco is highest, at 82.4850; Zimbabwe is lowest, at 44.5249. The middle country reads 70.9263. Against 2000, 222 values changed (204 up, 18 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Birth · Data for 2001

HighestMonaco

82.4850

LowestZimbabwe

44.5249

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, 2001, 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, 2001: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1MonacoMCOWestern Europe82.4850
2AndorraANDSouthern Europe82.1618
3JapanJPNEastern Asia81.5101
4Hong KongHKGEastern Asia80.9920
5San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe80.8028
6IcelandISLNorthern Europe80.4209
7GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe80.4187
8SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe80.2511
9AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand80.0060
10ItalyITASouthern Europe79.8849
11Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe79.8502
12SwedenSWENorthern Europe79.8363
13MacauMACEastern Asia79.8122
14SpainESPSouthern Europe79.7387
15IsraelISRWestern Asia79.4787
16CanadaCANNorthern America79.4494
17French PolynesiaPYFPolynesia79.3158
18FranceFRAWestern Europe79.2208
19LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe79.1936
20GreeceGRCSouthern Europe78.9087
21MaltaMLTSouthern Europe78.9023
22NorwayNORNorthern Europe78.8958
23AustriaAUTWestern Europe78.7184
24New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand78.6615
25BermudaBMUNorthern America78.6366

02In 2001

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Monaco82.4850
  2. 2Andorra82.1618
  3. 3Japan81.5101
  4. 4Hong Kong80.9920
  5. 5San Marino80.8028

Lowest

  1. 222Zimbabwe44.5249
  2. 221Sierra Leone45.4476
  3. 220Eswatini46.3442
  4. 219Central African Republic46.7338
  5. 218Angola47.0323

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 70.9263. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032000 → 2001

Since 2000

What changed between 2000 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 204 · 18rose · 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 (2001). Life Expectancy at Birth, 2001 [data set], describing 2001. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy/2001

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Birth, 2001: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy in Life Expectancy at Birth, 2001?

Monaco, at 82.4850, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Birth, 2001 describe?

2001.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Birth, 2001 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Birth, 2001?

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, 2001 the newest?

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

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