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Life Expectancy at Birth, 2003

Figures for 2003, as UN DESA Population Division published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Birth, 2003 covers 222 countries. Monaco is highest, at 83.6128; Eswatini is lowest, at 44.6321. The middle country reads 71.4086. Against 2002, 222 values changed (195 up, 27 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Birth · Data for 2003

HighestMonaco

83.6128

LowestEswatini

44.6321

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, 2003, 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, 2003: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1MonacoMCOWestern Europe83.6128
2AndorraANDSouthern Europe82.7183
3JapanJPNEastern Asia81.8540
4San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe81.3303
5Hong KongHKGEastern Asia81.1422
6IcelandISLNorthern Europe80.7678
7GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe80.7126
8SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe80.5325
9AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand80.4396
10LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe80.2377
11MacauMACEastern Asia80.2148
12SwedenSWENorthern Europe80.1951
13ItalyITASouthern Europe80.1910
14Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe79.8455
15IsraelISRWestern Asia79.8194
16SpainESPSouthern Europe79.7482
17CanadaCANNorthern America79.7363
18French PolynesiaPYFPolynesia79.7103
19United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia79.5995
20NorwayNORNorthern Europe79.5291
21FranceFRAWestern Europe79.4190
22SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia79.1777
23New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand79.1414
24GreeceGRCSouthern Europe79.0848
25CyprusCYPWestern Asia78.9081

02In 2003

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Monaco83.6128
  2. 2Andorra82.7183
  3. 3Japan81.8540
  4. 4San Marino81.3303
  5. 5Hong Kong81.1422

Lowest

  1. 222Eswatini44.6321
  2. 221Lesotho44.9214
  3. 220Zimbabwe45.3730
  4. 219Sierra Leone46.7843
  5. 218Central African Republic47.3059

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 71.4086. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032002 → 2003

Since 2002

What changed between 2002 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 195 · 27rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • South Africa55.5795 → 54.2451−1.3344
  • Lesotho45.9501 → 44.9214−1.0287
  • Liberia54.0612 → 53.0450−1.0162
  • Sudan59.3078 → 58.3193−0.9885
  • Iraq65.7240 → 64.8339−0.8901

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 (2003). Life Expectancy at Birth, 2003 [data set], describing 2003. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy/2003

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Birth, 2003: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy in Life Expectancy at Birth, 2003?

Monaco, at 83.6128, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Birth, 2003 describe?

2003.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Birth, 2003 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Birth, 2003?

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, 2003 the newest?

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

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