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Life Expectancy at Birth, 2012

Figures for 2012, as UN DESA Population Division published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Birth, 2012 covers 222 countries. Monaco is highest, at 85.0451; Lesotho is lowest, at 48.2353. The middle country reads 73.2097. Against 2011, 222 values changed (200 up, 22 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Birth · Data for 2012

HighestMonaco

85.0451

LowestLesotho

48.2353

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, 2012, 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, 2012: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1MonacoMCOWestern Europe85.0451
2AndorraANDSouthern Europe84.3339
3San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe83.9427
4Hong KongHKGEastern Asia83.4158
5JapanJPNEastern Asia83.1676
6SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe82.6167
7GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe82.5267
8IcelandISLNorthern Europe82.3459
9AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand82.2966
10MacauMACEastern Asia82.2557
11LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe82.2544
12ItalyITASouthern Europe82.2520
13SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia82.2089
14SpainESPSouthern Europe82.1905
15IsraelISRWestern Asia81.9849
16Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe81.9805
17United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia81.9129
18FranceFRAWestern Europe81.7390
19SwedenSWENorthern Europe81.7299
20CanadaCANNorthern America81.7037
21French PolynesiaPYFPolynesia81.6953
22NorwayNORNorthern Europe81.4458
23South KoreaKOREastern Asia81.3075
24New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand81.1668
25CyprusCYPWestern Asia81.1284

02In 2012

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Monaco85.0451
  2. 2Andorra84.3339
  3. 3San Marino83.9427
  4. 4Hong Kong83.4158
  5. 5Japan83.1676

Lowest

  1. 222Lesotho48.2353
  2. 221Somalia49.1384
  3. 220Eswatini50.7143
  4. 219Chad50.7651
  5. 218Central African Republic51.3355

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 73.2097. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032011 → 2012

Since 2011

What changed between 2011 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 200 · 22rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Syria72.2593 → 66.2064−6.0529
  • Fiji66.8803 → 65.8121−1.0682
  • Argentina76.0998 → 75.8024−0.2974
  • Samoa71.3930 → 71.1593−0.2337
  • Albania78.3029 → 78.0836−0.2193

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 (2012). Life Expectancy at Birth, 2012 [data set], describing 2012. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy/2012

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Birth, 2012: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy in Life Expectancy at Birth, 2012?

Monaco, at 85.0451, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Birth, 2012 describe?

2012.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Birth, 2012 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Birth, 2012?

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, 2012 the newest?

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

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