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Life Expectancy at Birth, 2015

Figures for 2015, as UN DESA Population Division published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Birth, 2015 covers 222 countries. Monaco is highest, at 85.3231; South Sudan is lowest, at 39.7565. The middle country reads 73.7827. Against 2014, 222 values changed (174 up, 48 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Birth · Data for 2015

HighestMonaco

85.3231

LowestSouth Sudan

39.7565

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, 2015, 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, 2015: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1MonacoMCOWestern Europe85.3231
2San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe84.5959
3AndorraANDSouthern Europe84.5316
4Hong KongHKGEastern Asia84.1470
5JapanJPNEastern Asia83.8832
6MacauMACEastern Asia82.9402
7SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe82.8461
8LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe82.7618
9SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia82.7479
10GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe82.6682
11SpainESPSouthern Europe82.6109
12AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand82.6050
13MaltaMLTSouthern Europe82.5914
14South KoreaKOREastern Asia82.5404
15ItalyITASouthern Europe82.5211
16Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe82.4639
17French PolynesiaPYFPolynesia82.3393
18NorwayNORNorthern Europe82.2728
19IsraelISRWestern Asia82.2538
20SwedenSWENorthern Europe82.1844
21IcelandISLNorthern Europe82.1638
22FranceFRAWestern Europe82.1487
23United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia82.0759
24CanadaCANNorthern America81.9084
25QatarQATWestern Asia81.7850

02In 2015

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Monaco85.3231
  2. 2San Marino84.5959
  3. 3Andorra84.5316
  4. 4Hong Kong84.1470
  5. 5Japan83.8832

Lowest

  1. 222South Sudan39.7565
  2. 221Chad51.3196
  3. 220Lesotho51.8298
  4. 219Central African Republic51.9338
  5. 218Nigeria51.9394

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 73.7827. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

What changed between 2014 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 174 · 48rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • South Sudan45.6247 → 39.7565−5.8682
  • Syria65.4916 → 63.2651−2.2265
  • Yemen68.0027 → 66.7613−1.2414
  • Dominica71.1892 → 69.9683−1.2209
  • Nepal67.8120 → 67.3736−0.4384

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 80.3378. 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 (2015). Life Expectancy at Birth, 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy/2015

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Birth, 2015: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy in Life Expectancy at Birth, 2015?

Monaco, at 85.3231, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Birth, 2015 describe?

2015.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Birth, 2015 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Birth, 2015?

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, 2015 the newest?

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

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