Methodology

The

life expectancy Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of its birth, current age, and other demographic factors like sex. The most commonly used measure is life expectancy at birth ...

is shown separately for males and for females, as well as a combined figure. Several non- sovereign entities and

territories A territory is an area of land, sea, or space, particularly belonging or connected to a country, person, or animal. In international politics, a territory is usually either the total area from which a state may extract power resources or a ...

are also included in this list. The figures reflect the quality of

healthcare Health care or healthcare is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health pro ...

in the countries listed as well as other factors including ongoing wars,

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, and HIV infections. From the beginning of the current century there is a tendency to also estimate

Healthy life expectancy Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of its birth, current age, and other demographic factors like sex. The most commonly used measure is life expectancy at birth ...

(HALE) — the average number of years that a person can expect to live in "full health". Comparing life expectancies across countries can be problematic. For example, due to poor reporting in some countries and various local standards in collecting statistics. This is especially true for Healthy life expectancy, the definition of which criteria may change over time, even within a country.

World Bank Group (2020)

Data of the

World Bank Group The World Bank Group (WBG) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries. It is the largest and best-known development bank in the world and an observer at the United Nations Development Gr ...

for 2020. The values in the World Bank Group tables are rounded. All calculations were done on raw data, therefore, due to the nuances of rounding, in some places illusory inconsistencies of indicators arose, with a size of 0.01 year.

United Nations (2021)

Shown is the ‘period life expectancy’ at birth. This is the average number of years a newborn would live if age-specific mortality rates in the current year were to stay the same throughout its life. The data is taken from the 2022 United Nations World Population Prospects. It is also used to calculate the

Human Development Index The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistic composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, w ...

World Health Organization (2019)

According to data published by

World Health Organization The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. The WHO Constitution states its main objective as "the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level o ...

in December 2020. By default, data is sorted by life expectancy at birth for all population, and in case of equal values by HALE for all population.

United Nations Development Programme (2019)

Data published by

United Nations Development Programme The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)french: Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human dev ...

in 2019.

CIA World Factbook (2022)

The US

CIA The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gathering, processing, ...

published the following life expectancy data in its World Factbook.

World Bank Group (2019)

Data of the

for 2019.

Comparison of life expectancy in USA China Russia

Life expectancy in the largest European countries

Life expectancy in some European countries

Life expectancy in some European countries -2

Life expectancy in Ukraine Belarus Russia Kazakhstan

Life expectancy in countries of South-East Asia and Oceania

Life expectancy in countries of Near East

Life expectancy in countries of North America

Life expectancy in countries of South America

References

External links

Global Agewatch
has the latest internationally comparable statistics on life expectancy from 195 countries.
Life expectancy trends interactive graph

Life expectancy interactive world mapU.S. States life expectancy compared to the world (Infographic & Study), Simply Insurance
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Life expectancy Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of its birth, current age, and other demographic factors like sex. The most commonly used measure is life expectancy at birth ...

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