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This is a 'list of countries by life expectancy' at birth, the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year, if mortality at each age remains constant in the future. The entry includes total population as well as the male and female components. Several non-sovereign entities are also included in this list. Figures are from the 2006 revision of the United Nations World Population Prospects report, for the period 2005-2010.^[1] Only countries/territories with a population of 100,000 or more in 2007 are included.
The life expectancy (both sexes, at birth) ranges from 82.6 years in Japan to 39.2 years in Swaziland. Many of the countries with the lowest life expectancies, namely Swaziland, Botswana, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi, South Africa, Central African Republic, Namibia, and Guinea-Bissau, are suffering from very high rates of HIV/AIDS infection, with adult prevalence rates ranging from 10 to 38 percent. Also note that in countries with high infant mortality rates, the life expectancy at birth will be lower and may not reflect the life expectancy a person that has survived his/her first year of life would have.

Rank	Country/territory	Life expectancy at birth (years)
		Overall	Male	Female
	'World average'	'67.2'	65.0	69.5
1	Japan	82.6	79.0	86.1
2	Hong Kong (PRC)	82.2	79.4	85.1
3	Iceland	81.8	80.2	83.3
4	Switzerland	81.7	79.0	84.2
5	Australia	81.2	78.9	83.6
6	Spain	80.9	77.7	84.2
7	Sweden	80.9	78.7	83.0
8	Israel	80.7	78.5	82.8
9	Macau (PRC)	80.7	78.5	82.8
10	France (metropolitan)	80.7	77.1	84.1
11	Canada	80.7	78.3	82.9
12	Italy	80.5	77.5	83.5
13	New Zealand	80.2	78.2	82.2
14	Norway	80.2	77.8	82.5
15	Singapore	80.0	78.0	81.9
16	Austria	79.8	76.9	82.6
17	Netherlands	79.8	77.5	81.9
18	Martinique	79.5	76.5	82.3
19	Greece	79.5	77.1	81.9
20	Belgium	79.4	76.5	82.3
21	Malta	79.4	77.3	81.3
22	United Kingdom	79.4	77.2	81.6
23	Germany	79.4	76.5	82.1
24	U.S. Virgin Islands (US)	79.4	75.5	83.3
25	Finland	79.3	76.1	82.4
26	Guadeloupe	79.2	76.0	82.2
27	Channel Islands (Jersey and Guernsey)	79.0	76.6	81.5
28	Cyprus	79.0	76.5	81.6
29	Republic of Ireland	78.9	76.5	81.3
30	Costa Rica	78.8	76.5	81.2
31	Puerto Rico (US)	78.7	74.7	82.7
32	Luxembourg	78.7	75.7	81.6
33	United Arab Emirates	78.7	77.2	81.5
34	South Korea	78.6	75.0	82.2
35	Chile	78.6	75.5	81.5
36	Denmark	78.3	76.0	80.6
37	Cuba	78.3	76.2	80.4
38	United States	78.2	75.6	80.8
39	Portugal	78.1	75.0	81.2
40	Slovenia	77.9	74.1	81.5
41	Kuwait	77.6	76.0	79.9
42	Barbados	77.3	74.4	79.8
43	Brunei	77.1	75.0	79.7
44	Czech Republic	76.5	73.4	79.5
45	Réunion	76.4	72.3	80.5
46	Albania	76.4	73.4	79.7
47	Uruguay	76.4	72.8	79.9
48	Mexico	76.2	73.7	78.6
49	Belize	76.1	73.3	79.2
50	New Caledonia (France)	76.1	72.8	79.7
51	French Guiana	75.9	72.5	79.9
52	Croatia	75.7	72.3	79.2
53	Oman	75.6	74.2	77.5
54	Bahrain	75.6	74.3	77.5
55	Qatar	75.6	75.2	76.4
56	Poland	75.6	71.3	79.8
57	Panama	75.5	73.0	78.2
58	Guam (US)	75.5	73.3	77.9
59	Argentina	75.3	71.6	79.1
60	Netherlands Antilles (Netherlands)	75.1	71.3	78.8
61	Ecuador	75.0	72.1	78.0
62	Bosnia and Herzegovina	74.9	72.2	77.4
63	Slovakia	74.7	70.7	78.5
64	Montenegro	74.5	72.4	76.8
65	Vietnam	74.2	72.3	76.2
66	Malaysia	74.2	72.0	76.7
67	Aruba (Netherlands)	74.2	71.3	77.1
68	Republic of Macedonia	74.2	71.8	76.6
69	Syria	74.1	72.3	76.1
70	French Polynesia (France)	74.1	71.7	76.8
71	Serbia	74.0	71.7	76.3
72	Libya	74.0	71.7	76.9
73	Tunisia	73.9	71.9	76.0
74	Venezuela	73.7	70.9	76.8
75	Saint Lucia	73.7	71.8	75.6
76	Bahamas	73.5	70.6	76.3
77	Palestinian territories	73.4	71.8	75.0
78	Hungary	73.3	69.2	77.4
79	Tonga	73.3	72.3	74.3
80	Bulgaria	73.0	69.5	76.7
81	Lithuania	73.0	67.5	78.3
82	People's Republic of China (mainland)	73.0	71.3	74.8
83	Nicaragua	72.9	69.9	76.0
84	Colombia	72.9	69.2	76.6
85	Mauritius	72.8	69.5	76.2
86	Saudi Arabia	72.8	70.9	75.3
87	Latvia	72.7	67.3	77.7
88	Jamaica	72.6	70.0	75.2
89	Jordan	72.5	70.8	74.5
90	Romania	72.5	69.0	76.1
91	Sri Lanka	72.4	68.8	76.2
92	Brazil	72.4	68.8	76.1
93	Algeria	72.3	70.9	73.7
94	Dominican Republic	72.2	69.3	75.5
95	Lebanon	72.0	69.9	74.2
96	Armenia	72.0	68.4	75.1
97	El Salvador	71.9	68.8	74.9
98	Turkey	71.8	69.4	74.3
99	Paraguay	71.8	69.7	73.9
100	Philippines	71.7	69.5	73.9
101	Cape Verde	71.7	68.3	74.5
102	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	71.6	69.5	73.8
103	Samoa	71.5	68.5	74.8
104	Peru	71.4	68.9	74.0
105	Estonia	71.4	65.9	76.8
106	Egypt	71.3	69.1	73.6
107	Morocco	71.2	69.0	73.4
108	Georgia	71.0	67.1	74.8
109	Iran	71.0	69.4	72.6
110	Indonesia	70.7	68.7	72.7
111	Thailand	70.6	66.5	75.0
112	Guatemala	70.3	66.7	73.8
113	Suriname	70.2	67.0	73.6
114	Honduras	70.2	66.9	73.7
115	Vanuatu	70.0	68.3	72.1
116	Trinidad and Tobago	69.8	67.8	71.8
117	Belarus	69.0	63.1	75.2
118	Moldova	68.9	65.1	72.5
119	Fiji	68.8	66.6	71.1
120	Grenada	68.7	67.0	70.3
121	Federated States of Micronesia	68.5	67.7	69.3
122	Maldives	68.5	67.6	69.5
123	Ukraine	67.9	62.1	73.8
124	Azerbaijan	67.5	63.8	71.2
125	North Korea	67.3	65.1	69.3
126	Uzbekistan	67.2	64.0	70.4
127	Kazakhstan	67.0	61.6	72.4
128	Guyana	66.8	64.2	69.9
129	Mongolia	66.8	63.9	69.9
130	Tajikistan	66.7	64.1	69.4
131	Western Sahara	65.9	64.3	68.1
132	Kyrgyzstan	65.9	62.0	69.9
133	Bhutan	65.6	64.0	67.5
134	Bolivia	65.6	63.4	67.7
135	Sao Tome and Principe	65.5	63.6	67.4
136	Pakistan	65.5	65.2	65.8
137	Russia	65.5	59.0	72.6
138	Comoros	65.2	63.0	67.4
139	India	64.7	63.2	66.4
140	Laos	64.4	63.0	65.8
141	Mauritania	64.2	62.4	66.0
142	Bangladesh	64.1	63.2	65.0
143	Nepal	63.8	63.2	64.2
144	Solomon Islands	63.6	62.7	64.5
145	Turkmenistan	63.2	59.0	67.5
146	Senegal	63.1	61.0	65.1
147	Yemen	62.7	61.1	64.3
148	Myanmar	62.1	59.0	65.3
149	Haiti	60.9	59.1	62.8
150	East Timor	60.8	60.0	61.7
151	Ghana	60.0	59.6	60.5
152	Cambodia	59.7	57.3	61.9
153	Iraq	59.5	57.8	61.5
154	Gambia	59.4	58.6	60.3
155	Madagascar	59.4	57.7	61.3
156	Sudan	58.6	57.1	60.1
157	Togo	58.4	56.7	60.1
158	Eritrea	58.0	55.6	60.3
159	Papua New Guinea	57.2	54.6	60.4
160	Niger	56.9	57.8	56.0
161	Gabon	56.7	56.4	57.1
162	Benin	56.7	55.6	57.8
163	Guinea	56.0	54.4	57.6
164	Republic of the Congo	55.3	54.0	56.6
165	Djibouti	54.8	53.6	56.0
166	Mali	54.5	52.1	56.6
167	Kenya	54.1	53.0	55.2
168	Ethiopia	52.9	51.7	54.3
169	Namibia	52.9	52.5	53.1
170	Tanzania	52.5	51.4	53.6
171	Burkina Faso	52.3	50.7	53.8
172	Equatorial Guinea	51.6	50.4	52.8
173	Uganda	51.5	50.8	52.2
174	Botswana	50.7	50.5	50.7
175	Chad	50.6	49.3	52.0
176	Cameroon	50.4	50.0	50.8
177	Burundi	49.6	48.1	51.0
178	South Africa	49.3	48.8	49.7
179	Côte d'Ivoire	48.3	47.5	49.3
180	Malawi	48.3	48.1	48.4
181	Somalia	48.2	46.9	49.4
182	Nigeria	46.9		47.3
183	Democratic Republic of the Congo	46.5		47.7
184	Guinea-Bissau	46.4		47.9
185	Rwanda	46.2		47.8
186	Liberia	45.7		46.6
187	Central African Republic	44.7
188	Afghanistan	43.8
189	Zimbabwe	43.5
190	Angola	42.7
191	Lesotho	42.6
192	Sierra Leone	42.6
193	Zambia	42.4
194	Mozambique	42.1
195	Swaziland	39.6

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Reference

1. United Nations World Population Propsects: 2006 revision – Table A.17