World Life Expactancy Statistics

Rank	Member State	Population	Males	Females
1	Japan	74.5	71.9	77.2
2	Australia	73.2	70.8	75.5
3	France	73.1	69.3	76.9
4	Sweden	73.0	71.2	74.9
5	Spain	72.8	69.8	75.7
6	Italy	72.7	70.0	75.4
7	Greece	72.5	70.5	74.6
8	Switzerland	72.5	69.5	75.5
9	Monaco	72.4	68.5	76.3
10	Andorra	72.3	69.3	75.2
11	San Marino	72.3	69.5	75.0
12	Canada	72.0	70.0	74.0
13	Netherlands	72.0	69.6	74.4
14	United Kingdom	71.7	69.7	73.7
15	Norway	71.7	68.8	74.6
16	Belgium	71.6	68.7	74.6
17	Austria	71.6	68.8	74.4
18	Luxembourg	71.1	68.0	74.2
19	Iceland	70.8	69.2	72.3
20	Finland	70.5	67.2	73.7
21	Malta	70.5	68.4	72.5
22	Germany	70.4	67.4	73.5
23	Israel	70.4	69.2	71.6
24	United States	70.0	67.5	72.6
25	Cyprus	69.8	68.7	70.9
26	Dominica	69.8	67.2	72.3
27	Ireland	69.6	67.5	71.7
28	Denmark	69.4	67.2	71.5
29	Portugal	69.3	65.9	72.7
30	Singapore	69.3	67.4	71.2
31	New Zealand	69.2	67.1	71.2
32	Chile	68.6	66.0	71.3
33	Cuba	68.4	67.4	69.4
34	Slovenia	68.4	64.9	71.9
35	Czech Republic	68.0	65.2	70.8
36	Jamaica	67.3	66.8	67.9
37	Uruguay	67.0	64.1	69.9
38	Croatia	67.0	63.3	70.6
39	Argentina	66.7	63.8	69.6
40	Costa Rica	66.7	65.2	68.1
41	Armenia	66.7	65.0	68.3
42	Slovakia	66.6	63.5	69.7
43	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	66.4	65.0	67.8
44	Georgia	66.3	63.1	69.4
45	Poland	66.2	62.3	70.1
46	Yugoslavia	66.1	64.2	68.1
47	Panama	66.0	64.9	67.2
48	Antigua+Barbuda	65.8	63.4	68.3
49	Grenada	65.5	62.4	68.5
50	U. A. Emirates	65.4	65.0	65.8
51	South  Korea	65.1	63.2	67.1
52	Venezuela	65.0	62.9	67.1
53	Barbados	65.0	62.4	67.6
54	Saint Lucia	65.0	62.4	67.6
55	Mexico	65.0	62.4	67.6
56	Bosnia Herzegovina	64.9	63.4	66.4
57	Trinidad+Tobago	64.6	62.8	66.4
58	Saudi Arabia	64.5	65.1	64.0
59	Brunei	64.4	63.4	65.4
60	Bulgaria	64.4	61.2	67.7
61	Bahrain	64.4	63.9	64.9
62	Hungary	64.1	60.4	67.9
63	Lithuania	64.1	60.6	67.5
64	FYRO Macedonia	63.7	61.8	65.6
65	Azerbaijan	63.7	60.6	66.7
66	Qatar	63.5	64.2	62.8
67	Cook Islands	63.4	62.2	64.5
68	Kuwait	63.2	63.0	63.4
69	Estonia	63.1	58.1	68.1
70	Ukraine	63.0	58.5	67.5
71	Paraguay	63.0	60.7	65.3
72	Oman	63.0	61.8	64.1
73	Turkey	62.9	64.0	61.8
74	Colombia	62.9	60.3	65.5
75	Tonga	62.9	61.4	64.3
76	Sri Lanka	62.8	59.3	66.3
77	Suriname	62.7	60.2	65.2
78	Mauritius	62.7	59.0	66.3
79	Dominican Republic	62.5	62.1	62.9
80	Romania	62.3	58.8	65.8
81	North Korea	62.3	59.9	64.7
82	China	62.3	61.2	63.3
83	Latvia	62.2	57.1	67.2
84	Belarus	61.7	56.2	67.2
85	Algeria	61.6	62.5	60.7
86	Niue	61.6	61.0	62.2
87	St. Kitts and Nevis	61.6	58.7	64.4
88	El Salvador	61.5	58.6	64.5
89	Moldova	61.5	58.5	64.5
90	Malaysia	61.4	61.3	61.6
91	Tunisia	61.4	62.0	60.7
92	Russian Federation	61.3	56.1	66.4
93	Honduras	61.1	60.0	62.3
94	Ecuador	61.0	59.9	62.1
95	Belize	60.9	58.5	63.3
96	Lebanon	60.6	61.2	60.1
97	Iran	60.5	61.3	59.8
98	Samoa	60.5	58.7	62.3
99	Guyana	60.2	57.1	63.3
100	Thailand	60.2	58.4	62.1
101	Uzbekistan	60.2	58.0	62.3
102	Jordan	60.0	60.7	59.3
103	Albania	60.0	56.5	63.4
104	Indonesia	59.7	58.8	60.6
105	Micronesia	59.6	58.7	60.6
106	Peru	59.4	58.0	60.8
107	Fiji	59.4	57.7	61.1
108	Libya	59.3	59.7	58.9
109	Seychelles	59.3	56.4	62.1
110	Bahamas	59.1	56.7	61.6
111	Morocco	59.1	58.7	59.4
112	Brazil	59.1	55.2	62.9
113	Palau	59.0	57.4	60.7
114	Philippines	58.9	57.1	60.7
115	Syria	58.8	58.8	58.9
116	Egypt	58.5	58.6	58.3
117	Viet Nam	58.2	56.7	59.6
118	Nicaragua	58.1	56.4	59.9
119	Cape Verde	57.6	54.6	60.6
120	Tuvalu	57.4	57.1	57.6
121	Tajikistan	57.3	55.1	59.4
122	Marshall Islands	56.8	56.0	57.6
123	Kazakhstan	56.4	51.5	61.2
124	Kyrgyzstan	56.3	53.4	59.1
125	Pakistan	55.9	55.0	56.8
126	Kiribati	55.3	53.9	56.6
127	Iraq	55.3	55.4	55.1
128	Solomon Islands	54.9	54.5	55.3
129	Turkmenistan	54.3	51.9	56.7
130	Guatemala	54.3	52.1	56.4
131	Maldives	53.9	54.4	53.3
132	Mongolia	53.8	51.3	56.3
133	Sao Tome Princi	53.5	52.1	54.8
134	Bolivia	53.3	52.5	54.1
135	India	53.2	52.8	53.5
136	Vanuatu	52.8	51.3	54.4
137	Nauru	52.5	49.8	55.1
138	Bhutan	51.8	51.4	52.2
139	Myanmar	51.6	51.4	51.9
140	Bangladesh	49.9	50.1	49.8
141	Yemen	49.7	49.7	49.7
142	Nepal	49.5	49.4	49.5
143	Gambia	48.3	47.2	49.4
144	Gabon	47.8	46.6	49.0
145	Papua New Guin.	47.0	45.5	48.5
146	Comoros	46.8	46.1	47.5
147	Lao	46.1	45.0	47.1
148	Cambodia	45.7	43.9	47.5
149	Ghana	45.5	45.0	46.0
150	Congo	45.1	44.3	45.9
151	Senegal	44.6	43.5	45.6
152	Equatorial Guinea	44.1	42.8	45.4
153	Haiti	43.8	42.4	45.2
154	Sudan	43.0	42.6	43.5
155	Côte d’Ivoire	42.8	42.2	43.3
156	Cameroon	42.2	41.5	43.0
157	Benin	44.2	41.9	42.6
158	Mauritania	41.4	40.2	42.5
159	Togo	40.7	40.0	41.4
160	South Africa	39.8	38.6	41.0
161	Chad	39.4	38.6	40.2
162	Kenya	39.3	39.0	39.6
163	Nigeria	38.3	38.1	38.4
164	Swaziland	38.1	37.8	38.4
165	Angola	38.0	37.0	38.9
166	Djibouti	37.9	37.7	38.1
167	Guinea	37.8	37.0	38.5
168	Afghanistan	37.7	36.7	38.7
169	Eritrea	37.7	38.5	36.9
170	Guinea-Bissau	37.2	36.8	37.5
171	Lesotho	36.9	36.6	37.2
172	Madagascar	36.6	36.5	36.8
173	Somalia	36.4	35.9	36.9
174	Dem. Rep. Congo	36.3	36.4	36.2
175	Ctral African Rep	36.0	35.6	36.5
176	Tanzania	36.0	35.9	36.1
177	Namibia	35.6	35.8	35.4
178	Burkina Faso	35.5	35.3	35.7
179	Burundi	34.6	34.6	34.6
180	Mozambique	34.4	33.7	35.1
181	Liberia	34.0	33.8	34.2
182	Ethiopia	33.5	33.5	33.5
183	Mali	33.1	32.6	33.5
184	Zimbabwe	32.9	33.4	32.4
185	Rwanda	32.8	32.9	32.7
186	Uganda	32.7	32.9	32.5
187	Botswana	32.3	32.3	32.2
188	Zambia	30.3	30.0	30.7
189	Malawi	29.4	29.3	29.4
190	Niger	29.1	28.1	30.1
191	Sierra Leone	25.9	25.8	26.0

*Rationale for use

Substantial resources are devoted to reducing the incidence, duration and
severity of major diseases that cause morbidity but not mortality and to
reducing their impact on people’s lives. It is important to capture both fatal
and non-fatal health outcomes in a summary measure of average levels of
population health. Healthy life expectancy (HALE) at birth adds up expectation
of life for different health states, adjusted for severity distribution making
it sensitive to changes over time or differences between countries in the
severity distribution of health states.

Definition

Average number of years that a person can expect to live in “full health” by
taking into account years lived in less than full health due to disease and/or
injury.

Data sources

Death registration data reported annually to WHO: Mortality data for calculation
of life tables. For countries without such data, available survey and census
sources of information on child and adult mortality are analysed and used to
estimate life tables.

WHO Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, WHO Multi-Country Survey Study (MCSS)
and World Health Survey (WHS). Estimation of prevalence data. The GBD study
draws on a wide range of data sources to develop internally consistent estimates
for the incidence, prevalence, duration and years lived with disability for 135
major causes. The World Health Survey, carried out by WHO in more than 70
countries, uses anchoring vignettes to maximize comparability of self-report
capacities for a set of core health domains. It also includes a health state
valuation module for assessing the severity of reported health states.

Methods of estimation

Since comparable health state prevalence data are not available for all
countries, a four-stage strategy is used:

Data from the WHOGBD study are used to estimate severity-adjusted prevalence by
age and sex for all countries.

Data from the WHOMCSS and WHS are used to make independent estimates of severity
adjusted prevalence by age and sex for survey countries.

Prevalence for all countries is calculated based on GBD, MCSS and WHS estimates.

Life tables constructed by WHO are used with Sullivan’s method to compute HALE
for countries.

Disaggregation

By age and sex.

References

World Health Report 2004: Changing History. Geneva, World Health Organization,
2004.

Mathers CD, et al. Methods for Measuring Healthy Life Expectancy. In: Murray
CJL, Evans D, eds. Health systems performance assessment: debates, methods and
empiricism. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2003