Human Development Report 2006

10Survival: progress and setbacks

Life expectancy at birth (years)

The number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of age-specific mortality rates at the time of birth were to stay the same throughout the child???s life.

HDI Rank	Country	1 2 1970-75	3 2000-05
1	Norway	74.4	79.3
2	Iceland	74.3	80.6
3	Australia	71.7	80.2
4	Ireland	71.3	77.7
5	Sweden	74.7	80.1
6	Canada	73.2	79.9
7	Japan	73.3	81.9
8	United States	71.5	77.3
9	Switzerland	73.8	80.5
10	Netherlands	74.0	78.3
11	Finland	70.7	78.4
12	Luxembourg	70.7	78.4
13	Belgium	71.4	78.8
14	Austria	70.6	78.9
15	Denmark	73.6	77.1
16	France	72.4	79.4
17	Italy	72.1	80.0
18	United Kingdom	72.0	78.3
19	Spain	72.9	79.5
20	New Zealand	71.7	79.0
21	Germany	71.0	78.7
22	Hong Kong, China (SAR)	72.0	81.5
23	Israel	71.6	79.7
24	Greece	72.3	78.2
25	Singapore	69.5	78.6
26	Korea, Rep. of	62.6	76.9
27	Slovenia	69.8	76.3
28	Portugal	68.0	77.2
29	Cyprus	71.4	78.5
30	Czech Republic	70.1	75.5
31	Barbados	69.4	74.9
32	Malta	70.7	78.3
33	Kuwait	67.0	76.8
34	Brunei Darussalam	68.3	76.3
35	Hungary	69.3	72.6
36	Argentina	67.1	74.3
37	Poland	70.5	74.3
38	Chile	63.4	77.9
39	Bahrain	63.3	74.2
40	Estonia	70.5	71.2
41	Lithuania	71.3	72.2
42	Slovakia	70.0	74.0
43	Uruguay	68.7	75.3
44	Croatia	69.6	74.9
45	Latvia	70.1	71.4
46	Qatar	62.1	72.7
47	Seychelles	..	..
48	Costa Rica	67.9	78.1
49	United Arab Emirates	62.2	77.9
50	Cuba	70.7	77.2
51	Saint Kitts and Nevis	..	..
52	Bahamas	66.5	69.5
53	Mexico	62.4	74.9
54	Bulgaria	71.0	72.1
55	Tonga	65.6	72.1
56	Oman	52.1	74.0
57	Trinidad and Tobago	65.9	69.9
58	Panama	66.2	74.7
59	Antigua and Barbuda	..	..
60	Romania	69.2	71.3
61	Malaysia	63.0	73.0
62	Bosnia and Herzegovina	67.5	74.1
63	Mauritius	62.9	72.1
64	Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	52.8	73.4
65	Russian Federation	69.7	65.4
66	Macedonia, TFYR	67.5	73.7
67	Belarus	71.5	68.1
68	Dominica	..	..
69	Brazil	59.5	70.3
70	Colombia	61.6	72.2
71	Saint Lucia	65.3	72.3
72	Venezuela, RB	65.7	72.8
73	Albania	67.7	73.7
74	Thailand	61.0	69.7
75	Samoa (Western)	56.1	70.0
76	Saudi Arabia	53.9	71.6
77	Ukraine	70.1	66.1
78	Lebanon	66.4	71.9
79	Kazakhstan	63.2	63.2
80	Armenia	70.8	71.4
81	China	63.2	71.5
82	Peru	55.5	69.8
83	Ecuador	58.8	74.2
84	Philippines	58.1	70.2
85	Grenada	..	..
86	Jordan	56.5	71.2
87	Tunisia	55.6	73.1
88	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	61.6	71.0
89	Suriname	64.0	69.0
90	Fiji	60.6	67.8
91	Paraguay	65.9	70.9
92	Turkey	57.0	68.6
93	Sri Lanka	63.1	73.9
94	Dominican Republic	59.7	67.1
95	Belize	67.6	71.9
96	Iran, Islamic Rep. of	55.2	70.2
97	Georgia	68.2	70.5
98	Maldives	51.4	66.3
99	Azerbaijan	65.6	66.9
100	Occupied Palestinian Territories	56.6	72.4
101	El Salvador	58.2	70.7
102	Algeria	54.5	71.0
103	Guyana	60.0	62.9
104	Jamaica	69.0	70.7
105	Turkmenistan	59.2	62.4
106	Cape Verde	57.5	70.2
107	Syrian Arab Republic	57.4	73.2
108	Indonesia	49.2	66.5
109	Viet Nam	50.3	70.4
110	Kyrgyzstan	61.2	66.8
111	Egypt	52.1	69.6
112	Nicaragua	55.2	69.5
113	Uzbekistan	63.6	66.5
114	Moldova, Rep. of	64.8	67.5
115	Bolivia	46.7	63.9
116	Mongolia	53.8	63.9
117	Honduras	53.9	67.6
118	Guatemala	53.7	67.1
119	Vanuatu	54.0	68.4
120	Equatorial Guinea	40.5	43.5
121	South Africa	53.7	49.0
122	Tajikistan	60.9	63.5
123	Morocco	52.9	69.5
124	Gabon	48.7	54.6
125	Namibia	53.9	48.6
126	India	50.3	63.1
127	S??o Tom?? and Principe	56.5	62.9
128	Solomon Islands	55.6	62.2
129	Cambodia	40.3	56.0
130	Myanmar	49.2	60.1
131	Botswana	56.1	36.6
132	Comoros	48.9	63.0
133	Lao People's Dem. Rep.	40.4	54.5
134	Pakistan	51.9	62.9
135	Bhutan	41.5	62.7
136	Ghana	49.9	56.7
137	Bangladesh	45.2	62.6
138	Nepal	44.0	61.4
139	Papua New Guinea	44.7	55.1
140	Congo	54.9	51.9
141	Sudan	45.1	56.3
142	Timor-Leste	40.0	55.2
143	Madagascar	44.9	55.3
144	Cameroon	45.7	45.8
145	Uganda	51.1	46.8
146	Swaziland	49.6	33.0
147	Togo	49.8	54.2
148	Djibouti	44.4	52.7
149	Lesotho	49.8	36.7
150	Yemen	39.9	60.3
151	Zimbabwe	55.6	37.2
152	Kenya	53.6	47.0
153	Mauritania	43.4	52.5
154	Haiti	48.5	51.5
155	Gambia	38.0	55.5
156	Senegal	40.1	55.6
157	Eritrea	44.3	53.5
158	Rwanda	44.6	43.6
159	Nigeria	42.8	43.3
160	Guinea	39.3	53.6
161	Angola	37.9	40.7
162	Tanzania, U. Rep. of	49.5	46.0
163	Benin	47.0	53.8
164	C??te d'Ivoire	49.8	46.0
165	Zambia	50.2	37.4
166	Malawi	41.8	39.6
167	Congo, Dem. Rep. of the	46.0	43.1
168	Mozambique	40.7	41.9
169	Burundi	44.1	43.5
170	Ethiopia	43.5	47.6
171	Chad	40.6	43.6
172	Central African Republic	43.5	39.4
173	Guinea-Bissau	36.5	44.6
174	Burkina Faso	43.8	47.4
175	Mali	38.0	47.8
176	Sierra Leone	35.4	40.6
177	Niger	38.4	44.3

Notes :

1 -	The age range varies among countries but in most is 18 and older or 15 and older.
2 -	Data refer to the most recent year available during the period specified.
3 -	Data refer to estimates for the period specified.

Source :
UN (United Nations). 2005b. World Population Prospects 1950???2050: The 2004 Revision. Database. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. New York.