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Table 7 Life expectancy at birth in selected years (in years)

From: Disparities in length of life across developed countries: measuring and decomposing changes over time within and between country groups

 

Males

Females

 

1970

1984

1994

2004

2010

1970

1984

1994

2004

2010

Established market economies

68.18

72.08

73.91

76.56

77.90

74.75

78.75

80.43

82.18

83.13

Australiaa

67.48

72.66

74.98

78.45

79.73

74.29

79.21

80.89

83.29

84.17

Austria

66.49

69.96

73.10

76.41

77.71

73.42

77.14

79.61

82.09

83.13

Belgium

67.82

70.92

73.34

75.96

77.38

74.13

77.76

79.97

81.82

82.63

Canadaa

69.34

73.01

74.87

77.70

79.02

76.30

79.79

80.89

82.45

83.40

Denmark

70.87

71.63

72.74

75.13

77.11

75.94

77.61

78.06

79.78

81.29

England & Wales

68.89

71.86

74.17

76.89

78.62

75.19

77.72

79.45

81.21

82.53

Finlanda

66.15

70.47

72.79

75.30

76.51

74.41

78.76

80.13

82.24

83.12

France

68.38

71.13

73.64

76.69

78.06

75.82

79.35

81.88

83.86

84.71

Iceland

70.70

74.75

77.09

78.93

79.73

77.24

80.19

81.31

82.91

83.78

Irelanda

68.57

70.88

73.04

76.07

77.26

73.31

76.53

78.63

81.02

82.22

Italya

68.70

72.12

74.47

78.08

79.21

74.55

78.75

81.02

83.77

84.21

Japan

69.32

74.62

76.60

78.61

79.56

74.69

80.30

82.94

85.59

86.34

Luxembourga

66.35

69.54

73.13

75.91

78.05

72.91

76.55

79.41

82.14

82.88

Netherlandsa

70.82

72.95

74.56

76.87

78.55

76.52

79.67

80.28

81.41

82.63

New Zealandb

68.15

71.16

74.15

77.33

78.39

74.49

77.67

79.66

81.42

82.33

Northern Ireland

67.73

70.35

73.17

76.00

77.16

73.67

76.73

78.64

80.71

81.69

Norwaya

70.98

72.91

74.86

77.49

78.62

77.31

79.49

80.62

82.30

83.03

Portugal

63.90

69.36

72.13

74.92

76.73

70.15

76.44

79.25

81.77

83.04

Scotland

67.13

69.86

72.09

74.25

76.15

73.42

75.89

77.69

79.38

80.61

Spain

69.31

73.20

74.48

76.99

79.01

74.87

79.68

81.71

83.67

85.03

Sweden

72.24

73.82

76.05

78.33

79.50

77.22

79.92

81.34

82.61

83.44

Switzerland

70.02

73.34

75.13

78.46

80.04

76.16

80.02

81.70

83.49

84.37

United States of America

67.02

71.12

72.40

75.02

76.37

74.68

78.18

79.06

80.10

81.20

West Germany

67.32

71.24

73.51

76.54

77.92

73.65

77.89

79.80

81.94

82.72

Central and Eastern Europe

67.00

67.32

67.98

71.27

72.46

73.06

74.68

76.19

79.03

79.94

Bulgaria

69.11

68.34

67.16

69.01

70.28

73.51

74.37

74.73

76.18

77.22

Czech Republic

66.02

67.28

69.45

72.59

74.41

73.00

74.44

76.58

79.18

80.62

East Germany

68.12

69.62

70.69

75.27

76.69

73.31

75.39

78.16

81.73

82.60

Hungarya

66.32

64.95

64.96

68.70

70.18

72.10

73.10

74.41

77.14

78.20

Polanda

66.44

66.82

67.44

70.61

71.48

73.14

74.92

76.05

79.18

79.90

Slovakiaa

66.66

66.73

68.25

70.32

71.36

72.94

74.84

76.44

78.03

78.95

Former Soviet Union

64.26

62.67

58.97

59.98

63.46

73.88

73.41

71.75

72.86

74.95

Belarus

67.92

65.42

63.41

63.11

64.57

76.04

75.49

74.36

74.96

76.45

Estonia

65.47

64.57

60.62

66.40

70.57

74.55

74.26

72.95

77.92

80.49

Latvia

65.64

64.05

58.71

65.58

67.42

74.25

74.44

72.21

76.02

77.38

Lithuania

66.84

65.35

62.53

66.28

67.52

75.08

75.53

74.75

77.72

78.73

Russian Federation

63.09

61.68

57.39

58.83

62.90

73.47

72.95

71.06

72.27

74.73

Ukrainea

66.52

64.59

62.36

61.96

64.32

74.48

74.08

72.93

73.58

74.79

All countries

67.31

69.85

70.59

73.27

75.10

74.42

77.29

78.33

80.18

81.41

Max-min range

9.14

13.07

19.70

20.10

17.15

7.16

7.35

11.88

13.31

11.60

Standard deviation

2.04

4.00

6.09

6.45

5.55

1.00

2.47

3.77

4.06

3.57

  1. Note: aData of 2009 used as the last point; bData of 2008 used as the last point