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Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1988

1988, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1988 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Monaco is highest, at 18.3984; South Sudan is lowest, at 5.5584. The middle country reads 13.7342. Against 1987, 222 values changed (169 up, 53 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Age 65 · Data for 1988

HighestMonaco

18.3984

LowestSouth Sudan

5.5584

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end. A higher value is the better result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1988, as published. UN DESA Population Division ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 222 countries · select a heading to sort

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1988: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1MonacoMCOWestern Europe18.398420.698715.8011
2JapanJPNEastern Asia17.994319.558916.0200
3GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe17.971919.156916.2147
4FranceFRAWestern Europe17.668619.633015.2365
5LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe17.618619.936114.9133
6AndorraANDSouthern Europe17.586120.983215.2647
7SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe17.583519.463415.3022
8SpainESPSouthern Europe17.420719.023815.4507
9CanadaCANNorthern America17.342319.362715.0548
10IcelandISLNorthern Europe17.176118.743415.5323
11IsraelISRWestern Asia17.068018.027616.0554
12GreeceGRCSouthern Europe17.048818.347315.6205
13Hong KongHKGEastern Asia17.041318.717614.9815
14SwedenSWENorthern Europe16.901118.685114.9444
15San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe16.900718.353015.2690
16AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand16.882518.757614.7592
17United StatesUSANorthern America16.878518.660514.7047
18NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe16.860518.993114.3439
19ItalyITASouthern Europe16.845018.552314.7546
20Costa RicaCRICentral America16.779917.979715.5039
21NorwayNORNorthern Europe16.686018.536914.5960
22GuamGUMMicronesia16.672017.872415.3844
23Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe16.635118.498414.4599
24Puerto RicoPRICaribbean16.519817.739315.2612
25Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe16.441918.156214.7753

02In 1988

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. 1Monaco18.3984
  2. 2Japan17.9943
  3. 3Gibraltar17.9719
  4. 4France17.6686
  5. 5Liechtenstein17.6186

Lowest

  1. 222South Sudan5.5584
  2. 221Timor-Leste10.0068
  3. 220Afghanistan10.4118
  4. 219Burundi10.6046
  5. 218Angola10.6856

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 13.7342. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

031987 → 1988

Since 1987

What changed between 1987 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 169 · 53rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • One year of the 2024 release

    Every year in this series comes from UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1988.

  • The position is ours

    UN DESA Population Division publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the better result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO. The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.

Cite this edition

UN DESA Population Division (1988). Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1988 [data set], describing 1988. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy-at-65/1988

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1988: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy at 65 in Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1988?

Monaco, at 18.3984, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1988 describe?

1988.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1988 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1988?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1988 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2023.

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