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Afghanistan - Life Expectancy 1988

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Life expectancy at birth, total · World Bank

43.2 +4.4 from 1987 Global rank: 210th

Afghanistan's life expectancy was 43.2 in 1988, increased +4.4 from 38.8 in 1987. This was the 210th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1988▾

Life Expectancy by Country - 1988
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Monaco	79.4	0.2%
2nd	Andorra	78.4	0.2%
3rd	Japan	78.3	-0.1%
4th	Liechtenstein	77.8	0.3%
5th	San Marino	77.5	0.1%
6th	Switzerland	77.2	0.0%
7th	Hong Kong SAR, China	77.1	0.2%
8th	Iceland	77.1	-0.3%
9th	Sweden	77.0	-0.1%
10th	Greece	76.9	1.2%
11th	Netherlands	76.9	0.2%
12th	Canada	76.9	0.1%
13th	Spain	76.7	0.0%
14th	Australia	76.4	0.4%
15th	Italy	76.4	0.2%
16th	Norway	76.2	0.2%
17th	Gibraltar	76.2	0.4%
18th	France	76.1	0.4%
19th	Channel Islands	76.0	0.4%
20th	Malta	75.8	0.7%
21st	Faroe Islands	75.7	0.4%
22nd	Belgium	75.6	0.3%
23rd	Costa Rica	75.5	0.4%
24th	Cyprus	75.4	0.2%
25th	United Kingdom	75.4	0.1%
26th	Macao SAR, China	75.4	0.5%
27th	Austria	75.2	0.6%
28th	Germany	75.0	0.3%
29th	Kuwait	74.9	0.6%
30th	Denmark	74.8	0.1%
31st	United States	74.8	0.0%
32nd	Singapore	74.7	0.2%
33rd	Finland	74.6	0.0%
34th	European Union	74.5	0.3%
35th	Ireland	74.4	0.0%
36th	Israel	74.4	-1.1%
37th	New Zealand	74.4	0.3%
38th	Luxembourg	74.1	0.5%
39th	St. Martin (French part)	73.9	0.5%
40th	Antigua and Barbuda	73.8	-0.1%
41st	Cuba	73.7	0.2%
42nd	Portugal	73.7	0.1%
43rd	Bermuda	73.6	0.1%
44th	Barbados	73.4	0.0%
45th	Guam	73.4	-0.1%
46th	Montenegro	73.2	0.3%
47th	Puerto Rico (US)	73.2	-0.3%
48th	French Polynesia	73.1	0.9%
49th	Qatar	72.8	0.4%
50th	Chile	72.8	0.4%
51st	Aruba	72.5	0.1%
52nd	Bahrain	72.5	0.1%
53rd	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	72.5	0.0%
54th	Slovenia	72.4	0.6%
55th	Uruguay	72.4	0.3%
56th	Cayman Islands	72.4	0.3%
57th	Curaçao	72.2	0.1%
58th	Albania	72.2	0.3%
59th	Serbia	72.0	0.3%
60th	British Virgin Islands	71.8	0.4%
61st	Lithuania	71.8	-0.2%
62nd	Czechia	71.6	0.3%
63rd	Bulgaria	71.6	0.1%
64th	Croatia	71.5	0.0%
65th	Belarus	71.3	0.5%
66th	Poland	71.3	0.6%
67th	Slovak Republic	71.2	0.2%
68th	Brunei Darussalam	71.2	0.3%
69th	Jamaica	71.2	0.4%
70th	Argentina	71.1	0.6%
71st	Isle of Man	71.1	0.5%
72nd	Ukraine	71.0	-0.2%
73rd	Dominica	71.0	-0.6%
74th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	71.0	0.1%
75th	Panama	70.9	0.2%
76th	American Samoa	70.9	0.1%
77th	United Arab Emirates	70.8	0.3%
78th	Estonia	70.7	0.1%
79th	Latvia	70.6	-0.1%
80th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	70.6	0.3%
81st	Malaysia	70.6	0.3%
82nd	Korea	70.5	0.8%
83rd	Bahamas, The	70.5	0.2%
84th	Virgin Islands (US)	70.4	0.3%
85th	North Macedonia	70.3	0.1%
86th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	70.1	0.4%
87th	Grenada	70.0	0.3%
88th	Hungary	70.0	0.5%
89th	St. Lucia	69.7	0.1%
90th	Turks and Caicos Islands	69.6	0.5%
91st	Northern Mariana Islands	69.6	0.2%
92nd	Jordan	69.6	0.4%
93rd	Mauritius	69.6	0.4%
94th	Russian Federation	69.5	0.0%
95th	Belize	69.4	0.4%
96th	Romania	69.4	0.2%
97th	Syrian Arab Republic	69.2	0.5%
98th	Sri Lanka	69.0	0.0%
99th	New Caledonia	68.9	0.5%
100th	Georgia	68.8	-0.6%
101st	Seychelles	68.7	0.7%
102nd	Libya	68.6	0.5%
103rd	Viet Nam	68.6	0.9%
104th	Tunisia	68.5	0.7%
105th	Colombia	68.3	0.2%
106th	Mexico	68.3	0.6%
107th	Thailand	68.2	0.5%
108th	Moldova	68.2	0.4%
109th	Saudi Arabia	67.8	0.9%
110th	Oman	67.7	1.1%
111th	China	67.6	0.5%
112th	Trinidad and Tobago	67.4	0.4%
113th	Samoa	67.3	0.4%
114th	Tonga	67.3	0.2%
115th	Ecuador	67.0	0.7%
116th	Dominican Republic	66.9	0.6%
117th	Algeria	66.9	1.2%
118th	Türkiye	66.9	0.8%
119th	Paraguay	66.7	0.4%
120th	Kazakhstan	66.0	0.1%
121st	Solomon Islands	65.9	0.3%
122nd	Uzbekistan	65.8	0.4%
123rd	Vanuatu	65.7	2.0%
124th	St. Kitts and Nevis	65.5	-0.1%
125th	Brazil	65.2	0.6%
126th	Kyrgyz Republic	65.0	-0.2%
127th	Fiji	65.0	1.0%
128th	Greenland	64.6	-0.1%
129th	Honduras	64.4	0.5%
130th	Kosovo	64.2	1.0%
131st	Philippines	63.7	0.7%
132nd	Turkmenistan	63.7	0.3%
133rd	Micronesia, Federated States of	63.5	0.4%
134th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	63.3	0.9%
135th	Cabo Verde	63.2	0.5%
136th	Peru	63.0	0.7%
137th	Lebanon	62.9	0.6%
138th	South Africa	62.9	0.3%
139th	Palau	62.8	0.0%
140th	Azerbaijan	62.7	-0.2%
141st	Indonesia	62.4	0.5%
142nd	Eswatini	61.9	0.1%
143rd	Guyana	61.8	0.2%
144th	Tajikistan	61.8	0.4%
145th	Marshall Islands	61.8	0.0%
146th	Botswana	61.7	-1.8%
147th	Maldives	61.6	1.3%
148th	Guatemala	61.5	0.9%
149th	Suriname	61.5	0.3%
150th	Tuvalu	61.4	0.1%
151st	Egypt, Arab Republic of	61.4	1.0%
152nd	Morocco	61.2	1.0%
153rd	São Tomé and Principe	60.8	0.2%
154th	Gabon	60.4	0.3%
155th	Kenya	60.3	-0.7%
156th	Zimbabwe	60.2	-0.8%
157th	Kiribati	60.1	0.8%
158th	El Salvador	60.0	1.0%
159th	Nicaragua	59.8	4.4%
160th	Lesotho	59.6	0.0%
161st	Papua New Guinea	59.4	0.3%
162nd	Pakistan	59.4	0.2%
163rd	Namibia	59.0	-0.2%
164th	Nauru	58.7	0.2%
165th	India	57.7	0.8%
166th	Congo, Republic of	57.5	-0.2%
167th	Mauritania	57.5	0.9%
168th	Mongolia	57.5	0.7%
169th	Yemen, Republic of	57.4	1.1%
170th	Iraq	56.7	-5.9%
171st	Myanmar	56.6	0.4%
172nd	Senegal	55.5	1.7%
173rd	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	55.5	1.1%
174th	Bangladesh	55.2	0.5%
175th	Djibouti	55.1	0.5%
176th	Sudan	55.0	0.4%
177th	Togo	54.9	0.1%
178th	Comoros	54.7	1.0%
179th	Cambodia	54.4	1.4%
180th	Ghana	54.4	1.1%
181st	Bhutan	54.4	1.4%
182nd	Cameroon	54.4	0.3%
183rd	Nepal	53.1	1.4%
184th	Lao PDR	53.1	0.9%
185th	Côte d'Ivoire	53.1	-0.1%
186th	Armenia	52.6	-21.9%
187th	Haiti	52.6	0.6%
188th	Tanzania	52.2	0.1%
189th	Benin	52.0	1.5%
190th	Madagascar	51.4	0.6%
191st	Equatorial Guinea	51.2	0.4%
192nd	Rwanda	50.9	-1.1%
193rd	Central African Republic	50.2	-0.3%
194th	Gambia, The	50.1	1.5%
195th	Zambia	49.7	-1.5%
196th	Burkina Faso	49.2	0.2%
197th	Eritrea	48.1	1.5%
198th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	47.8	0.8%
199th	Uganda	47.5	0.2%
200th	Guinea	46.5	0.8%
201st	Chad	46.4	7.6%
202nd	Guinea-Bissau	46.3	0.9%
203rd	Nigeria	45.8	-0.1%
204th	Mali	45.7	1.1%
205th	Liberia	44.1	-0.5%
206th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	43.9	-10.3%
207th	Sierra Leone	43.8	0.0%
208th	Mozambique	43.7	6.6%
209th	Malawi	43.6	-0.8%
210th	Afghanistan	43.2	11.3%
211th	Burundi	42.9	-8.9%
212th	Angola	41.5	1.7%
213th	Niger	40.8	0.8%
214th	Timor-Leste	36.0	0.2%
215th	South Sudan	11.0	-47.0%

FAQ

What was Afghanistan's life expectancy in 1988?▾

Afghanistan's life expectancy in 1988 was 43.2. This ranked 210th globally.

How did Afghanistan's life expectancy change in 1988?▾

Afghanistan's life expectancy increased by 11.3% in 1988 compared to 1987.

Which country had the highest life expectancy in 1988?▾

Monaco had the highest life expectancy in 1988 at 79.4.

What is the life expectancy of Afghanistan in 1988?▾

The life expectancy of Afghanistan in 1988 was 43.2. This ranked 210th globally.

How does 1988 compare to 1987 for Afghanistan's life expectancy?▾

Afghanistan's life expectancy went from 38.8 in 1987 to 43.2 in 1988, a 11.3% increase.

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