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Afghanistan - Life Expectancy 1991

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Life expectancy at birth, total · World Bank

45.5 +0.4 from 1990 Global rank: 205th

Afghanistan's life expectancy was 45.5 in 1991, increased +0.4 from 45.1 in 1990. This was the 205th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1991▾

Life Expectancy by Country - 1991
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Monaco	79.7	0.4%
2nd	Andorra	79.3	0.5%
3rd	Japan	79.0	0.3%
4th	Liechtenstein	78.5	0.2%
5th	Iceland	78.0	-0.1%
6th	San Marino	77.9	0.2%
7th	Hong Kong SAR, China	77.9	0.6%
8th	Sweden	77.7	0.2%
9th	Canada	77.6	0.2%
10th	Switzerland	77.5	0.4%
11th	Australia	77.3	0.4%
12th	Greece	77.1	0.3%
13th	Gibraltar	77.1	0.4%
14th	Italy	77.0	0.1%
15th	Netherlands	77.0	0.2%
16th	Norway	77.0	0.6%
17th	Spain	77.0	0.2%
18th	France	76.8	0.3%
19th	Israel	76.8	0.2%
20th	Channel Islands	76.5	0.3%
21st	Macao SAR, China	76.5	0.1%
22nd	Malta	76.4	0.4%
23rd	Faroe Islands	76.4	0.3%
24th	Cyprus	76.2	0.3%
25th	Costa Rica	76.2	0.2%
26th	Belgium	76.2	0.2%
27th	United Kingdom	76.1	0.3%
28th	New Zealand	76.0	0.9%
29th	Singapore	75.6	0.5%
30th	Austria	75.6	0.1%
31st	Luxembourg	75.5	0.9%
32nd	United States	75.4	0.2%
33rd	Germany	75.3	0.3%
34th	Finland	75.2	0.6%
35th	Denmark	75.2	0.5%
36th	Ireland	75.0	0.2%
37th	St. Martin (French part)	74.9	0.5%
38th	European Union	74.8	0.2%
39th	French Polynesia	74.3	0.5%
40th	Bermuda	74.2	0.3%
41st	Chile	74.1	0.6%
42nd	Portugal	74.0	0.1%
43rd	Kuwait	73.9	0.7%
44th	Puerto Rico (US)	73.9	1.4%
45th	Montenegro	73.8	0.1%
46th	Cuba	73.8	-0.1%
47th	Qatar	73.7	0.3%
48th	Barbados	73.5	0.1%
49th	Guam	73.5	0.1%
50th	Antigua and Barbuda	73.5	-0.2%
51st	Slovenia	73.4	0.2%
52nd	Uruguay	73.2	0.3%
53rd	Albania	73.0	0.4%
54th	Cayman Islands	72.9	0.2%
55th	British Virgin Islands	72.8	0.5%
56th	Bahrain	72.7	0.1%
57th	Aruba	72.6	0.1%
58th	Curaçao	72.5	0.1%
59th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	72.4	0.0%
60th	Croatia	72.2	0.0%
61st	Isle of Man	72.2	0.5%
62nd	Korea	72.0	0.6%
63rd	Argentina	72.0	0.6%
64th	Czechia	71.9	0.7%
65th	Serbia	71.9	-0.4%
66th	Brunei Darussalam	71.9	0.3%
67th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	71.8	0.4%
68th	Jamaica	71.8	0.1%
69th	North Macedonia	71.6	0.6%
70th	Bulgaria	71.6	-0.1%
71st	Panama	71.3	0.1%
72nd	American Samoa	71.3	0.3%
73rd	Malaysia	71.2	0.4%
74th	Bahamas, The	71.2	0.3%
75th	United Arab Emirates	71.1	0.1%
76th	Slovak Republic	70.9	-0.1%
77th	Lebanon	70.9	8.2%
78th	Grenada	70.8	0.4%
79th	Virgin Islands (US)	70.8	0.2%
80th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	70.7	0.3%
81st	Seychelles	70.7	3.8%
82nd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	70.6	0.0%
83rd	Poland	70.6	-0.4%
84th	Turks and Caicos Islands	70.5	0.5%
85th	Dominica	70.4	-0.1%
86th	Belarus	70.4	-0.6%
87th	Lithuania	70.4	-1.1%
88th	Northern Mariana Islands	70.4	0.5%
89th	St. Lucia	70.3	0.4%
90th	Jordan	70.2	0.2%
91st	Syrian Arab Republic	70.1	0.4%
92nd	Mauritius	70.0	0.8%
93rd	New Caledonia	69.8	0.4%
94th	Romania	69.8	0.1%
95th	Ukraine	69.7	-0.9%
96th	Belize	69.6	0.1%
97th	Libya	69.6	0.5%
98th	Oman	69.6	0.8%
99th	Tunisia	69.4	0.4%
100th	Hungary	69.4	0.1%
101st	Estonia	69.4	-0.1%
102nd	Mexico	69.4	0.5%
103rd	Saudi Arabia	69.3	0.7%
104th	Viet Nam	69.3	0.4%
105th	Thailand	69.1	0.3%
106th	Sri Lanka	69.1	-0.2%
107th	Ecuador	69.0	0.9%
108th	Latvia	69.0	-0.3%
109th	Colombia	68.8	0.1%
110th	China	68.6	0.7%
111th	Kyrgyz Republic	68.6	0.4%
112th	Russian Federation	68.5	-0.6%
113th	Türkiye	68.3	0.7%
114th	West Bank and Gaza	68.2	0.6%
115th	Georgia	68.2	-0.7%
116th	Dominican Republic	68.2	0.6%
117th	Samoa	68.0	0.3%
118th	Trinidad and Tobago	67.8	0.3%
119th	Tonga	67.7	0.3%
120th	Algeria	67.7	0.1%
121st	Paraguay	67.7	0.5%
122nd	Armenia	67.6	0.1%
123rd	Moldova	67.6	-0.5%
124th	Vanuatu	67.1	0.6%
125th	Kosovo	66.5	-0.1%
126th	Solomon Islands	66.4	0.2%
127th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	66.2	3.4%
128th	Brazil	66.2	0.5%
129th	St. Kitts and Nevis	66.0	0.5%
130th	Honduras	65.6	0.6%
131st	Uzbekistan	65.5	-0.4%
132nd	Fiji	65.5	0.6%
133rd	Kazakhstan	65.4	-0.5%
134th	Greenland	65.0	-0.1%
135th	Philippines	64.6	0.4%
136th	Peru	64.2	0.4%
137th	Cabo Verde	64.1	0.3%
138th	Maldives	63.9	1.2%
139th	Micronesia, Federated States of	63.9	0.2%
140th	Turkmenistan	63.8	0.0%
141st	Indonesia	63.7	0.7%
142nd	Nicaragua	63.3	1.3%
143rd	Egypt, Arab Republic of	63.1	0.9%
144th	South Africa	63.0	0.1%
145th	Morocco	62.9	0.8%
146th	Palau	62.8	0.1%
147th	Azerbaijan	62.5	-0.3%
148th	El Salvador	62.5	0.9%
149th	Guyana	62.5	0.3%
150th	Suriname	62.2	0.1%
151st	Guatemala	61.9	0.3%
152nd	Tuvalu	61.8	0.3%
153rd	Marshall Islands	61.8	0.1%
154th	Tajikistan	61.7	0.1%
155th	Kiribati	61.5	0.8%
156th	Iraq	61.3	6.5%
157th	Gabon	60.9	0.3%
158th	Namibia	60.8	-0.9%
159th	São Tomé and Principe	60.8	0.1%
160th	Eswatini	60.4	-1.3%
161st	Papua New Guinea	59.9	0.3%
162nd	Pakistan	59.9	0.2%
163rd	Mongolia	59.8	1.7%
164th	Nauru	59.3	0.4%
165th	Lesotho	59.1	-0.4%
166th	India	59.0	0.7%
167th	Botswana	58.9	-2.0%
168th	Yemen, Republic of	58.8	0.5%
169th	Mauritania	58.3	0.4%
170th	Kenya	57.8	-0.9%
171st	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	57.4	1.1%
172nd	Myanmar	57.4	0.4%
173rd	Senegal	57.0	0.6%
174th	Zimbabwe	57.0	-2.2%
175th	Congo, Republic of	56.8	-0.5%
176th	Bhutan	56.5	1.1%
177th	Comoros	56.1	0.9%
178th	Ghana	55.7	0.6%
179th	Nepal	55.7	1.6%
180th	Cambodia	55.6	0.7%
181st	Sudan	55.6	0.1%
182nd	Djibouti	55.2	-0.5%
183rd	Lao PDR	54.7	1.2%
184th	Togo	54.3	-0.6%
185th	Cameroon	54.2	-0.3%
186th	Bangladesh	53.8	-3.7%
187th	Haiti	53.5	0.6%
188th	Benin	53.4	0.8%
189th	Côte d'Ivoire	52.6	-0.3%
190th	Madagascar	52.6	0.8%
191st	Gambia, The	51.9	1.1%
192nd	Tanzania	51.8	-0.3%
193rd	Equatorial Guinea	51.5	0.2%
194th	Eritrea	50.5	1.6%
195th	Central African Republic	49.6	-0.6%
196th	Burkina Faso	49.3	0.0%
197th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	48.9	0.8%
198th	Guinea	47.8	1.1%
199th	Uganda	47.5	0.0%
200th	Zambia	47.4	-1.6%
201st	Guinea-Bissau	47.2	0.7%
202nd	Mali	46.9	0.7%
203rd	Chad	46.6	3.4%
204th	Rwanda	46.2	-3.2%
205th	Afghanistan	45.5	0.9%
206th	Nigeria	45.5	-0.5%
207th	Timor-Leste	45.1	-0.2%
208th	Mozambique	44.7	0.8%
209th	Burundi	44.7	-1.2%
210th	Angola	43.8	4.7%
211th	Liberia	43.6	15.8%
212th	Malawi	43.5	-0.1%
213th	Sierra Leone	43.3	-1.0%
214th	Niger	42.3	1.3%
215th	South Sudan	29.2	1.9%
216th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	25.4	-45.8%

FAQ

What was Afghanistan's life expectancy in 1991?▾

Afghanistan's life expectancy in 1991 was 45.5. This ranked 205th globally.

How did Afghanistan's life expectancy change in 1991?▾

Afghanistan's life expectancy increased by 0.9% in 1991 compared to 1990.

Which country had the highest life expectancy in 1991?▾

Monaco had the highest life expectancy in 1991 at 79.7.

What is the life expectancy of Afghanistan in 1991?▾

The life expectancy of Afghanistan in 1991 was 45.5. This ranked 205th globally.

How does 1991 compare to 1990 for Afghanistan's life expectancy?▾

Afghanistan's life expectancy went from 45.1 in 1990 to 45.5 in 1991, a 0.9% increase.

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