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Faroe Islands - Life Expectancy 2017

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Life expectancy at birth, total · World Bank

82.1 +0.2 from 2016 Global rank: 25th

Faroe Islands's life expectancy was 82.1 in 2017, increased +0.2 from 82.0 in 2016. This was the 25th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2017▾

Life Expectancy by Country - 2017
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Monaco	85.9	0.3%
2nd	San Marino	84.9	0.2%
3rd	Hong Kong SAR, China	84.7	0.6%
4th	Andorra	84.4	-0.2%
5th	Japan	84.1	0.1%
6th	Liechtenstein	83.7	1.8%
7th	Switzerland	83.6	-0.1%
8th	Macao SAR, China	83.5	0.3%
9th	Spain	83.3	-0.1%
10th	Singapore	83.1	0.3%
11th	Italy	82.9	-0.4%
12th	Gibraltar	82.9	0.1%
13th	French Polynesia	82.8	0.3%
14th	Iceland	82.7	0.6%
15th	Korea	82.6	0.4%
16th	Norway	82.6	0.2%
17th	France	82.6	0.0%
18th	Israel	82.6	0.2%
19th	Australia	82.5	0.1%
20th	Qatar	82.5	0.4%
21st	Sweden	82.4	0.1%
22nd	United Arab Emirates	82.4	0.2%
23rd	Malta	82.3	-0.1%
24th	Ireland	82.2	0.6%
25th	Faroe Islands	82.1	0.2%
26th	Luxembourg	82.1	-0.7%
27th	New Zealand	81.9	0.2%
28th	Canada	81.8	-0.2%
29th	Netherlands	81.8	0.2%
30th	Austria	81.6	0.0%
31st	Finland	81.6	0.2%
32nd	Cyprus	81.5	0.0%
33rd	Belgium	81.5	0.1%
34th	Portugal	81.4	0.4%
35th	Greece	81.3	-0.1%
36th	United Kingdom	81.3	0.1%
37th	Denmark	81.1	0.3%
38th	Slovenia	81.0	-0.2%
39th	Channel Islands	81.0	-0.2%
40th	Germany	81.0	0.0%
41st	European Union	80.9	0.0%
42nd	Bermuda	80.7	0.3%
43rd	Chile	80.6	0.4%
44th	Isle of Man	80.5	0.1%
45th	Bahrain	80.4	0.0%
46th	Costa Rica	80.0	0.0%
47th	Kuwait	79.9	0.3%
48th	Oman	79.7	0.2%
49th	Virgin Islands (US)	79.4	0.3%
50th	Maldives	79.2	0.4%
51st	Puerto Rico (US)	79.1	-1.6%
52nd	Czechia	79.0	-0.1%
53rd	Albania	78.9	0.3%
54th	St. Martin (French part)	78.8	-1.4%
55th	Saudi Arabia	78.7	0.5%
56th	Cayman Islands	78.6	0.3%
57th	United States	78.5	0.0%
58th	Lebanon	78.2	-0.1%
59th	Estonia	78.1	0.6%
60th	Panama	77.9	0.2%
61st	Poland	77.8	-0.1%
62nd	Croatia	77.7	-0.3%
63rd	Uruguay	77.6	0.3%
64th	Turks and Caicos Islands	77.5	0.1%
65th	New Caledonia	77.5	0.2%
66th	Northern Mariana Islands	77.5	0.1%
67th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	77.4	0.3%
68th	Cuba	77.3	-0.3%
69th	China	77.2	0.0%
70th	Slovak Republic	77.2	0.0%
71st	Kosovo	77.1	0.5%
72nd	Türkiye	77.0	0.6%
73rd	Antigua and Barbuda	77.0	0.1%
74th	Thailand	77.0	0.3%
75th	Montenegro	76.7	0.2%
76th	Argentina	76.5	0.6%
77th	Guam	76.5	0.0%
78th	Curaçao	76.4	0.1%
79th	Colombia	76.4	0.2%
80th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	76.4	0.3%
81st	Sri Lanka	76.2	0.1%
82nd	Barbados	76.2	0.1%
83rd	Ecuador	76.2	0.2%
84th	Jordan	76.1	0.7%
85th	Peru	76.0	0.0%
86th	North Macedonia	76.0	0.7%
87th	Hungary	75.8	-0.3%
88th	British Virgin Islands	75.7	-1.2%
89th	Aruba	75.6	0.1%
90th	Malaysia	75.5	0.2%
91st	Serbia	75.5	-0.2%
92nd	Lithuania	75.5	1.1%
93rd	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	75.5	-0.7%
94th	Algeria	75.4	0.2%
95th	Brazil	75.4	0.4%
96th	Armenia	75.2	0.5%
97th	West Bank and Gaza	75.2	0.4%
98th	Romania	75.2	0.0%
99th	Tunisia	75.2	0.2%
100th	Grenada	75.0	0.0%
101st	Brunei Darussalam	74.9	0.1%
102nd	Bulgaria	74.8	0.0%
103rd	Cabo Verde	74.7	0.5%
104th	Latvia	74.6	0.1%
105th	Mauritius	74.5	0.2%
106th	Seychelles	74.3	0.0%
107th	Mexico	74.3	-0.2%
108th	Belarus	74.1	0.4%
109th	Bahamas, The	74.0	0.0%
110th	Viet Nam	74.0	0.1%
111th	Ukraine	74.0	0.8%
112th	Morocco	73.6	0.5%
113th	Paraguay	73.5	-0.1%
114th	Georgia	73.4	0.4%
115th	Nicaragua	73.4	0.3%
116th	Dominican Republic	73.4	0.7%
117th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	73.0	0.1%
118th	Kazakhstan	73.0	0.6%
119th	Trinidad and Tobago	73.0	0.1%
120th	American Samoa	72.8	0.2%
121st	Libya	72.7	1.3%
122nd	Azerbaijan	72.7	0.2%
123rd	St. Lucia	72.5	0.0%
124th	Russian Federation	72.5	1.1%
125th	Tonga	72.1	0.2%
126th	Belize	72.1	0.3%
127th	Greenland	71.9	0.1%
128th	Jamaica	71.9	-0.2%
129th	Honduras	71.8	0.3%
130th	Uzbekistan	71.7	0.2%
131st	Bangladesh	71.6	0.7%
132nd	Guatemala	71.6	0.5%
133rd	Bhutan	71.4	0.4%
134th	St. Kitts and Nevis	71.3	0.1%
135th	Suriname	71.2	0.4%
136th	Kyrgyz Republic	71.2	0.4%
137th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	71.0	0.4%
138th	El Salvador	71.0	0.1%
139th	Samoa	71.0	0.0%
140th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	70.7	0.4%
141st	Mongolia	70.5	0.5%
142nd	Tajikistan	70.5	0.8%
143rd	Vanuatu	70.5	0.1%
144th	Moldova	70.4	0.3%
145th	India	70.1	0.5%
146th	Philippines	70.0	0.7%
147th	Indonesia	70.0	0.3%
148th	Cambodia	69.8	0.3%
149th	Iraq	69.8	1.6%
150th	Solomon Islands	69.7	0.2%
151st	Turkmenistan	69.2	0.1%
152nd	Palau	69.0	0.0%
153rd	Nepal	68.7	0.4%
154th	Dominica	68.6	-3.6%
155th	Guyana	68.5	0.7%
156th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	67.5	0.2%
157th	Lao PDR	67.3	0.5%
158th	Yemen, Republic of	67.1	0.0%
159th	Mauritania	67.1	0.4%
160th	São Tomé and Principe	67.1	0.8%
161st	Fiji	67.1	0.6%
162nd	Senegal	67.1	0.5%
163rd	Gabon	66.8	0.3%
164th	Eritrea	66.6	0.6%
165th	Pakistan	66.2	0.4%
166th	Rwanda	66.1	0.6%
167th	Myanmar	65.9	0.4%
168th	Timor-Leste	65.9	0.4%
169th	Kiribati	65.8	0.0%
170th	Micronesia, Federated States of	65.8	0.3%
171st	Tuvalu	65.7	0.3%
172nd	Marshall Islands	65.7	0.3%
173rd	Syrian Arab Republic	65.7	0.7%
174th	South Africa	65.4	1.0%
175th	Botswana	65.4	1.7%
176th	Uganda	65.2	1.1%
177th	Sudan	65.1	0.7%
178th	Comoros	65.1	0.5%
179th	Tanzania	65.0	0.9%
180th	Papua New Guinea	64.9	0.3%
181st	Congo, Republic of	64.2	0.5%
182nd	Malawi	63.9	1.2%
183rd	Haiti	63.8	0.8%
184th	Ghana	63.8	0.5%
185th	Djibouti	63.7	0.6%
186th	Gambia, The	63.7	0.5%
187th	Madagascar	63.4	0.0%
188th	Kenya	62.7	0.3%
189th	Afghanistan	62.4	-0.4%
190th	Angola	62.1	0.8%
191st	Namibia	61.7	1.4%
192nd	Zambia	61.6	0.7%
193rd	Equatorial Guinea	61.5	0.7%
194th	Burundi	61.3	0.9%
195th	Guinea-Bissau	61.1	0.9%
196th	Nauru	61.1	0.2%
197th	Cameroon	60.8	0.9%
198th	Liberia	60.8	0.5%
199th	Zimbabwe	60.3	0.8%
200th	Mozambique	60.1	1.2%
201st	Togo	60.1	0.8%
202nd	Burkina Faso	59.6	0.7%
203rd	Benin	59.5	0.4%
204th	Niger	59.5	0.5%
205th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	59.5	0.7%
206th	Côte d'Ivoire	59.3	0.9%
207th	Guinea	58.7	0.4%
208th	Mali	58.6	0.5%
209th	Sierra Leone	57.8	1.4%
210th	Eswatini	57.6	2.4%
211th	Lesotho	53.9	1.8%
212th	Nigeria	52.4	0.4%
213th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	52.2	-5.6%
214th	Chad	51.9	0.5%
215th	Central African Republic	45.2	-11.3%
216th	South Sudan	35.4	-3.7%

FAQ

What was Faroe Islands's life expectancy in 2017?▾

Faroe Islands's life expectancy in 2017 was 82.1. This ranked 25th globally.

How did Faroe Islands's life expectancy change in 2017?▾

Faroe Islands's life expectancy increased by 0.2% in 2017 compared to 2016.

Which country had the highest life expectancy in 2017?▾

Monaco had the highest life expectancy in 2017 at 85.9.

What is the life expectancy of Faroe Islands in 2017?▾

The life expectancy of Faroe Islands in 2017 was 82.1. This ranked 25th globally.

How does 2017 compare to 2016 for Faroe Islands's life expectancy?▾

Faroe Islands's life expectancy went from 82.0 in 2016 to 82.1 in 2017, a 0.2% increase.

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