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Life expectancy at birth, total · World Bank

63.3 +0.6 from 1971 Global rank: 98th

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy was 63.3 in 1972, increased +0.6 from 62.7 in 1971. This was the 98th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1972▾

Life Expectancy by Country - 1972
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Faroe Islands	75.2	0.1%
2nd	Andorra	74.9	0.3%
3rd	Sweden	74.7	0.1%
4th	San Marino	74.6	0.3%
5th	Iceland	74.5	1.2%
6th	Norway	74.3	0.2%
7th	Netherlands	73.7	-0.1%
8th	Switzerland	73.6	0.7%
9th	Denmark	73.4	0.0%
10th	Liechtenstein	73.4	0.4%
11th	Monaco	73.4	0.0%
12th	Japan	73.2	0.5%
13th	Canada	72.9	-0.1%
14th	Spain	72.8	1.7%
15th	Greece	72.7	-0.3%
16th	Gibraltar	72.4	0.4%
17th	United Kingdom	72.1	-0.2%
18th	France	72.1	0.3%
19th	Italy	72.1	0.4%
20th	Channel Islands	72.0	0.0%
21st	New Zealand	71.8	0.1%
22nd	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	71.7	0.6%
23rd	St. Martin (French part)	71.6	0.4%
24th	Australia	71.5	0.5%
25th	Hong Kong SAR, China	71.5	0.0%
26th	Belgium	71.4	0.5%
27th	European Union	71.3	0.5%
28th	United States	71.2	0.1%
29th	Israel	71.1	-0.9%
30th	Montenegro	71.0	0.6%
31st	Lithuania	71.0	-1.0%
32nd	Ireland	71.0	-0.9%
33rd	Ukraine	71.0	0.1%
34th	Germany	70.9	0.3%
35th	Bulgaria	70.9	0.0%
36th	Belarus	70.8	-0.2%
37th	Puerto Rico (US)	70.8	-0.4%
38th	Finland	70.7	1.0%
39th	Poland	70.7	1.5%
40th	Malta	70.6	0.7%
41st	Austria	70.5	0.5%
42nd	Luxembourg	70.4	1.7%
43rd	Antigua and Barbuda	70.3	0.6%
44th	Slovak Republic	70.3	0.6%
45th	Czechia	70.2	0.7%
46th	Estonia	69.9	-0.3%
47th	Latvia	69.9	-0.4%
48th	Serbia	69.9	0.4%
49th	Macao SAR, China	69.7	0.8%
50th	Hungary	69.7	0.9%
51st	Bermuda	69.6	1.0%
52nd	Croatia	69.6	0.4%
53rd	Uruguay	69.2	0.4%
54th	Singapore	69.2	0.2%
55th	Barbados	69.1	0.5%
56th	Kuwait	69.1	0.6%
57th	Slovenia	69.1	0.3%
58th	Cuba	68.9	0.8%
59th	Curaçao	68.8	0.4%
60th	Cyprus	68.6	0.4%
61st	Romania	68.5	0.0%
62nd	Aruba	68.3	0.8%
63rd	Portugal	68.3	2.3%
64th	Russian Federation	68.3	-0.1%
65th	Costa Rica	68.0	0.9%
66th	Dominica	67.5	1.1%
67th	Jamaica	67.3	0.5%
68th	American Samoa	67.2	0.6%
69th	Grenada	67.2	0.4%
70th	British Virgin Islands	66.9	0.4%
71st	Bahamas, The	66.8	0.4%
72nd	Albania	66.5	1.0%
73rd	Guam	66.5	0.6%
74th	Lebanon	66.2	0.1%
75th	Bahrain	66.1	1.3%
76th	Qatar	66.1	0.9%
77th	Isle of Man	66.0	0.2%
78th	Argentina	66.0	0.5%
79th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	65.7	0.8%
80th	North Macedonia	65.6	0.7%
81st	Virgin Islands (US)	65.6	-2.3%
82nd	Northern Mariana Islands	65.6	0.6%
83rd	Georgia	65.5	0.5%
84th	Brunei Darussalam	65.4	0.7%
85th	Seychelles	65.4	1.1%
86th	Cayman Islands	65.4	0.8%
87th	Panama	65.2	0.8%
88th	Trinidad and Tobago	65.2	0.4%
89th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	64.8	0.5%
90th	St. Lucia	64.6	0.2%
91st	Sri Lanka	64.6	0.6%
92nd	Malaysia	64.2	0.7%
93rd	Tonga	64.1	0.7%
94th	Belize	64.0	0.8%
95th	Mauritius	63.9	0.0%
96th	Turks and Caicos Islands	63.8	0.8%
97th	Chile	63.7	1.0%
98th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	63.3	0.9%
99th	Armenia	63.1	0.4%
100th	French Polynesia	63.1	0.5%
101st	Korea	63.0	0.6%
102nd	Moldova	62.9	0.4%
103rd	Paraguay	62.9	0.3%
104th	Greenland	62.8	-0.4%
105th	United Arab Emirates	62.7	1.5%
106th	Colombia	62.5	0.8%
107th	Jordan	62.5	1.1%
108th	St. Kitts and Nevis	62.1	0.6%
109th	Syrian Arab Republic	62.0	1.0%
110th	Iraq	61.8	0.8%
111th	Fiji	61.6	-0.2%
112th	New Caledonia	61.4	1.0%
113th	Samoa	61.4	0.8%
114th	Philippines	60.9	-0.3%
115th	Uzbekistan	60.8	0.6%
116th	Micronesia, Federated States of	60.6	0.7%
117th	Kazakhstan	60.5	0.4%
118th	Guyana	60.1	0.1%
119th	Mexico	60.1	1.1%
120th	Ecuador	59.8	0.8%
121st	Suriname	59.7	0.2%
122nd	Dominican Republic	59.7	1.0%
123rd	Marshall Islands	59.5	0.6%
124th	Libya	58.7	1.9%
125th	Kyrgyz Republic	58.6	0.6%
126th	China	58.6	1.5%
127th	Palau	58.6	0.8%
128th	Nauru	58.4	0.0%
129th	Brazil	58.3	0.8%
130th	Zimbabwe	58.2	0.3%
131st	Türkiye	58.0	1.3%
132nd	Solomon Islands	57.9	1.6%
133rd	Thailand	57.7	1.1%
134th	Botswana	57.7	1.1%
135th	Azerbaijan	57.5	0.8%
136th	Cabo Verde	57.5	0.8%
137th	São Tomé and Principe	57.4	0.8%
138th	Tajikistan	57.2	0.5%
139th	Peru	57.0	0.9%
140th	Turkmenistan	56.6	0.5%
141st	South Africa	56.4	0.6%
142nd	Vanuatu	56.4	0.9%
143rd	Tunisia	56.1	2.2%
144th	Namibia	55.8	1.0%
145th	Honduras	55.7	1.2%
146th	Kiribati	55.3	0.7%
147th	Kosovo	55.1	0.0%
148th	Kenya	55.0	0.9%
149th	Saudi Arabia	54.7	1.9%
150th	Tuvalu	54.7	-2.3%
151st	Zambia	54.4	0.9%
152nd	Indonesia	54.4	1.0%
153rd	Congo, Republic of	54.4	0.7%
154th	Pakistan	53.8	9.8%
155th	Gabon	53.8	1.0%
156th	Papua New Guinea	53.3	1.2%
157th	Mongolia	53.1	1.1%
158th	Sudan	52.8	0.5%
159th	Eswatini	52.4	1.1%
160th	Lesotho	52.3	0.8%
161st	El Salvador	52.0	0.6%
162nd	Viet Nam	51.9	-6.6%
163rd	Guatemala	51.8	3.1%
164th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	51.7	1.2%
165th	Myanmar	51.4	0.7%
166th	Mauritania	51.0	0.6%
167th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	49.9	0.9%
168th	Morocco	49.7	1.1%
169th	Bangladesh	49.6	87.2%
170th	India	49.2	0.6%
171st	Cameroon	49.1	1.1%
172nd	Oman	48.7	1.8%
173rd	Djibouti	48.5	2.7%
174th	Madagascar	48.5	0.6%
175th	Ghana	48.3	0.7%
176th	Nicaragua	48.0	-11.5%
177th	Haiti	47.9	0.6%
178th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	47.8	0.7%
179th	Togo	47.7	1.0%
180th	Tanzania	47.4	1.0%
181st	Uganda	47.2	0.0%
182nd	Comoros	46.5	1.3%
183rd	Maldives	46.4	2.1%
184th	Rwanda	46.3	-0.9%
185th	Central African Republic	46.3	1.2%
186th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	46.0	0.4%
187th	Côte d'Ivoire	45.6	1.8%
188th	Equatorial Guinea	44.4	19.4%
189th	Lao PDR	44.4	0.7%
190th	Algeria	44.4	1.4%
191st	Nepal	44.1	1.0%
192nd	Benin	43.9	1.2%
193rd	Congo, Democratic Republic of	43.9	0.7%
194th	Yemen, Republic of	42.7	2.2%
195th	Mozambique	42.5	-0.1%
196th	Bhutan	42.5	1.6%
197th	Chad	41.9	2.6%
198th	Senegal	41.8	1.3%
199th	Nigeria	41.3	1.6%
200th	Liberia	41.2	1.2%
201st	Eritrea	40.7	-1.9%
202nd	Gambia, The	40.5	1.3%
203rd	Angola	40.5	1.0%
204th	Burkina Faso	40.4	1.4%
205th	Guinea	39.7	0.8%
206th	Sierra Leone	39.5	1.0%
207th	Cambodia	38.9	0.5%
208th	Timor-Leste	38.4	1.4%
209th	Afghanistan	38.4	1.3%
210th	Guinea-Bissau	37.8	0.8%
211th	Malawi	37.6	1.4%
212th	Niger	35.8	1.5%
213th	Mali	34.5	2.1%
214th	South Sudan	31.3	1.0%
215th	Burundi	25.8	-40.3%

FAQ

What was Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy in 1972?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy in 1972 was 63.3. This ranked 98th globally.

How did Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy change in 1972?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy increased by 0.9% in 1972 compared to 1971.

Which country had the highest life expectancy in 1972?▾

Faroe Islands had the highest life expectancy in 1972 at 75.2.

What is the life expectancy of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 1972?▾

The life expectancy of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 1972 was 63.3. This ranked 98th globally.

How does 1972 compare to 1971 for Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy went from 62.7 in 1971 to 63.3 in 1972, a 0.9% increase.

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