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Life expectancy at birth, total · World Bank

66.3 +0.5 from 1977 Global rank: 95th

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy was 66.3 in 1978, increased +0.5 from 65.8 in 1977. This was the 95th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1978▾

Life Expectancy by Country - 1978
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Iceland	76.6	0.4%
2nd	Andorra	76.5	0.4%
3rd	San Marino	75.9	0.3%
4th	Faroe Islands	75.7	0.1%
5th	Japan	75.6	0.4%
6th	Sweden	75.5	0.1%
7th	Norway	75.4	0.0%
8th	Switzerland	75.2	-0.1%
9th	Netherlands	75.1	-0.1%
10th	Monaco	74.7	0.6%
11th	Liechtenstein	74.6	-0.1%
12th	Canada	74.5	0.4%
13th	Denmark	74.4	-0.3%
14th	Greece	74.4	0.9%
15th	Spain	74.3	0.2%
16th	Italy	73.7	0.4%
17th	Australia	73.7	0.4%
18th	France	73.6	0.3%
19th	Hong Kong SAR, China	73.5	0.3%
20th	Gibraltar	73.5	0.0%
21st	United States	73.4	0.1%
22nd	Israel	73.2	0.3%
23rd	United Kingdom	73.2	-0.1%
24th	Channel Islands	73.1	0.3%
25th	New Zealand	73.0	1.2%
26th	Finland	72.9	0.8%
27th	Belgium	72.7	-0.1%
28th	Puerto Rico (US)	72.5	0.2%
29th	Antigua and Barbuda	72.5	0.5%
30th	European Union	72.5	0.1%
31st	Germany	72.3	0.0%
32nd	St. Martin (French part)	72.2	0.1%
33rd	Malta	72.2	0.0%
34th	Costa Rica	72.0	0.7%
35th	Austria	72.0	0.1%
36th	Ireland	72.0	0.0%
37th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	72.0	-0.2%
38th	Bermuda	72.0	0.5%
39th	Macao SAR, China	71.9	0.7%
40th	Cuba	71.9	0.7%
41st	Cyprus	71.7	0.7%
42nd	Montenegro	71.7	0.1%
43rd	Luxembourg	71.4	0.0%
44th	Serbia	71.3	-0.4%
45th	Singapore	71.3	0.4%
46th	Bulgaria	71.2	0.5%
47th	Barbados	71.1	0.7%
48th	Kuwait	70.8	0.4%
49th	Slovenia	70.7	0.2%
50th	Czechia	70.6	0.1%
51st	Lithuania	70.6	-0.3%
52nd	Croatia	70.5	-0.3%
53rd	Curaçao	70.4	0.3%
54th	Slovak Republic	70.4	0.0%
55th	Poland	70.4	-0.1%
56th	Portugal	70.3	0.4%
57th	Aruba	70.3	0.3%
58th	Uruguay	70.3	0.3%
59th	Dominica	70.1	0.6%
60th	Belarus	70.1	-0.3%
61st	Bahrain	69.9	0.7%
62nd	Ukraine	69.8	-0.2%
63rd	Guam	69.6	0.8%
64th	Romania	69.5	-0.4%
65th	Hungary	69.4	-0.7%
66th	Albania	69.4	0.5%
67th	Estonia	69.3	-0.2%
68th	Qatar	69.1	0.6%
69th	British Virgin Islands	69.0	0.5%
70th	Latvia	69.0	-0.2%
71st	North Macedonia	69.0	1.2%
72nd	American Samoa	68.9	0.3%
73rd	Bahamas, The	68.9	0.2%
74th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	68.8	0.1%
75th	Jamaica	68.7	0.2%
76th	Panama	68.7	0.6%
77th	Cayman Islands	68.5	0.7%
78th	Virgin Islands (US)	68.3	0.3%
79th	Brunei Darussalam	68.3	0.6%
80th	Chile	68.0	0.8%
81st	Seychelles	68.0	0.5%
82nd	Argentina	68.0	0.6%
83rd	Northern Mariana Islands	67.9	0.4%
84th	Grenada	67.9	0.0%
85th	Isle of Man	67.7	0.5%
86th	Georgia	67.6	0.5%
87th	Russian Federation	67.4	0.0%
88th	St. Lucia	67.4	0.6%
89th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	67.3	0.6%
90th	Malaysia	67.2	0.7%
91st	United Arab Emirates	67.1	0.9%
92nd	Sri Lanka	66.8	0.7%
93rd	Turks and Caicos Islands	66.4	0.6%
94th	Belize	66.3	0.3%
95th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	66.3	0.7%
96th	Trinidad and Tobago	66.2	0.0%
97th	Syrian Arab Republic	65.9	0.8%
98th	French Polynesia	65.9	0.9%
99th	Tonga	65.9	0.3%
100th	Colombia	65.8	0.9%
101st	Jordan	65.6	0.7%
102nd	Mauritius	65.6	0.7%
103rd	Korea	65.2	0.5%
104th	New Caledonia	64.7	0.7%
105th	Viet Nam	64.5	0.7%
106th	Armenia	64.5	0.4%
107th	Moldova	64.5	0.4%
108th	Iraq	64.2	0.4%
109th	Samoa	64.1	0.6%
110th	Paraguay	64.1	0.3%
111th	St. Kitts and Nevis	64.0	0.4%
112th	Libya	63.8	1.1%
113th	Mexico	63.4	0.7%
114th	Greenland	63.4	2.5%
115th	China	63.1	1.0%
116th	Fiji	63.1	0.6%
117th	Dominican Republic	62.6	0.7%
118th	Solomon Islands	62.5	1.6%
119th	Uzbekistan	62.4	0.4%
120th	Ecuador	62.4	0.7%
121st	Micronesia, Federated States of	62.3	0.3%
122nd	Tunisia	62.1	1.5%
123rd	Kazakhstan	61.8	0.4%
124th	Türkiye	61.6	1.3%
125th	Philippines	61.5	0.2%
126th	Botswana	61.5	1.0%
127th	Palau	61.3	0.6%
128th	Thailand	61.3	0.6%
129th	Brazil	60.9	0.8%
130th	Marshall Islands	60.7	0.2%
131st	Saudi Arabia	60.7	1.6%
132nd	Guyana	60.6	0.1%
133rd	Azerbaijan	60.5	0.9%
134th	Kyrgyz Republic	60.5	0.6%
135th	Suriname	60.4	0.2%
136th	Cabo Verde	60.4	0.7%
137th	Lebanon	60.0	-0.6%
138th	Vanuatu	59.9	1.1%
139th	Tuvalu	59.6	0.6%
140th	Peru	59.3	0.6%
141st	Honduras	59.2	0.9%
142nd	São Tomé and Principe	59.1	0.3%
143rd	Namibia	59.1	0.9%
144th	South Africa	59.0	0.9%
145th	Kosovo	58.8	0.7%
146th	Tajikistan	58.4	0.3%
147th	Nauru	58.3	0.2%
148th	Turkmenistan	58.3	1.0%
149th	Kenya	58.2	1.0%
150th	Indonesia	57.6	0.9%
151st	Oman	57.0	2.7%
152nd	Gabon	57.0	0.9%
153rd	Kiribati	56.9	1.5%
154th	Eswatini	56.8	1.5%
155th	Papua New Guinea	56.5	0.8%
156th	Guatemala	56.4	2.2%
157th	Zambia	56.3	0.1%
158th	Congo, Republic of	56.2	0.4%
159th	Pakistan	56.1	1.1%
160th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	56.0	-1.1%
161st	Lesotho	55.2	1.2%
162nd	Mongolia	54.9	0.3%
163rd	Zimbabwe	54.7	-4.0%
164th	El Salvador	54.7	1.2%
165th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	54.1	1.5%
166th	Morocco	53.6	1.4%
167th	Nicaragua	53.5	-4.6%
168th	Myanmar	53.5	0.5%
169th	Sudan	53.3	-0.4%
170th	India	52.4	1.2%
171st	Mauritania	52.3	0.7%
172nd	Bangladesh	51.6	0.6%
173rd	Djibouti	51.2	0.8%
174th	Togo	50.9	1.5%
175th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	50.8	0.9%
176th	Algeria	50.6	2.8%
177th	Ghana	50.5	0.8%
178th	Maldives	50.4	-2.7%
179th	Côte d'Ivoire	50.4	1.5%
180th	Tanzania	50.4	0.8%
181st	Cameroon	50.3	0.4%
182nd	Madagascar	50.0	0.1%
183rd	Comoros	49.7	1.1%
184th	Haiti	49.5	0.5%
185th	Central African Republic	49.2	0.8%
186th	Yemen, Republic of	48.5	2.2%
187th	Nepal	47.2	1.2%
188th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	47.0	0.0%
189th	Benin	46.9	0.9%
190th	Lao PDR	46.8	0.9%
191st	Bhutan	46.7	1.6%
192nd	Senegal	46.6	1.9%
193rd	Rwanda	46.2	1.3%
194th	Uganda	45.6	-0.5%
195th	Nigeria	45.3	1.1%
196th	Burkina Faso	45.0	1.9%
197th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	44.6	-0.5%
198th	Burundi	44.4	1.0%
199th	Mozambique	44.0	0.1%
200th	Gambia, The	43.6	0.5%
201st	Liberia	43.6	0.8%
202nd	Eritrea	43.4	0.9%
203rd	Chad	43.0	0.3%
204th	Malawi	43.0	2.4%
205th	Guinea-Bissau	42.9	0.8%
206th	Equatorial Guinea	42.3	0.8%
207th	Sierra Leone	42.2	0.9%
208th	Guinea	41.9	1.1%
209th	Angola	41.6	0.9%
210th	Afghanistan	40.1	-2.4%
211th	Mali	38.8	2.0%
212th	Niger	38.3	1.5%
213th	South Sudan	37.6	0.5%
214th	Timor-Leste	22.9	-7.8%
215th	Cambodia	11.6	2.5%

FAQ

What was Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy in 1978?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy in 1978 was 66.3. This ranked 95th globally.

How did Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy change in 1978?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy increased by 0.7% in 1978 compared to 1977.

Which country had the highest life expectancy in 1978?▾

Iceland had the highest life expectancy in 1978 at 76.6.

What is the life expectancy of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 1978?▾

The life expectancy of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 1978 was 66.3. This ranked 95th globally.

How does 1978 compare to 1977 for Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy went from 65.8 in 1977 to 66.3 in 1978, a 0.7% increase.

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