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Name: Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of Life Expectancy 1987
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Life expectancy at birth, total · World Bank

69.8 +0.2 from 1986 Global rank: 87th

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy was 69.8 in 1987, increased +0.2 from 69.5 in 1986. This was the 87th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1987▾

Life Expectancy by Country - 1987
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Monaco	79.3	1.1%
2nd	Japan	78.4	0.5%
3rd	Andorra	78.2	0.1%
4th	Liechtenstein	77.6	0.6%
5th	San Marino	77.5	0.1%
6th	Iceland	77.3	-0.8%
7th	Switzerland	77.2	0.4%
8th	Sweden	77.1	0.2%
9th	Hong Kong SAR, China	76.9	0.3%
10th	Canada	76.8	0.4%
11th	Spain	76.7	0.3%
12th	Netherlands	76.7	0.6%
13th	Italy	76.2	0.6%
14th	Australia	76.2	0.4%
15th	Norway	76.1	-0.2%
16th	Greece	76.1	-0.6%
17th	Gibraltar	75.9	0.4%
18th	France	75.8	0.3%
19th	Channel Islands	75.7	0.4%
20th	Belgium	75.4	0.8%
21st	Faroe Islands	75.4	0.3%
22nd	United Kingdom	75.3	0.5%
23rd	Cyprus	75.3	0.4%
24th	Israel	75.3	0.4%
25th	Costa Rica	75.2	0.4%
26th	Malta	75.2	1.1%
27th	Macao SAR, China	75.0	0.2%
28th	Germany	74.8	0.6%
29th	Austria	74.8	0.6%
30th	United States	74.8	0.2%
31st	Denmark	74.7	0.1%
32nd	Finland	74.6	0.0%
33rd	Singapore	74.5	0.4%
34th	Kuwait	74.5	0.6%
35th	Ireland	74.4	1.0%
36th	European Union	74.3	0.3%
37th	New Zealand	74.2	0.1%
38th	Antigua and Barbuda	73.9	0.0%
39th	Luxembourg	73.7	-0.3%
40th	Portugal	73.7	0.5%
41st	Cuba	73.6	0.1%
42nd	St. Martin (French part)	73.5	0.4%
43rd	Guam	73.5	0.2%
44th	Barbados	73.5	0.1%
45th	Bermuda	73.5	0.1%
46th	Puerto Rico (US)	73.4	0.2%
47th	Montenegro	73.0	0.5%
48th	Qatar	72.5	0.5%
49th	Chile	72.5	0.6%
50th	Aruba	72.4	0.9%
51st	French Polynesia	72.4	0.7%
52nd	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	72.4	0.0%
53rd	Bahrain	72.4	0.2%
54th	Uruguay	72.2	0.0%
55th	Curaçao	72.1	0.2%
56th	Cayman Islands	72.1	0.4%
57th	Slovenia	72.0	0.3%
58th	Albania	72.0	0.4%
59th	Lithuania	71.9	-0.2%
60th	Serbia	71.8	0.3%
61st	Bulgaria	71.5	-0.3%
62nd	British Virgin Islands	71.5	0.3%
63rd	Croatia	71.5	0.1%
64th	Czechia	71.4	0.6%
65th	Dominica	71.4	-0.4%
66th	Ukraine	71.2	0.5%
67th	Slovak Republic	71.1	0.1%
68th	Belarus	71.0	-0.8%
69th	Brunei Darussalam	71.0	0.3%
70th	Poland	70.9	0.1%
71st	Bosnia and Herzegovina	70.9	0.2%
72nd	Jamaica	70.9	0.6%
73rd	American Samoa	70.8	0.2%
74th	Panama	70.8	0.2%
75th	Argentina	70.7	0.6%
76th	Latvia	70.7	0.1%
77th	Isle of Man	70.7	0.5%
78th	Estonia	70.6	0.8%
79th	United Arab Emirates	70.6	0.3%
80th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	70.4	0.5%
81st	Bahamas, The	70.4	0.1%
82nd	Malaysia	70.4	0.3%
83rd	North Macedonia	70.3	0.2%
84th	Virgin Islands (US)	70.2	0.3%
85th	Korea	70.0	0.8%
86th	Grenada	69.8	0.3%
87th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	69.8	0.3%
88th	St. Lucia	69.7	-0.8%
89th	Hungary	69.7	0.7%
90th	Northern Mariana Islands	69.5	0.2%
91st	Russian Federation	69.4	0.1%
92nd	Turks and Caicos Islands	69.3	0.4%
93rd	Jordan	69.3	0.5%
94th	Mauritius	69.3	0.4%
95th	Romania	69.2	-0.4%
96th	Georgia	69.2	0.0%
97th	Belize	69.1	0.5%
98th	Sri Lanka	69.0	0.1%
99th	Syrian Arab Republic	68.8	0.6%
100th	New Caledonia	68.6	0.5%
101st	Libya	68.3	0.7%
102nd	Seychelles	68.2	-0.6%
103rd	Colombia	68.2	-0.2%
104th	Tunisia	68.0	0.9%
105th	Viet Nam	68.0	0.7%
106th	Moldova	67.9	0.8%
107th	Mexico	67.9	0.8%
108th	Thailand	67.8	0.8%
109th	Armenia	67.4	0.3%
110th	China	67.3	0.6%
111th	Saudi Arabia	67.2	0.9%
112th	Tonga	67.2	0.2%
113th	Trinidad and Tobago	67.1	0.3%
114th	Samoa	67.0	0.3%
115th	Oman	67.0	1.2%
116th	Ecuador	66.6	0.7%
117th	Dominican Republic	66.5	0.7%
118th	Paraguay	66.5	0.4%
119th	Türkiye	66.4	0.8%
120th	Algeria	66.1	1.3%
121st	Kazakhstan	66.0	0.3%
122nd	Solomon Islands	65.7	1.5%
123rd	St. Kitts and Nevis	65.5	-0.1%
124th	Uzbekistan	65.5	0.7%
125th	Kyrgyz Republic	65.1	1.1%
126th	Brazil	64.8	0.6%
127th	Greenland	64.7	0.6%
128th	Vanuatu	64.4	-0.3%
129th	Fiji	64.3	0.5%
130th	Honduras	64.1	0.7%
131st	Kosovo	63.6	1.6%
132nd	Turkmenistan	63.5	0.5%
133rd	Philippines	63.3	0.7%
134th	Micronesia, Federated States of	63.2	0.1%
135th	Cabo Verde	62.9	0.5%
136th	Botswana	62.8	-0.8%
137th	Azerbaijan	62.8	0.4%
138th	Palau	62.8	0.0%
139th	South Africa	62.7	0.4%
140th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	62.7	0.9%
141st	Peru	62.5	0.6%
142nd	Lebanon	62.5	0.9%
143rd	Indonesia	62.1	0.6%
144th	Eswatini	61.9	0.5%
145th	Marshall Islands	61.8	0.0%
146th	Guyana	61.7	0.3%
147th	Tajikistan	61.6	-0.4%
148th	Suriname	61.3	0.3%
149th	Tuvalu	61.3	0.1%
150th	Guatemala	61.0	1.1%
151st	Maldives	60.8	1.3%
152nd	Egypt, Arab Republic of	60.7	1.1%
153rd	Zimbabwe	60.7	-0.4%
154th	Kenya	60.7	-0.2%
155th	São Tomé and Principe	60.7	5.3%
156th	Morocco	60.6	1.1%
157th	Iraq	60.3	0.4%
158th	Gabon	60.2	0.4%
159th	Kiribati	59.6	0.8%
160th	Lesotho	59.6	0.4%
161st	El Salvador	59.4	0.1%
162nd	Papua New Guinea	59.2	0.4%
163rd	Pakistan	59.2	0.1%
164th	Namibia	59.1	0.7%
165th	Nauru	58.6	0.1%
166th	Congo, Republic of	57.6	-0.1%
167th	Nicaragua	57.3	-0.4%
168th	India	57.3	0.8%
169th	Mongolia	57.1	0.6%
170th	Mauritania	57.0	1.1%
171st	Yemen, Republic of	56.8	5.2%
172nd	Myanmar	56.4	0.5%
173rd	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	54.9	1.2%
174th	Bangladesh	54.9	0.6%
175th	Djibouti	54.8	0.6%
176th	Togo	54.8	0.4%
177th	Sudan	54.7	0.3%
178th	Senegal	54.6	1.7%
179th	Cameroon	54.2	1.1%
180th	Comoros	54.1	0.7%
181st	Ghana	53.8	1.0%
182nd	Cambodia	53.7	4.1%
183rd	Bhutan	53.6	1.5%
184th	Côte d'Ivoire	53.1	0.2%
185th	Lao PDR	52.6	0.9%
186th	Nepal	52.4	1.5%
187th	Haiti	52.2	0.7%
188th	Tanzania	52.2	0.0%
189th	Rwanda	51.5	-0.5%
190th	Benin	51.3	1.2%
191st	Madagascar	51.1	0.9%
192nd	Equatorial Guinea	51.0	0.3%
193rd	Zambia	50.4	-1.4%
194th	Central African Republic	50.4	-0.1%
195th	Gambia, The	49.4	1.2%
196th	Burkina Faso	49.1	0.2%
197th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	49.0	1.2%
198th	Eritrea	47.4	19.8%
199th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	47.4	0.7%
200th	Uganda	47.4	3.7%
201st	Burundi	47.1	-0.7%
202nd	Guinea	46.1	0.8%
203rd	Nigeria	45.9	-0.1%
204th	Guinea-Bissau	45.8	0.7%
205th	Mali	45.2	1.4%
206th	Liberia	44.3	-0.5%
207th	Malawi	43.9	-0.9%
208th	Sierra Leone	43.7	0.6%
209th	Chad	43.1	-5.5%
210th	Mozambique	41.0	0.1%
211th	Angola	40.8	-4.6%
212th	Niger	40.5	0.5%
213th	Afghanistan	38.8	1.1%
214th	Timor-Leste	36.0	3.5%
215th	South Sudan	20.7	-36.9%

FAQ

What was Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy in 1987?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy in 1987 was 69.8. This ranked 87th globally.

How did Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy change in 1987?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy increased by 0.3% in 1987 compared to 1986.

Which country had the highest life expectancy in 1987?▾

Monaco had the highest life expectancy in 1987 at 79.3.

What is the life expectancy of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 1987?▾

The life expectancy of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 1987 was 69.8. This ranked 87th globally.

How does 1987 compare to 1986 for Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy went from 69.5 in 1986 to 69.8 in 1987, a 0.3% increase.

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