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Life expectancy at birth, total · World Bank

70.3 +0.2 from 1988 Global rank: 84th

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy was 70.3 in 1989, increased +0.2 from 70.1 in 1988. This was the 84th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1989▾

Life Expectancy by Country - 1989
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Monaco	79.4	0.0%
2nd	Japan	78.8	0.5%
3rd	Andorra	78.6	0.2%
4th	Iceland	78.1	1.4%
5th	Liechtenstein	78.1	0.4%
6th	Sweden	77.7	1.0%
7th	San Marino	77.6	0.1%
8th	Switzerland	77.4	0.3%
9th	Canada	77.1	0.3%
10th	Hong Kong SAR, China	77.0	-0.1%
11th	Italy	76.8	0.6%
12th	Spain	76.8	0.1%
13th	Netherlands	76.7	-0.2%
14th	Australia	76.7	0.4%
15th	Greece	76.7	-0.3%
16th	Norway	76.5	0.4%
17th	Channel Islands	76.5	0.7%
18th	Gibraltar	76.5	0.4%
19th	France	76.3	0.3%
20th	Israel	76.3	2.5%
21st	Malta	76.1	0.4%
22nd	Macao SAR, China	76.0	0.9%
23rd	Faroe Islands	75.9	0.3%
24th	Costa Rica	75.9	0.4%
25th	Cyprus	75.8	0.6%
26th	Belgium	75.6	0.1%
27th	United Kingdom	75.6	0.3%
28th	Kuwait	75.3	0.5%
29th	Austria	75.3	0.1%
30th	Germany	75.2	0.3%
31st	United States	75.0	0.3%
32nd	Singapore	74.9	0.3%
33rd	New Zealand	74.8	0.5%
34th	Denmark	74.8	0.0%
35th	Finland	74.8	0.3%
36th	European Union	74.7	0.2%
37th	Ireland	74.5	0.0%
38th	Portugal	74.3	0.7%
39th	St. Martin (French part)	74.2	0.5%
40th	Luxembourg	74.1	0.0%
41st	Bermuda	73.7	0.2%
42nd	Cuba	73.7	0.0%
43rd	Antigua and Barbuda	73.6	-0.2%
44th	Montenegro	73.6	0.6%
45th	Guam	73.5	0.1%
46th	French Polynesia	73.5	0.6%
47th	Barbados	73.4	-0.1%
48th	Chile	73.2	0.5%
49th	Qatar	73.1	0.4%
50th	Slovenia	72.7	0.4%
51st	Uruguay	72.6	0.3%
52nd	Cayman Islands	72.5	0.3%
53rd	Aruba	72.5	0.0%
54th	Bahrain	72.5	0.1%
55th	Puerto Rico (US)	72.5	-0.9%
56th	Albania	72.5	0.3%
57th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	72.4	0.0%
58th	Serbia	72.3	0.4%
59th	Curaçao	72.2	-0.1%
60th	British Virgin Islands	72.0	0.4%
61st	Croatia	71.8	0.5%
62nd	Bulgaria	71.7	0.2%
63rd	Czechia	71.7	0.0%
64th	Jamaica	71.5	0.5%
65th	Argentina	71.5	0.6%
66th	Belarus	71.5	0.2%
67th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	71.4	0.7%
68th	Lithuania	71.4	-0.5%
69th	Brunei Darussalam	71.4	0.3%
70th	Isle of Man	71.4	0.5%
71st	Korea	71.0	0.7%
72nd	Poland	71.0	-0.4%
73rd	Slovak Republic	71.0	-0.3%
74th	United Arab Emirates	71.0	0.2%
75th	North Macedonia	71.0	0.9%
76th	American Samoa	70.9	0.1%
77th	Ukraine	70.8	-0.3%
78th	Malaysia	70.8	0.3%
79th	Bahamas, The	70.7	0.3%
80th	Dominica	70.7	-0.4%
81st	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	70.6	0.1%
82nd	Virgin Islands (US)	70.5	0.2%
83rd	Grenada	70.3	0.3%
84th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	70.3	0.3%
85th	Latvia	70.2	-0.7%
86th	Panama	70.1	-1.1%
87th	Estonia	70.0	-0.9%
88th	St. Lucia	70.0	0.4%
89th	Turks and Caicos Islands	69.9	0.4%
90th	Jordan	69.9	0.4%
91st	Northern Mariana Islands	69.8	0.2%
92nd	Mauritius	69.7	0.2%
93rd	Belize	69.5	0.2%
94th	Romania	69.5	0.2%
95th	Syrian Arab Republic	69.5	0.5%
96th	Hungary	69.5	-0.8%
97th	New Caledonia	69.2	0.4%
98th	Russian Federation	69.2	-0.4%
99th	Libya	69.0	0.5%
100th	Tunisia	68.8	0.5%
101st	Viet Nam	68.8	0.3%
102nd	Georgia	68.6	-0.3%
103rd	Mexico	68.6	0.5%
104th	Colombia	68.6	0.5%
105th	Thailand	68.6	0.5%
106th	Oman	68.4	1.0%
107th	Saudi Arabia	68.4	0.8%
108th	Moldova	68.2	0.0%
109th	Seychelles	68.0	-1.1%
110th	China	67.9	0.5%
111th	Kyrgyz Republic	67.9	4.5%
112th	Ecuador	67.8	1.2%
113th	Samoa	67.6	0.4%
114th	Armenia	67.5	28.4%
115th	Trinidad and Tobago	67.5	0.2%
116th	Algeria	67.5	0.8%
117th	Tonga	67.4	0.2%
118th	Türkiye	67.4	0.7%
119th	Dominican Republic	67.3	0.6%
120th	Sri Lanka	67.3	-2.5%
121st	Paraguay	66.9	0.3%
122nd	Solomon Islands	66.1	0.3%
123rd	Vanuatu	66.0	0.5%
124th	Kazakhstan	65.9	-0.2%
125th	Uzbekistan	65.8	0.1%
126th	Brazil	65.5	0.5%
127th	St. Kitts and Nevis	65.5	0.0%
128th	Fiji	65.4	0.7%
129th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	65.3	3.3%
130th	Kosovo	65.2	1.6%
131st	Lebanon	65.1	3.5%
132nd	Honduras	64.8	0.6%
133rd	Greenland	64.7	0.1%
134th	Philippines	64.1	0.6%
135th	Turkmenistan	63.8	0.1%
136th	Micronesia, Federated States of	63.6	0.2%
137th	Cabo Verde	63.6	0.5%
138th	Peru	63.4	0.7%
139th	South Africa	63.0	0.2%
140th	Azerbaijan	62.9	0.4%
141st	Indonesia	62.9	0.8%
142nd	Palau	62.8	0.0%
143rd	Maldives	62.4	1.3%
144th	Guyana	62.1	0.3%
145th	Suriname	62.0	0.8%
146th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	61.9	1.0%
147th	Nicaragua	61.9	3.4%
148th	Morocco	61.8	1.0%
149th	Guatemala	61.7	0.3%
150th	Tajikistan	61.7	-0.2%
151st	Marshall Islands	61.7	-0.1%
152nd	Eswatini	61.7	-0.4%
153rd	Tuvalu	61.5	0.2%
154th	El Salvador	61.3	2.1%
155th	Botswana	61.2	-0.8%
156th	Namibia	60.8	2.9%
157th	Gabon	60.6	0.3%
158th	Kiribati	60.5	0.8%
159th	Kenya	60.0	-0.5%
160th	São Tomé and Principe	59.7	-1.8%
161st	Papua New Guinea	59.6	0.4%
162nd	Pakistan	59.5	0.3%
163rd	Lesotho	59.5	-0.1%
164th	Zimbabwe	59.4	-1.3%
165th	Nauru	58.9	0.3%
166th	India	58.2	0.8%
167th	Mongolia	58.1	1.1%
168th	Yemen, Republic of	58.0	1.0%
169th	Mauritania	57.7	0.4%
170th	Iraq	57.5	1.4%
171st	Congo, Republic of	57.3	-0.3%
172nd	Myanmar	56.9	0.6%
173rd	Senegal	56.2	1.2%
174th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	56.1	1.2%
175th	Bangladesh	55.5	0.6%
176th	Djibouti	55.4	0.4%
177th	Bhutan	55.1	1.4%
178th	Comoros	55.0	0.6%
179th	Ghana	54.9	1.0%
180th	Sudan	54.9	-0.2%
181st	Cambodia	54.8	0.6%
182nd	Togo	54.7	-0.3%
183rd	Cameroon	54.4	0.1%
184th	Nepal	54.0	1.7%
185th	Lao PDR	53.6	1.0%
186th	Côte d'Ivoire	53.0	-0.2%
187th	Haiti	52.9	0.6%
188th	Benin	52.5	0.8%
189th	Tanzania	52.1	-0.3%
190th	Madagascar	51.8	0.8%
191st	Equatorial Guinea	51.3	0.2%
192nd	Gambia, The	50.7	1.2%
193rd	Central African Republic	50.1	-0.3%
194th	Rwanda	49.5	-2.8%
195th	Burkina Faso	49.3	0.1%
196th	Zambia	48.9	-1.6%
197th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	48.1	0.8%
198th	Eritrea	47.8	-0.6%
199th	Uganda	47.5	0.0%
200th	Guinea	46.9	0.8%
201st	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	46.6	6.2%
202nd	Guinea-Bissau	46.6	0.7%
203rd	Chad	46.4	0.2%
204th	Mali	46.2	1.1%
205th	Nigeria	45.8	0.0%
206th	Burundi	45.7	6.7%
207th	Timor-Leste	44.8	24.3%
208th	Afghanistan	44.5	2.9%
209th	Mozambique	43.9	0.5%
210th	Liberia	43.9	-0.5%
211th	Sierra Leone	43.7	-0.1%
212th	Malawi	43.5	-0.1%
213th	Angola	41.7	0.5%
214th	Niger	41.2	1.0%
215th	South Sudan	28.2	156.8%

FAQ

What was Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy in 1989?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy in 1989 was 70.3. This ranked 84th globally.

How did Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy change in 1989?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy increased by 0.3% in 1989 compared to 1988.

Which country had the highest life expectancy in 1989?▾

Monaco had the highest life expectancy in 1989 at 79.4.

What is the life expectancy of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 1989?▾

The life expectancy of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 1989 was 70.3. This ranked 84th globally.

How does 1989 compare to 1988 for Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy went from 70.1 in 1988 to 70.3 in 1989, a 0.3% increase.

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