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Korea - Life Expectancy 1977

Name: Korea Life Expectancy 1977
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Life expectancy at birth, total · World Bank

64.9 +0.4 from 1976 Global rank: 103rd

Korea's life expectancy was 64.9 in 1977, increased +0.4 from 64.5 in 1976. This was the 103rd highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1977▾

Life Expectancy by Country - 1977
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Iceland	76.4	-0.8%
2nd	Andorra	76.2	0.4%
3rd	San Marino	75.6	0.3%
4th	Faroe Islands	75.6	0.2%
5th	Norway	75.4	0.5%
6th	Sweden	75.4	0.5%
7th	Japan	75.3	0.8%
8th	Switzerland	75.2	0.6%
9th	Netherlands	75.2	0.8%
10th	Liechtenstein	74.7	0.2%
11th	Denmark	74.6	1.2%
12th	Canada	74.2	0.5%
13th	Monaco	74.2	0.5%
14th	Spain	74.1	0.7%
15th	Greece	73.7	0.0%
16th	Gibraltar	73.5	0.0%
17th	Italy	73.4	0.5%
18th	France	73.4	0.3%
19th	Hong Kong SAR, China	73.3	0.8%
20th	Australia	73.3	0.5%
21st	United States	73.3	0.5%
22nd	United Kingdom	73.2	0.6%
23rd	Israel	73.0	0.0%
24th	Channel Islands	72.9	0.3%
25th	Belgium	72.8	0.9%
26th	Puerto Rico (US)	72.4	0.4%
27th	European Union	72.4	0.4%
28th	Finland	72.4	0.7%
29th	Germany	72.3	0.8%
30th	Malta	72.2	0.2%
31st	St. Martin (French part)	72.2	0.1%
32nd	New Zealand	72.2	-0.4%
33rd	Antigua and Barbuda	72.1	0.5%
34th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	72.1	-0.2%
35th	Ireland	72.0	0.2%
36th	Austria	71.9	0.5%
37th	Serbia	71.7	-0.1%
38th	Bermuda	71.6	0.4%
39th	Montenegro	71.6	-0.3%
40th	Costa Rica	71.5	0.8%
41st	Luxembourg	71.4	1.7%
42nd	Cuba	71.4	0.8%
43rd	Macao SAR, China	71.4	-0.1%
44th	Cyprus	71.3	0.6%
45th	Singapore	71.0	0.4%
46th	Bulgaria	70.8	-0.8%
47th	Lithuania	70.8	-0.2%
48th	Croatia	70.7	0.4%
49th	Barbados	70.6	0.8%
50th	Czechia	70.6	0.1%
51st	Slovenia	70.6	0.4%
52nd	Kuwait	70.5	0.4%
53rd	Slovak Republic	70.4	-0.1%
54th	Poland	70.4	-0.4%
55th	Belarus	70.3	-0.2%
56th	Curaçao	70.2	0.4%
57th	Uruguay	70.1	0.3%
58th	Aruba	70.1	0.4%
59th	Portugal	70.0	1.7%
60th	Ukraine	70.0	-0.2%
61st	Hungary	69.8	0.4%
62nd	Romania	69.7	0.1%
63rd	Dominica	69.7	0.4%
64th	Estonia	69.4	0.1%
65th	Bahrain	69.4	0.8%
66th	Latvia	69.1	0.1%
67th	Guam	69.0	1.1%
68th	Albania	69.0	0.6%
69th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	68.8	0.3%
70th	Bahamas, The	68.8	0.3%
71st	American Samoa	68.7	0.3%
72nd	British Virgin Islands	68.7	0.4%
73rd	Qatar	68.6	0.7%
74th	Jamaica	68.6	0.3%
75th	Panama	68.3	0.7%
76th	North Macedonia	68.1	0.5%
77th	Cayman Islands	68.1	0.8%
78th	Virgin Islands (US)	68.1	0.3%
79th	Grenada	67.9	-0.1%
80th	Brunei Darussalam	67.8	0.6%
81st	Seychelles	67.7	0.6%
82nd	Northern Mariana Islands	67.7	0.6%
83rd	Argentina	67.6	0.8%
84th	Chile	67.5	1.1%
85th	Russian Federation	67.4	-0.2%
86th	Isle of Man	67.4	0.5%
87th	Georgia	67.2	0.5%
88th	St. Lucia	67.0	1.1%
89th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	66.9	0.6%
90th	Malaysia	66.7	0.7%
91st	United Arab Emirates	66.5	1.0%
92nd	Sri Lanka	66.4	0.8%
93rd	Trinidad and Tobago	66.2	0.2%
94th	Belize	66.1	0.6%
95th	Turks and Caicos Islands	66.0	0.6%
96th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	65.8	0.7%
97th	Tonga	65.6	0.3%
98th	Syrian Arab Republic	65.4	0.9%
99th	French Polynesia	65.3	0.8%
100th	Colombia	65.2	0.9%
101st	Mauritius	65.1	1.2%
102nd	Jordan	65.1	0.7%
103rd	Korea	64.9	0.6%
104th	Armenia	64.3	0.4%
105th	New Caledonia	64.2	0.8%
106th	Moldova	64.2	0.4%
107th	Viet Nam	64.1	0.6%
108th	Iraq	63.9	0.5%
109th	Paraguay	63.9	0.3%
110th	Samoa	63.7	0.7%
111th	St. Kitts and Nevis	63.7	0.4%
112th	Libya	63.1	1.1%
113th	Mexico	63.0	0.8%
114th	Fiji	62.7	1.0%
115th	China	62.5	2.0%
116th	Dominican Republic	62.2	0.7%
117th	Uzbekistan	62.2	0.4%
118th	Micronesia, Federated States of	62.1	0.4%
119th	Ecuador	61.9	0.8%
120th	Greenland	61.8	0.1%
121st	Solomon Islands	61.5	0.6%
122nd	Kazakhstan	61.5	0.4%
123rd	Philippines	61.4	0.9%
124th	Tunisia	61.3	1.6%
125th	Thailand	60.9	0.9%
126th	Palau	60.9	0.7%
127th	Botswana	60.9	1.1%
128th	Türkiye	60.8	1.4%
129th	Marshall Islands	60.6	0.3%
130th	Guyana	60.6	0.2%
131st	Brazil	60.5	0.8%
132nd	Lebanon	60.3	65.6%
133rd	Suriname	60.3	0.2%
134th	Kyrgyz Republic	60.1	0.4%
135th	Cabo Verde	60.0	1.0%
136th	Azerbaijan	60.0	0.8%
137th	Saudi Arabia	59.7	1.6%
138th	Vanuatu	59.2	1.0%
139th	Tuvalu	59.2	0.7%
140th	São Tomé and Principe	59.0	0.3%
141st	Peru	58.9	0.6%
142nd	Honduras	58.7	1.0%
143rd	Namibia	58.6	0.9%
144th	South Africa	58.5	0.8%
145th	Kosovo	58.4	1.5%
146th	Tajikistan	58.2	0.3%
147th	Nauru	58.1	-0.1%
148th	Turkmenistan	57.7	0.4%
149th	Kenya	57.7	0.9%
150th	Indonesia	57.1	1.1%
151st	Zimbabwe	57.0	-1.1%
152nd	Iran, Islamic Republic of	56.7	1.6%
153rd	Gabon	56.5	0.9%
154th	Zambia	56.3	0.3%
155th	Nicaragua	56.1	0.0%
156th	Kiribati	56.1	-0.9%
157th	Papua New Guinea	56.1	0.9%
158th	Congo, Republic of	56.0	0.6%
159th	Eswatini	56.0	1.5%
160th	Oman	55.5	2.0%
161st	Pakistan	55.5	0.7%
162nd	Guatemala	55.2	15.9%
163rd	Mongolia	54.7	0.3%
164th	Lesotho	54.5	1.1%
165th	El Salvador	54.0	-0.6%
166th	Sudan	53.5	0.3%
167th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	53.3	1.5%
168th	Myanmar	53.3	0.7%
169th	Morocco	52.8	1.4%
170th	Mauritania	52.0	0.4%
171st	Maldives	51.8	2.1%
172nd	India	51.8	1.0%
173rd	Bangladesh	51.3	0.6%
174th	Djibouti	50.8	0.8%
175th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	50.4	0.8%
176th	Togo	50.2	1.3%
177th	Cameroon	50.1	0.2%
178th	Ghana	50.1	0.7%
179th	Tanzania	50.0	1.0%
180th	Madagascar	49.9	0.3%
181st	Côte d'Ivoire	49.6	1.6%
182nd	Algeria	49.2	2.5%
183rd	Haiti	49.2	0.5%
184th	Comoros	49.2	1.1%
185th	Central African Republic	48.8	0.9%
186th	Yemen, Republic of	47.4	2.2%
187th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	47.0	5.1%
188th	Nepal	46.6	1.4%
189th	Benin	46.5	1.2%
190th	Lao PDR	46.4	0.9%
191st	Bhutan	46.0	1.6%
192nd	Uganda	45.8	-0.7%
193rd	Senegal	45.7	2.0%
194th	Rwanda	45.6	0.6%
195th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	44.9	0.4%
196th	Nigeria	44.8	1.5%
197th	Burkina Faso	44.2	1.9%
198th	Burundi	44.0	0.6%
199th	Mozambique	43.9	0.0%
200th	Gambia, The	43.4	1.1%
201st	Liberia	43.2	0.9%
202nd	Eritrea	43.0	0.9%
203rd	Chad	42.9	0.5%
204th	Guinea-Bissau	42.6	0.8%
205th	Equatorial Guinea	42.0	37.6%
206th	Malawi	42.0	2.3%
207th	Sierra Leone	41.8	1.0%
208th	Guinea	41.4	0.9%
209th	Angola	41.2	1.0%
210th	Afghanistan	41.1	1.4%
211th	Mali	38.0	2.1%
212th	Niger	37.7	1.6%
213th	South Sudan	37.4	0.8%
214th	Timor-Leste	24.9	-3.8%
215th	Cambodia	11.3	-2.9%

FAQ

What was Korea's life expectancy in 1977?▾

Korea's life expectancy in 1977 was 64.9. This ranked 103rd globally.

How did Korea's life expectancy change in 1977?▾

Korea's life expectancy increased by 0.6% in 1977 compared to 1976.

Which country had the highest life expectancy in 1977?▾

Iceland had the highest life expectancy in 1977 at 76.4.

What is the life expectancy of Korea in 1977?▾

The life expectancy of Korea in 1977 was 64.9. This ranked 103rd globally.

How does 1977 compare to 1976 for Korea's life expectancy?▾

Korea's life expectancy went from 64.5 in 1976 to 64.9 in 1977, a 0.6% increase.

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