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Lesotho - Life Expectancy 2002

Name: Lesotho Life Expectancy 2002
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Life expectancy at birth, total · World Bank

46.0 −1.2 from 2001 Global rank: 214th

Lesotho's life expectancy was 46.0 in 2002, decreased +1.2 from 47.2 in 2001. This was the 214th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2002▾

Life Expectancy by Country - 2002
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Monaco	83.1	0.7%
2nd	Andorra	82.4	0.3%
3rd	Japan	81.7	0.3%
4th	Hong Kong SAR, China	81.5	0.0%
5th	San Marino	81.1	0.3%
6th	Macao SAR, China	80.9	0.4%
7th	Gibraltar	80.6	0.2%
8th	Iceland	80.5	-0.2%
9th	Switzerland	80.4	0.3%
10th	Italy	80.2	0.1%
11th	Australia	79.9	0.4%
12th	Sweden	79.8	0.1%
13th	Liechtenstein	79.6	0.5%
14th	Spain	79.6	0.3%
15th	French Polynesia	79.5	0.3%
16th	Canada	79.5	0.2%
17th	Israel	79.5	0.1%
18th	France	79.3	0.1%
19th	Channel Islands	79.1	0.1%
20th	Norway	79.0	0.3%
21st	New Zealand	78.8	0.2%
22nd	Bermuda	78.8	0.3%
23rd	Faroe Islands	78.8	0.3%
24th	Cyprus	78.8	0.7%
25th	Malta	78.7	-0.1%
26th	United Arab Emirates	78.7	1.4%
27th	Austria	78.7	0.1%
28th	Greece	78.6	0.3%
29th	Singapore	78.6	0.4%
30th	Netherlands	78.3	0.1%
31st	Germany	78.2	-0.1%
32nd	United Kingdom	78.1	0.2%
33rd	Finland	78.1	0.2%
34th	Belgium	78.1	0.1%
35th	Luxembourg	78.0	0.2%
36th	Costa Rica	77.9	0.4%
37th	Chile	77.8	0.3%
38th	Ireland	77.6	0.6%
39th	European Union	77.5	0.1%
40th	Virgin Islands (US)	77.5	-0.1%
41st	St. Martin (French part)	77.2	0.3%
42nd	Portugal	77.1	0.3%
43rd	United States	76.9	0.1%
44th	Denmark	76.9	0.1%
45th	Puerto Rico (US)	76.8	1.1%
46th	Cuba	76.8	0.4%
47th	Korea	76.8	0.5%
48th	Kuwait	76.5	0.2%
49th	Slovenia	76.0	0.3%
50th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	76.0	0.6%
51st	Northern Mariana Islands	75.9	0.7%
52nd	Isle of Man	75.8	0.7%
53rd	Qatar	75.8	0.4%
54th	Guam	75.5	0.4%
55th	Albania	75.3	0.3%
56th	Antigua and Barbuda	75.2	0.2%
57th	Czechia	75.2	0.1%
58th	Bahrain	75.2	0.4%
59th	Uruguay	75.0	0.0%
60th	British Virgin Islands	75.0	0.2%
61st	Turks and Caicos Islands	74.8	0.6%
62nd	Lebanon	74.8	0.6%
63rd	Barbados	74.8	0.2%
64th	Croatia	74.7	0.3%
65th	Cayman Islands	74.6	0.1%
66th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	74.6	0.1%
67th	Poland	74.5	0.4%
68th	Brunei Darussalam	74.4	0.2%
69th	Argentina	74.3	0.2%
70th	New Caledonia	74.3	0.4%
71st	Oman	74.3	0.4%
72nd	Panama	74.2	0.5%
73rd	Montenegro	74.0	0.5%
74th	Slovak Republic	73.6	0.3%
75th	Curaçao	73.5	0.2%
76th	Malaysia	73.5	0.5%
77th	Saudi Arabia	73.3	0.5%
78th	Ecuador	73.2	0.8%
79th	Grenada	73.1	0.1%
80th	Viet Nam	73.1	0.2%
81st	Aruba	73.1	0.1%
82nd	Mexico	73.1	0.3%
83rd	Tunisia	73.1	0.3%
84th	North Macedonia	73.0	-0.5%
85th	China	73.0	0.5%
86th	Bahamas, The	73.0	0.4%
87th	Armenia	72.8	-0.2%
88th	Türkiye	72.6	0.5%
89th	Maldives	72.4	1.0%
90th	Jordan	72.4	0.3%
91st	Hungary	72.3	0.1%
92nd	Serbia	72.3	0.1%
93rd	Sri Lanka	72.3	0.7%
94th	Kosovo	72.2	0.6%
95th	Mauritius	72.0	0.3%
96th	Dominica	71.9	0.1%
97th	Bulgaria	71.9	0.1%
98th	Thailand	71.8	0.4%
99th	Lithuania	71.8	0.1%
100th	American Samoa	71.8	0.3%
101st	Syrian Arab Republic	71.7	0.6%
102nd	St. Lucia	71.7	0.5%
103rd	Algeria	71.6	0.9%
104th	Colombia	71.5	0.5%
105th	Jamaica	71.5	0.3%
106th	Samoa	71.2	0.3%
107th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	71.1	0.7%
108th	Seychelles	71.1	-3.0%
109th	Romania	71.0	-0.2%
110th	Latvia	71.0	0.3%
111th	Estonia	70.9	0.9%
112th	West Bank and Gaza	70.9	1.6%
113th	Peru	70.8	0.7%
114th	Libya	70.8	0.2%
115th	Dominican Republic	70.7	0.2%
116th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	70.7	0.4%
117th	Paraguay	70.5	0.4%
118th	Georgia	70.4	0.1%
119th	Brazil	70.4	0.6%
120th	St. Kitts and Nevis	70.2	0.6%
121st	Tonga	70.0	0.3%
122nd	Belize	69.5	0.8%
123rd	Cabo Verde	69.4	1.1%
124th	Trinidad and Tobago	69.2	0.5%
125th	Vanuatu	68.8	0.2%
126th	Honduras	68.7	0.3%
127th	El Salvador	68.5	0.8%
128th	Kyrgyz Republic	68.2	-0.8%
129th	Belarus	68.1	-0.7%
130th	Nicaragua	68.0	1.4%
131st	Philippines	67.9	0.1%
132nd	Egypt, Arab Republic of	67.8	0.3%
133rd	Guatemala	67.8	0.6%
134th	Moldova	67.8	0.2%
135th	Ukraine	67.7	0.0%
136th	Morocco	67.6	0.6%
137th	Solomon Islands	67.4	0.2%
138th	Indonesia	67.0	0.6%
139th	Azerbaijan	66.8	1.1%
140th	Greenland	66.6	0.6%
141st	Uzbekistan	66.4	0.8%
142nd	Iraq	65.7	0.7%
143rd	Turkmenistan	65.6	0.4%
144th	Fiji	65.5	-1.1%
145th	Suriname	65.3	0.7%
146th	Russian Federation	65.1	-0.4%
147th	Kiribati	65.1	0.3%
148th	Palau	65.1	0.4%
149th	Tajikistan	64.9	1.1%
150th	Kazakhstan	64.4	0.5%
151st	Guyana	64.2	-0.3%
152nd	Bhutan	64.0	1.0%
153rd	Micronesia, Federated States of	63.9	-1.4%
154th	Marshall Islands	63.8	0.2%
155th	Tuvalu	63.8	0.2%
156th	Yemen, Republic of	63.8	0.8%
157th	India	63.6	0.8%
158th	Bangladesh	63.6	1.2%
159th	Mongolia	63.5	0.2%
160th	Nepal	63.5	0.3%
161st	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	63.1	0.8%
162nd	Pakistan	62.6	0.5%
163rd	Mauritania	62.2	1.0%
164th	Gabon	62.2	0.3%
165th	São Tomé and Principe	61.8	0.5%
166th	Papua New Guinea	61.6	0.0%
167th	Cambodia	61.4	1.6%
168th	Myanmar	60.9	0.5%
169th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	60.9	0.0%
170th	Comoros	59.7	0.2%
171st	Timor-Leste	59.5	1.2%
172nd	Nauru	59.4	-0.1%
173rd	Sudan	59.3	0.1%
174th	Lao PDR	59.3	0.7%
175th	Madagascar	59.2	0.8%
176th	Haiti	59.0	0.8%
177th	Eritrea	58.9	1.0%
178th	Senegal	58.9	1.3%
179th	Ghana	58.7	0.5%
180th	Djibouti	57.8	0.6%
181st	Gambia, The	57.7	0.8%
182nd	Benin	56.9	0.3%
183rd	Kenya	56.8	0.5%
184th	Congo, Republic of	56.4	0.9%
185th	Afghanistan	56.2	1.3%
186th	South Africa	55.6	-2.8%
187th	Togo	55.0	0.5%
188th	Tanzania	54.9	1.5%
189th	Equatorial Guinea	54.3	0.9%
190th	Liberia	54.1	1.8%
191st	Cameroon	53.9	0.6%
192nd	Guinea	53.2	1.0%
193rd	Botswana	52.4	0.3%
194th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	52.4	0.3%
195th	Mali	52.0	1.4%
196th	Namibia	52.0	0.0%
197th	Guinea-Bissau	51.6	1.1%
198th	Côte d'Ivoire	51.5	0.2%
199th	Burkina Faso	51.4	0.5%
200th	Uganda	51.4	1.7%
201st	Rwanda	51.3	3.6%
202nd	Mozambique	50.9	1.2%
203rd	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	50.8	0.0%
204th	Niger	50.6	1.5%
205th	Burundi	49.9	2.9%
206th	South Sudan	49.4	1.7%
207th	Zambia	48.5	2.2%
208th	Chad	48.4	0.1%
209th	Malawi	48.2	2.1%
210th	Nigeria	48.0	1.0%
211th	Angola	47.9	1.8%
212th	Central African Republic	46.8	0.2%
213th	Sierra Leone	46.2	1.6%
214th	Lesotho	46.0	-2.6%
215th	Zimbabwe	45.9	3.2%
216th	Eswatini	45.4	-2.1%

FAQ

What was Lesotho's life expectancy in 2002?▾

Lesotho's life expectancy in 2002 was 46.0. This ranked 214th globally.

How did Lesotho's life expectancy change in 2002?▾

Lesotho's life expectancy decreased by 2.6% in 2002 compared to 2001.

Which country had the highest life expectancy in 2002?▾

Monaco had the highest life expectancy in 2002 at 83.1.

What is the life expectancy of Lesotho in 2002?▾

The life expectancy of Lesotho in 2002 was 46.0. This ranked 214th globally.

How does 2002 compare to 2001 for Lesotho's life expectancy?▾

Lesotho's life expectancy went from 47.2 in 2001 to 46.0 in 2002, a 2.6% decrease.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

Lesotho matched the Orthodox Tightening Cycle pattern in 2002. Historically: 311 occurrences, 177 successful (57%). Outcome 24 months later: 5.0%. View full analysis →

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