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Namibia - Life Expectancy 1997

Name: Namibia Life Expectancy 1997
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Life expectancy at birth, total · World Bank

55.8 −0.8 from 1996 Global rank: 182nd

Namibia's life expectancy was 55.8 in 1997, decreased +0.8 from 56.6 in 1996. This was the 182nd highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1997▾

Life Expectancy by Country - 1997
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Monaco	81.4	0.3%
2nd	Andorra	81.1	0.2%
3rd	Japan	80.4	0.3%
4th	Hong Kong SAR, China	80.1	0.6%
5th	San Marino	79.7	0.4%
6th	Sweden	79.2	0.3%
7th	Gibraltar	79.1	0.5%
8th	Switzerland	79.1	0.2%
9th	Iceland	78.9	0.1%
10th	Italy	78.8	0.4%
11th	Spain	78.6	0.6%
12th	Australia	78.5	0.5%
13th	Canada	78.4	0.2%
14th	France	78.3	0.5%
15th	Channel Islands	78.2	0.5%
16th	Norway	78.1	0.0%
17th	Greece	78.1	0.6%
18th	Israel	78.0	-0.1%
19th	Netherlands	77.8	0.5%
20th	Faroe Islands	77.8	0.3%
21st	Malta	77.7	0.5%
22nd	Macao SAR, China	77.6	0.1%
23rd	French Polynesia	77.4	0.7%
24th	Belgium	77.4	0.2%
25th	New Zealand	77.3	0.7%
26th	Austria	77.3	0.6%
27th	United Kingdom	77.2	0.2%
28th	Cyprus	77.1	0.3%
29th	Germany	77.1	0.5%
30th	Bermuda	77.0	0.6%
31st	Singapore	76.9	0.4%
32nd	Luxembourg	76.9	0.5%
33rd	Finland	76.9	0.2%
34th	Costa Rica	76.6	0.2%
35th	United States	76.4	0.5%
36th	European Union	76.2	0.4%
37th	St. Martin (French part)	76.1	0.3%
38th	Liechtenstein	76.0	-1.0%
39th	Ireland	76.0	0.2%
40th	Denmark	75.9	0.5%
41st	Kuwait	75.9	0.0%
42nd	Chile	75.8	0.4%
43rd	Portugal	75.4	0.2%
44th	Cuba	75.1	0.5%
45th	Qatar	74.7	0.2%
46th	Slovenia	74.7	0.3%
47th	Guam	74.7	0.1%
48th	Puerto Rico (US)	74.7	0.9%
49th	Korea	74.6	0.6%
50th	British Virgin Islands	74.5	0.2%
51st	Antigua and Barbuda	74.0	0.3%
52nd	Barbados	74.0	-0.1%
53rd	Uruguay	73.9	0.1%
54th	Cayman Islands	73.9	0.2%
55th	Isle of Man	73.9	0.4%
56th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	73.9	0.6%
57th	Bahrain	73.9	0.4%
58th	Czechia	73.8	0.1%
59th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	73.6	0.5%
60th	Argentina	73.4	0.5%
61st	Albania	73.4	-1.0%
62nd	Montenegro	73.3	-0.1%
63rd	Brunei Darussalam	73.3	0.3%
64th	Curaçao	73.0	0.1%
65th	Northern Mariana Islands	72.9	0.7%
66th	Lebanon	72.9	0.4%
67th	Aruba	72.9	0.1%
68th	Serbia	72.8	0.0%
69th	Turks and Caicos Islands	72.7	0.5%
70th	Slovak Republic	72.7	0.1%
71st	Poland	72.6	0.6%
72nd	Grenada	72.6	0.3%
73rd	United Arab Emirates	72.6	1.0%
74th	Panama	72.5	0.5%
75th	Croatia	72.5	0.2%
76th	Oman	72.5	0.6%
77th	North Macedonia	72.4	-0.1%
78th	Malaysia	72.3	0.2%
79th	New Caledonia	72.2	0.6%
80th	Ecuador	72.0	0.3%
81st	Tunisia	71.7	0.6%
82nd	Viet Nam	71.7	0.5%
83rd	Saudi Arabia	71.6	0.5%
84th	American Samoa	71.6	0.0%
85th	Bahamas, The	71.6	0.2%
86th	Mexico	71.5	0.5%
87th	Jordan	71.3	0.3%
88th	China	71.2	0.6%
89th	Jamaica	71.2	-0.2%
90th	Seychelles	71.2	-0.5%
91st	Dominica	71.2	0.2%
92nd	Virgin Islands (US)	70.9	-0.9%
93rd	Lithuania	70.9	1.1%
94th	St. Lucia	70.8	-0.3%
95th	Libya	70.7	0.0%
96th	Hungary	70.7	0.5%
97th	Türkiye	70.7	0.6%
98th	Colombia	70.6	0.6%
99th	Mauritius	70.4	0.1%
100th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	70.4	-0.1%
101st	Thailand	70.4	0.6%
102nd	Bulgaria	70.4	-0.8%
103rd	West Bank and Gaza	70.3	0.5%
104th	Syrian Arab Republic	70.2	0.0%
105th	Samoa	70.0	0.4%
106th	Sri Lanka	69.9	0.1%
107th	Kosovo	69.9	0.7%
108th	Estonia	69.8	0.3%
109th	Dominican Republic	69.8	0.3%
110th	Georgia	69.7	-1.4%
111th	Armenia	69.4	0.6%
112th	Latvia	69.3	0.8%
113th	Paraguay	69.3	0.3%
114th	Belize	69.2	-0.3%
115th	Tonga	69.0	0.3%
116th	Romania	69.0	-0.1%
117th	Algeria	68.9	0.9%
118th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	68.6	0.5%
119th	Maldives	68.5	1.2%
120th	Brazil	68.5	0.6%
121st	Belarus	68.5	-0.1%
122nd	Peru	68.3	0.7%
123rd	Vanuatu	68.3	0.2%
124th	Trinidad and Tobago	68.1	0.2%
125th	St. Kitts and Nevis	67.8	0.5%
126th	Ukraine	67.7	0.8%
127th	Honduras	67.5	0.4%
128th	Philippines	67.0	0.5%
129th	Kyrgyz Republic	66.9	0.5%
130th	Solomon Islands	66.8	0.0%
131st	Russian Federation	66.7	1.3%
132nd	Moldova	66.5	0.4%
133rd	Fiji	66.3	0.1%
134th	El Salvador	66.2	1.2%
135th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	66.2	0.7%
136th	Cabo Verde	66.1	0.9%
137th	Greenland	65.8	0.0%
138th	Indonesia	65.8	0.5%
139th	Morocco	65.6	0.6%
140th	Nicaragua	65.5	0.5%
141st	Guatemala	65.2	1.1%
142nd	Uzbekistan	65.0	0.4%
143rd	Micronesia, Federated States of	64.4	0.2%
144th	Iraq	64.2	-0.6%
145th	Kiribati	63.8	0.5%
146th	Palau	63.7	0.4%
147th	Turkmenistan	63.7	0.2%
148th	Suriname	63.4	0.5%
149th	Kazakhstan	63.3	-0.2%
150th	Marshall Islands	63.0	0.4%
151st	Azerbaijan	63.0	0.5%
152nd	Tuvalu	62.9	0.4%
153rd	Guyana	62.9	0.3%
154th	Tajikistan	61.9	1.8%
155th	India	61.4	0.7%
156th	Mongolia	61.4	0.7%
157th	Gabon	61.4	0.2%
158th	Yemen, Republic of	61.3	0.7%
159th	Papua New Guinea	61.3	0.3%
160th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	60.9	0.1%
161st	Nepal	60.8	1.3%
162nd	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	60.7	0.8%
163rd	São Tomé and Principe	60.6	0.1%
164th	Bhutan	60.6	1.1%
165th	Pakistan	60.6	0.3%
166th	South Africa	60.5	-0.9%
167th	Nauru	60.0	-0.1%
168th	Bangladesh	59.7	1.2%
169th	Myanmar	59.5	0.6%
170th	Mauritania	59.4	0.9%
171st	Comoros	58.2	0.1%
172nd	Sudan	58.1	0.7%
173rd	Lao PDR	57.3	0.8%
174th	Cambodia	57.3	0.8%
175th	Ghana	57.2	0.5%
176th	Senegal	57.1	0.0%
177th	Haiti	56.7	1.0%
178th	Djibouti	56.2	-0.2%
179th	Eritrea	56.2	1.2%
180th	Madagascar	56.1	1.2%
181st	Benin	56.0	0.6%
182nd	Namibia	55.8	-1.4%
183rd	Kenya	55.5	-0.2%
184th	Gambia, The	55.2	0.7%
185th	Togo	53.8	0.1%
186th	Lesotho	53.7	-2.5%
187th	Botswana	53.6	-1.3%
188th	Afghanistan	53.2	0.7%
189th	Cameroon	53.1	-0.2%
190th	Equatorial Guinea	52.4	0.5%
191st	Eswatini	51.7	-3.0%
192nd	Côte d'Ivoire	51.5	-0.2%
193rd	Tanzania	51.2	0.2%
194th	Guinea	51.1	1.1%
195th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	50.5	2.2%
196th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	50.3	-0.5%
197th	Burkina Faso	49.6	-0.3%
198th	Mali	49.1	1.2%
199th	Timor-Leste	49.0	1.5%
200th	Congo, Republic of	48.6	-12.1%
201st	Zimbabwe	48.5	-0.9%
202nd	Liberia	48.3	7.5%
203rd	Guinea-Bissau	48.0	-1.5%
204th	Uganda	48.0	0.6%
205th	Mozambique	47.8	1.4%
206th	Chad	47.8	0.4%
207th	Central African Republic	47.3	-0.9%
208th	Niger	47.1	1.7%
209th	Angola	46.7	0.6%
210th	Nigeria	46.0	0.3%
211th	Zambia	45.7	0.0%
212th	Burundi	45.7	2.0%
213th	Malawi	44.2	0.4%
214th	Sierra Leone	43.6	0.3%
215th	Rwanda	42.0	-1.2%
216th	South Sudan	33.1	2.9%

FAQ

What was Namibia's life expectancy in 1997?▾

Namibia's life expectancy in 1997 was 55.8. This ranked 182nd globally.

How did Namibia's life expectancy change in 1997?▾

Namibia's life expectancy decreased by 1.4% in 1997 compared to 1996.

Which country had the highest life expectancy in 1997?▾

Monaco had the highest life expectancy in 1997 at 81.4.

What is the life expectancy of Namibia in 1997?▾

The life expectancy of Namibia in 1997 was 55.8. This ranked 182nd globally.

How does 1997 compare to 1996 for Namibia's life expectancy?▾

Namibia's life expectancy went from 56.6 in 1996 to 55.8 in 1997, a 1.4% decrease.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

Namibia matched the Export Boom Cycle pattern in 1997. Historically: 768 occurrences, 546 successful (71%). Outcome 24 months later: 3.4%. View full analysis →

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