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New Zealand - Life Expectancy 1996

Name: New Zealand Life Expectancy 1996
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Life expectancy at birth, total · World Bank

76.8 +0.1 from 1995 Global rank: 29th

New Zealand's life expectancy was 76.8 in 1996, increased +0.1 from 76.7 in 1995. This was the 29th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1996▾

Life Expectancy by Country - 1996
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Monaco	81.1	0.3%
2nd	Andorra	81.0	0.3%
3rd	Japan	80.2	0.9%
4th	Hong Kong SAR, China	79.6	1.2%
5th	San Marino	79.3	0.4%
6th	Sweden	79.0	0.3%
7th	Switzerland	78.9	0.6%
8th	Iceland	78.8	1.0%
9th	Gibraltar	78.7	0.4%
10th	Italy	78.5	0.4%
11th	Canada	78.2	0.3%
12th	Norway	78.2	0.5%
13th	Spain	78.1	0.2%
14th	Israel	78.1	0.8%
15th	Australia	78.1	0.3%
16th	France	78.0	0.3%
17th	Channel Islands	77.8	0.1%
18th	Greece	77.7	0.1%
19th	Macao SAR, China	77.5	1.0%
20th	Faroe Islands	77.5	0.3%
21st	Netherlands	77.4	0.0%
22nd	Malta	77.3	0.1%
23rd	Belgium	77.2	0.5%
24th	United Kingdom	77.1	0.3%
25th	Cyprus	76.9	0.4%
26th	Austria	76.9	0.3%
27th	Liechtenstein	76.8	-0.7%
28th	French Polynesia	76.8	0.7%
29th	New Zealand	76.8	0.1%
30th	Finland	76.7	0.4%
31st	Germany	76.7	0.3%
32nd	Singapore	76.6	0.4%
33rd	Bermuda	76.5	0.8%
34th	Luxembourg	76.5	0.0%
35th	Costa Rica	76.4	0.0%
36th	United States	76.0	0.5%
37th	European Union	75.9	0.3%
38th	Kuwait	75.9	-0.1%
39th	St. Martin (French part)	75.9	0.2%
40th	Ireland	75.8	0.5%
41st	Denmark	75.6	0.5%
42nd	Chile	75.6	0.3%
43rd	Portugal	75.3	-0.1%
44th	Cuba	74.7	0.5%
45th	Guam	74.6	0.2%
46th	Qatar	74.6	0.2%
47th	Slovenia	74.5	0.7%
48th	British Virgin Islands	74.3	0.3%
49th	Korea	74.2	0.6%
50th	Albania	74.1	0.1%
51st	Barbados	74.1	0.3%
52nd	Puerto Rico (US)	74.0	0.6%
53rd	Antigua and Barbuda	73.8	0.4%
54th	Uruguay	73.8	0.4%
55th	Cayman Islands	73.7	0.2%
56th	Czechia	73.7	0.9%
57th	Isle of Man	73.6	0.4%
58th	Bahrain	73.6	0.3%
59th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	73.5	4.7%
60th	Montenegro	73.4	-0.2%
61st	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	73.2	0.5%
62nd	Brunei Darussalam	73.1	0.3%
63rd	Argentina	73.1	0.3%
64th	Curaçao	72.9	0.2%
65th	Aruba	72.9	0.0%
66th	Serbia	72.8	0.2%
67th	Slovak Republic	72.7	0.6%
68th	Lebanon	72.6	0.3%
69th	North Macedonia	72.5	0.9%
70th	Northern Mariana Islands	72.4	0.7%
71st	Grenada	72.4	0.4%
72nd	Croatia	72.4	0.4%
73rd	Turks and Caicos Islands	72.3	0.5%
74th	Poland	72.2	0.5%
75th	Panama	72.2	0.3%
76th	Malaysia	72.1	0.2%
77th	Oman	72.0	0.6%
78th	United Arab Emirates	71.8	0.6%
79th	Ecuador	71.8	0.7%
80th	New Caledonia	71.8	0.6%
81st	American Samoa	71.6	0.0%
82nd	Virgin Islands (US)	71.6	0.6%
83rd	Seychelles	71.6	-1.3%
84th	Bahamas, The	71.5	0.1%
85th	Jamaica	71.3	-0.2%
86th	Viet Nam	71.3	0.6%
87th	Saudi Arabia	71.3	0.5%
88th	Tunisia	71.2	0.7%
89th	Jordan	71.1	0.3%
90th	Mexico	71.1	0.5%
91st	Dominica	71.0	0.3%
92nd	St. Lucia	71.0	-0.3%
93rd	Bulgaria	70.9	-0.2%
94th	China	70.8	0.7%
95th	Libya	70.7	0.1%
96th	Georgia	70.6	1.8%
97th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	70.5	-0.2%
98th	Hungary	70.3	0.8%
99th	Mauritius	70.3	0.0%
100th	Türkiye	70.2	0.7%
101st	Colombia	70.2	0.6%
102nd	Syrian Arab Republic	70.2	-0.1%
103rd	Lithuania	70.1	1.6%
104th	West Bank and Gaza	70.0	0.6%
105th	Thailand	69.9	0.3%
106th	Sri Lanka	69.8	0.1%
107th	Samoa	69.8	0.4%
108th	Estonia	69.6	3.1%
109th	Dominican Republic	69.6	0.3%
110th	Belize	69.4	-0.2%
111th	Kosovo	69.4	0.8%
112th	Romania	69.1	-0.5%
113th	Paraguay	69.1	0.4%
114th	Armenia	69.0	0.6%
115th	Tonga	68.8	0.3%
116th	Latvia	68.8	3.6%
117th	Belarus	68.5	0.1%
118th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	68.3	0.6%
119th	Algeria	68.2	0.8%
120th	Vanuatu	68.2	0.1%
121st	Brazil	68.1	0.6%
122nd	Trinidad and Tobago	68.0	0.1%
123rd	Peru	67.9	0.9%
124th	Maldives	67.7	1.2%
125th	St. Kitts and Nevis	67.5	0.4%
126th	Honduras	67.3	0.5%
127th	Ukraine	67.1	0.0%
128th	Solomon Islands	66.7	0.0%
129th	Philippines	66.7	0.6%
130th	Kyrgyz Republic	66.5	1.1%
131st	Moldova	66.2	0.0%
132nd	Fiji	66.2	0.3%
133rd	Russian Federation	65.9	1.8%
134th	Greenland	65.8	0.2%
135th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	65.7	0.8%
136th	Cabo Verde	65.5	2.9%
137th	El Salvador	65.5	0.9%
138th	Indonesia	65.5	0.3%
139th	Morocco	65.2	0.8%
140th	Nicaragua	65.2	0.5%
141st	Uzbekistan	64.8	0.2%
142nd	Iraq	64.6	-0.2%
143rd	Guatemala	64.5	1.4%
144th	Micronesia, Federated States of	64.3	0.2%
145th	Turkmenistan	63.5	0.0%
146th	Kiribati	63.5	0.5%
147th	Kazakhstan	63.5	-0.4%
148th	Palau	63.5	0.3%
149th	Suriname	63.1	0.5%
150th	Marshall Islands	62.8	0.4%
151st	Tuvalu	62.7	0.3%
152nd	Guyana	62.7	0.0%
153rd	Azerbaijan	62.7	1.2%
154th	Gabon	61.3	0.0%
155th	South Africa	61.1	-0.9%
156th	Papua New Guinea	61.1	0.2%
157th	India	61.0	0.7%
158th	Mongolia	61.0	0.2%
159th	Yemen, Republic of	60.9	0.6%
160th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	60.8	0.1%
161st	Tajikistan	60.8	-0.9%
162nd	São Tomé and Principe	60.6	0.1%
163rd	Pakistan	60.5	0.3%
164th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	60.3	0.8%
165th	Nauru	60.1	0.0%
166th	Nepal	60.0	1.2%
167th	Bhutan	60.0	1.2%
168th	Myanmar	59.2	0.8%
169th	Bangladesh	58.9	1.2%
170th	Mauritania	58.9	0.1%
171st	Comoros	58.2	0.6%
172nd	Sudan	57.6	0.3%
173rd	Senegal	57.1	-0.4%
174th	Ghana	57.0	0.5%
175th	Cambodia	56.8	0.5%
176th	Lao PDR	56.8	0.8%
177th	Namibia	56.6	-1.5%
178th	Djibouti	56.3	0.2%
179th	Haiti	56.1	1.0%
180th	Benin	55.6	0.5%
181st	Kenya	55.6	-0.5%
182nd	Eritrea	55.5	1.2%
183rd	Madagascar	55.5	1.2%
184th	Congo, Republic of	55.2	-0.4%
185th	Lesotho	55.1	-2.2%
186th	Gambia, The	54.8	1.0%
187th	Botswana	54.3	-0.8%
188th	Togo	53.8	0.2%
189th	Eswatini	53.3	-3.2%
190th	Cameroon	53.2	-0.3%
191st	Afghanistan	52.8	1.4%
192nd	Equatorial Guinea	52.1	0.4%
193rd	Côte d'Ivoire	51.6	-0.2%
194th	Tanzania	51.1	0.2%
195th	Guinea	50.5	1.4%
196th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	50.5	-0.2%
197th	Burkina Faso	49.7	0.3%
198th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	49.4	-2.0%
199th	Zimbabwe	49.0	-4.2%
200th	Guinea-Bissau	48.8	0.5%
201st	Mali	48.5	0.4%
202nd	Timor-Leste	48.3	1.5%
203rd	Uganda	47.8	0.1%
204th	Central African Republic	47.7	-0.9%
205th	Chad	47.6	0.2%
206th	Mozambique	47.1	1.2%
207th	Angola	46.4	0.6%
208th	Niger	46.3	1.8%
209th	Nigeria	45.8	-0.1%
210th	Zambia	45.8	-0.6%
211th	Liberia	44.9	0.8%
212th	Burundi	44.8	0.5%
213th	Malawi	44.0	0.5%
214th	Sierra Leone	43.5	2.2%
215th	Rwanda	42.5	2.3%
216th	South Sudan	32.1	1.9%

FAQ

What was New Zealand's life expectancy in 1996?▾

New Zealand's life expectancy in 1996 was 76.8. This ranked 29th globally.

How did New Zealand's life expectancy change in 1996?▾

New Zealand's life expectancy increased by 0.1% in 1996 compared to 1995.

Which country had the highest life expectancy in 1996?▾

Monaco had the highest life expectancy in 1996 at 81.1.

What is the life expectancy of New Zealand in 1996?▾

The life expectancy of New Zealand in 1996 was 76.8. This ranked 29th globally.

How does 1996 compare to 1995 for New Zealand's life expectancy?▾

New Zealand's life expectancy went from 76.7 in 1995 to 76.8 in 1996, a 0.1% increase.

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