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Sierra Leone - Life Expectancy 1971

Name: Sierra Leone Life Expectancy 1971
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Life expectancy at birth, total · World Bank

39.1 +0.5 from 1970 Global rank: 205th

Sierra Leone's life expectancy was 39.1 in 1971, increased +0.5 from 38.6 in 1970. This was the 205th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1971▾

Life Expectancy by Country - 1971
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Faroe Islands	75.1	0.2%
2nd	Sweden	74.6	0.0%
3rd	Andorra	74.6	0.2%
4th	San Marino	74.4	0.2%
5th	Norway	74.2	0.1%
6th	Netherlands	73.8	0.3%
7th	Iceland	73.6	-0.5%
8th	Denmark	73.4	0.1%
9th	Monaco	73.4	0.0%
10th	Switzerland	73.1	0.2%
11th	Liechtenstein	73.1	0.3%
12th	Canada	73.0	0.5%
13th	Greece	72.9	0.3%
14th	Japan	72.8	1.2%
15th	United Kingdom	72.3	0.4%
16th	Gibraltar	72.1	0.3%
17th	Channel Islands	72.0	0.3%
18th	France	71.9	0.3%
19th	Italy	71.8	0.3%
20th	New Zealand	71.8	0.7%
21st	Lithuania	71.7	1.3%
22nd	Israel	71.7	0.7%
23rd	Ireland	71.7	1.1%
24th	Spain	71.6	-0.6%
25th	Hong Kong SAR, China	71.5	0.8%
26th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	71.3	0.6%
27th	St. Martin (French part)	71.3	0.5%
28th	United States	71.1	0.4%
29th	Puerto Rico (US)	71.1	1.0%
30th	Australia	71.1	0.1%
31st	Belgium	71.1	0.1%
32nd	Belarus	71.0	0.4%
33rd	European Union	71.0	0.2%
34th	Bulgaria	70.9	-0.5%
35th	Ukraine	70.9	0.0%
36th	Germany	70.7	0.3%
37th	Montenegro	70.6	0.6%
38th	Latvia	70.2	0.5%
39th	Estonia	70.1	0.3%
40th	Austria	70.1	0.3%
41st	Malta	70.1	-0.3%
42nd	Finland	70.0	-0.2%
43rd	Slovak Republic	69.9	0.2%
44th	Antigua and Barbuda	69.9	0.7%
45th	Czechia	69.7	0.3%
46th	Serbia	69.6	0.0%
47th	Poland	69.6	-0.4%
48th	Croatia	69.3	0.4%
49th	Luxembourg	69.2	0.0%
50th	Macao SAR, China	69.1	0.6%
51st	Hungary	69.1	-0.2%
52nd	Singapore	69.0	0.4%
53rd	Bermuda	69.0	0.8%
54th	Uruguay	68.9	0.3%
55th	Slovenia	68.8	0.3%
56th	Barbados	68.8	0.4%
57th	Kuwait	68.7	0.8%
58th	Curaçao	68.5	0.4%
59th	Romania	68.5	1.5%
60th	Cuba	68.4	0.7%
61st	Russian Federation	68.4	0.4%
62nd	Cyprus	68.4	0.4%
63rd	Aruba	67.8	0.5%
64th	Costa Rica	67.4	0.9%
65th	Virgin Islands (US)	67.1	0.9%
66th	Jamaica	67.0	0.4%
67th	Grenada	66.9	0.0%
68th	Portugal	66.8	-0.5%
69th	American Samoa	66.8	0.6%
70th	Dominica	66.8	0.8%
71st	British Virgin Islands	66.7	0.4%
72nd	Bahamas, The	66.5	0.5%
73rd	Lebanon	66.1	0.2%
74th	Guam	66.1	0.4%
75th	Albania	65.9	1.0%
76th	Isle of Man	65.8	0.2%
77th	Argentina	65.6	0.0%
78th	Qatar	65.5	0.9%
79th	Bahrain	65.3	1.4%
80th	Northern Mariana Islands	65.2	0.6%
81st	Georgia	65.2	0.5%
82nd	Bosnia and Herzegovina	65.2	0.5%
83rd	North Macedonia	65.1	0.4%
84th	Brunei Darussalam	65.0	0.8%
85th	Trinidad and Tobago	64.9	0.1%
86th	Cayman Islands	64.8	0.7%
87th	Panama	64.7	0.9%
88th	Seychelles	64.7	1.0%
89th	St. Lucia	64.5	0.3%
90th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	64.4	0.6%
91st	Sri Lanka	64.2	-0.2%
92nd	Mauritius	63.9	0.3%
93rd	Malaysia	63.8	0.7%
94th	Tonga	63.6	0.7%
95th	Belize	63.5	0.8%
96th	Turks and Caicos Islands	63.3	0.9%
97th	Chile	63.1	0.7%
98th	Greenland	63.1	-0.1%
99th	Armenia	62.9	0.4%
100th	French Polynesia	62.8	0.5%
101st	Paraguay	62.7	0.3%
102nd	Moldova	62.7	0.4%
103rd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	62.7	1.0%
104th	Korea	62.6	0.7%
105th	Colombia	62.0	0.9%
106th	Jordan	61.8	3.2%
107th	United Arab Emirates	61.8	1.6%
108th	Fiji	61.7	0.1%
109th	St. Kitts and Nevis	61.7	0.6%
110th	Syrian Arab Republic	61.3	1.2%
111th	Iraq	61.3	1.3%
112th	Philippines	61.1	0.4%
113th	Samoa	60.9	0.8%
114th	New Caledonia	60.8	1.2%
115th	Uzbekistan	60.4	0.6%
116th	Kazakhstan	60.3	0.4%
117th	Micronesia, Federated States of	60.2	0.7%
118th	Guyana	60.1	0.2%
119th	Suriname	59.6	0.2%
120th	Mexico	59.4	0.9%
121st	Ecuador	59.3	0.8%
122nd	Marshall Islands	59.1	0.6%
123rd	Dominican Republic	59.1	1.0%
124th	Nauru	58.4	0.0%
125th	Kyrgyz Republic	58.3	0.5%
126th	Palau	58.1	0.8%
127th	Zimbabwe	58.0	0.4%
128th	Brazil	57.8	0.8%
129th	China	57.7	1.6%
130th	Libya	57.6	2.1%
131st	Türkiye	57.2	0.9%
132nd	Thailand	57.1	1.1%
133rd	Botswana	57.1	1.1%
134th	Azerbaijan	57.0	0.8%
135th	Cabo Verde	57.0	0.8%
136th	Solomon Islands	57.0	1.7%
137th	São Tomé and Principe	57.0	1.2%
138th	Tajikistan	56.9	0.5%
139th	Peru	56.5	18.4%
140th	Turkmenistan	56.3	0.5%
141st	South Africa	56.0	0.6%
142nd	Tuvalu	56.0	1.1%
143rd	Vanuatu	55.9	1.0%
144th	Viet Nam	55.6	1.2%
145th	Namibia	55.3	1.1%
146th	Kosovo	55.1	2.1%
147th	Honduras	55.0	1.2%
148th	Kiribati	54.9	1.0%
149th	Tunisia	54.9	2.1%
150th	Kenya	54.5	0.7%
151st	Nicaragua	54.2	0.8%
152nd	Congo, Republic of	54.0	0.8%
153rd	Zambia	53.9	0.9%
154th	Indonesia	53.8	1.1%
155th	Saudi Arabia	53.7	1.9%
156th	Gabon	53.3	1.1%
157th	Papua New Guinea	52.6	0.9%
158th	Sudan	52.5	0.5%
159th	Mongolia	52.5	1.1%
160th	Lesotho	51.8	0.7%
161st	Eswatini	51.8	1.1%
162nd	El Salvador	51.7	0.6%
163rd	Iran, Islamic Republic of	51.1	1.8%
164th	Myanmar	51.0	1.1%
165th	Mauritania	50.8	0.4%
166th	Guatemala	50.3	3.6%
167th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	49.5	1.0%
168th	Morocco	49.2	1.0%
169th	Pakistan	49.0	-7.4%
170th	India	48.9	0.7%
171st	Cameroon	48.6	1.3%
172nd	Madagascar	48.2	0.6%
173rd	Ghana	47.9	0.1%
174th	Oman	47.9	2.6%
175th	Haiti	47.6	0.7%
176th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	47.5	0.8%
177th	Djibouti	47.3	-0.6%
178th	Togo	47.2	1.0%
179th	Uganda	47.1	-5.0%
180th	Tanzania	47.0	1.0%
181st	Rwanda	46.8	-0.8%
182nd	Comoros	45.8	1.4%
183rd	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	45.8	0.4%
184th	Central African Republic	45.8	1.3%
185th	Maldives	45.5	2.1%
186th	Côte d'Ivoire	44.8	1.7%
187th	Lao PDR	44.1	0.8%
188th	Algeria	43.8	1.0%
189th	Nepal	43.6	1.1%
190th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	43.6	0.6%
191st	Benin	43.4	0.8%
192nd	Burundi	43.2	-0.1%
193rd	Mozambique	42.6	0.3%
194th	Bhutan	41.8	1.6%
195th	Yemen, Republic of	41.8	2.9%
196th	Eritrea	41.5	0.9%
197th	Senegal	41.2	1.1%
198th	Chad	40.9	-1.2%
199th	Liberia	40.7	0.9%
200th	Nigeria	40.6	1.5%
201st	Angola	40.1	1.0%
202nd	Gambia, The	40.0	1.3%
203rd	Burkina Faso	39.9	0.8%
204th	Guinea	39.4	0.8%
205th	Sierra Leone	39.1	1.3%
206th	Cambodia	38.7	0.2%
207th	Afghanistan	37.9	1.3%
208th	Timor-Leste	37.9	1.5%
209th	Guinea-Bissau	37.5	0.8%
210th	Equatorial Guinea	37.2	19.8%
211th	Malawi	37.1	1.2%
212th	Niger	35.3	-1.7%
213th	Mali	33.8	1.2%
214th	South Sudan	31.0	20.9%
215th	Bangladesh	26.5	-37.8%

FAQ

What was Sierra Leone's life expectancy in 1971?▾

Sierra Leone's life expectancy in 1971 was 39.1. This ranked 205th globally.

How did Sierra Leone's life expectancy change in 1971?▾

Sierra Leone's life expectancy increased by 1.3% in 1971 compared to 1970.

Which country had the highest life expectancy in 1971?▾

Faroe Islands had the highest life expectancy in 1971 at 75.1.

What is the life expectancy of Sierra Leone in 1971?▾

The life expectancy of Sierra Leone in 1971 was 39.1. This ranked 205th globally.

How does 1971 compare to 1970 for Sierra Leone's life expectancy?▾

Sierra Leone's life expectancy went from 38.6 in 1970 to 39.1 in 1971, a 1.3% increase.

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