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South Africa - Life Expectancy 1980

Name: South Africa Life Expectancy 1980
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Life expectancy at birth, total · World Bank

60.0 +0.5 from 1979 Global rank: 143rd

South Africa's life expectancy was 60.0 in 1980, increased +0.5 from 59.5 in 1979. This was the 143rd highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1980▾

Life Expectancy by Country - 1980
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Andorra	77.1	0.4%
2nd	Iceland	76.8	0.1%
3rd	San Marino	76.4	0.3%
4th	Japan	76.0	-0.2%
5th	Faroe Islands	75.8	0.1%
6th	Netherlands	75.7	0.2%
7th	Sweden	75.7	0.3%
8th	Norway	75.7	0.3%
9th	Switzerland	75.5	0.0%
10th	Spain	75.3	0.7%
11th	Canada	75.1	0.3%
12th	Monaco	74.9	0.1%
13th	Liechtenstein	74.7	0.1%
14th	Hong Kong SAR, China	74.7	1.3%
15th	Greece	74.5	-0.1%
16th	Australia	74.3	0.4%
17th	Denmark	74.1	-0.2%
18th	France	74.1	0.3%
19th	Italy	73.9	-0.1%
20th	Channel Islands	73.9	1.0%
21st	Israel	73.9	0.5%
22nd	Gibraltar	73.8	0.2%
23rd	United Kingdom	73.7	0.5%
24th	United States	73.6	-0.3%
25th	Finland	73.4	0.4%
26th	Belgium	73.2	0.0%
27th	Puerto Rico (US)	73.1	0.5%
28th	Antigua and Barbuda	73.1	0.4%
29th	Costa Rica	73.0	0.7%
30th	Cyprus	72.8	0.9%
31st	New Zealand	72.8	-0.3%
32nd	Germany	72.8	0.2%
33rd	European Union	72.8	0.0%
34th	Macao SAR, China	72.8	0.6%
35th	Bermuda	72.7	0.4%
36th	Cuba	72.6	0.5%
37th	Ireland	72.6	0.5%
38th	Austria	72.5	0.2%
39th	St. Martin (French part)	72.3	0.1%
40th	Luxembourg	72.3	0.1%
41st	Malta	72.2	-0.2%
42nd	Singapore	72.2	1.0%
43rd	Barbados	72.1	0.8%
44th	Montenegro	72.0	1.1%
45th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	71.8	-0.1%
46th	Kuwait	71.5	0.5%
47th	Portugal	71.2	0.1%
48th	Bulgaria	71.2	-0.2%
49th	Slovenia	71.1	0.4%
50th	Dominica	71.0	2.6%
51st	Serbia	71.0	-0.1%
52nd	Curaçao	71.0	0.3%
53rd	Aruba	70.8	0.4%
54th	Bahrain	70.7	0.6%
55th	Guam	70.7	0.8%
56th	Uruguay	70.5	0.4%
57th	Lithuania	70.5	0.0%
58th	Slovak Republic	70.4	-0.5%
59th	Czechia	70.3	-0.7%
60th	Croatia	70.2	-0.4%
61st	Poland	70.1	-0.9%
62nd	Belarus	69.9	0.0%
63rd	Qatar	69.9	0.6%
64th	Albania	69.9	0.4%
65th	Ukraine	69.8	0.0%
66th	British Virgin Islands	69.6	0.5%
67th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	69.6	0.8%
68th	Seychelles	69.6	1.8%
69th	Cayman Islands	69.5	0.7%
70th	Chile	69.5	0.9%
71st	Panama	69.5	0.5%
72nd	American Samoa	69.4	0.4%
73rd	Estonia	69.1	0.1%
74th	Bahamas, The	69.1	0.2%
75th	Romania	69.1	-0.1%
76th	Hungary	69.1	-0.8%
77th	Brunei Darussalam	69.0	0.5%
78th	Jamaica	69.0	0.3%
79th	North Macedonia	69.0	-0.1%
80th	Latvia	68.8	0.5%
81st	Virgin Islands (US)	68.7	0.3%
82nd	Argentina	68.6	0.2%
83rd	Isle of Man	68.4	0.6%
84th	Northern Mariana Islands	68.3	0.3%
85th	Georgia	68.3	0.5%
86th	United Arab Emirates	68.2	0.8%
87th	Grenada	68.1	0.3%
88th	Malaysia	68.1	0.7%
89th	Sri Lanka	68.0	0.7%
90th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	68.0	-2.0%
91st	St. Lucia	67.8	0.6%
92nd	French Polynesia	67.4	1.2%
93rd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	67.2	0.7%
94th	Turks and Caicos Islands	67.1	0.5%
95th	Russian Federation	67.0	-0.1%
96th	Belize	66.9	0.3%
97th	Mauritius	66.8	0.7%
98th	Colombia	66.7	0.8%
99th	Syrian Arab Republic	66.5	0.5%
100th	Trinidad and Tobago	66.5	0.1%
101st	Jordan	66.5	0.7%
102nd	Tonga	66.2	0.2%
103rd	Korea	66.0	0.8%
104th	New Caledonia	65.6	0.7%
105th	Viet Nam	65.3	0.5%
106th	Moldova	65.2	0.6%
107th	Armenia	65.1	0.5%
108th	Samoa	65.0	0.6%
109th	Libya	64.8	0.7%
110th	Paraguay	64.6	0.4%
111th	St. Kitts and Nevis	64.4	0.3%
112th	Mexico	64.3	0.7%
113th	China	64.2	0.8%
114th	Solomon Islands	63.7	0.8%
115th	Tunisia	63.7	1.2%
116th	Greenland	63.4	-0.8%
117th	Dominican Republic	63.4	1.5%
118th	Ecuador	63.3	0.8%
119th	Uzbekistan	63.0	0.4%
120th	Türkiye	62.7	0.9%
121st	Micronesia, Federated States of	62.6	0.2%
122nd	Botswana	62.5	0.8%
123rd	Kazakhstan	62.5	0.7%
124th	Saudi Arabia	62.4	1.5%
125th	Fiji	62.4	0.2%
126th	Thailand	62.2	0.8%
127th	Palau	61.9	0.5%
128th	Philippines	61.9	0.3%
129th	Brazil	61.8	0.7%
130th	Azerbaijan	61.4	0.8%
131st	Vanuatu	61.3	0.7%
132nd	Kyrgyz Republic	61.3	0.7%
133rd	Cabo Verde	61.0	0.5%
134th	Marshall Islands	61.0	0.2%
135th	Iraq	60.9	-5.4%
136th	Guyana	60.8	0.1%
137th	Suriname	60.7	0.2%
138th	Honduras	60.4	0.9%
139th	Kosovo	60.3	2.0%
140th	Tuvalu	60.2	0.6%
141st	Turkmenistan	60.2	1.8%
142nd	Peru	60.0	0.6%
143rd	South Africa	60.0	0.8%
144th	Lebanon	59.9	0.6%
145th	Oman	59.6	2.2%
146th	São Tomé and Principe	59.4	0.1%
147th	Kenya	59.2	0.8%
148th	Zimbabwe	59.1	7.5%
149th	Indonesia	58.7	0.9%
150th	Tajikistan	58.6	0.2%
151st	Nauru	58.5	0.2%
152nd	Iran, Islamic Republic of	58.4	-0.1%
153rd	Eswatini	58.2	1.2%
154th	Nicaragua	58.0	14.0%
155th	Gabon	57.9	0.8%
156th	Papua New Guinea	57.4	0.7%
157th	Kiribati	57.3	0.3%
158th	Pakistan	57.2	1.0%
159th	Congo, Republic of	56.8	0.5%
160th	Namibia	56.6	-5.0%
161st	Lesotho	56.5	1.2%
162nd	Egypt, Arab Republic of	55.7	1.5%
163rd	Zambia	55.5	-1.0%
164th	Guatemala	55.3	-2.3%
165th	Morocco	55.2	1.6%
166th	Mongolia	55.2	0.3%
167th	Maldives	54.8	1.8%
168th	Algeria	54.5	4.0%
169th	Myanmar	54.4	0.6%
170th	Sudan	54.1	1.3%
171st	India	53.6	1.1%
172nd	Mauritania	53.2	0.8%
173rd	Bangladesh	52.3	0.6%
174th	Togo	52.1	1.2%
175th	Djibouti	52.0	0.9%
176th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	51.8	0.9%
177th	Côte d'Ivoire	51.4	0.9%
178th	Tanzania	51.3	0.9%
179th	Ghana	51.1	0.5%
180th	Cameroon	50.9	0.6%
181st	Comoros	50.7	1.1%
182nd	Yemen, Republic of	50.6	2.2%
183rd	Madagascar	50.0	-0.1%
184th	Haiti	50.0	0.4%
185th	Central African Republic	49.8	0.6%
186th	Equatorial Guinea	48.8	13.4%
187th	El Salvador	48.6	-9.7%
188th	Lao PDR	48.6	2.3%
189th	Nepal	48.3	1.2%
190th	Senegal	48.3	1.7%
191st	Bhutan	48.2	1.6%
192nd	Rwanda	48.1	2.2%
193rd	Benin	47.7	0.8%
194th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	47.6	0.4%
195th	Cambodia	47.5	15.6%
196th	Burkina Faso	46.5	1.7%
197th	Nigeria	46.0	0.5%
198th	Burundi	45.7	1.5%
199th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	45.5	0.6%
200th	Gambia, The	45.0	1.0%
201st	Eritrea	44.6	1.9%
202nd	Malawi	44.3	1.4%
203rd	Liberia	44.1	0.5%
204th	Mozambique	44.0	0.2%
205th	Guinea-Bissau	43.6	0.8%
206th	Uganda	43.5	-4.3%
207th	Chad	43.5	0.5%
208th	Guinea	42.8	1.2%
209th	Sierra Leone	42.8	0.7%
210th	Angola	42.2	0.8%
211th	Mali	40.3	1.9%
212th	Niger	39.3	1.2%
213th	Afghanistan	39.3	1.1%
214th	South Sudan	38.0	0.6%
215th	Timor-Leste	30.2	24.9%

FAQ

What was South Africa's life expectancy in 1980?▾

South Africa's life expectancy in 1980 was 60.0. This ranked 143rd globally.

How did South Africa's life expectancy change in 1980?▾

South Africa's life expectancy increased by 0.8% in 1980 compared to 1979.

Which country had the highest life expectancy in 1980?▾

Andorra had the highest life expectancy in 1980 at 77.1.

What is the life expectancy of South Africa in 1980?▾

The life expectancy of South Africa in 1980 was 60.0. This ranked 143rd globally.

How does 1980 compare to 1979 for South Africa's life expectancy?▾

South Africa's life expectancy went from 59.5 in 1979 to 60.0 in 1980, a 0.8% increase.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

South Africa matched the Fiscal Dominance Trap pattern in 1980. Historically: 386 occurrences, 278 successful (72%). Outcome 24 months later: 14.6%. View full analysis →

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