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South Africa - Life Expectancy 1985

Name: South Africa Life Expectancy 1985
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Life expectancy at birth, total · World Bank

62.2 +0.4 from 1984 Global rank: 138th

South Africa's life expectancy was 62.2 in 1985, increased +0.4 from 61.8 in 1984. This was the 138th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1985▾

Life Expectancy by Country - 1985
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Andorra	78.0	0.1%
2nd	Iceland	77.6	0.0%
3rd	Japan	77.6	0.3%
4th	Monaco	77.4	1.3%
5th	San Marino	77.3	0.1%
6th	Switzerland	76.7	0.2%
7th	Sweden	76.7	-0.2%
8th	Liechtenstein	76.6	0.7%
9th	Hong Kong SAR, China	76.4	0.6%
10th	Canada	76.3	0.0%
11th	Netherlands	76.3	0.1%
12th	Spain	76.3	0.0%
13th	Faroe Islands	76.2	0.1%
14th	Greece	76.1	0.4%
15th	Norway	75.9	-0.4%
16th	Australia	75.6	0.3%
17th	Italy	75.5	0.1%
18th	France	75.3	0.4%
19th	Channel Islands	75.3	0.1%
20th	Gibraltar	75.2	0.4%
21st	Israel	75.2	0.5%
22nd	Costa Rica	74.8	0.2%
23rd	Cyprus	74.6	0.9%
24th	United Kingdom	74.6	-0.2%
25th	United States	74.6	0.0%
26th	Macao SAR, China	74.5	0.6%
27th	Belgium	74.5	0.2%
28th	Denmark	74.4	-0.2%
29th	Finland	74.2	-0.4%
30th	Germany	74.2	0.2%
31st	Singapore	73.9	0.8%
32nd	Antigua and Barbuda	73.9	0.1%
33rd	New Zealand	73.8	-0.7%
34th	European Union	73.8	0.1%
35th	Austria	73.8	0.3%
36th	Malta	73.8	0.8%
37th	Ireland	73.6	-0.1%
38th	Kuwait	73.6	0.6%
39th	Cuba	73.5	-0.1%
40th	Bermuda	73.4	0.0%
41st	Barbados	73.3	0.0%
42nd	Luxembourg	73.1	0.8%
43rd	Guam	73.1	0.7%
44th	St. Martin (French part)	72.9	0.3%
45th	Portugal	72.8	0.4%
46th	Puerto Rico (US)	72.6	-1.1%
47th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	72.4	0.1%
48th	Montenegro	72.2	0.2%
49th	Bahrain	72.1	0.3%
50th	Dominica	71.9	0.0%
51st	Curaçao	71.9	0.2%
52nd	Uruguay	71.9	0.2%
53rd	Qatar	71.8	0.5%
54th	Aruba	71.8	0.1%
55th	Chile	71.6	0.6%
56th	Cayman Islands	71.6	0.5%
57th	Serbia	71.4	0.4%
58th	Slovenia	71.4	0.6%
59th	Albania	71.3	0.4%
60th	Bulgaria	71.2	-0.4%
61st	French Polynesia	71.2	0.9%
62nd	Czechia	71.0	0.3%
63rd	Belarus	71.0	2.1%
64th	British Virgin Islands	71.0	0.4%
65th	Croatia	70.9	1.0%
66th	Slovak Republic	70.7	0.0%
67th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	70.6	0.5%
68th	Poland	70.5	-0.4%
69th	Panama	70.5	0.2%
70th	American Samoa	70.5	0.3%
71st	Lithuania	70.5	0.3%
72nd	Brunei Darussalam	70.5	0.4%
73rd	Ukraine	70.4	0.6%
74th	St. Lucia	70.3	-0.3%
75th	Bahamas, The	70.3	0.1%
76th	United Arab Emirates	70.1	0.5%
77th	Jamaica	70.1	0.4%
78th	North Macedonia	70.1	0.0%
79th	Isle of Man	70.0	0.4%
80th	Argentina	69.9	0.8%
81st	Malaysia	69.9	0.4%
82nd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	69.8	0.8%
83rd	Romania	69.7	0.1%
84th	Seychelles	69.7	0.2%
85th	Virgin Islands (US)	69.6	0.2%
86th	Estonia	69.4	0.1%
87th	Grenada	69.3	0.4%
88th	Latvia	69.3	0.2%
89th	Northern Mariana Islands	69.2	0.2%
90th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	69.2	0.5%
91st	Georgia	69.0	0.3%
92nd	Hungary	69.0	-0.1%
93rd	Sri Lanka	68.9	0.2%
94th	Mauritius	68.9	0.1%
95th	Korea	68.8	0.9%
96th	Turks and Caicos Islands	68.7	0.4%
97th	Jordan	68.6	0.6%
98th	Belize	68.3	0.6%
99th	Syrian Arab Republic	68.0	0.5%
100th	Russian Federation	67.9	1.0%
101st	New Caledonia	67.8	0.6%
102nd	Libya	67.3	0.8%
103rd	Viet Nam	67.2	0.4%
104th	Tonga	66.9	0.2%
105th	Armenia	66.9	0.5%
106th	Moldova	66.9	0.7%
107th	Tunisia	66.9	0.9%
108th	Mexico	66.8	0.8%
109th	Trinidad and Tobago	66.7	0.3%
110th	Samoa	66.6	0.4%
111th	Thailand	66.5	1.5%
112th	China	66.5	0.6%
113th	Saudi Arabia	66.0	1.0%
114th	Paraguay	65.9	0.4%
115th	Ecuador	65.6	0.6%
116th	Dominican Republic	65.6	0.7%
117th	St. Kitts and Nevis	65.5	0.2%
118th	Kazakhstan	65.4	0.8%
119th	Colombia	65.4	-4.3%
120th	Türkiye	65.3	0.8%
121st	Solomon Islands	65.3	0.4%
122nd	Oman	65.3	1.6%
123rd	Uzbekistan	64.6	0.7%
124th	Algeria	64.2	2.3%
125th	Fiji	64.0	1.2%
126th	Brazil	64.0	0.7%
127th	Vanuatu	63.9	0.6%
128th	Greenland	63.8	0.6%
129th	Botswana	63.6	-0.1%
130th	Kyrgyz Republic	63.4	1.3%
131st	Honduras	63.2	0.6%
132nd	Micronesia, Federated States of	63.0	0.2%
133rd	Turkmenistan	62.8	0.7%
134th	Philippines	62.7	0.5%
135th	Palau	62.7	0.1%
136th	Azerbaijan	62.7	1.0%
137th	Cabo Verde	62.3	0.7%
138th	South Africa	62.2	0.6%
139th	Marshall Islands	61.7	0.2%
140th	Peru	61.7	1.1%
141st	Lebanon	61.6	0.7%
142nd	Iran, Islamic Republic of	61.5	1.1%
143rd	Indonesia	61.4	0.8%
144th	Guyana	61.4	0.2%
145th	Suriname	61.4	0.2%
146th	Kosovo	61.2	-0.4%
147th	Eswatini	61.2	1.2%
148th	Tuvalu	61.1	0.1%
149th	Tajikistan	61.0	0.5%
150th	Zimbabwe	60.9	0.5%
151st	Kenya	60.9	0.4%
152nd	São Tomé and Principe	60.1	0.4%
153rd	Iraq	59.8	0.4%
154th	Guatemala	59.8	1.2%
155th	Gabon	59.7	0.5%
156th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	59.4	1.2%
157th	Lesotho	59.2	0.4%
158th	Morocco	59.2	1.3%
159th	Maldives	59.2	1.4%
160th	Pakistan	59.1	0.3%
161st	Papua New Guinea	58.8	0.4%
162nd	Kiribati	58.7	0.6%
163rd	Nauru	58.6	-0.1%
164th	Namibia	58.5	0.6%
165th	El Salvador	58.0	2.6%
166th	Congo, Republic of	57.6	0.1%
167th	Mongolia	56.4	0.5%
168th	Nicaragua	56.4	0.5%
169th	India	56.3	0.9%
170th	Myanmar	55.8	0.4%
171st	Mauritania	55.8	1.1%
172nd	Yemen, Republic of	55.4	1.5%
173rd	Togo	54.4	0.5%
174th	Djibouti	54.1	0.6%
175th	Bangladesh	53.9	0.2%
176th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	53.8	0.7%
177th	Cameroon	53.5	1.1%
178th	Comoros	53.3	0.9%
179th	Côte d'Ivoire	52.9	0.4%
180th	Ghana	52.7	1.0%
181st	Senegal	52.6	1.7%
182nd	Tanzania	52.2	0.1%
183rd	Bhutan	52.0	1.4%
184th	Zambia	52.0	-1.7%
185th	Rwanda	51.7	0.5%
186th	Haiti	51.6	0.6%
187th	Lao PDR	51.6	1.1%
188th	Nepal	50.9	1.4%
189th	Cambodia	50.8	1.4%
190th	Equatorial Guinea	50.6	0.8%
191st	Central African Republic	50.5	0.1%
192nd	Madagascar	50.4	0.4%
193rd	Sudan	50.0	0.4%
194th	Benin	50.0	1.1%
195th	Burkina Faso	48.7	0.6%
196th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	48.3	-0.3%
197th	Gambia, The	48.2	1.3%
198th	Burundi	47.7	-0.1%
199th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	46.7	0.3%
200th	Nigeria	46.2	-0.3%
201st	Uganda	45.5	4.1%
202nd	Chad	45.3	1.3%
203rd	Guinea	45.3	1.0%
204th	Guinea-Bissau	45.3	0.7%
205th	Malawi	44.6	-0.5%
206th	Liberia	44.0	-1.5%
207th	Mali	43.9	1.2%
208th	Sierra Leone	43.6	0.0%
209th	Angola	42.5	0.6%
210th	Niger	40.1	0.3%
211th	Mozambique	39.0	0.2%
212th	Eritrea	38.6	2.4%
213th	Timor-Leste	34.3	-0.4%
214th	South Sudan	32.4	1.8%
215th	Afghanistan	32.1	2.1%

FAQ

What was South Africa's life expectancy in 1985?▾

South Africa's life expectancy in 1985 was 62.2. This ranked 138th globally.

How did South Africa's life expectancy change in 1985?▾

South Africa's life expectancy increased by 0.6% in 1985 compared to 1984.

Which country had the highest life expectancy in 1985?▾

Andorra had the highest life expectancy in 1985 at 78.0.

What is the life expectancy of South Africa in 1985?▾

The life expectancy of South Africa in 1985 was 62.2. This ranked 138th globally.

How does 1985 compare to 1984 for South Africa's life expectancy?▾

South Africa's life expectancy went from 61.8 in 1984 to 62.2 in 1985, a 0.6% increase.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

South Africa matched the Currency Crisis Pattern pattern in 1985. Historically: 128 occurrences, 35 successful (27%). Outcome 24 months later: 16.2%. View full analysis →

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