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United Kingdom - Life Expectancy 1981

Name: United Kingdom Life Expectancy 1981
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Life expectancy at birth, total · World Bank

74.0 +0.4 from 1980 Global rank: 21st

United Kingdom's life expectancy was 74.0 in 1981, increased +0.4 from 73.7 in 1980. This was the 21st highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1981▾

Life Expectancy by Country - 1981
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Andorra	77.4	0.3%
2nd	San Marino	76.6	0.3%
3rd	Iceland	76.5	-0.4%
4th	Japan	76.4	0.5%
5th	Sweden	76.0	0.4%
6th	Faroe Islands	75.9	0.1%
7th	Netherlands	75.9	0.3%
8th	Norway	75.9	0.3%
9th	Switzerland	75.7	0.3%
10th	Spain	75.5	0.2%
11th	Canada	75.5	0.5%
12th	Hong Kong SAR, China	75.3	0.9%
13th	Monaco	75.0	0.0%
14th	Greece	74.9	0.5%
15th	Liechtenstein	74.8	0.2%
16th	Australia	74.7	0.4%
17th	Italy	74.4	0.6%
18th	France	74.3	0.3%
19th	Israel	74.3	0.5%
20th	Denmark	74.2	0.2%
21st	United Kingdom	74.0	0.5%
22nd	United States	74.0	0.5%
23rd	Gibraltar	74.0	0.3%
24th	Channel Islands	73.8	-0.1%
25th	Finland	73.7	0.4%
26th	New Zealand	73.6	1.1%
27th	Belgium	73.6	0.6%
28th	Costa Rica	73.4	0.6%
29th	Antigua and Barbuda	73.3	0.3%
30th	Macao SAR, China	73.2	0.6%
31st	European Union	73.1	0.5%
32nd	Cyprus	73.1	0.3%
33rd	Germany	73.0	0.3%
34th	Cuba	73.0	0.5%
35th	Puerto Rico (US)	73.0	-0.2%
36th	Ireland	73.0	0.5%
37th	Bermuda	72.9	0.3%
38th	Austria	72.8	0.5%
39th	Barbados	72.6	0.7%
40th	Singapore	72.6	0.6%
41st	St. Martin (French part)	72.4	0.1%
42nd	Malta	72.3	0.1%
43rd	Luxembourg	72.0	-0.4%
44th	Montenegro	71.9	-0.2%
45th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	71.9	0.1%
46th	Kuwait	71.8	0.6%
47th	Portugal	71.6	0.6%
48th	Bulgaria	71.6	0.6%
49th	Dominica	71.5	0.6%
50th	Aruba	71.3	0.8%
51st	Slovenia	71.2	0.1%
52nd	Guam	71.2	0.7%
53rd	Curaçao	71.2	0.3%
54th	Poland	71.1	1.4%
55th	Serbia	71.0	0.1%
56th	Bahrain	71.0	0.5%
57th	Uruguay	71.0	0.6%
58th	Czechia	70.7	0.6%
59th	Slovak Republic	70.6	0.3%
60th	Lithuania	70.5	0.0%
61st	Croatia	70.3	0.2%
62nd	Qatar	70.3	0.6%
63rd	Seychelles	70.2	0.8%
64th	Albania	70.1	0.3%
65th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	70.1	0.6%
66th	Cayman Islands	70.0	0.7%
67th	Belarus	69.9	0.0%
68th	British Virgin Islands	69.9	0.4%
69th	Chile	69.8	0.5%
70th	Ukraine	69.8	0.1%
71st	Panama	69.8	0.5%
72nd	American Samoa	69.7	0.5%
73rd	Romania	69.4	0.4%
74th	Bahamas, The	69.4	0.4%
75th	Brunei Darussalam	69.3	0.5%
76th	North Macedonia	69.3	0.5%
77th	Hungary	69.1	0.1%
78th	Jamaica	69.1	0.2%
79th	Estonia	69.0	-0.2%
80th	Virgin Islands (US)	68.9	0.3%
81st	Argentina	68.9	0.4%
82nd	Isle of Man	68.8	0.5%
83rd	Latvia	68.8	0.0%
84th	Georgia	68.7	0.7%
85th	St. Lucia	68.7	1.3%
86th	United Arab Emirates	68.6	0.7%
87th	Northern Mariana Islands	68.5	0.3%
88th	Malaysia	68.5	0.6%
89th	Sri Lanka	68.4	0.5%
90th	Grenada	68.3	0.3%
91st	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	68.3	0.5%
92nd	French Polynesia	68.2	1.1%
93rd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	67.7	0.7%
94th	Turks and Caicos Islands	67.4	0.5%
95th	Mauritius	67.4	1.0%
96th	Russian Federation	67.3	0.3%
97th	Colombia	67.2	0.7%
98th	Belize	67.1	0.3%
99th	Jordan	66.9	0.6%
100th	Korea	66.5	0.8%
101st	Trinidad and Tobago	66.5	-0.1%
102nd	Tonga	66.4	0.3%
103rd	New Caledonia	66.0	0.6%
104th	Viet Nam	65.8	0.7%
105th	Moldova	65.6	0.6%
106th	Armenia	65.5	0.5%
107th	Samoa	65.3	0.5%
108th	Libya	65.3	0.7%
109th	Paraguay	64.8	0.4%
110th	China	64.8	0.8%
111th	Mexico	64.7	0.7%
112th	St. Kitts and Nevis	64.6	0.4%
113th	Syrian Arab Republic	64.6	-2.9%
114th	Tunisia	64.4	1.1%
115th	Solomon Islands	64.1	0.6%
116th	Ecuador	63.8	0.8%
117th	Dominican Republic	63.8	0.6%
118th	Saudi Arabia	63.3	1.3%
119th	Uzbekistan	63.2	0.4%
120th	Türkiye	63.2	0.7%
121st	Greenland	63.1	-0.6%
122nd	Botswana	63.0	0.8%
123rd	Kazakhstan	63.0	0.8%
124th	Thailand	62.9	1.1%
125th	Micronesia, Federated States of	62.7	0.2%
126th	Brazil	62.3	0.7%
127th	Fiji	62.3	-0.2%
128th	Palau	62.1	0.4%
129th	Vanuatu	62.0	1.0%
130th	Philippines	61.9	0.1%
131st	Azerbaijan	61.9	0.8%
132nd	Kyrgyz Republic	61.6	0.5%
133rd	Cabo Verde	61.3	0.4%
134th	Marshall Islands	61.1	0.2%
135th	Honduras	61.0	1.1%
136th	Turkmenistan	61.0	1.3%
137th	Guyana	60.9	0.2%
138th	Oman	60.8	2.0%
139th	Suriname	60.8	0.2%
140th	Tuvalu	60.5	0.5%
141st	South Africa	60.4	0.8%
142nd	Kosovo	60.4	0.1%
143rd	Peru	60.3	0.6%
144th	Lebanon	60.3	0.6%
145th	Kenya	59.6	0.7%
146th	Zimbabwe	59.4	0.7%
147th	São Tomé and Principe	59.4	0.1%
148th	Indonesia	59.1	0.7%
149th	Eswatini	58.8	1.0%
150th	Tajikistan	58.8	0.2%
151st	Iraq	58.7	-3.7%
152nd	Nauru	58.6	0.1%
153rd	Gabon	58.3	0.8%
154th	Nicaragua	58.3	0.6%
155th	Pakistan	57.8	1.0%
156th	Papua New Guinea	57.8	0.6%
157th	Kiribati	57.5	0.4%
158th	Algeria	57.4	5.3%
159th	Lesotho	57.3	1.4%
160th	Congo, Republic of	57.1	0.5%
161st	Namibia	56.9	0.6%
162nd	Iran, Islamic Republic of	56.6	-3.0%
163rd	Egypt, Arab Republic of	56.5	1.4%
164th	Morocco	56.0	1.5%
165th	Maldives	55.7	1.7%
166th	Mongolia	55.4	0.3%
167th	Zambia	55.0	-0.9%
168th	Guatemala	54.7	-1.1%
169th	Myanmar	54.7	0.6%
170th	Sudan	54.4	0.5%
171st	India	54.2	1.1%
172nd	Mauritania	53.7	0.9%
173rd	Togo	52.8	1.2%
174th	Bangladesh	52.6	0.7%
175th	Djibouti	52.4	0.6%
176th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	52.3	0.8%
177th	Côte d'Ivoire	51.8	0.7%
178th	Tanzania	51.7	0.8%
179th	Yemen, Republic of	51.7	2.1%
180th	Ghana	51.3	0.5%
181st	Cameroon	51.2	0.7%
182nd	Comoros	51.2	1.0%
183rd	El Salvador	50.9	4.7%
184th	Haiti	50.3	0.7%
185th	Central African Republic	50.0	0.5%
186th	Madagascar	49.8	-0.4%
187th	Lao PDR	49.2	1.4%
188th	Rwanda	49.2	2.3%
189th	Equatorial Guinea	49.1	0.7%
190th	Senegal	49.1	1.6%
191st	Bhutan	49.0	1.6%
192nd	Nepal	48.7	0.7%
193rd	Benin	48.1	0.8%
194th	Cambodia	48.0	1.1%
195th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	47.8	0.4%
196th	Burkina Faso	46.9	0.9%
197th	Burundi	46.4	1.5%
198th	Nigeria	46.3	0.8%
199th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	45.7	0.4%
200th	Eritrea	45.0	0.8%
201st	Malawi	44.7	0.9%
202nd	Gambia, The	44.5	-1.1%
203rd	Liberia	44.3	0.6%
204th	Guinea-Bissau	43.9	0.8%
205th	Chad	43.5	0.1%
206th	Uganda	43.5	0.0%
207th	Guinea	43.3	1.1%
208th	Sierra Leone	43.1	0.6%
209th	Angola	42.6	0.7%
210th	Mozambique	41.6	-5.3%
211th	Mali	41.0	1.8%
212th	Niger	39.6	0.7%
213th	Afghanistan	39.4	0.4%
214th	South Sudan	38.3	0.7%
215th	Timor-Leste	31.2	3.5%

FAQ

What was United Kingdom's life expectancy in 1981?▾

United Kingdom's life expectancy in 1981 was 74.0. This ranked 21st globally.

How did United Kingdom's life expectancy change in 1981?▾

United Kingdom's life expectancy increased by 0.5% in 1981 compared to 1980.

Which country had the highest life expectancy in 1981?▾

Andorra had the highest life expectancy in 1981 at 77.4.

What is the life expectancy of United Kingdom in 1981?▾

The life expectancy of United Kingdom in 1981 was 74.0. This ranked 21st globally.

How does 1981 compare to 1980 for United Kingdom's life expectancy?▾

United Kingdom's life expectancy went from 73.7 in 1980 to 74.0 in 1981, a 0.5% increase.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

United Kingdom matched the Stagflation Risk pattern in 1981. Historically: 307 occurrences, 117 successful (38%). Outcome 24 months later: 4.6%. View full analysis →

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