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United Kingdom - Life Expectancy 2005

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Life expectancy at birth, total · World Bank

79.0 +0.3 from 2004 Global rank: 31st

United Kingdom's life expectancy was 79.0 in 2005, increased +0.3 from 78.7 in 2004. This was the 31st highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2005▾

Life Expectancy by Country - 2005
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Monaco	84.3	0.2%
2nd	Andorra	83.1	0.3%
3rd	Japan	82.0	-0.1%
4th	San Marino	81.9	0.4%
5th	Hong Kong SAR, China	81.6	-0.2%
6th	Iceland	81.5	0.6%
7th	Macao SAR, China	81.3	0.4%
8th	Switzerland	81.2	0.2%
9th	Gibraltar	81.0	0.2%
10th	Australia	80.8	0.4%
11th	Italy	80.8	0.0%
12th	United Arab Emirates	80.8	0.6%
13th	Liechtenstein	80.7	-1.3%
14th	Sweden	80.5	0.1%
15th	Spain	80.2	0.4%
16th	France	80.2	0.0%
17th	Israel	80.2	0.0%
18th	Canada	80.1	0.2%
19th	Channel Islands	80.1	0.4%
20th	Norway	80.0	0.3%
21st	Singapore	80.0	0.6%
22nd	French Polynesia	80.0	0.2%
23rd	New Zealand	79.9	0.4%
24th	Faroe Islands	79.4	0.3%
25th	Luxembourg	79.4	0.4%
26th	Netherlands	79.3	0.3%
27th	Austria	79.3	0.2%
28th	Malta	79.3	0.1%
29th	Greece	79.2	0.3%
30th	Cyprus	79.2	0.2%
31st	United Kingdom	79.0	0.4%
32nd	Belgium	79.0	0.1%
33rd	Ireland	78.9	0.5%
34th	Germany	78.9	0.3%
35th	Costa Rica	78.9	0.5%
36th	Bermuda	78.9	0.0%
37th	Finland	78.8	0.1%
38th	Chile	78.5	0.2%
39th	European Union	78.3	0.2%
40th	Korea	78.2	0.6%
41st	Portugal	78.1	0.5%
42nd	Denmark	77.8	0.5%
43rd	St. Martin (French part)	77.8	0.2%
44th	Slovenia	77.6	0.5%
45th	Cuba	77.5	0.3%
46th	United States	77.5	0.0%
47th	Isle of Man	77.5	0.8%
48th	Virgin Islands (US)	77.4	-0.5%
49th	Northern Mariana Islands	77.3	0.7%
50th	Qatar	76.9	0.6%
51st	Kuwait	76.8	0.1%
52nd	Puerto Rico (US)	76.7	-0.3%
53rd	Albania	76.4	0.6%
54th	Guam	76.4	0.4%
55th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	76.4	-0.1%
56th	Bahrain	76.1	0.4%
57th	Lebanon	76.1	0.5%
58th	Turks and Caicos Islands	76.0	0.4%
59th	Czechia	75.9	0.3%
60th	Uruguay	75.8	0.7%
61st	British Virgin Islands	75.6	0.2%
62nd	Antigua and Barbuda	75.4	0.0%
63rd	Croatia	75.2	-0.4%
64th	Argentina	75.2	0.5%
65th	Panama	75.2	0.4%
66th	Oman	75.1	0.3%
67th	Poland	75.0	0.2%
68th	Barbados	75.0	-0.3%
69th	New Caledonia	74.9	0.2%
70th	Cayman Islands	74.9	0.4%
71st	Maldives	74.8	2.4%
72nd	Brunei Darussalam	74.7	0.1%
73rd	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	74.7	0.1%
74th	Saudi Arabia	74.4	0.5%
75th	Malaysia	74.4	0.5%
76th	China	74.1	0.5%
77th	Montenegro	74.0	-0.3%
78th	Ecuador	73.9	0.1%
79th	Slovak Republic	73.9	-0.1%
80th	Curaçao	73.9	0.2%
81st	Tunisia	73.7	0.3%
82nd	Grenada	73.7	1.7%
83rd	North Macedonia	73.7	0.1%
84th	Mexico	73.6	0.3%
85th	Türkiye	73.5	0.4%
86th	Kosovo	73.4	0.4%
87th	Aruba	73.4	0.3%
88th	Bahamas, The	73.4	0.2%
89th	Viet Nam	73.2	0.2%
90th	Colombia	73.2	0.5%
91st	Armenia	73.1	0.1%
92nd	Sri Lanka	73.1	7.4%
93rd	Jordan	73.0	0.3%
94th	Thailand	72.9	1.1%
95th	Algeria	72.8	0.4%
96th	Serbia	72.8	0.2%
97th	Syrian Arab Republic	72.8	0.4%
98th	Hungary	72.6	0.0%
99th	Estonia	72.6	0.9%
100th	Bulgaria	72.6	0.0%
101st	St. Lucia	72.5	0.1%
102nd	Iran, Islamic Republic of	72.4	0.6%
103rd	Mauritius	72.4	0.2%
104th	American Samoa	72.4	0.1%
105th	Seychelles	72.1	-0.7%
106th	Dominica	72.0	0.0%
107th	West Bank and Gaza	72.0	1.3%
108th	Peru	72.0	0.8%
109th	Romania	71.9	0.5%
110th	Brazil	71.8	0.7%
111th	Jamaica	71.5	-0.1%
112th	Samoa	71.5	0.0%
113th	Libya	71.4	0.3%
114th	Latvia	71.4	-0.9%
115th	Paraguay	71.3	0.4%
116th	Lithuania	71.3	-1.0%
117th	St. Kitts and Nevis	71.2	0.3%
118th	Dominican Republic	71.0	0.4%
119th	Cabo Verde	70.9	0.6%
120th	Georgia	70.7	-0.5%
121st	Tonga	70.6	0.2%
122nd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	70.5	0.0%
123rd	Nicaragua	70.4	1.2%
124th	Belize	70.3	0.3%
125th	Trinidad and Tobago	70.2	0.4%
126th	El Salvador	69.3	0.1%
127th	Honduras	69.2	0.2%
128th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	69.2	-0.2%
129th	Vanuatu	69.2	0.3%
130th	Belarus	68.9	-0.2%
131st	Morocco	68.7	0.7%
132nd	Philippines	68.4	0.2%
133rd	Egypt, Arab Republic of	68.4	0.2%
134th	Greenland	68.2	0.8%
135th	Moldova	68.2	0.3%
136th	Guatemala	68.2	-0.1%
137th	Kyrgyz Republic	68.0	-0.3%
138th	Solomon Islands	67.8	0.2%
139th	Azerbaijan	67.7	0.3%
140th	Indonesia	67.5	3.1%
141st	Ukraine	67.5	0.1%
142nd	Uzbekistan	67.5	0.4%
143rd	Suriname	67.0	1.0%
144th	Tajikistan	66.5	-0.1%
145th	Turkmenistan	66.3	0.3%
146th	Palau	66.2	0.6%
147th	Fiji	66.0	0.2%
148th	Bhutan	65.9	0.9%
149th	Russian Federation	65.5	0.1%
150th	Kiribati	65.5	0.2%
151st	Bangladesh	65.5	0.9%
152nd	Kazakhstan	65.4	0.5%
153rd	Yemen, Republic of	65.4	0.7%
154th	Mongolia	65.3	1.0%
155th	Nepal	65.3	0.8%
156th	India	64.9	0.7%
157th	Micronesia, Federated States of	64.9	0.0%
158th	Iraq	64.9	0.4%
159th	Guyana	64.4	0.3%
160th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	64.2	0.6%
161st	Cambodia	64.1	1.4%
162nd	Marshall Islands	64.1	0.1%
163rd	Tuvalu	64.1	0.2%
164th	Mauritania	63.9	0.9%
165th	Gabon	63.0	0.5%
166th	São Tomé and Principe	62.4	-0.2%
167th	Pakistan	62.4	-1.1%
168th	Papua New Guinea	61.9	0.1%
169th	Myanmar	61.7	0.5%
170th	Timor-Leste	61.3	0.9%
171st	Senegal	61.0	1.1%
172nd	Comoros	60.9	0.5%
173rd	Lao PDR	60.7	1.0%
174th	Madagascar	60.7	0.8%
175th	Eritrea	60.6	0.9%
176th	Haiti	60.3	3.1%
177th	Ghana	59.6	0.5%
178th	Nauru	59.4	0.0%
179th	Gambia, The	59.1	0.6%
180th	Congo, Republic of	58.7	1.3%
181st	Djibouti	58.5	0.8%
182nd	Kenya	58.5	1.0%
183rd	Afghanistan	58.2	0.8%
184th	Benin	57.7	0.7%
185th	Tanzania	57.7	1.5%
186th	Sudan	57.2	0.8%
187th	Rwanda	57.0	2.6%
188th	Liberia	56.8	1.5%
189th	Togo	55.9	0.6%
190th	Equatorial Guinea	55.8	0.8%
191st	Uganda	54.9	2.3%
192nd	Cameroon	54.9	0.6%
193rd	Guinea	54.4	0.8%
194th	Botswana	54.4	1.5%
195th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	54.0	0.9%
196th	South Sudan	54.0	1.7%
197th	South Africa	53.9	-0.1%
198th	Mali	53.8	1.0%
199th	Niger	53.3	1.8%
200th	Burkina Faso	53.3	1.3%
201st	Burundi	53.1	1.6%
202nd	Guinea-Bissau	52.9	0.3%
203rd	Namibia	52.6	0.7%
204th	Malawi	52.5	2.7%
205th	Côte d'Ivoire	52.4	0.9%
206th	Mozambique	52.3	0.9%
207th	Angola	52.1	2.0%
208th	Zambia	51.6	2.1%
209th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	50.9	0.4%
210th	Nigeria	49.5	0.8%
211th	Chad	48.9	0.4%
212th	Sierra Leone	48.3	1.7%
213th	Central African Republic	48.2	1.1%
214th	Zimbabwe	46.6	1.1%
215th	Eswatini	44.0	0.1%
216th	Lesotho	43.6	-1.0%

FAQ

What was United Kingdom's life expectancy in 2005?▾

United Kingdom's life expectancy in 2005 was 79.0. This ranked 31st globally.

How did United Kingdom's life expectancy change in 2005?▾

United Kingdom's life expectancy increased by 0.4% in 2005 compared to 2004.

Which country had the highest life expectancy in 2005?▾

Monaco had the highest life expectancy in 2005 at 84.3.

What is the life expectancy of United Kingdom in 2005?▾

The life expectancy of United Kingdom in 2005 was 79.0. This ranked 31st globally.

How does 2005 compare to 2004 for United Kingdom's life expectancy?▾

United Kingdom's life expectancy went from 78.7 in 2004 to 79.0 in 2005, a 0.4% increase.

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