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United States - Life Expectancy 1962

Name: United States Life Expectancy 1962
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Life expectancy at birth, total · World Bank

70.1 −0.2 from 1961 Global rank: 24th

United States's life expectancy was 70.1 in 1962, decreased +0.2 from 70.3 in 1961. This was the 24th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1962▾

Life Expectancy by Country - 1962
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Iceland	73.7	0.3%
2nd	San Marino	73.5	0.2%
3rd	Norway	73.4	-0.1%
4th	Sweden	73.4	-0.2%
5th	Netherlands	73.3	-0.4%
6th	Faroe Islands	73.2	0.6%
7th	Andorra	73.0	0.6%
8th	Monaco	72.4	0.4%
9th	Denmark	72.3	-0.2%
10th	Israel	72.1	0.1%
11th	Channel Islands	72.0	0.6%
12th	Canada	71.4	0.0%
13th	New Zealand	71.2	0.3%
14th	Switzerland	71.2	-0.6%
15th	Australia	70.9	0.0%
16th	United Kingdom	70.9	0.1%
17th	Liechtenstein	70.8	-0.1%
18th	Ukraine	70.4	0.5%
19th	France	70.3	0.3%
20th	Slovak Republic	70.3	-0.6%
21st	Greece	70.2	-0.1%
22nd	Belgium	70.2	-0.4%
23rd	Gibraltar	70.2	0.0%
24th	United States	70.1	-0.2%
25th	Ireland	70.0	0.4%
26th	Germany	69.8	0.2%
27th	Czechia	69.8	-1.0%
28th	Spain	69.5	0.1%
29th	Bulgaria	69.5	-1.0%
30th	Belarus	69.5	-0.4%
31st	Latvia	69.4	-0.9%
32nd	Austria	69.3	-0.4%
33rd	Estonia	69.3	0.3%
34th	European Union	69.3	-0.2%
35th	Italy	69.1	-0.9%
36th	Lithuania	69.1	-1.4%
37th	Malta	69.1	1.1%
38th	Slovenia	69.0	0.0%
39th	Puerto Rico (US)	68.9	0.5%
40th	Japan	68.6	0.4%
41st	Finland	68.6	-0.4%
42nd	Luxembourg	68.4	-1.0%
43rd	St. Martin (French part)	68.2	0.4%
44th	Uruguay	67.9	0.1%
45th	Bermuda	67.9	0.5%
46th	Hungary	67.9	-1.6%
47th	Russian Federation	67.7	-0.1%
48th	Poland	67.4	-0.5%
49th	Croatia	67.1	1.1%
50th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	67.1	0.6%
51st	Serbia	66.9	1.1%
52nd	Hong Kong SAR, China	66.9	0.7%
53rd	Singapore	66.4	0.6%
54th	Montenegro	66.2	0.4%
55th	Curaçao	66.0	0.4%
56th	American Samoa	66.0	0.5%
57th	Barbados	65.7	1.0%
58th	Romania	65.3	-0.9%
59th	Macao SAR, China	64.9	0.9%
60th	Cyprus	64.7	1.0%
61st	Jamaica	64.6	0.6%
62nd	Argentina	64.6	0.0%
63rd	Aruba	64.6	0.6%
64th	Lebanon	64.6	0.5%
65th	Isle of Man	64.4	0.0%
66th	Cuba	64.4	1.0%
67th	Costa Rica	64.2	0.6%
68th	Portugal	64.2	2.4%
69th	Antigua and Barbuda	64.0	1.0%
70th	British Virgin Islands	63.8	0.9%
71st	Grenada	63.8	0.3%
72nd	Trinidad and Tobago	63.4	0.7%
73rd	Guam	63.3	0.2%
74th	Bahamas, The	63.2	0.6%
75th	Virgin Islands (US)	62.7	-0.7%
76th	Georgia	62.1	0.6%
77th	Northern Mariana Islands	62.0	0.5%
78th	Dominica	61.9	1.4%
79th	Sri Lanka	61.6	0.8%
80th	Panama	61.4	0.8%
81st	Kuwait	61.3	1.7%
82nd	Paraguay	60.8	0.5%
83rd	Seychelles	60.7	0.1%
84th	Mauritius	60.4	1.5%
85th	Moldova	60.3	0.7%
86th	French Polynesia	60.2	0.6%
87th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	60.1	1.4%
88th	Cayman Islands	60.1	1.1%
89th	Greenland	60.0	1.0%
90th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	59.9	1.1%
91st	Armenia	59.9	0.7%
92nd	St. Lucia	59.9	1.3%
93rd	Philippines	59.8	0.5%
94th	Fiji	59.7	0.9%
95th	Tonga	59.3	0.9%
96th	North Macedonia	59.3	-4.0%
97th	Qatar	59.2	1.2%
98th	Malaysia	58.9	1.4%
99th	Brunei Darussalam	58.8	-0.9%
100th	Belize	58.7	10.9%
101st	Albania	58.5	1.7%
102nd	Kazakhstan	58.4	0.4%
103rd	Guyana	58.3	0.7%
104th	Viet Nam	58.2	-0.4%
105th	Nauru	58.0	0.0%
106th	Suriname	58.0	1.3%
107th	St. Kitts and Nevis	57.8	0.9%
108th	Chile	57.8	0.9%
109th	Turks and Caicos Islands	57.7	1.1%
110th	Colombia	57.7	0.9%
111th	Uzbekistan	57.2	0.6%
112th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	57.0	1.0%
113th	Samoa	56.3	1.0%
114th	Kyrgyz Republic	55.6	0.6%
115th	Micronesia, Federated States of	55.4	1.2%
116th	Palau	55.4	0.5%
117th	Marshall Islands	55.2	0.9%
118th	Mexico	55.1	1.2%
119th	Korea	55.1	1.1%
120th	Ecuador	54.7	1.2%
121st	Jordan	54.6	1.8%
122nd	Syrian Arab Republic	54.6	1.7%
123rd	Zimbabwe	54.5	0.9%
124th	Brazil	54.0	0.8%
125th	Bahrain	53.9	3.1%
126th	New Caledonia	53.8	1.4%
127th	South Africa	53.6	0.9%
128th	Iraq	53.5	2.2%
129th	Tajikistan	53.4	0.8%
130th	Dominican Republic	53.2	1.4%
131st	Turkmenistan	52.9	0.7%
132nd	United Arab Emirates	52.5	1.8%
133rd	Türkiye	52.3	1.5%
134th	Botswana	52.3	1.0%
135th	Azerbaijan	52.1	1.2%
136th	Peru	51.5	0.7%
137th	Thailand	51.4	0.7%
138th	Zambia	51.3	0.6%
139th	China	51.0	26.9%
140th	Vanuatu	50.9	1.1%
141st	Sudan	50.4	0.9%
142nd	Lesotho	50.3	0.1%
143rd	Cabo Verde	50.2	1.7%
144th	Kenya	50.1	1.6%
145th	Namibia	50.0	1.5%
146th	Tuvalu	49.8	1.5%
147th	Kiribati	49.0	1.2%
148th	Congo, Republic of	49.0	1.4%
149th	Solomon Islands	49.0	1.5%
150th	El Salvador	49.0	0.8%
151st	Honduras	48.6	2.0%
152nd	Kosovo	48.4	-3.0%
153rd	Indonesia	48.1	1.6%
154th	Nicaragua	48.0	1.5%
155th	Rwanda	47.8	0.7%
156th	Gabon	47.8	1.4%
157th	Ghana	47.3	0.4%
158th	Eswatini	47.1	0.8%
159th	São Tomé and Principe	46.8	3.7%
160th	Uganda	46.8	1.2%
161st	Papua New Guinea	46.7	0.6%
162nd	Guatemala	46.5	0.8%
163rd	Saudi Arabia	46.5	1.3%
164th	Mongolia	46.2	1.9%
165th	India	46.1	0.7%
166th	Pakistan	45.9	2.0%
167th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	45.8	1.5%
168th	Bangladesh	45.8	2.0%
169th	Tunisia	45.6	2.9%
170th	Myanmar	45.3	1.5%
171st	Mauritania	45.0	1.7%
172nd	Morocco	44.2	1.2%
173rd	Haiti	44.2	0.8%
174th	Madagascar	44.2	0.9%
175th	Djibouti	44.1	0.7%
176th	Libya	44.1	4.0%
177th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	44.0	0.9%
178th	Togo	44.0	0.6%
179th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	44.0	0.7%
180th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	43.8	-0.3%
181st	Burundi	43.5	0.3%
182nd	Equatorial Guinea	43.3	0.6%
183rd	Tanzania	43.2	0.9%
184th	Cambodia	43.1	1.2%
185th	Cameroon	42.6	21.1%
186th	Lao PDR	42.3	2.2%
187th	Mozambique	41.8	0.6%
188th	Comoros	41.5	0.9%
189th	Central African Republic	40.6	1.3%
190th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	40.4	0.6%
191st	Senegal	39.7	0.1%
192nd	Benin	39.6	1.0%
193rd	Chad	39.6	0.5%
194th	Algeria	39.5	-3.1%
195th	Nepal	39.3	0.9%
196th	Maldives	39.1	1.2%
197th	Côte d'Ivoire	38.6	1.8%
198th	Eritrea	38.3	1.1%
199th	Liberia	38.2	0.2%
200th	Guinea-Bissau	38.0	0.6%
201st	Nigeria	37.6	0.5%
202nd	Oman	37.4	2.8%
203rd	Angola	37.2	0.7%
204th	Guinea	37.0	0.5%
205th	Bhutan	37.0	0.9%
206th	Burkina Faso	36.8	1.1%
207th	Niger	36.3	0.1%
208th	Gambia, The	35.6	1.5%
209th	Malawi	35.4	0.6%
210th	Sierra Leone	34.2	1.6%
211th	Afghanistan	33.8	1.4%
212th	Yemen, Republic of	33.7	-1.1%
213th	Timor-Leste	33.2	1.3%
214th	Mali	30.8	0.6%
215th	South Sudan	28.5	0.8%

FAQ

What was United States's life expectancy in 1962?▾

United States's life expectancy in 1962 was 70.1. This ranked 24th globally.

How did United States's life expectancy change in 1962?▾

United States's life expectancy decreased by 0.2% in 1962 compared to 1961.

Which country had the highest life expectancy in 1962?▾

Iceland had the highest life expectancy in 1962 at 73.7.

What is the life expectancy of United States in 1962?▾

The life expectancy of United States in 1962 was 70.1. This ranked 24th globally.

How does 1962 compare to 1961 for United States's life expectancy?▾

United States's life expectancy went from 70.3 in 1961 to 70.1 in 1962, a 0.2% decrease.

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