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United States - Life Expectancy 1975

Name: United States Life Expectancy 1975
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Life expectancy at birth, total · World Bank

72.6 +0.6 from 1974 Global rank: 22nd

United States's life expectancy was 72.6 in 1975, increased +0.6 from 72.0 in 1974. This was the 22nd highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1975▾

Life Expectancy by Country - 1975
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Iceland	75.6	1.4%
2nd	Andorra	75.6	0.3%
3rd	Faroe Islands	75.4	0.1%
4th	San Marino	75.3	0.3%
5th	Sweden	75.0	0.0%
6th	Norway	74.8	0.1%
7th	Switzerland	74.7	0.5%
8th	Netherlands	74.5	-0.1%
9th	Liechtenstein	74.3	0.4%
10th	Japan	74.2	0.8%
11th	Denmark	74.1	0.4%
12th	Monaco	73.5	0.1%
13th	Canada	73.5	0.4%
14th	Greece	73.4	0.0%
15th	Hong Kong SAR, China	73.4	1.1%
16th	Gibraltar	73.3	0.4%
17th	Spain	73.3	0.5%
18th	France	72.9	0.3%
19th	United Kingdom	72.7	0.3%
20th	Italy	72.6	-0.1%
21st	Australia	72.6	0.5%
22nd	United States	72.6	0.9%
23rd	Channel Islands	72.6	0.1%
24th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	72.3	0.1%
25th	New Zealand	72.2	0.4%
26th	St. Martin (French part)	72.0	0.2%
27th	Israel	72.0	0.5%
28th	Belgium	72.0	0.0%
29th	Puerto Rico (US)	72.0	0.9%
30th	Malta	72.0	0.2%
31st	European Union	71.8	0.0%
32nd	Ireland	71.8	0.8%
33rd	Montenegro	71.7	0.4%
34th	Finland	71.7	0.8%
35th	Serbia	71.5	0.7%
36th	Antigua and Barbuda	71.4	0.5%
37th	Germany	71.3	-0.2%
38th	Bermuda	71.2	0.4%
39th	Austria	71.1	0.1%
40th	Bulgaria	71.0	-0.2%
41st	Lithuania	70.9	-0.5%
42nd	Macao SAR, China	70.7	0.2%
43rd	Poland	70.6	-0.8%
44th	Belarus	70.5	-0.6%
45th	Czechia	70.4	0.5%
46th	Singapore	70.4	0.7%
47th	Cuba	70.4	0.7%
48th	Ukraine	70.4	-0.4%
49th	Slovenia	70.4	0.3%
50th	Cyprus	70.3	28.9%
51st	Luxembourg	70.3	0.2%
52nd	Slovak Republic	70.3	0.2%
53rd	Costa Rica	70.3	1.2%
54th	Croatia	70.0	-0.6%
55th	Kuwait	70.0	0.3%
56th	Barbados	69.8	0.6%
57th	Estonia	69.7	-0.9%
58th	Uruguay	69.7	0.3%
59th	Curaçao	69.7	0.4%
60th	Romania	69.6	0.2%
61st	Aruba	69.6	0.4%
62nd	Hungary	69.3	0.1%
63rd	Dominica	69.1	0.7%
64th	Latvia	68.9	-1.2%
65th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	68.3	1.0%
66th	Portugal	68.3	0.4%
67th	Bahrain	68.3	1.0%
68th	American Samoa	68.3	0.5%
69th	Jamaica	68.2	0.4%
70th	Bahamas, The	68.1	0.8%
71st	Albania	68.1	0.7%
72nd	British Virgin Islands	68.1	0.6%
73rd	Guam	68.0	0.7%
74th	Grenada	68.0	0.2%
75th	Russian Federation	67.7	-0.9%
76th	Virgin Islands (US)	67.7	0.4%
77th	Qatar	67.7	0.8%
78th	Panama	67.2	1.0%
79th	North Macedonia	67.2	0.2%
80th	Cayman Islands	67.0	0.8%
81st	Argentina	67.0	0.8%
82nd	Brunei Darussalam	67.0	0.8%
83rd	Seychelles	66.9	0.6%
84th	Northern Mariana Islands	66.9	0.6%
85th	Isle of Man	66.8	0.4%
86th	Georgia	66.5	0.5%
87th	Chile	66.0	1.5%
88th	St. Lucia	65.9	0.7%
89th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	65.9	0.7%
90th	Malaysia	65.7	0.8%
91st	Trinidad and Tobago	65.6	0.2%
92nd	Belize	65.4	0.7%
93rd	Sri Lanka	65.4	0.6%
94th	Turks and Caicos Islands	65.2	0.7%
95th	Tonga	65.1	0.5%
96th	United Arab Emirates	65.1	1.2%
97th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	64.8	0.8%
98th	Mauritius	64.6	0.3%
99th	French Polynesia	64.2	0.7%
100th	Syrian Arab Republic	64.2	1.2%
101st	Korea	64.2	0.5%
102nd	Jordan	64.1	0.8%
103rd	Colombia	64.0	0.8%
104th	Armenia	63.8	0.3%
105th	Moldova	63.7	0.4%
106th	Paraguay	63.4	0.3%
107th	New Caledonia	63.2	0.9%
108th	St. Kitts and Nevis	63.2	0.5%
109th	Samoa	62.8	0.8%
110th	Mexico	61.9	1.1%
111th	Viet Nam	61.9	13.0%
112th	Greenland	61.8	-0.3%
113th	Fiji	61.7	0.8%
114th	Uzbekistan	61.6	0.5%
115th	Libya	61.6	1.5%
116th	Micronesia, Federated States of	61.6	0.5%
117th	Iraq	61.4	0.7%
118th	Dominican Republic	61.3	0.8%
119th	Kazakhstan	61.1	0.3%
120th	Ecuador	61.1	0.6%
121st	China	61.0	1.2%
122nd	Philippines	60.9	0.1%
123rd	Guyana	60.4	0.1%
124th	Marshall Islands	60.3	0.3%
125th	Suriname	60.0	0.2%
126th	Palau	60.0	0.9%
127th	Thailand	59.7	1.2%
128th	Kyrgyz Republic	59.6	0.5%
129th	Brazil	59.6	0.8%
130th	Botswana	59.5	1.0%
131st	Türkiye	59.5	0.8%
132nd	Tunisia	59.3	1.8%
133rd	Cabo Verde	59.0	0.9%
134th	Azerbaijan	58.7	0.6%
135th	São Tomé and Principe	58.6	0.5%
136th	Solomon Islands	58.4	-2.0%
137th	Tuvalu	58.3	1.0%
138th	Nauru	58.3	-0.1%
139th	Zimbabwe	58.2	0.1%
140th	Peru	58.2	0.8%
141st	Vanuatu	58.1	1.0%
142nd	Tajikistan	57.9	0.4%
143rd	Saudi Arabia	57.8	1.8%
144th	Lebanon	57.7	-13.0%
145th	South Africa	57.6	0.8%
146th	Namibia	57.6	1.1%
147th	Honduras	57.5	9.5%
148th	Kosovo	57.3	1.7%
149th	Turkmenistan	57.2	0.4%
150th	Kenya	56.6	1.0%
151st	Kiribati	56.4	0.5%
152nd	Indonesia	56.0	1.0%
153rd	Nicaragua	55.8	0.7%
154th	Zambia	55.7	0.7%
155th	Gabon	55.5	1.0%
156th	Congo, Republic of	55.4	0.6%
157th	Papua New Guinea	55.0	1.0%
158th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	54.8	1.8%
159th	Pakistan	54.7	0.8%
160th	Eswatini	54.4	1.4%
161st	Mongolia	54.3	0.6%
162nd	Lesotho	53.5	1.0%
163rd	El Salvador	53.4	1.0%
164th	Sudan	53.3	0.3%
165th	Guatemala	52.8	-0.4%
166th	Oman	52.5	2.5%
167th	Myanmar	52.5	0.8%
168th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	51.7	1.4%
169th	Mauritania	51.6	0.3%
170th	Morocco	51.4	1.2%
171st	India	50.8	1.0%
172nd	Bangladesh	50.6	2.1%
173rd	Djibouti	49.9	0.8%
174th	Cameroon	49.9	0.3%
175th	Maldives	49.6	2.3%
176th	Madagascar	49.6	0.6%
177th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	49.3	1.2%
178th	Ghana	49.3	0.8%
179th	Togo	49.0	0.9%
180th	Tanzania	48.9	1.0%
181st	Haiti	48.7	0.5%
182nd	Côte d'Ivoire	48.0	1.7%
183rd	Central African Republic	47.9	1.0%
184th	Algeria	46.9	2.1%
185th	Comoros	46.9	-1.6%
186th	Uganda	46.5	-0.7%
187th	Lao PDR	46.2	0.6%
188th	Nepal	45.5	1.3%
189th	Yemen, Republic of	45.5	2.1%
190th	Benin	45.4	1.2%
191st	Rwanda	45.3	-0.5%
192nd	Congo, Democratic Republic of	44.5	0.5%
193rd	Bhutan	44.5	1.6%
194th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	44.5	0.5%
195th	Senegal	43.9	1.9%
196th	Mozambique	43.8	1.4%
197th	Burundi	43.4	0.2%
198th	Nigeria	43.1	1.3%
199th	Chad	42.7	0.3%
200th	Burkina Faso	42.5	1.9%
201st	Liberia	42.5	1.0%
202nd	Gambia, The	42.2	1.2%
203rd	Guinea-Bissau	41.9	0.8%
204th	Sierra Leone	41.0	1.4%
205th	Angola	40.8	-1.1%
206th	Guinea	40.6	0.9%
207th	Malawi	40.1	2.3%
208th	Afghanistan	40.0	1.3%
209th	Eritrea	39.0	0.1%
210th	Equatorial Guinea	37.3	-10.0%
211th	South Sudan	36.9	0.8%
212th	Niger	36.6	1.0%
213th	Mali	36.5	2.1%
214th	Timor-Leste	24.3	-33.3%
215th	Cambodia	12.8	-67.5%

FAQ

What was United States's life expectancy in 1975?▾

United States's life expectancy in 1975 was 72.6. This ranked 22nd globally.

How did United States's life expectancy change in 1975?▾

United States's life expectancy increased by 0.9% in 1975 compared to 1974.

Which country had the highest life expectancy in 1975?▾

Iceland had the highest life expectancy in 1975 at 75.6.

What is the life expectancy of United States in 1975?▾

The life expectancy of United States in 1975 was 72.6. This ranked 22nd globally.

How does 1975 compare to 1974 for United States's life expectancy?▾

United States's life expectancy went from 72.0 in 1974 to 72.6 in 1975, a 0.9% increase.

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