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United States - Life Expectancy 2009

Name: United States Life Expectancy 2009
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Life expectancy at birth, total · World Bank

78.4 +0.4 from 2008 Global rank: 48th

United States's life expectancy was 78.4 in 2009, increased +0.4 from 78.0 in 2008. This was the 48th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2009▾

Life Expectancy by Country - 2009
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Monaco	84.2	0.4%
2nd	Andorra	84.1	0.3%
3rd	San Marino	83.2	0.4%
4th	Japan	82.9	0.4%
5th	Hong Kong SAR, China	82.8	0.5%
6th	Macao SAR, China	82.2	0.2%
7th	Switzerland	82.0	0.1%
8th	Gibraltar	81.8	0.3%
9th	Iceland	81.8	0.2%
10th	United Arab Emirates	81.7	0.1%
11th	Italy	81.6	0.2%
12th	Australia	81.5	0.2%
13th	Liechtenstein	81.5	-1.4%
14th	Spain	81.5	0.4%
15th	France	81.4	0.2%
16th	Israel	81.4	0.6%
17th	Sweden	81.4	0.3%
18th	Singapore	81.2	0.6%
19th	Canada	81.1	0.4%
20th	Channel Islands	81.0	0.2%
21st	French Polynesia	80.9	0.3%
22nd	Norway	80.8	0.3%
23rd	New Zealand	80.7	0.4%
24th	Luxembourg	80.6	0.1%
25th	Netherlands	80.5	0.4%
26th	Faroe Islands	80.4	0.3%
27th	Cyprus	80.4	0.6%
28th	Austria	80.3	-0.1%
29th	Malta	80.2	0.8%
30th	Ireland	80.2	0.1%
31st	Greece	80.2	0.3%
32nd	United Kingdom	80.1	0.6%
33rd	Belgium	80.0	0.4%
34th	Korea	80.0	0.6%
35th	Germany	79.8	0.1%
36th	Finland	79.7	0.2%
37th	Costa Rica	79.4	0.2%
38th	European Union	79.4	0.3%
39th	Isle of Man	79.3	0.5%
40th	Bermuda	79.2	0.2%
41st	Slovenia	79.0	0.3%
42nd	Chile	78.9	0.2%
43rd	Qatar	78.8	0.7%
44th	Portugal	78.7	0.3%
45th	Denmark	78.6	0.2%
46th	St. Martin (French part)	78.5	0.2%
47th	Albania	78.5	0.3%
48th	United States	78.4	0.5%
49th	Puerto Rico (US)	78.4	0.3%
50th	Bahrain	78.0	0.7%
51st	Northern Mariana Islands	77.9	0.0%
52nd	Cuba	77.6	0.0%
53rd	Virgin Islands (US)	77.5	0.5%
54th	Kuwait	77.4	0.3%
55th	Lebanon	77.3	0.4%
56th	Czechia	77.1	0.1%
57th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	76.7	0.5%
58th	Turks and Caicos Islands	76.7	0.8%
59th	Uruguay	76.7	0.5%
60th	Oman	76.6	0.7%
61st	Antigua and Barbuda	76.4	0.4%
62nd	Maldives	76.4	0.5%
63rd	Panama	76.2	0.4%
64th	British Virgin Islands	76.2	0.2%
65th	Croatia	76.2	0.3%
66th	Guam	76.1	-0.1%
67th	Poland	75.7	0.2%
68th	New Caledonia	75.7	0.4%
69th	Cayman Islands	75.7	0.4%
70th	Argentina	75.6	0.2%
71st	Barbados	75.5	0.2%
72nd	Saudi Arabia	75.4	0.2%
73rd	China	75.3	0.6%
74th	Malaysia	75.3	0.2%
75th	Montenegro	75.1	0.0%
76th	Slovak Republic	74.9	0.3%
77th	Ecuador	74.9	0.3%
78th	Estonia	74.8	1.4%
79th	Brunei Darussalam	74.8	0.0%
80th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	74.8	-0.1%
81st	Kosovo	74.8	0.1%
82nd	Türkiye	74.7	0.4%
83rd	Thailand	74.7	0.6%
84th	Grenada	74.6	0.3%
85th	Colombia	74.5	0.4%
86th	Curaçao	74.5	0.2%
87th	North Macedonia	74.4	0.1%
88th	Tunisia	74.3	0.2%
89th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	74.0	0.5%
90th	Serbia	74.0	0.1%
91st	Aruba	74.0	0.3%
92nd	Hungary	73.9	0.3%
93rd	Algeria	73.9	0.3%
94th	Jordan	73.7	0.2%
95th	Mexico	73.6	-0.1%
96th	Viet Nam	73.5	0.1%
97th	Syrian Arab Republic	73.5	0.2%
98th	Brazil	73.5	0.5%
99th	Bahamas, The	73.5	0.0%
100th	Bulgaria	73.4	0.6%
101st	Romania	73.3	1.0%
102nd	Seychelles	73.1	-0.1%
103rd	Latvia	73.1	0.9%
104th	Armenia	73.1	0.0%
105th	St. Lucia	72.9	0.0%
106th	Lithuania	72.9	1.5%
107th	Mauritius	72.9	0.4%
108th	Peru	72.6	-0.2%
109th	West Bank and Gaza	72.3	0.1%
110th	Paraguay	72.3	0.3%
111th	Cabo Verde	72.1	0.4%
112th	Libya	72.1	0.2%
113th	Dominica	71.8	-0.2%
114th	Jamaica	71.7	0.3%
115th	Dominican Republic	71.6	0.4%
116th	Nicaragua	71.5	0.1%
117th	St. Kitts and Nevis	71.5	0.0%
118th	Trinidad and Tobago	71.4	0.4%
119th	Georgia	71.1	0.2%
120th	Tonga	70.9	-0.1%
121st	American Samoa	70.8	-2.2%
122nd	Belize	70.8	0.2%
123rd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	70.7	0.1%
124th	Morocco	70.5	0.6%
125th	Belarus	70.4	-0.1%
126th	El Salvador	70.4	0.3%
127th	Sri Lanka	70.3	-3.1%
128th	Azerbaijan	69.9	0.7%
129th	Honduras	69.8	0.2%
130th	Greenland	69.8	0.6%
131st	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	69.7	0.6%
132nd	Guatemala	69.7	0.3%
133rd	Uzbekistan	69.5	0.7%
134th	Samoa	69.5	-2.9%
135th	Vanuatu	69.4	0.2%
136th	Moldova	69.4	0.6%
137th	Suriname	69.3	0.7%
138th	Ukraine	69.2	1.3%
139th	Kyrgyz Republic	69.1	1.0%
140th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	68.9	0.2%
141st	Russian Federation	68.7	1.1%
142nd	Philippines	68.6	0.0%
143rd	Solomon Islands	68.4	0.1%
144th	Indonesia	68.3	0.3%
145th	Tajikistan	68.2	0.5%
146th	Bhutan	68.2	0.6%
147th	Turkmenistan	68.2	0.8%
148th	Palau	68.0	0.6%
149th	Mongolia	68.0	1.1%
150th	Iraq	67.8	2.1%
151st	Bangladesh	67.5	0.7%
152nd	Kazakhstan	67.5	1.1%
153rd	Yemen, Republic of	66.9	0.4%
154th	Cambodia	66.7	0.9%
155th	India	66.7	0.7%
156th	Nepal	66.6	0.2%
157th	Fiji	66.3	0.0%
158th	Guyana	66.0	0.5%
159th	Kiribati	65.8	0.1%
160th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	65.7	0.5%
161st	Mauritania	65.5	0.4%
162nd	Micronesia, Federated States of	64.9	0.0%
163rd	Tuvalu	64.7	0.3%
164th	Marshall Islands	64.4	0.1%
165th	Gabon	64.4	0.5%
166th	Pakistan	64.2	0.3%
167th	Senegal	63.8	0.9%
168th	São Tomé and Principe	63.7	0.3%
169th	Timor-Leste	63.3	0.6%
170th	Eritrea	63.2	1.3%
171st	Myanmar	63.1	11.9%
172nd	Lao PDR	63.0	1.2%
173rd	Papua New Guinea	62.8	0.4%
174th	Sudan	62.7	2.3%
175th	Madagascar	62.3	0.5%
176th	Comoros	62.3	0.6%
177th	Rwanda	61.8	1.9%
178th	Haiti	61.7	0.7%
179th	Congo, Republic of	61.2	0.7%
180th	Ghana	60.9	0.6%
181st	Gambia, The	60.7	0.4%
182nd	Tanzania	60.5	1.0%
183rd	Kenya	60.5	0.9%
184th	Djibouti	60.4	0.9%
185th	Afghanistan	60.2	0.9%
186th	Nauru	59.9	0.3%
187th	Uganda	59.2	1.6%
188th	Liberia	59.1	0.7%
189th	Botswana	58.3	1.1%
190th	Benin	58.3	0.3%
191st	Equatorial Guinea	57.9	0.9%
192nd	South Africa	57.4	2.6%
193rd	Togo	56.9	0.5%
194th	South Sudan	56.8	1.0%
195th	Malawi	56.7	1.8%
196th	Niger	56.5	1.1%
197th	Cameroon	56.5	0.7%
198th	Burundi	56.4	1.5%
199th	Guinea-Bissau	56.3	1.8%
200th	Angola	56.2	1.7%
201st	Guinea	56.1	0.6%
202nd	Zambia	55.9	1.9%
203rd	Congo, Democratic Republic of	55.8	0.7%
204th	Burkina Faso	55.8	1.1%
205th	Mali	55.6	0.7%
206th	Namibia	55.3	1.1%
207th	Côte d'Ivoire	54.7	1.0%
208th	Mozambique	54.4	1.1%
209th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	52.1	1.3%
210th	Sierra Leone	51.3	1.2%
211th	Nigeria	51.1	0.7%
212th	Chad	49.8	0.7%
213th	Zimbabwe	49.8	2.7%
214th	Eswatini	46.9	2.3%
215th	Lesotho	45.1	1.7%
216th	Central African Republic	14.7	-70.6%

FAQ

What was United States's life expectancy in 2009?▾

United States's life expectancy in 2009 was 78.4. This ranked 48th globally.

How did United States's life expectancy change in 2009?▾

United States's life expectancy increased by 0.5% in 2009 compared to 2008.

Which country had the highest life expectancy in 2009?▾

Monaco had the highest life expectancy in 2009 at 84.2.

What is the life expectancy of United States in 2009?▾

The life expectancy of United States in 2009 was 78.4. This ranked 48th globally.

How does 2009 compare to 2008 for United States's life expectancy?▾

United States's life expectancy went from 78.0 in 2008 to 78.4 in 2009, a 0.5% increase.

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