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Uruguay - Life Expectancy 1979

Name: Uruguay Life Expectancy 1979
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Life expectancy at birth, total · World Bank

70.3 −0.0 from 1978 Global rank: 59th

Uruguay's life expectancy was 70.3 in 1979, decreased +0.0 from 70.3 in 1978. This was the 59th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1979▾

Life Expectancy by Country - 1979
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Andorra	76.8	0.4%
2nd	Iceland	76.8	0.2%
3rd	San Marino	76.1	0.3%
4th	Japan	76.1	0.7%
5th	Faroe Islands	75.8	0.1%
6th	Netherlands	75.6	0.6%
7th	Sweden	75.5	0.1%
8th	Switzerland	75.5	0.4%
9th	Norway	75.4	0.0%
10th	Monaco	74.9	0.3%
11th	Canada	74.9	0.5%
12th	Spain	74.8	0.7%
13th	Liechtenstein	74.6	0.0%
14th	Greece	74.6	0.3%
15th	Denmark	74.2	-0.2%
16th	Australia	74.0	0.4%
17th	Italy	74.0	0.4%
18th	France	73.9	0.3%
19th	United States	73.8	0.6%
20th	Hong Kong SAR, China	73.7	0.2%
21st	Gibraltar	73.6	0.1%
22nd	Israel	73.5	0.4%
23rd	United Kingdom	73.3	0.1%
24th	Channel Islands	73.2	0.1%
25th	Belgium	73.2	0.7%
26th	Finland	73.2	0.4%
27th	New Zealand	73.1	0.1%
28th	Antigua and Barbuda	72.8	0.4%
29th	European Union	72.8	0.4%
30th	Puerto Rico (US)	72.7	0.3%
31st	Germany	72.6	0.5%
32nd	Costa Rica	72.5	0.7%
33rd	Bermuda	72.4	0.6%
34th	Malta	72.4	0.2%
35th	Macao SAR, China	72.3	0.6%
36th	Austria	72.3	0.4%
37th	St. Martin (French part)	72.3	0.1%
38th	Cuba	72.3	0.5%
39th	Ireland	72.3	0.4%
40th	Cyprus	72.2	0.6%
41st	Luxembourg	72.2	1.1%
42nd	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	71.8	-0.2%
43rd	Barbados	71.5	0.6%
44th	Singapore	71.5	0.2%
45th	Bulgaria	71.3	0.2%
46th	Montenegro	71.3	-0.6%
47th	Portugal	71.2	1.2%
48th	Kuwait	71.1	0.5%
49th	Serbia	71.1	-0.4%
50th	Slovenia	70.9	0.2%
51st	Poland	70.8	0.6%
52nd	Czechia	70.7	0.1%
53rd	Slovak Republic	70.7	0.5%
54th	Curaçao	70.7	0.4%
55th	Aruba	70.5	0.3%
56th	Lithuania	70.5	-0.2%
57th	Croatia	70.4	-0.2%
58th	Bahrain	70.3	0.6%
59th	Uruguay	70.3	0.0%
60th	Guam	70.1	0.8%
61st	Belarus	69.9	-0.2%
62nd	Ukraine	69.8	-0.1%
63rd	Albania	69.6	0.4%
64th	Hungary	69.6	0.3%
65th	Qatar	69.5	0.6%
66th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	69.3	3.1%
67th	British Virgin Islands	69.3	0.4%
68th	Dominica	69.2	-1.3%
69th	Romania	69.2	-0.5%
70th	American Samoa	69.1	0.3%
71st	Panama	69.1	0.6%
72nd	Bosnia and Herzegovina	69.1	0.3%
73rd	North Macedonia	69.1	0.2%
74th	Estonia	69.1	-0.4%
75th	Cayman Islands	69.0	0.7%
76th	Bahamas, The	69.0	0.1%
77th	Chile	68.9	1.2%
78th	Jamaica	68.8	0.1%
79th	Brunei Darussalam	68.6	0.6%
80th	Latvia	68.5	-0.7%
81st	Virgin Islands (US)	68.5	0.3%
82nd	Argentina	68.4	0.6%
83rd	Seychelles	68.3	0.5%
84th	Northern Mariana Islands	68.1	0.3%
85th	Isle of Man	68.1	0.6%
86th	Georgia	67.9	0.5%
87th	Grenada	67.9	0.1%
88th	United Arab Emirates	67.6	0.8%
89th	Malaysia	67.6	0.7%
90th	Sri Lanka	67.5	1.0%
91st	St. Lucia	67.4	0.0%
92nd	Russian Federation	67.1	-0.4%
93rd	Turks and Caicos Islands	66.8	0.5%
94th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	66.7	0.7%
95th	Belize	66.7	0.5%
96th	French Polynesia	66.6	1.1%
97th	Trinidad and Tobago	66.4	0.3%
98th	Mauritius	66.3	1.1%
99th	Syrian Arab Republic	66.2	0.5%
100th	Colombia	66.2	0.5%
101st	Jordan	66.0	0.7%
102nd	Tonga	66.0	0.3%
103rd	Korea	65.5	0.5%
104th	New Caledonia	65.2	0.7%
105th	Viet Nam	65.0	0.7%
106th	Moldova	64.8	0.5%
107th	Armenia	64.8	0.5%
108th	Samoa	64.5	0.6%
109th	Iraq	64.4	0.4%
110th	Libya	64.3	0.8%
111th	Paraguay	64.3	0.3%
112th	St. Kitts and Nevis	64.2	0.3%
113th	Greenland	64.0	0.9%
114th	Mexico	63.9	0.7%
115th	China	63.7	1.0%
116th	Solomon Islands	63.1	1.0%
117th	Tunisia	62.9	1.3%
118th	Ecuador	62.9	0.7%
119th	Uzbekistan	62.7	0.4%
120th	Micronesia, Federated States of	62.5	0.2%
121st	Dominican Republic	62.4	-0.3%
122nd	Fiji	62.3	-1.2%
123rd	Türkiye	62.2	0.9%
124th	Kazakhstan	62.1	0.5%
125th	Botswana	62.0	0.9%
126th	Philippines	61.7	0.3%
127th	Thailand	61.7	0.7%
128th	Palau	61.6	0.5%
129th	Saudi Arabia	61.5	1.4%
130th	Brazil	61.4	0.7%
131st	Azerbaijan	60.9	0.7%
132nd	Vanuatu	60.9	1.7%
133rd	Kyrgyz Republic	60.9	0.6%
134th	Marshall Islands	60.8	0.2%
135th	Guyana	60.7	0.1%
136th	Cabo Verde	60.7	0.6%
137th	Suriname	60.5	0.2%
138th	Tuvalu	59.9	0.5%
139th	Honduras	59.8	1.0%
140th	Peru	59.6	0.6%
141st	Lebanon	59.6	-0.7%
142nd	Namibia	59.5	0.7%
143rd	South Africa	59.5	0.8%
144th	São Tomé and Principe	59.3	0.2%
145th	Turkmenistan	59.1	1.4%
146th	Kosovo	59.1	0.5%
147th	Kenya	58.7	0.8%
148th	Tajikistan	58.5	0.2%
149th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	58.5	4.3%
150th	Nauru	58.4	0.1%
151st	Oman	58.3	2.3%
152nd	Indonesia	58.2	1.0%
153rd	Eswatini	57.5	1.3%
154th	Gabon	57.4	0.8%
155th	Kiribati	57.1	0.3%
156th	Papua New Guinea	57.0	0.8%
157th	Pakistan	56.6	1.0%
158th	Guatemala	56.6	0.3%
159th	Congo, Republic of	56.5	0.5%
160th	Zambia	56.1	-0.5%
161st	Lesotho	55.8	1.2%
162nd	Mongolia	55.0	0.3%
163rd	Zimbabwe	54.9	0.3%
164th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	54.9	1.5%
165th	Morocco	54.4	1.5%
166th	Myanmar	54.0	0.9%
167th	Maldives	53.9	6.8%
168th	El Salvador	53.8	-1.7%
169th	Sudan	53.4	0.2%
170th	India	53.0	1.1%
171st	Mauritania	52.8	0.8%
172nd	Algeria	52.4	3.5%
173rd	Bangladesh	52.0	0.7%
174th	Djibouti	51.6	0.8%
175th	Togo	51.5	1.2%
176th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	51.4	1.0%
177th	Côte d'Ivoire	51.0	1.2%
178th	Nicaragua	50.8	-5.1%
179th	Tanzania	50.8	0.9%
180th	Ghana	50.8	0.6%
181st	Cameroon	50.5	0.4%
182nd	Comoros	50.1	0.9%
183rd	Madagascar	50.1	0.1%
184th	Haiti	49.7	0.5%
185th	Yemen, Republic of	49.5	2.2%
186th	Central African Republic	49.5	0.7%
187th	Nepal	47.8	1.2%
188th	Senegal	47.5	1.9%
189th	Lao PDR	47.5	1.3%
190th	Bhutan	47.4	1.6%
191st	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	47.4	0.8%
192nd	Benin	47.4	0.9%
193rd	Rwanda	47.1	2.0%
194th	Nigeria	45.7	0.9%
195th	Burkina Faso	45.7	1.6%
196th	Uganda	45.4	-0.5%
197th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	45.3	1.5%
198th	Burundi	45.0	1.4%
199th	Gambia, The	44.5	2.2%
200th	Mozambique	43.9	-0.1%
201st	Liberia	43.9	0.7%
202nd	Eritrea	43.8	0.9%
203rd	Malawi	43.7	1.6%
204th	Guinea-Bissau	43.2	0.8%
205th	Chad	43.2	0.5%
206th	Equatorial Guinea	43.0	1.7%
207th	Sierra Leone	42.5	0.8%
208th	Guinea	42.3	1.1%
209th	Angola	41.9	0.8%
210th	Cambodia	41.1	254.9%
211th	Mali	39.5	1.9%
212th	Niger	38.9	1.6%
213th	Afghanistan	38.8	-3.1%
214th	South Sudan	37.8	0.6%
215th	Timor-Leste	24.2	5.4%

FAQ

What was Uruguay's life expectancy in 1979?▾

Uruguay's life expectancy in 1979 was 70.3. This ranked 59th globally.

How did Uruguay's life expectancy change in 1979?▾

Uruguay's life expectancy decreased by 0.0% in 1979 compared to 1978.

Which country had the highest life expectancy in 1979?▾

Andorra had the highest life expectancy in 1979 at 76.8.

What is the life expectancy of Uruguay in 1979?▾

The life expectancy of Uruguay in 1979 was 70.3. This ranked 59th globally.

How does 1979 compare to 1978 for Uruguay's life expectancy?▾

Uruguay's life expectancy went from 70.3 in 1978 to 70.3 in 1979, a 0.0% decrease.

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