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Longest-life-expectancy countries

Years of life expectancy at birth. A reasonable composite of public-health and health-system quality.

01 HK Hong Kong 2024 85.4 yrs 02 JP Japan 2024 84.0 yrs 03 IT Italy 2024 84.0 yrs 04 ES Spain 2024 83.9 yrs 05 KR South Korea 2024 83.6 yrs 06 SG Singapore 2024 83.3 yrs 07 AE United Arab Emirates 2024 83.1 yrs 08 AU Australia 2024 83.1 yrs 09 IE Ireland 2024 83.0 yrs 10 FR France 2024 83.0 yrs 11 PT Portugal 2024 82.4 yrs 12 CA Canada 2024 82.1 yrs 13 NZ New Zealand 2024 82.0 yrs 14 NL Netherlands 2024 82.0 yrs 15 GB United Kingdom 2024 81.4 yrs 16 DE Germany 2024 80.8 yrs 17 US United States 2024 78.9 yrs 18 CN China (Mainland) 2024 78.0 yrs 19 BR Brazil 2024 76.0 yrs 20 MA Morocco 2024 75.5 yrs

Methodology on the methodology page. Each row links to the country brief with full source attribution.

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