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Table 3.A - Life expectancy and infant mortality
Sources Technical notes
	Life expectancy at birth, 2000-2005		Life expectancy at age 60, 2000-2005			Infant mortality rate (per 1000 live births), 2000-2005
Country or area	W	M		W	M		Girls	Boys

Africa
Algeria	71	68		19	17		40	45
Angola	41	39		15	14		109	127
Benin	53	48		16	15		74	87
Botswana	40	39		18	16		63	72
Burkina Faso	46	45		16	15		81	92
Burundi	41	40		16	15		103	120
Cameroon	47	45		17	15		74	84
Cape Verde	73	67		19	16		47	53
Central African Republic	41	38		16	15		82	105
Chad	46	44		16	14		108	124
Comoros	62	59		17	15		62	72
Congo	50	47		16	14		58	74
Côte d'Ivoire	41	41		16	15		75	87
Dem. Rep. of the Congo	43	41		15	14		71	83
Djibouti	47	45		16	15		109	125
Egypt	71	67		18	16		38	43
Equatorial Guinea	50	48		16	15		91	106
Eritrea	54	51		15	12		78	87
Ethiopia	46	45		16	15		99	113
Gabon	58	56		18	17		74	86
Gambia	55	53		17	16		106	124
Ghana	59	56		18	17		57	67
Guinea	49	49		16	15		111	118
Guinea-Bissau	47	44		15	14		111	131
Kenya	46	44		18	16		53	64
Lesotho	38	32		16	14		108	114
Liberia	42	41		14	13		73	85
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	75	71		21	17		25	26
Madagascar	55	53		16	15		86	96
Malawi	38	37		17	16		128	132
Mali	49	48		15	14		116	125
Mauritania	54	51		16	15		89	104
Mauritius	76	68		20	16		14	18
Morocco	71	67		18	17		38	46
Mozambique	40	37		15	14		117	138
Namibia	46	43		18	17		61	69
Niger	46	46		15	14		123	129
Nigeria	52	51		17	16		76	81
Reunion	79	71		23	17		8	9
Rwanda	40	39		16	15		112	126
Sao Tome and Principe	73	67		20	18
Senegal	55	51		14	12		53	60
Sierra Leone	35	33		13	12		135	157
Somalia	49	46		15	14		104	121
South Africa	51	45		18	14		55	64
Sudan	57	54		17	16		73	83
Swaziland	35	33		18	16		84	99
Togo	51	48		17	16		68	81
Tunisia	75	71		19	17		24	27
Uganda	47	45		16	15		87	101
United Rep. of Tanzania	44	42		15	13		69	76
Western Sahara	66	62		17	15		48	59
Zambia	32	33		16	14		76	83
Zimbabwe	33	34		18	16		51	59

Latin America/Caribbean
Argentina	78	71		23	18		18	22
Bahamas	70	64		22	19		15	20
Barbados	79	74		22	18		10	12
Belize	73	70		22	20		29	31
Bolivia	66	62		19	17		51	60
Brazil	73	64		21	17		32	44
Chile	79	73		23	19		11	13
Colombia	75	69		22	19		22	29
Costa Rica	81	76		24	21		9	12
Cuba	79	75		23	21		5	9
Dominican Republic	69	64		20	18		31	42
Ecuador	74	68		22	19		37	46
El Salvador	74	68		22	19		24	29
French Guiana	78	73		22	18
Guadeloupe	82	75		25	20		6	8
Guatemala	69	63		19	17		37	45
Guyana	66	60		19	16		44	60
Haiti	50	49		17	16		57	65
Honduras	71	66		22	20		29	37
Jamaica	78	74		22	20		17	23
Martinique	82	76		25	21		6	8
Mexico	76	70		23	20		26	30
Netherlands Antilles	79	73		22	18		10	15
Nicaragua	72	67		20	19		31	40
Panama	77	72		23	21		17	20
Paraguay	73	69		20	18		32	42
Peru	72	67		21	18		33	42
Puerto Rico	80	71		24	19		9	11
Saint Lucia	74	71		20	18
Saint Vincent/Grenadines	76	73		20	18
Suriname	74	69		19	17		20	31
Trinidad and Tobago	74	68		21	18		10	15
Uruguay	82	74		24	18		11	15
US Virgin Islands	79	72		23	18
Venezuela	77	71		22	19		16	21

Asia
Afghanistan	43	43		14	13		157	166
Armenia	76	69		19	16		14	17
Azerbaijan	75	69		22	18		28	31
Bahrain	76	72		20	18		13	16
Bangladesh	62	61		17	15		68	66
Bhutan	65	62		18	17		51	57
Brunei Darussalam	79	74		22	18		9	8
Cambodia	59	55		17	15		66	78
China^a	73	69		20	16		42	31
China,Hong Kong SAR	83	77		25	21		4	4
China,Macao SAR	81	77		24	20		8	9
Cyprus	81	76		23	20		8	8
Dem. People's Rep. of Korea	66	61		17	13		38	41
Georgia	78	70		22	18		14	21
India	65	63		18	16		69	60
Indonesia	69	65		18	16		34	45
Iran (Islamic Rep. of)	72	69		18	17		37	34
Iraq	62	59		16	15		62	65
Israel	81	77		24	20		6	6
Jordan	73	70		19	17		21	24
Kazakstan	72	61		20	14		34	49
Kuwait	79	75		22	19		11	11
Kyrgyzstan	72	65		20	16		34	40
Lao People's Dem. Rep.	56	53		16	15		83	93
Lebanon	75	72		19	18		15	19
Malaysia	76	71		19	17		9	12
Maldives	67	68		17	16		43	32
Mongolia	66	62		17	15		55	61
Myanmar	60	55		18	16		78	96
Nepal	60	60		16	15		73	69
Occ. Palestinian Territory	74	71		19	17		18	23
Oman	74	71		19	17		21	25
Pakistan	61	61		17	16		90	83
Philippines	72	68		18	17		25	33
Qatar	75	70		20	17		9	13
Republic of Korea	79	72		22	18		7	7
Saudi Arabia	74	71		19	17		19	22
Singapore	80	76		23	19		4	5
Sri Lanka	76	70		20	17		14	26
Syrian Arab Republic	73	71		19	17		21	24
Tajikistan	71	66		21	18		48	58
Thailand	74	65		20	17		16	26
Timor-Leste	50	49		15	14		114	127
Turkey	73	68		20	17		33	44
Turkmenistan	70	64		19	16		44	53
United Arab Emirates	77	73		21	18		11	11
Uzbekistan	73	67		21	17		33	40
Viet Nam	72	67		20	18		28	39
Yemen	61	59		16	15		59	66

Oceania
Fiji	72	68		18	15		19	16
French Polynesia	76	71		20	17		8	9
Guam	77	72		20	18		8	11
Micronesia (Fed. States of)	69	68		18	16
New Caledonia	78	73		21	18		7	7
Papua New Guinea	59	57		15	13		64	61
Samoa	73	67		20	15		24	27
Solomon Islands	71	68		17	15		21	21
Tonga	69	68		18	17
Vanuatu	71	67		19	15		31	26

Developed regions
Albania	77	71		21	17		22	28
Australia	82	76		25	21		5	6
Austria	81	75		24	20		4	5
Belarus	75	65		20	15		10	15
Belgium	82	76		25	20		4	5
Bosnia and Herzegovina	77	71		20	17		12	15
Bulgaria	75	67		19	15		13	18
Canada	82	77		25	21		5	6
Croatia	78	70		21	17		7	9
Czech Republic	79	72		21	17		5	5
Denmark	79	74		22	19		5	5
Estonia	77	66		21	15		8	11
Finland	82	74		24	19		4	4
France	83	75		26	20		5	5
Germany	81	75		24	19		4	5
Greece	81	76		23	20		6	7
Hungary	76	68		20	16		8	9
Iceland	82	78		24	21		4	5
Ireland	80	74		22	18		6	6
Italy	82	76		24	20		5	6
Japan	85	78		27	22		3	4
Latvia	76	66		21	16		12	15
Lithuania	78	68		22	17		8	10
Luxembourg	81	75		24	19		6	6
Malta	81	76		23	19		7	7
Netherlands	81	76		24	19		4	5
New Zealand	81	76		24	20		6	6
Norway	82	76		24	20		4	5
Poland	78	70		21	17		9	10
Portugal	80	73		23	18		6	7
Republic of Moldova	72	66		18	15		18	23
Romania	74	67		19	16		21	23
Russian Federation	73	61		19	14		15	19
Serbia and Montenegro	76	71		20	17		12	14
Slovakia	78	70		21	16		8	8
Slovenia	80	73		23	18		5	6
Spain	83	76		25	20		5	6
Sweden	83	78		25	21		3	4
Switzerland	82	76		25	20		4	5
The FYR of Macedonia	76	71		20	17		16	17
Ukraine	75	65		20	15		13	18
United Kingdom	81	76		23	19		5	6
United States	80	74		24	20		7	7

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Sources:

For life expectancy at birth: Population Division of the United Nations Secretariat, World Population Prospects: The 2002 Revision, Vol. I, Comprehensive Tables (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.XIII.6); for life expectancy at age 60 : Population Division of the United Nations Secretariat, World Population Prospects: The 2002 Revision, data sets in digital form and for infant mortality rate: Population Division of the United Nations Secretariat, World Population Prospects: The 2000 Revision, data sets in digital form.

Footnote:

^aFor statistical purposes, the data for China do not include Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR.

Technical notes:

Table 3.A presents life expectancy at birth and at age 60, and infant mortality rate.

Life expectancy at birth is an overall estimate of the expected average number of years to be lived by a female or male newborn. Life expectancy at age 60 is the additional number of years expected to be lived by a woman or man who has survived to age 60. These indicators are obtained from the estimates and projections prepared every two years by the Population Division of the United Nations Secretariat. For many developing countries that lack complete and reliable statistics on births and deaths based on vital registration, various estimation techniques are used to calculate life expectancy using other sources of data, mainly population censuses and demographic surveys. Life expectancy at birth by sex gives a statistical summary of current differences in male and female mortality across all ages. However, trends and differentials in infant and child mortality rates are the predominant influence on trends and differentials in life expectancy at birth in most developing countries.

Infant mortality rate is the total number of deaths in a given year of female or male children less than one year of age, divided by the total number of female or male live births in the same year, multiplied by 1,000. It is an approximation of the number of deaths per 1,000 children born alive who die within one year of birth. This series is calculated from estimates and projections of the number of survivors at exact age 1 by sex prepared by the Population Division, based on a review of all available national sources. In most developing countries, where civil registration data are deficient, the most reliable sources are demographic surveys of households. Where these are not available, other sources and general estimates are made, which are necessarily of limited reliability.

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