Health: Key tables from OECD - ISSN 2075-8480 - © OECD 2009
| Life expectancy at birth, total population | |||||||||
| Years | |||||||||
2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | ||
Australia | 79.7 | 80.0 | 80.3 | 80.6 | 80.9 | 81.1 | 81.4 | .. | |
Austria | 78.6 | 78.8 | 78.8 | 79.3 | 79.5 | 79.9 | 80.1 | .. | |
Belgium | 78.1 | 78.1 | 78.2 | 78.9 | 79.0 | 79.5 | 79.8 | .. | |
Canada | 79.6 | 79.7 | 79.9 | 80.2 | 80.4 | 80.7 | .. | .. | |
Czech Republic | 75.3 | 75.4 | 75.3 | 75.9 | 76.1 | 76.7 | 77.0 | .. | |
Denmark | 77.0 | 77.1 | 77.4 | 77.8 | 78.2 | 78.4 | 78.4 | .. | |
Finland | 78.1 | 78.3 | 78.5 | 78.9 | 79.1 | 79.5 | 79.5 | .. | |
France | 79.2 | 79.4 | 79.4 | 80.3 | 80.2 | 80.7 | 81.0 | 80.9 | |
Germany | 78.5 | 78.5 | 78.6 | 79.2 | 79.4 | 79.8 | 80.0 | .. | |
Greece | 78.5 | 78.7 | 78.9 | 79.1 | 79.3 | 79.6 | 79.5 | .. | |
Hungary | 72.3 | 72.6 | 72.6 | 72.8 | 72.8 | 73.2 | 73.3 | .. | |
Iceland | 80.2 | 80.6 | 81.2 | 81.0 | 81.2 | 81.2 | 81.2 | .. | |
Ireland | 77.2 | 77.9 | 78.3 | 78.9 | 79.5 | 79.8 | 79.7 | .. | |
Italy | 80.1 | 80.3 | 79.9 | 80.9 | 80.8 | 81.4 | .. | .. | |
Japan | 81.5 | 81.8 | 81.8 | 82.1 | 82.0 | 82.4 | 82.6 | .. | |
Korea | 76.4 | 77.0 | 77.4 | 78.0 | 78.5 | 79.1 | 79.4 | .. | |
Luxembourg | 77.9 | 78.1 | 77.8 | 79.2 | 79.5 | 79.4 | 79.4 | .. | |
Mexico | 74.2 | 74.3 | 74.5 | 74.6 | 74.7 | 74.8 | 75.0 | 75.1 | |
Netherlands | 78.3 | 78.4 | 78.6 | 79.2 | 79.4 | 79.8 | 80.2 | .. | |
New Zealand | 78.7 | 80.1 | 80.2 | .. | |||||
Norway | 78.9 | 79.0 | 79.6 | 80.1 | 80.3 | 80.5 | 80.6 | .. | |
Poland | 74.3 | 74.6 | 74.7 | 75.0 | 75.1 | 75.3 | 75.4 | .. | |
Portugal | 77.0 | 77.2 | 77.4 | 78.3 | 78.1 | 78.9 | 79.1 | .. | |
Slovak Republic | 73.6 | 73.8 | 73.9 | 74.1 | 74.0 | 74.3 | 74.3 | .. | |
Spain | 79.7 | 79.8 | 79.7 | 80.3 | 80.3 | 81.1 | 81.0 | .. | |
Sweden | 79.9 | 79.9 | 80.2 | 80.6 | 80.6 | 80.8 | 81.0 | .. | |
Switzerland | 80.3 | 80.5 | 80.6 | 81.2 | 81.4 | 81.7 | 81.9 | .. | |
Turkey | 71.5 | 71.9 | 72.2 | 72.6 | 73.0 | 73.2 | 73.4 | .. | |
United Kingdom | 78.2 | 78.3 | 78.3 | 78.9 | 79.1 | 79.5 | .. | .. | |
United States | 77.1 | 77.2 | 77.5 | 77.8 | 77.8 | 78.1 | .. | .. | |
| Last updated: 8 June 2010 | |||||||||
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| Source: OECD health data 2009 - selected data: OECD Health Statistics (database) | |||||||||