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Healthy life expectancy (HALE) at age 60 (years) by country

Countries reporting
184
Highest
20.36
Japan
Lowest
8.95
Lesotho
Median
13.8
Years covered
22
2000–2021
Data points
4,312

What the numbers show

Healthy life expectancy (HALE) at age 60 (years) is currently reported for 184 countries. The highest value is 20.36 in Japan; the lowest is 8.95 in Lesotho.

The median across all reporting countries is 13.8, and the mean is 14.17.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 2.

Over the past decade 71 countries rose and 113 fell. The largest increase was in Somalia (up 20.4%), and the largest decrease in Bolivia, Plurinational State of (down 26.2%).

Healthy life expectancy (HALE) at age 60: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Japan 20.36 2021 up 3.8% rising
2 Singapore 20.33 2021 up 7.0% rising
3 Republic of Korea 19.63 2021 up 8.0% rising
4 Australia 19.1 2021 up 3.9% rising
5 Iceland 19.08 2021 up 3.4% rising
6 Switzerland 18.97 2021 up 1.8% rising
7 Spain 18.86 2021 up 1.4% rising
8 Luxembourg 18.83 2021 up 3.6% rising
9 New Zealand 18.76 2021 up 4.0% rising
10 Norway 18.71 2021 up 4.3% rising
11 Sweden 18.68 2021 up 2.4% rising
12 France 18.64 2021 down 0.8% rising
13 Malta 18.64 2021 up 2.9% rising
14 Puerto Rico 18.5 2021 up 2.5% rising
15 Canada 18.48 2021 up 0.9% rising
16 Cyprus 18.39 2021 up 2.1% rising
17 Italy 18.35 2021 down 0.3% rising
18 Israel 18.35 2021 up 0.0% rising
19 Ireland 18.27 2021 up 2.9% rising
20 Portugal 18.19 2021 up 1.9% rising
21 Finland 18.14 2021 up 3.2% rising
22 Denmark 18.03 2021 up 3.4% rising
23 Belgium 17.99 2021 up 2.6% rising
24 Netherlands 17.82 2021 down 1.3% rising
25 Austria 17.74 2021 down 0.6% rising
26 Costa Rica 17.55 2021 down 4.1% flat
27 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 17.55 2021 down 1.9% rising
28 Germany 17.34 2021 down 1.8% rising
29 Greece 17.28 2021 down 3.3% rising
30 Thailand 17.15 2021 up 0.2% rising
31 Chile 17.14 2021 down 3.2% rising
32 Slovenia 17.04 2021 up 0.5% rising
33 Panama 17 2021 down 2.9% rising
34 Kuwait 16.52 2021 down 9.3% rising
35 Barbados 16.31 2021 down 0.5% flat
36 China 16.19 2021 up 6.9% rising
37 Dominican Republic 16.16 2021 down 5.4% flat
38 Brunei Darussalam 16.05 2021 up 1.1% rising
39 Sri Lanka 15.86 2021 up 5.2% rising
40 Estonia 15.82 2021 down 2.1% rising
41 Antigua and Barbuda 15.81 2021 up 1.7% flat
42 Nicaragua 15.79 2021 down 9.3% flat
43 United States of America 15.71 2021 down 5.8% flat
44 Bhutan 15.7 2021 up 4.4% rising
45 Algeria 15.7 2021 down 0.8% flat
46 Belize 15.49 2021 down 7.7% rising
47 Colombia 15.48 2021 down 9.0% rising
48 Uruguay 15.35 2021 down 6.9% flat
49 Albania 15.34 2021 down 7.3% flat
50 Ecuador 15.21 2021 down 9.0% flat
51 Croatia 15.15 2021 down 3.5% rising
52 El Salvador 15.14 2021 down 11.4% flat
53 Viet Nam 15.12 2021 up 2.8% flat
54 United Arab Emirates 15.1 2021 down 11.8% flat
55 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 15.06 2021 down 4.9% flat
56 Czechia 15.01 2021 down 4.1% rising
57 Argentina 14.99 2021 down 7.6% flat
58 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 14.9 2021 down 9.4% falling
59 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 14.88 2021 up 7.2% rising
60 Jordan 14.78 2021 down 7.3% rising
61 Bangladesh 14.77 2021 up 1.0% rising
62 Poland 14.76 2021 down 7.0% rising
63 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 14.75 2021 down 10.6% flat
64 Saudi Arabia 14.72 2021 down 4.4% rising
65 Mauritius 14.69 2021 up 0.8% rising
66 Trinidad and Tobago 14.64 2021 down 9.2% rising
67 Türkiye 14.6 2021 down 8.5% flat
68 Lithuania 14.6 2021 down 2.0% rising
69 Seychelles 14.51 2021 down 2.3% rising
70 Cabo Verde 14.39 2021 down 12.8% falling
71 Brazil 14.35 2021 down 6.4% flat
72 Tonga 14.33 2021 up 0.9% flat
73 Tajikistan 14.31 2021 up 3.2% rising
74 Peru 14.31 2021 down 22.7% falling
75 Bahamas 14.3 2021 down 10.4% flat
76 Azerbaijan 14.27 2021 up 5.2% rising
77 Qatar 14.2 2021 up 7.2% rising
78 Latvia 14.16 2021 down 5.0% rising
79 Kyrgyzstan 14.16 2021 up 3.6% rising
80 Lebanon 14.15 2021 down 12.5% flat
81 Grenada 14.12 2021 up 2.7% rising
82 Turkmenistan 14.11 2021 down 2.4% rising
83 Slovakia 14.09 2021 down 6.7% rising
84 Cuba 14.04 2021 down 18.3% falling
85 Hungary 14 2021 down 5.5% rising
86 Nigeria 13.99 2021 up 4.6% rising
87 Montenegro 13.92 2021 down 8.1% rising
88 Tunisia 13.91 2021 down 12.0% flat
89 Maldives 13.91 2021 down 5.3% rising
90 Syrian Arab Republic 13.89 2021 down 2.7% flat
91 Mexico 13.87 2021 down 14.6% flat
92 Malaysia 13.84 2021 down 4.6% rising
93 Mongolia 13.75 2021 up 7.0% rising
94 Bosnia and Herzegovina 13.72 2021 down 11.4% flat
95 Romania 13.65 2021 down 9.0% rising
96 Belarus 13.63 2021 up 0.3% rising
97 Armenia 13.57 2021 down 6.3% rising
98 Libya 13.57 2021 down 8.3% falling
99 Palestine, State of 13.54 2021 up 0.8% rising
100 Uzbekistan 13.53 2021 up 18.1% rising
101 Mauritania 13.5 2021 down 5.8% rising
102 Saint Lucia 13.49 2021 down 21.7% rising
103 Tanzania, United Republic of 13.41 2021 up 1.6% rising
104 Sao Tome and Principe 13.39 2021 up 0.0% flat
105 Morocco 13.36 2021 down 6.8% falling
106 Rwanda 13.34 2021 up 0.9% rising
107 Ethiopia 13.33 2021 up 1.7% rising
108 Samoa 13.33 2021 down 0.4% flat
109 Sudan 13.28 2021 down 6.3% rising
110 Lao People's Democratic Republic 13.27 2021 up 2.1% rising
111 Timor-Leste 13.16 2021 down 4.7% flat
112 Iraq 13.16 2021 down 10.2% flat
113 Benin 13.12 2021 up 1.8% rising
114 Ukraine 13.11 2021 down 4.4% rising
115 Jamaica 13.09 2021 down 12.1% flat
116 Paraguay 13.08 2021 down 19.7% falling
117 Comoros 13.07 2021 down 2.9% rising
118 Uganda 13.07 2021 up 2.4% rising
119 North Macedonia 13.04 2021 down 8.0% rising
120 Bahrain 13.04 2021 down 0.7% rising
121 Serbia 13.03 2021 down 9.0% rising
122 Myanmar 12.98 2021 up 0.9% rising
123 Oman 12.97 2021 down 4.8% flat
124 Guatemala 12.92 2021 down 16.7% flat
125 Ghana 12.87 2021 up 4.3% rising
126 Georgia 12.85 2021 down 7.2% flat
127 Nepal 12.83 2021 down 5.9% flat
128 Djibouti 12.79 2021 down 1.6% rising
129 Bulgaria 12.75 2021 down 12.8% rising
130 Côte d'Ivoire 12.74 2021 up 7.3% rising
131 Senegal 12.72 2021 down 4.7% rising
132 Cambodia 12.71 2021 down 1.3% rising
133 Russian Federation 12.69 2021 down 8.1% rising
134 Niger 12.63 2021 down 1.2% rising
135 Sierra Leone 12.61 2021 up 7.4% rising
136 Yemen 12.57 2021 down 8.3% flat
137 Mali 12.51 2021 down 0.7% rising
138 Pakistan 12.5 2021 down 2.4% rising
139 Guinea 12.46 2021 up 3.2% rising
140 Kazakhstan 12.45 2021 down 5.6% rising
141 Burkina Faso 12.4 2021 up 0.8% rising
142 Togo 12.37 2021 up 4.2% rising
143 Burundi 12.37 2021 up 0.2% rising
144 Liberia 12.32 2021 up 2.3% rising
145 Equatorial Guinea 12.3 2021 down 3.7% rising
146 Honduras 12.21 2021 down 11.2% falling
147 Cameroon 12.2 2021 up 2.8% rising
148 Republic of Moldova 12.18 2021 down 5.8% rising
149 Vanuatu 12.04 2021 down 1.1% rising
150 Madagascar 12.01 2021 down 1.5% rising
151 Gabon 12 2021 up 1.9% rising
152 Papua New Guinea 11.98 2021 down 3.1% flat
153 Gambia 11.94 2021 down 3.2% flat
154 Micronesia (Federated States of) 11.93 2021 down 0.2% flat
155 Kenya 11.92 2021 down 4.7% flat
156 Indonesia 11.86 2021 down 11.4% flat
157 Angola 11.86 2021 down 0.3% rising
158 Guyana 11.82 2021 down 7.2% rising
159 Chad 11.71 2021 up 0.8% rising
160 Malawi 11.69 2021 up 0.6% rising
161 India 11.53 2021 down 12.7% flat
162 Haiti 11.52 2021 down 3.8% flat
163 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 11.51 2021 up 1.7% rising
164 Congo 11.45 2021 up 0.6% rising
165 Philippines 11.4 2021 down 17.0% falling
166 Solomon Islands 11.36 2021 down 2.1% flat
167 Egypt 11.33 2021 down 13.3% falling
168 Zambia 11.33 2021 down 2.0% rising
169 South Africa 11.28 2021 down 11.0% flat
170 Eritrea 11.18 2021 up 2.5% rising
171 South Sudan 11.03 2021 down 7.0% flat
172 Fiji 10.85 2021 down 6.9% flat
173 Guinea-Bissau 10.78 2021 up 2.1% rising
174 Botswana 10.77 2021 down 9.3% rising
175 Kiribati 10.66 2021 down 3.4% flat
176 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 10.61 2021 down 26.2% falling
177 Namibia 10.6 2021 down 12.9% rising
178 Mozambique 10.51 2021 down 0.2% flat
179 Zimbabwe 10.39 2021 up 0.5% rising
180 Afghanistan 9.88 2021 down 8.6% rising
181 Eswatini 9.76 2021 up 4.0% rising
182 Somalia 9.46 2021 up 20.4% rising
183 Central African Republic 9.03 2021 up 1.0% rising
184 Lesotho 8.95 2021 down 3.1% flat

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Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Healthy life expectancy (HALE) at age 60 (years)
Source
World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (WHO)
Coverage
196 places, 4,312 data points, 2000–2021
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