What country has the highest life expectancy?

Monaco has the highest life expectancy in the world in 2023, according to World Population Review, where locals live to an average age of 87. Asian countries in the top 10 include Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea, while European countries that made the list include Switzerland and Italy.



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Males born in the Lesotho have the lowest life expectancy of the world in 2022. Similarly low is the life expectancy for females born in this country.

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The Balearics is the Spanish region with the highest life expectancy at birth in 2020, of 83.8 years, according to the annual report carried out by the Ministry of Health on 'Life expectancy in Spain', which analyses the data for 2020 and its evolution since 2006.

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But in 2020, life expectancy fell to 77 and dropped further to 76.4 in 2021, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This alarming trend is clearly not an anomaly and is primarily due to heart disease, cancer, COVID-19 and the ongoing drug-overdose epidemic.

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