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Complete Data Rankings

Rank
1	United States	12.96 years
2	New Zealand	12.803 years
3	Canada	12.486 years
4	Denmark	12.475 years
5	Germany	12.42 years
6	Estonia	12.18 years
7	Japan	12.085 years
8	Norway	12.081 years
9	Palau	12.064 years
10	Russia	12.059 years
11	Georgia	11.806 years
12	Netherlands	11.79 years
13	Iceland	11.737 years
14	Latvia	11.471 years
15	Sweden	11.447 years
16	Finland	11.418 years
17	Australia	11.285 years
18	Poland	11.243 years
19	Liechtenstein	11.15 years
20	Austria	11.106 years
21	Bahamas	11.04 years
22	Czech Republic	10.988 years
23	Lithuania	10.948 years
24	Turkmenistan	10.919 years
25	Samoa	10.846 years
26	Ukraine	10.843 years
27	Tajikistan	10.8 years
28	United Kingdom	10.7 years
29	Switzerland	10.638 years
30	South Korea	10.62 years
31	Israel	10.591 years
32	Sri Lanka	10.561 years
33	Luxembourg	10.556 years
34	Belgium	10.542 years
35	Ireland	10.53 years
36	Slovenia	10.501 years
37	Armenia	10.492 years
38	Belarus	10.383 years
39	Kyrgyzstan	10.347 years
40	Azerbaijan	10.3 years
41	Seychelles	10.274 years
42	Republic of Moldova	10.27 years
43	China, Hong Kong SAR	10.262 years
44	Hungary	10.171 years
45	Uzbekistan	10.062 years
46	Tonga	10.046 years
47	Cuba	9.997 years
48	Slovakia	9.95 years
49	Cyprus	9.91 years
50	Andorra	9.814 years
51	Kazakhstan	9.788 years
52	Bulgaria	9.743 years
53	Croatia	9.623 years
54	Romania	9.482 years
55	Singapore	9.475 years
56	France	9.471 years
57	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	9.396 years
58	Antigua and Barbuda	9.202 years
59	Chile	9.148 years
60	Greece	9.104 years
61	Mongolia	9.04 years
62	San Marino	8.998 years
63	Barbados	8.99 years
64	Trinidad and Tobago	8.944 years
65	Argentina	8.802 years
66	Italy	8.754 years
67	Albania	8.751 years
68	United Arab Emirates	8.479 years
69	Iran	8.458 years
70	Malaysia	8.42 years
71	Peru	8.364 years
72	Uruguay	8.316 years
73	Tuvalu	8.295 years
74	Brunei Darussalam	8.29 years
75	Fiji	8.254 years
76	Bahrain	8.045 years
77	Panama	7.88 years
78	Spain	7.849 years
79	Venezuela	7.822 years
80	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	7.804 years
81	Qatar	7.652 years
82	Dominica	7.636 years
83	Botswana	7.61 years
84	Philippines	7.57 years
85	Costa Rica	7.558 years
86	Kiribati	7.541 years
87	Jamaica	7.521 years
88	Malta	7.47 years
89	Saint Lucia	7.465 years
90	South Africa	7.464 years
91	Serbia	7.44 years
92	Jordan	7.36 years
93	Ecuador	7.321 years
94	Congo	7.263 years
95	Belize	7.169 years
96	Bolivia	7.099 years
97	Nauru	7.02 years
98	Colombia	6.863 years
99	Nicaragua	6.85 years
100	Paraguay	6.794 years
101	Portugal	6.79 years
102	North Macedonia	6.678 years
103	Saudi Arabia	6.67 years
104	Mexico	6.66 years
105	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6.613 years
106	Zimbabwe	6.544 years
107	Dominican Republic	6.465 years
108	Equatorial Guinea	6.394 years
109	Egypt	6.366 years
110	Mauritius	6.3 years
111	Kuwait	6.212 years
112	Gabon	6.15 years
113	China	6.12 years
114	Guyana	6.011 years
115	Indonesia	5.951 years
116	Namibia	5.791 years
117	Thailand	5.664 years
118	Vietnam	5.638 years
119	Algeria	5.609 years
120	Iraq	5.604 years
121	Eswatini	5.582 years
122	Libya	5.58 years
123	Turkey	5.451 years
124	Kenya	5.427 years
125	Oman	5.421 years
126	Zambia	5.39 years
127	Cabo Verde	5.314 years
128	Brazil	5.272 years
129	Ghana	5.223 years
130	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	5.141 years
131	Solomon Islands	5.092 years
132	Lesotho	5.004 years
133	El Salvador	4.976 years
134	Tunisia	4.949 years
135	Sao Tome and Principe	4.635 years
136	Honduras	4.597 years
137	Nigeria	4.514 years
138	Syrian Arab Republic	4.364 years
139	Bangladesh	4.284 years
140	Laos	4.248 years
141	Tanzania	4.23 years
142	India	4.143 years
143	Uganda	3.945 years
144	Guatemala	3.917 years
145	Madagascar	3.903 years
146	Timor-Leste	3.773 years
147	Haiti	3.736 years
148	Liberia	3.525 years
149	Maldives	3.469 years
150	Angola	3.426 years
151	Cambodia	3.373 years
152	Papua New Guinea	3.365 years
153	Pakistan	3.322 years
154	Morocco	3.26 years
155	Côte d'Ivoire	3.14 years
156	Togo	3.084 years
157	Mauritania	3.019 years
158	Malawi	3.014 years
159	Cameroon	2.981 years
160	Nepal	2.895 years
161	Myanmar	2.833 years
162	Sierra Leone	2.773 years
163	Comoros	2.716 years
164	Central African Republic	2.593 years
165	Rwanda	2.456 years
166	Sudan	2.44 years
167	Benin	2.29 years
168	Gambia	2.239 years
169	Burundi	1.999 years
170	Mozambique	1.754 years
171	Senegal	1.716 years
172	Djibouti	1.506 years
173	Ethiopia	1.483 years
174	Guinea	1.444 years
175	Yemen	1.337 years
176	Chad	1.28 years
177	Afghanistan	1.264 years
178	Mali	1.184 years
179	Niger	1.161 years

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