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Complete Data Rankings

Rank
1	New Zealand	13.07 years
2	United States	12.925 years
3	Germany	12.765 years
4	Canada	12.66 years
5	Denmark	12.64 years
6	Estonia	12.35 years
7	Japan	12.13 years
8	Palau	12.123 years
9	Russia	12.119 years
10	Norway	12.119 years
11	Iceland	11.884 years
12	Georgia	11.863 years
13	Netherlands	11.79 years
14	Finland	11.642 years
15	Latvia	11.636 years
16	Sweden	11.63 years
17	Poland	11.346 years
18	Australia	11.342 years
19	Liechtenstein	11.241 years
20	Austria	11.197 years
21	Czech Republic	11.177 years
22	Lithuania	11.133 years
23	Bahamas	11.122 years
24	United Kingdom	10.954 years
25	Ukraine	10.94 years
26	Samoa	10.92 years
27	Turkmenistan	10.912 years
28	Tajikistan	10.836 years
29	Slovenia	10.833 years
30	Switzerland	10.751 years
31	South Korea	10.744 years
32	Luxembourg	10.73 years
33	Ireland	10.67 years
34	Belgium	10.639 years
35	Israel	10.635 years
36	Sri Lanka	10.6 years
37	Armenia	10.49 years
38	Belarus	10.47 years
39	Kyrgyzstan	10.404 years
40	China, Hong Kong SAR	10.385 years
41	Republic of Moldova	10.374 years
42	Azerbaijan	10.34 years
43	Seychelles	10.322 years
44	Slovakia	10.26 years
45	Hungary	10.24 years
46	Uzbekistan	10.15 years
47	Cuba	10.084 years
48	Cyprus	10.073 years
49	Tonga	10.05 years
50	Bulgaria	10.04 years
51	Kazakhstan	10.035 years
52	Croatia	9.93 years
53	Andorra	9.899 years
54	France	9.664 years
55	Singapore	9.634 years
56	Romania	9.581 years
57	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	9.475 years
58	Antigua and Barbuda	9.329 years
59	Chile	9.286 years
60	Greece	9.233 years
61	Mongolia	9.14 years
62	Trinidad and Tobago	9.114 years
63	Barbados	9.096 years
64	San Marino	9.09 years
65	Argentina	8.87 years
66	Italy	8.84 years
67	Albania	8.82 years
68	Iran	8.679 years
69	United Arab Emirates	8.581 years
70	Uruguay	8.527 years
71	Peru	8.423 years
72	Tuvalu	8.413 years
73	Fiji	8.395 years
74	Bahrain	8.34 years
75	Brunei Darussalam	8.328 years
76	Malaysia	8.254 years
77	Venezuela	8.07 years
78	Spain	8.047 years
79	Panama	8.02 years
80	Malta	7.932 years
81	Philippines	7.838 years
82	Qatar	7.814 years
83	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	7.775 years
84	Dominica	7.75 years
85	Botswana	7.744 years
86	South Africa	7.67 years
87	Costa Rica	7.657 years
88	Kiribati	7.62 years
89	Jamaica	7.605 years
90	Serbia	7.57 years
91	Saint Lucia	7.555 years
92	Jordan	7.506 years
93	Ecuador	7.378 years
94	Belize	7.341 years
95	Congo	7.311 years
96	Bolivia	7.21 years
97	Nauru	7.114 years
98	Nicaragua	6.953 years
99	Colombia	6.915 years
100	Paraguay	6.899 years
101	North Macedonia	6.899 years
102	Saudi Arabia	6.883 years
103	Portugal	6.88 years
104	Mexico	6.817 years
105	Zimbabwe	6.697 years
106	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6.626 years
107	Dominican Republic	6.543 years
108	Mauritius	6.502 years
109	Equatorial Guinea	6.484 years
110	Egypt	6.375 years
111	Gabon	6.304 years
112	Indonesia	6.224 years
113	China	6.214 years
114	Kuwait	6.192 years
115	Guyana	6.065 years
116	Thailand	6.048 years
117	Vietnam	5.851 years
118	Namibia	5.8 years
119	Libya	5.752 years
120	Oman	5.691 years
121	Iraq	5.685 years
122	Algeria	5.683 years
123	Turkey	5.553 years
124	Kenya	5.542 years
125	Zambia	5.482 years
126	Brazil	5.449 years
127	Eswatini	5.371 years
128	Cabo Verde	5.349 years
129	Ghana	5.27 years
130	Lesotho	5.212 years
131	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	5.201 years
132	Solomon Islands	5.131 years
133	Tunisia	5.12 years
134	El Salvador	5.101 years
135	Sao Tome and Principe	4.692 years
136	Nigeria	4.69 years
137	Honduras	4.664 years
138	Syrian Arab Republic	4.547 years
139	Bangladesh	4.4 years
140	Laos	4.32 years
141	Tanzania	4.265 years
142	India	4.22 years
143	Madagascar	4.035 years
144	Uganda	4.023 years
145	Timor-Leste	3.908 years
146	Guatemala	3.884 years
147	Haiti	3.844 years
148	Liberia	3.59 years
149	Pakistan	3.574 years
150	Maldives	3.474 years
151	Angola	3.465 years
152	Cambodia	3.436 years
153	Papua New Guinea	3.425 years
154	Morocco	3.366 years
155	Côte d'Ivoire	3.235 years
156	Malawi	3.166 years
157	Togo	3.123 years
158	Mauritania	3.096 years
159	Cameroon	3.059 years
160	Nepal	3 years
161	Myanmar	2.915 years
162	Comoros	2.873 years
163	Sierra Leone	2.865 years
164	Central African Republic	2.666 years
165	Rwanda	2.573 years
166	Sudan	2.538 years
167	Benin	2.375 years
168	Gambia	2.322 years
169	Burundi	2.053 years
170	Mozambique	1.831 years
171	Senegal	1.649 years
172	Djibouti	1.587 years
173	Ethiopia	1.557 years
174	Yemen	1.484 years
175	Guinea	1.458 years
176	Chad	1.33 years
177	Afghanistan	1.316 years
178	Mali	1.22 years
179	Niger	1.203 years

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