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Complete Data Rankings

Rank
1	New Zealand	13.12 years
2	Germany	13.11 years
3	United States	12.89 years
4	Denmark	12.805 years
5	Canada	12.792 years
6	Estonia	12.52 years
7	Palau	12.181 years
8	Russia	12.18 years
9	Japan	12.174 years
10	Norway	12.156 years
11	Iceland	12.03 years
12	Georgia	11.92 years
13	Finland	11.866 years
14	Sweden	11.813 years
15	Latvia	11.801 years
16	Netherlands	11.79 years
17	Poland	11.45 years
18	Australia	11.398 years
19	Czech Republic	11.365 years
20	Liechtenstein	11.332 years
21	Lithuania	11.317 years
22	Austria	11.288 years
23	United Kingdom	11.208 years
24	Bahamas	11.204 years
25	Slovenia	11.165 years
26	Ukraine	11.037 years
27	Samoa	10.996 years
28	Luxembourg	10.995 years
29	Turkmenistan	10.906 years
30	Tajikistan	10.873 years
31	South Korea	10.868 years
32	Switzerland	10.865 years
33	Ireland	10.81 years
34	Belgium	10.736 years
35	Israel	10.68 years
36	Armenia	10.56 years
37	Belarus	10.557 years
38	Sri Lanka	10.556 years
39	China, Hong Kong SAR	10.508 years
40	Slovakia	10.484 years
41	Republic of Moldova	10.477 years
42	Kyrgyzstan	10.461 years
43	Hungary	10.388 years
44	Azerbaijan	10.38 years
45	Seychelles	10.37 years
46	Kazakhstan	10.283 years
47	Uzbekistan	10.239 years
48	Cyprus	10.235 years
49	Cuba	10.17 years
50	Bulgaria	10.116 years
51	Tonga	10.054 years
52	Croatia	10.051 years
53	Andorra	9.984 years
54	France	9.856 years
55	Singapore	9.793 years
56	Romania	9.68 years
57	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	9.555 years
58	Antigua and Barbuda	9.457 years
59	Chile	9.424 years
60	Argentina	9.395 years
61	Greece	9.362 years
62	Trinidad and Tobago	9.283 years
63	Mongolia	9.24 years
64	Barbados	9.201 years
65	San Marino	9.182 years
66	Italy	8.948 years
67	Iran	8.899 years
68	Albania	8.886 years
69	Uruguay	8.739 years
70	United Arab Emirates	8.683 years
71	Grenada	8.639 years
72	Fiji	8.535 years
73	Tuvalu	8.53 years
74	South Africa	8.52 years
75	Peru	8.482 years
76	Malta	8.394 years
77	Brunei Darussalam	8.366 years
78	Bahrain	8.306 years
79	Spain	8.245 years
80	Panama	8.16 years
81	Philippines	8.105 years
82	Malaysia	8.088 years
83	Qatar	7.976 years
84	Venezuela	7.958 years
85	Botswana	7.878 years
86	Dominica	7.869 years
87	Costa Rica	7.757 years
88	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	7.746 years
89	Serbia	7.7 years
90	Kiribati	7.7 years
91	Jamaica	7.689 years
92	Jordan	7.653 years
93	Saint Lucia	7.646 years
94	Belize	7.514 years
95	Ecuador	7.435 years
96	Congo	7.359 years
97	Nauru	7.208 years
98	Bolivia	7.148 years
99	North Macedonia	7.12 years
100	Saudi Arabia	7.095 years
101	Nicaragua	7.055 years
102	Paraguay	7.005 years
103	Mexico	6.975 years
104	Colombia	6.966 years
105	Portugal	6.96 years
106	Zimbabwe	6.85 years
107	Mauritius	6.704 years
108	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6.639 years
109	Dominican Republic	6.621 years
110	Equatorial Guinea	6.577 years
111	Indonesia	6.498 years
112	Gabon	6.458 years
113	Thailand	6.432 years
114	Egypt	6.384 years
115	China	6.308 years
116	Kuwait	6.171 years
117	Guyana	6.12 years
118	Vietnam	6.063 years
119	Oman	5.973 years
120	Libya	5.924 years
121	Namibia	5.88 years
122	Iraq	5.767 years
123	Algeria	5.757 years
124	Kenya	5.658 years
125	Turkey	5.655 years
126	Brazil	5.626 years
127	Zambia	5.573 years
128	Lesotho	5.421 years
129	Cabo Verde	5.384 years
130	Ghana	5.318 years
131	Tunisia	5.292 years
132	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	5.26 years
133	El Salvador	5.227 years
134	Solomon Islands	5.17 years
135	Eswatini	5.16 years
136	Nigeria	4.866 years
137	Sao Tome and Principe	4.75 years
138	Honduras	4.731 years
139	Syrian Arab Republic	4.73 years
140	Bangladesh	4.48 years
141	Laos	4.392 years
142	Tanzania	4.3 years
143	India	4.297 years
144	Madagascar	4.167 years
145	Uganda	4.1 years
146	Timor-Leste	4.046 years
147	Haiti	3.952 years
148	Guatemala	3.85 years
149	Pakistan	3.826 years
150	Liberia	3.655 years
151	Angola	3.505 years
152	Cambodia	3.498 years
153	Papua New Guinea	3.485 years
154	Maldives	3.478 years
155	Morocco	3.472 years
156	Côte d'Ivoire	3.329 years
157	Malawi	3.318 years
158	Mauritania	3.173 years
159	Togo	3.162 years
160	Cameroon	3.136 years
161	Nepal	3.052 years
162	Comoros	3.03 years
163	Myanmar	2.998 years
164	Sierra Leone	2.957 years
165	Central African Republic	2.738 years
166	Rwanda	2.69 years
167	Sudan	2.636 years
168	Benin	2.46 years
169	Gambia	2.406 years
170	Burundi	2.107 years
171	Mozambique	1.908 years
172	Djibouti	1.673 years
173	Yemen	1.631 years
174	Ethiopia	1.631 years
175	Senegal	1.582 years
176	Guinea	1.471 years
177	Chad	1.38 years
178	Afghanistan	1.367 years
179	Mali	1.255 years
180	Niger	1.245 years

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