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Complete Data Rankings

Rank
1	Germany	13.455 years
2	New Zealand	13.17 years
3	Denmark	12.97 years
4	Canada	12.924 years
5	United States	12.855 years
6	Estonia	12.69 years
7	Palau	12.239 years
8	Japan	12.219 years
9	Russia	12.2 years
10	Norway	12.193 years
11	Iceland	12.177 years
12	Finland	12.09 years
13	Sweden	11.997 years
14	Georgia	11.978 years
15	Latvia	11.965 years
16	Netherlands	11.79 years
17	Poland	11.57 years
18	Czech Republic	11.554 years
19	Lithuania	11.501 years
20	Slovenia	11.498 years
21	United Kingdom	11.462 years
22	Australia	11.454 years
23	Liechtenstein	11.423 years
24	Austria	11.379 years
25	Bahamas	11.286 years
26	Luxembourg	11.26 years
27	Ukraine	11.135 years
28	Samoa	11.072 years
29	South Korea	10.992 years
30	Switzerland	10.979 years
31	Ireland	10.95 years
32	Tajikistan	10.909 years
33	Turkmenistan	10.9 years
34	Belgium	10.833 years
35	Israel	10.725 years
36	Slovakia	10.708 years
37	Belarus	10.645 years
38	China, Hong Kong SAR	10.631 years
39	Armenia	10.63 years
40	Republic of Moldova	10.581 years
41	Hungary	10.535 years
42	Kazakhstan	10.53 years
43	Kyrgyzstan	10.518 years
44	Sri Lanka	10.512 years
45	Montenegro	10.44 years
46	Azerbaijan	10.42 years
47	Seychelles	10.419 years
48	Cyprus	10.398 years
49	Uzbekistan	10.328 years
50	Cuba	10.303 years
51	Bulgaria	10.192 years
52	Croatia	10.172 years
53	Andorra	10.07 years
54	Tonga	10.058 years
55	France	10.048 years
56	Singapore	9.952 years
57	Argentina	9.92 years
58	Romania	9.862 years
59	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	9.635 years
60	Antigua and Barbuda	9.587 years
61	Chile	9.562 years
62	Greece	9.491 years
63	Trinidad and Tobago	9.453 years
64	Mongolia	9.34 years
65	Barbados	9.307 years
66	San Marino	9.276 years
67	Iran	9.119 years
68	Italy	9.055 years
69	Albania	8.951 years
70	Uruguay	8.95 years
71	Malta	8.856 years
72	United Arab Emirates	8.785 years
73	South Africa	8.76 years
74	Grenada	8.683 years
75	Fiji	8.676 years
76	Tuvalu	8.647 years
77	Peru	8.541 years
78	Spain	8.442 years
79	Brunei Darussalam	8.404 years
80	Philippines	8.373 years
81	Panama	8.3 years
82	Bahrain	8.271 years
83	Qatar	8.138 years
84	Serbia	8.123 years
85	Botswana	8.012 years
86	Dominica	7.988 years
87	Malaysia	7.922 years
88	Costa Rica	7.856 years
89	Venezuela	7.846 years
90	Jordan	7.8 years
91	Kiribati	7.78 years
92	Jamaica	7.772 years
93	Saint Lucia	7.736 years
94	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	7.717 years
95	Belize	7.686 years
96	Ecuador	7.492 years
97	Congo	7.407 years
98	North Macedonia	7.405 years
99	Saudi Arabia	7.308 years
100	Nauru	7.304 years
101	Nicaragua	7.158 years
102	Portugal	7.15 years
103	Mexico	7.132 years
104	Paraguay	7.11 years
105	Bolivia	7.086 years
106	Colombia	7.018 years
107	Zimbabwe	6.952 years
108	Mauritius	6.905 years
109	Thailand	6.816 years
110	Indonesia	6.771 years
111	Dominican Republic	6.699 years
112	Equatorial Guinea	6.67 years
113	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6.652 years
114	Gabon	6.612 years
115	China	6.402 years
116	Egypt	6.393 years
117	Vietnam	6.275 years
118	Oman	6.27 years
119	Guyana	6.263 years
120	Kuwait	6.151 years
121	Libya	6.096 years
122	Namibia	5.96 years
123	Iraq	5.848 years
124	Algeria	5.832 years
125	Brazil	5.803 years
126	Kenya	5.774 years
127	Turkey	5.758 years
128	Zambia	5.664 years
129	Lesotho	5.629 years
130	Tunisia	5.464 years
131	Cabo Verde	5.419 years
132	Ghana	5.366 years
133	El Salvador	5.353 years
134	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	5.319 years
135	Solomon Islands	5.21 years
136	Syrian Arab Republic	5.106 years
137	Nigeria	5.043 years
138	Eswatini	4.949 years
139	Sao Tome and Principe	4.808 years
140	Honduras	4.798 years
141	Bangladesh	4.56 years
142	Laos	4.463 years
143	Tanzania	4.415 years
144	India	4.374 years
145	Madagascar	4.298 years
146	Uganda	4.275 years
147	Timor-Leste	4.19 years
148	Pakistan	4.078 years
149	Haiti	4.059 years
150	Guatemala	3.8 years
151	Liberia	3.721 years
152	Morocco	3.578 years
153	Cambodia	3.561 years
154	Angola	3.546 years
155	Papua New Guinea	3.544 years
156	Maldives	3.483 years
157	Malawi	3.47 years
158	Côte d'Ivoire	3.424 years
159	Mauritania	3.251 years
160	Cameroon	3.214 years
161	Togo	3.201 years
162	Comoros	3.187 years
163	Nepal	3.104 years
164	Myanmar	3.08 years
165	Sierra Leone	3.048 years
166	Central African Republic	2.811 years
167	Rwanda	2.807 years
168	Sudan	2.734 years
169	Gambia	2.489 years
170	Benin	2.473 years
171	Burundi	2.161 years
172	Mozambique	1.985 years
173	Yemen	1.778 years
174	Djibouti	1.763 years
175	Ethiopia	1.705 years
176	Senegal	1.515 years
177	Guinea	1.485 years
178	Chad	1.43 years
179	Afghanistan	1.419 years
180	Mali	1.29 years
181	Niger	1.288 years

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