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Complete Data Rankings

Rank
1	Germany	13.8 years
2	New Zealand	13.22 years
3	Canada	13.056 years
4	Denmark	12.92 years
5	Estonia	12.86 years
6	United States	12.82 years
7	Iceland	12.323 years
8	Palau	12.297 years
9	Japan	12.263 years
10	Norway	12.23 years
11	Russia	12.22 years
12	Sweden	12.18 years
13	Finland	12.135 years
14	Latvia	12.13 years
15	Georgia	12.036 years
16	Slovenia	11.83 years
17	Netherlands	11.79 years
18	Czech Republic	11.743 years
19	United Kingdom	11.716 years
20	Poland	11.69 years
21	Lithuania	11.686 years
22	Liechtenstein	11.514 years
23	Australia	11.51 years
24	Austria	11.469 years
25	Bahamas	11.368 years
26	Luxembourg	11.353 years
27	Ukraine	11.232 years
28	Samoa	11.148 years
29	South Korea	11.116 years
30	Switzerland	11.093 years
31	Ireland	11.09 years
32	Tajikistan	10.946 years
33	Slovakia	10.932 years
34	Belgium	10.93 years
35	Turkmenistan	10.894 years
36	Kazakhstan	10.778 years
37	Israel	10.77 years
38	China, Hong Kong SAR	10.754 years
39	Belarus	10.734 years
40	Andorra	10.7 years
41	Armenia	10.7 years
42	Republic of Moldova	10.685 years
43	Hungary	10.683 years
44	Kyrgyzstan	10.575 years
45	Cyprus	10.56 years
46	Montenegro	10.545 years
47	Sri Lanka	10.468 years
48	Seychelles	10.468 years
49	Azerbaijan	10.46 years
50	Cuba	10.436 years
51	Uzbekistan	10.419 years
52	Croatia	10.293 years
53	Bulgaria	10.268 years
54	France	10.24 years
55	Singapore	10.111 years
56	Tonga	10.062 years
57	Romania	10.044 years
58	Argentina	10.01 years
59	Antigua and Barbuda	9.719 years
60	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	9.717 years
61	Chile	9.7 years
62	Trinidad and Tobago	9.622 years
63	Greece	9.621 years
64	Mongolia	9.44 years
65	Barbados	9.413 years
66	San Marino	9.37 years
67	Iran	9.34 years
68	Malta	9.318 years
69	Italy	9.163 years
70	Albania	9.017 years
71	United Arab Emirates	8.888 years
72	South Africa	8.82 years
73	Fiji	8.817 years
74	Tuvalu	8.764 years
75	Grenada	8.727 years
76	Philippines	8.64 years
77	Spain	8.64 years
78	Uruguay	8.633 years
79	Peru	8.6 years
80	Serbia	8.547 years
81	Brunei Darussalam	8.442 years
82	Panama	8.44 years
83	Qatar	8.3 years
84	Bahrain	8.237 years
85	Botswana	8.146 years
86	Jordan	8.144 years
87	Dominica	8.106 years
88	Costa Rica	7.955 years
89	Kiribati	7.862 years
90	Belize	7.858 years
91	Jamaica	7.855 years
92	Saint Lucia	7.827 years
93	Malaysia	7.756 years
94	Suriname	7.74 years
95	Venezuela	7.734 years
96	North Macedonia	7.691 years
97	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	7.688 years
98	Ecuador	7.549 years
99	State of Palestine	7.53 years
100	Saudi Arabia	7.52 years
101	Congo	7.455 years
102	Nauru	7.401 years
103	Portugal	7.39 years
104	Mexico	7.29 years
105	Nicaragua	7.26 years
106	Paraguay	7.23 years
107	Thailand	7.2 years
108	Mauritius	7.107 years
109	Colombia	7.07 years
110	Zimbabwe	7.054 years
111	Indonesia	7.044 years
112	Bolivia	7.024 years
113	Dominican Republic	6.777 years
114	Gabon	6.766 years
115	Equatorial Guinea	6.765 years
116	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6.665 years
117	Oman	6.614 years
118	China	6.496 years
119	Vietnam	6.487 years
120	Guyana	6.407 years
121	Egypt	6.402 years
122	Libya	6.268 years
123	Kuwait	6.13 years
124	Namibia	6.041 years
125	Brazil	5.98 years
126	Iraq	5.93 years
127	Algeria	5.906 years
128	Kenya	5.889 years
129	Turkey	5.86 years
130	Lesotho	5.837 years
131	Zambia	5.755 years
132	Tunisia	5.635 years
133	Syrian Arab Republic	5.482 years
134	El Salvador	5.479 years
135	Cabo Verde	5.455 years
136	Ghana	5.413 years
137	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	5.379 years
138	Nigeria	5.265 years
139	Solomon Islands	5.25 years
140	Sao Tome and Principe	4.868 years
141	Honduras	4.865 years
142	Eswatini	4.737 years
143	Bangladesh	4.64 years
144	Laos	4.535 years
145	Tanzania	4.53 years
146	India	4.451 years
147	Uganda	4.45 years
148	Madagascar	4.43 years
149	Timor-Leste	4.339 years
150	Pakistan	4.33 years
151	Haiti	4.167 years
152	Liberia	3.786 years
153	Guatemala	3.75 years
154	Morocco	3.684 years
155	Cambodia	3.624 years
156	Malawi	3.622 years
157	Papua New Guinea	3.604 years
158	Angola	3.586 years
159	Côte d'Ivoire	3.519 years
160	Maldives	3.487 years
161	Comoros	3.344 years
162	Mauritania	3.328 years
163	Cameroon	3.292 years
164	Togo	3.239 years
165	Myanmar	3.162 years
166	Nepal	3.156 years
167	Sierra Leone	3.14 years
168	Rwanda	2.924 years
169	Central African Republic	2.883 years
170	Sudan	2.832 years
171	Gambia	2.572 years
172	Benin	2.485 years
173	Burundi	2.214 years
174	Mozambique	2.062 years
175	Yemen	1.925 years
176	Djibouti	1.859 years
177	Ethiopia	1.783 years
178	Guinea	1.499 years
179	Chad	1.48 years
180	Afghanistan	1.47 years
181	Senegal	1.447 years
182	Niger	1.33 years
183	Mali	1.325 years

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Data Source

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