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Complete Data Rankings

Rank
1	Germany	13.6 years
2	Canada	13.32 years
3	New Zealand	13.32 years
4	Estonia	13.2 years
5	United States	12.91 years
6	Denmark	12.74 years
7	Iceland	12.56 years
8	Palau	12.413 years
9	Norway	12.37 years
10	Japan	12.352 years
11	Sweden	12.33 years
12	Latvia	12.3 years
13	Russia	12.26 years
14	United Kingdom	12.25 years
15	Finland	12.23 years
16	Georgia	12.152 years
17	Czech Republic	12.12 years
18	Lithuania	12.01 years
19	Poland	11.93 years
20	Netherlands	11.89 years
21	Slovenia	11.81 years
22	Israel	11.78 years
23	Switzerland	11.74 years
24	Australia	11.64 years
25	Liechtenstein	11.59 years
26	Austria	11.545 years
27	Luxembourg	11.538 years
28	Bahamas	11.532 years
29	Slovakia	11.38 years
30	Ireland	11.37 years
31	Ukraine	11.366 years
32	Samoa	11.3 years
33	Kazakhstan	11.273 years
34	South Korea	11.148 years
35	Hungary	11.075 years
36	Belgium	11.05 years
37	Republic of Moldova	11.034 years
38	Tajikistan	11.019 years
39	China, Hong Kong SAR	11 years
40	Cyprus	10.97 years
41	Belarus	10.914 years
42	Turkmenistan	10.881 years
43	Armenia	10.84 years
44	Montenegro	10.755 years
45	Cuba	10.702 years
46	Kyrgyzstan	10.689 years
47	Uzbekistan	10.602 years
48	Seychelles	10.565 years
49	Azerbaijan	10.54 years
50	Croatia	10.535 years
51	France	10.445 years
52	Bulgaria	10.42 years
53	Andorra	10.41 years
54	Romania	10.408 years
55	Sri Lanka	10.38 years
56	Argentina	10.19 years
57	Singapore	10.11 years
58	Greece	10.1 years
59	Tonga	10.07 years
60	Antigua and Barbuda	9.989 years
61	Trinidad and Tobago	9.961 years
62	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	9.881 years
63	Iran	9.87 years
64	Malta	9.82 years
65	Chile	9.773 years
66	Mongolia	9.64 years
67	San Marino	9.562 years
68	Barbados	9.545 years
69	Serbia	9.393 years
70	Italy	9.39 years
71	United Arab Emirates	9.158 years
72	Albania	9.149 years
73	Fiji	9.099 years
74	Qatar	9.087 years
75	Spain	9.03 years
76	Tuvalu	8.999 years
77	South Africa	8.95 years
78	Jordan	8.832 years
79	Grenada	8.816 years
80	Saint Kitts and Nevis	8.734 years
81	Panama	8.72 years
82	Philippines	8.675 years
83	Brunei Darussalam	8.538 years
84	Belize	8.522 years
85	Botswana	8.398 years
86	Dominica	8.344 years
87	North Macedonia	8.261 years
88	Bahrain	8.168 years
89	Malaysia	8.083 years
90	Costa Rica	8.032 years
91	Kiribati	8.027 years
92	Jamaica	8.023 years
93	Saint Lucia	8.008 years
94	Uruguay	8 years
95	Saudi Arabia	7.996 years
96	Peru	7.93 years
97	Mexico	7.87 years
98	Lebanon	7.843 years
99	Suriname	7.821 years
100	State of Palestine	7.74 years
101	Ecuador	7.663 years
102	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	7.631 years
103	Portugal	7.62 years
104	Nauru	7.598 years
105	Indonesia	7.59 years
106	Congo	7.516 years
107	Mauritius	7.511 years
108	Venezuela	7.51 years
109	Nicaragua	7.508 years
110	Oman	7.302 years
111	Zimbabwe	7.258 years
112	Paraguay	7.07 years
113	Gabon	7.05 years
114	Dominican Republic	7.012 years
115	Thailand	6.97 years
116	Equatorial Guinea	6.958 years
117	Vietnam	6.91 years
118	Bolivia	6.9 years
119	Colombia	6.8 years
120	Guyana	6.694 years
121	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6.692 years
122	China	6.684 years
123	Libya	6.614 years
124	Egypt	6.42 years
125	Brazil	6.32 years
126	Syrian Arab Republic	6.234 years
127	Namibia	6.177 years
128	Algeria	6.17 years
129	Kuwait	6.14 years
130	Iraq	6.093 years
131	Kenya	6.081 years
132	Turkey	6.06 years
133	Tunisia	5.975 years
134	Zambia	5.937 years
135	Lesotho	5.83 years
136	El Salvador	5.73 years
137	Nigeria	5.711 years
138	Vanuatu	5.668 years
139	Cabo Verde	5.526 years
140	Ghana	5.521 years
141	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	5.479 years
142	Solomon Islands	5.33 years
143	Sao Tome and Principe	4.989 years
144	Honduras	4.941 years
145	Uganda	4.8 years
146	Bangladesh	4.8 years
147	Eswatini	4.784 years
148	Tanzania	4.76 years
149	Eritrea	4.703 years
150	Laos	4.681 years
151	Timor-Leste	4.653 years
152	India	4.635 years
153	Pakistan	4.57 years
154	Madagascar	4.522 years
155	Haiti	4.364 years
156	Malawi	3.926 years
157	Liberia	3.914 years
158	Morocco	3.88 years
159	Cambodia	3.808 years
160	Maldives	3.79 years
161	Papua New Guinea	3.747 years
162	Côte d'Ivoire	3.706 years
163	Angola	3.667 years
164	Comoros	3.659 years
165	Guatemala	3.65 years
166	Mauritania	3.49 years
167	Cameroon	3.43 years
168	Myanmar	3.343 years
169	Togo	3.294 years
170	Nepal	3.26 years
171	Sierra Leone	3.197 years
172	Rwanda	3.186 years
173	Central African Republic	3.012 years
174	Sudan	2.97 years
175	Gambia	2.759 years
176	Benin	2.511 years
177	Burundi	2.322 years
178	Guinea-Bissau	2.271 years
179	Yemen	2.237 years
180	Mozambique	2.19 years
181	Djibouti	2.065 years
182	Ethiopia	1.941 years
183	Afghanistan	1.595 years
184	Chad	1.592 years
185	Senegal	1.54 years
186	Guinea	1.526 years
187	Mali	1.44 years
188	Niger	1.404 years
189	Burkina Faso	1.32 years

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Data Source

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