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Complete Data Rankings

Rank
1	Germany	13.76 years
2	Canada	13.416 years
3	New Zealand	13.348 years
4	Estonia	13.25 years
5	United States	12.99 years
6	Denmark	12.88 years
7	United Kingdom	12.81 years
8	Switzerland	12.807 years
9	Iceland	12.74 years
10	Palau	12.529 years
11	Norway	12.48 years
12	Japan	12.441 years
13	Israel	12.42 years
14	Latvia	12.35 years
15	Finland	12.33 years
16	Lithuania	12.3 years
17	Russia	12.3 years
18	Georgia	12.268 years
19	Luxembourg	12.22 years
20	Czech Republic	12.19 years
21	Poland	12.17 years
22	Sweden	12.07 years
23	Australia	11.94 years
24	Netherlands	11.91 years
25	Slovenia	11.91 years
26	Slovakia	11.828 years
27	Bahamas	11.696 years
28	Hungary	11.565 years
29	Liechtenstein	11.515 years
30	Austria	11.47 years
31	Samoa	11.452 years
32	Ukraine	11.439 years
33	Ireland	11.423 years
34	Republic of Moldova	11.38 years
35	Cyprus	11.28 years
36	Kazakhstan	11.265 years
37	China, Hong Kong SAR	11.21 years
38	Belgium	11.18 years
39	Belarus	11.097 years
40	Tajikistan	11.092 years
41	Armenia	10.98 years
42	Cuba	10.968 years
43	Montenegro	10.965 years
44	South Korea	10.963 years
45	Turkmenistan	10.868 years
46	Kyrgyzstan	10.803 years
47	Uzbekistan	10.789 years
48	Croatia	10.777 years
49	Romania	10.67 years
50	Seychelles	10.663 years
51	France	10.65 years
52	Azerbaijan	10.59 years
53	Bulgaria	10.59 years
54	Singapore	10.49 years
55	Andorra	10.47 years
56	Argentina	10.41 years
57	Sri Lanka	10.41 years
58	Tonga	10.41 years
59	Trinidad and Tobago	10.3 years
60	Antigua and Barbuda	10.266 years
61	Serbia	10.24 years
62	Chile	10.11 years
63	Greece	10.1 years
64	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	10.048 years
65	Malta	10.01 years
66	Mongolia	9.84 years
67	San Marino	9.758 years
68	Italy	9.65 years
69	Barbados	9.599 years
70	Qatar	9.59 years
71	Jordan	9.52 years
72	Belize	9.506 years
73	United Arab Emirates	9.495 years
74	Iran	9.39 years
75	Fiji	9.379 years
76	Albania	9.28 years
77	Tuvalu	9.233 years
78	South Africa	9.22 years
79	Spain	9.19 years
80	Saint Kitts and Nevis	9.169 years
81	Malaysia	9.068 years
82	Panama	9 years
83	Grenada	8.905 years
84	North Macedonia	8.832 years
85	Philippines	8.71 years
86	Brunei Darussalam	8.654 years
87	Botswana	8.634 years
88	Dominica	8.581 years
89	Saudi Arabia	8.471 years
90	Uruguay	8.37 years
91	Costa Rica	8.29 years
92	Lebanon	8.252 years
93	Kiribati	8.196 years
94	Peru	8.19 years
95	Jamaica	8.19 years
96	Saint Lucia	8.189 years
97	Venezuela	8.14 years
98	Bahrain	8.099 years
99	State of Palestine	8.01 years
100	Oman	7.99 years
101	Mexico	7.95 years
102	Mauritius	7.915 years
103	Suriname	7.902 years
104	Nauru	7.801 years
105	Nicaragua	7.8 years
106	Portugal	7.78 years
107	Ecuador	7.73 years
108	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	7.575 years
109	Congo	7.543 years
110	Zimbabwe	7.462 years
111	Paraguay	7.39 years
112	Vietnam	7.33 years
113	Colombia	7.32 years
114	Gabon	7.31 years
115	Thailand	7.29 years
116	Bolivia	7.2 years
117	Dominican Republic	7.193 years
118	Equatorial Guinea	7.157 years
119	Indonesia	7.07 years
120	Guyana	6.981 years
121	Libya	6.962 years
122	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6.901 years
123	Egypt	6.898 years
124	China	6.872 years
125	Brazil	6.67 years
126	Kuwait	6.43 years
127	Turkey	6.4 years
128	Tunisia	6.31 years
129	Algeria	6.29 years
130	Namibia	6.288 years
131	Iraq	6.246 years
132	Kenya	6.234 years
133	Syrian Arab Republic	6.19 years
134	Nigeria	6.157 years
135	Zambia	6.119 years
136	El Salvador	6.03 years
137	Vanuatu	5.857 years
138	South Sudan	5.73 years
139	Ghana	5.64 years
140	Cabo Verde	5.599 years
141	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	5.56 years
142	Lesotho	5.54 years
143	Solomon Islands	5.412 years
144	Eswatini	5.298 years
145	Uganda	5.15 years
146	Sao Tome and Principe	5.113 years
147	Honduras	5.108 years
148	Tanzania	4.99 years
149	Timor-Leste	4.989 years
150	Bangladesh	4.96 years
151	India	4.849 years
152	Laos	4.829 years
153	Eritrea	4.689 years
154	Madagascar	4.613 years
155	Haiti	4.543 years
156	Pakistan	4.53 years
157	Maldives	4.335 years
158	Malawi	4.23 years
159	Cameroon	4.06 years
160	Morocco	4.06 years
161	Liberia	4.041 years
162	Guatemala	4.033 years
163	Cambodia	4.03 years
164	Comoros	3.973 years
165	Papua New Guinea	3.912 years
166	Côte d'Ivoire	3.892 years
167	Angola	3.748 years
168	Mauritania	3.661 years
169	Myanmar	3.541 years
170	Rwanda	3.476 years
171	Nepal	3.364 years
172	Togo	3.325 years
173	Sierra Leone	3.254 years
174	Central African Republic	3.124 years
175	Sudan	3.05 years
176	Gambia	2.966 years
177	Yemen	2.567 years
178	Guinea-Bissau	2.566 years
179	Benin	2.536 years
180	Burundi	2.43 years
181	Djibouti	2.293 years
182	Mozambique	2.29 years
183	Ethiopia	2.058 years
184	Senegal	1.88 years
185	Afghanistan	1.743 years
186	Chad	1.704 years
187	Mali	1.672 years
188	Guinea	1.553 years
189	Niger	1.467 years
190	Burkina Faso	1.024 years

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