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Complete Data Rankings

Rank
1	Germany	13.83 years
2	Canada	13.464 years
3	New Zealand	13.362 years
4	Switzerland	13.34 years
5	Estonia	13.32 years
6	United Kingdom	13.09 years
7	United States	13.01 years
8	Iceland	12.83 years
9	Luxembourg	12.81 years
10	Palau	12.588 years
11	Norway	12.5 years
12	Japan	12.485 years
13	Denmark	12.47 years
14	Israel	12.46 years
15	Latvia	12.46 years
16	Finland	12.37 years
17	Poland	12.34 years
18	Georgia	12.326 years
19	Lithuania	12.32 years
20	Russia	12.32 years
21	Czech Republic	12.29 years
22	Sweden	12.14 years
23	Slovakia	12.052 years
24	Slovenia	12.03 years
25	Australia	11.99 years
26	Netherlands	11.94 years
27	Hungary	11.81 years
28	Bahamas	11.778 years
29	Liechtenstein	11.716 years
30	Austria	11.67 years
31	Samoa	11.528 years
32	Ireland	11.497 years
33	Republic of Moldova	11.48 years
34	Ukraine	11.476 years
35	Belgium	11.32 years
36	China, Hong Kong SAR	11.31 years
37	Cyprus	11.26 years
38	Belarus	11.19 years
39	Tajikistan	11.128 years
40	Cuba	11.101 years
41	Montenegro	11.07 years
42	Armenia	11.05 years
43	Kazakhstan	11.01 years
44	Croatia	10.898 years
45	Uzbekistan	10.883 years
46	South Korea	10.87 years
47	Turkmenistan	10.862 years
48	Kyrgyzstan	10.86 years
49	Seychelles	10.712 years
50	Romania	10.7 years
51	Bulgaria	10.64 years
52	France	10.63 years
53	Azerbaijan	10.59 years
54	Tonga	10.58 years
55	Argentina	10.54 years
56	Sri Lanka	10.51 years
57	Andorra	10.5 years
58	Singapore	10.5 years
59	Antigua and Barbuda	10.407 years
60	Serbia	10.3 years
61	Trinidad and Tobago	10.3 years
62	Malta	10.16 years
63	Greece	10.155 years
64	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	10.132 years
65	Belize	9.998 years
66	Chile	9.98 years
67	Mongolia	9.94 years
68	San Marino	9.858 years
69	Italy	9.73 years
70	United Arab Emirates	9.663 years
71	Barbados	9.626 years
72	South Africa	9.6 years
73	Jordan	9.565 years
74	Malaysia	9.56 years
75	Iran	9.55 years
76	Fiji	9.518 years
77	Albania	9.453 years
78	Saint Kitts and Nevis	9.394 years
79	Tuvalu	9.351 years
80	Spain	9.25 years
81	Qatar	9.16 years
82	Panama	9.14 years
83	North Macedonia	9.117 years
84	Grenada	8.95 years
85	Philippines	8.81 years
86	Botswana	8.752 years
87	Brunei Darussalam	8.712 years
88	Saudi Arabia	8.709 years
89	Dominica	8.7 years
90	Lebanon	8.464 years
91	Uruguay	8.37 years
92	Costa Rica	8.36 years
93	State of Palestine	8.31 years
94	Kiribati	8.282 years
95	Saint Lucia	8.279 years
96	Jamaica	8.273 years
97	Venezuela	8.25 years
98	Peru	8.22 years
99	Mexico	8.14 years
100	Mauritius	8.116 years
101	Bahrain	8.064 years
102	Oman	7.955 years
103	Nicaragua	7.945 years
104	Suriname	7.942 years
105	Portugal	7.93 years
106	Nauru	7.905 years
107	Ecuador	7.74 years
108	Zimbabwe	7.564 years
109	Congo	7.556 years
110	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	7.547 years
111	Vietnam	7.54 years
112	Bolivia	7.48 years
113	Thailand	7.45 years
114	Gabon	7.44 years
115	Indonesia	7.31 years
116	Equatorial Guinea	7.259 years
117	Colombia	7.25 years
118	Dominican Republic	7.217 years
119	Egypt	7.137 years
120	Libya	7.136 years
121	Guyana	7.124 years
122	Paraguay	7.03 years
123	Bosnia and Herzegovina	7.005 years
124	China	6.966 years
125	Brazil	6.77 years
126	Kuwait	6.64 years
127	Turkey	6.57 years
128	Syrian Arab Republic	6.49 years
129	Tunisia	6.48 years
130	Namibia	6.343 years
131	Iraq	6.323 years
132	Kenya	6.31 years
133	Zambia	6.21 years
134	Nigeria	6.195 years
135	El Salvador	6.13 years
136	Algeria	6.053 years
137	Vanuatu	5.954 years
138	South Sudan	5.73 years
139	Lesotho	5.705 years
140	Ghana	5.7 years
141	Cabo Verde	5.635 years
142	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	5.601 years
143	Eswatini	5.556 years
144	Solomon Islands	5.453 years
145	Honduras	5.265 years
146	Sao Tome and Principe	5.176 years
147	Timor-Leste	5.166 years
148	Uganda	5.145 years
149	Tanzania	5.105 years
150	Bangladesh	5.04 years
151	India	4.956 years
152	Laos	4.904 years
153	Eritrea	4.681 years
154	Madagascar	4.659 years
155	Haiti	4.633 years
156	Cameroon	4.63 years
157	Maldives	4.607 years
158	Pakistan	4.52 years
159	Malawi	4.382 years
160	Guatemala	4.225 years
161	Morocco	4.15 years
162	Comoros	4.13 years
163	Liberia	4.104 years
164	Papua New Guinea	3.994 years
165	Côte d'Ivoire	3.984 years
166	Cambodia	3.94 years
167	Angola	3.788 years
168	Mauritania	3.747 years
169	Myanmar	3.639 years
170	Rwanda	3.621 years
171	Nepal	3.416 years
172	Togo	3.34 years
173	Sierra Leone	3.282 years
174	Central African Republic	3.181 years
175	Sudan	3.09 years
176	Gambia	3.069 years
177	Yemen	2.732 years
178	Guinea-Bissau	2.713 years
179	Benin	2.549 years
180	Djibouti	2.417 years
181	Burundi	2.363 years
182	Mozambique	2.34 years
183	Ethiopia	2.095 years
184	Senegal	2.05 years
185	Afghanistan	1.816 years
186	Mali	1.788 years
187	Chad	1.76 years
188	Guinea	1.566 years
189	Niger	1.499 years
190	Burkina Faso	1.069 years

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