Healthy life expectancy at birth
Average number of years a newborn can expect to live in full health (HALE), counting years lived with disease or injury as partly lost. Both sexes. WHO Global Health Estimates, calculated with Sullivan's method from life tables and the rate of years lived with disability.
Modelled WHO estimates, not a national survey measure, so they differ from Eurostat's healthy life years, which come from self-reported limitations. Values are served with every decimal WHO publishes. WHO revises these series, past years included, when new national reports or estimates come in, so values can change between retrievals.
Key facts
- Healthy life expectancy at birth in the United States was 63.9 years in 2021, according to World Health Organization.
- Singapore had the highest healthy life expectancy at birth of 185 countries in 2021, at 73.6 years, and Lesotho the lowest, at 44.6 years. Source: World Health Organization.
- Published for 185 places, with figures from 2000 to 2021.
Rankings
Countries by healthy life expectancy at birth, 2021
Places with data
Countries
- India
- China
- United States
- Indonesia
- Pakistan
- Nigeria
- Brazil
- Bangladesh
- Russia
- Ethiopia
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Saint Lucia
- Kenya
- South Africa
- Kyrgyzstan
Use this data in your AI agent
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Which places have the highest healthy life expectancy at birth? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"healthy_life_expectancy","level":"country"}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=healthy_life_expectancy&level=country