Lowest Life Expectancy, 2012

The countries with the lowest life expectancy (in years).

1. Chad 48.69
2. Guinea-Bissau 49.11
3. South Africa 49.41
4. Swaziland 49.42
5. Afghanistan 49.72
6. Central African Republic 50.48
7. Somalia 50.80
8. Zimbabwe 51.82
9. Lesotho 51.86
10. Mozambique 52.02

NOTE: Country rankings of the type presented below cannot pretend to be definitive; instead they aspire only to provide the reader with an approximation of the high and low ends on a particular scale. Country data vary enormously depending on the sources, and the absence of reliable data on some countries requires their omission, which further skews the results. Only countries for which statistics were available in sources 1 and 2 figure in these lists. Sources: 1. The World Factbook, 2012. 2. U.S. Census Bureau, International Database.

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