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Life expectancy at birth, total (years). The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in France was 81.97 as of 2013. As the graph below shows, over the past 53 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 82.11 in 2011 and a minimum value of 69.87 in 1960.
The countries with the next highest birth rates are the UK at 12.8 and France at 12.6, followed by Sweden at 11.9 and Cyprus at 11.8. Germany had the lowest birth rate in Europe last year at 8.4. Perinatal mortality rates in Ireland continue to decline at 5.9 per 1,000 live and still births last year.