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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.
But it is not so simple. What is commonly known as âaverage life expectancyâ is technically âlife expectancy at birthâ. In other words, it is the average number of years that a newborn baby can expect to live in a given society at a given time.