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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.
Life expectancy at birth among the US population - defined as the average number of years that a group of infants would live if the group was to experience throughout life the age-specific death rates present in the year of birth - increased from 78.7 years in 2011 to 78.8 years in 2012.