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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.
Global life expectancy at birth in 2015 was 71.4 years (73.8 years for females and 69.1 years for males), ranging from 60.0 years in the WHO African Region to 76.8 years in the WHO European Region, giving a ratio of 1.3 between the two regions. Women live longer than men all around the world. The gap in life expectancy between the sexes was 4.5 years in 1990 and had remained almost the same by 2015 (4.6). Global average life expectancy increased by 5 years between 2000 and 2015, the fastest increase since the 1960s.