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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 is defined by the World Health Organization as the âaverage number of years that a newborn is expected to live if current mortality rates continue to apply.â This means that the average age of death in the population a baby is born into is equivalent to the number of years they can be expected to live.