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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.
1. Switzerland. Switzerland had the worldâs longest life expectancy at birth at nearly 83 years as of 2011 â 10 years longer than it was in 1970. Switzerlandâs health care expenditure totalled $5,643 per person, the third highest out of countries measured by the OECD.