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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.
The world average life expectancy is 68.35 years. 1  The average life expectancy of countries in the European Union (EU) is 80.02 years. 2  The life expectancy gap spans a length of over 40 years difference between Monaco (greatest) and Chad (least).