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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 in the Roman Empire has been estimated to have been between 22 and 25 years. Censuses held in Egypt during the same period give similar results: 22 for women and 25 for men. In comparison: at the turn of the last century (i.e.circa 1900) it was less than 30 years in India.