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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.
At the turn of the 20th century, an individual had a life expectancy of 50 years. In 2009, the estimated average life expectancy in Canada and its peer countries was 81 years. Life expectancy measures the average number of years a baby born today can be expected to live. It is widely regarded as an indicator of a countryâs overall health.