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Country	Overall	Male	Female
Japan	74.5	71.9	77.2
Australia	73.2	70.8	75.5
France	73.1	69.3	76.9
Sweden	73.0	71.2	74.9
Spain	72.8	69.8	75.7
Italy	72.7	70.0	75.4
Greece	72.5	70.5	74.6
Switzerland	72.5	69.5	75.5
Monaco	72.4	68.5	76.3
Andorra	72.3	69.3	75.2
San Marino	72.3	69.5	75.0
Canada	72.0	70.0	74.0
Netherlands	72.0	69.6	74.4
United Kingdom	71.7	69.7	73.7
Norway	71.7	68.8	74.6
Belgium	71.6	68.7	74.6
Austria	71.6	68.8	74.4
Luxembourg	71.1	68.0	74.2
Iceland	70.8	69.2	72.3
Finland	70.5	67.2	73.7
Malta	70.5	68.4	72.5
Germany	70.4	67.4	73.5
Israel	70.4	69.2	71.6
United States of America	70.0	67.5	72.6
Cyprus	69.8	68.7	70.9
Dominica	69.8	67.2	72.3
Ireland	69.6	67.5	71.7
Denmark	69.4	67.2	71.5
Portugal	69.3	65.9	72.7
Singapore	69.3	67.4	71.2
NewZealand	69.2	67.1	71.2
Chile	68.6	66.0	71.3
Cuba	68.4	67.4	69.4
Slovenia	68.4	64.9	71.9
Czech Republic	68.0	65.2	70.8
Jamaica	67.3	66.8	67.9
Uruguay	67.0	64.1	69.9
Croatia	67.0	63.3	70.6
Argentina	66.7	63.8	69.6
Costa Rica	66.7	65.2	68.1
Armenia	66.7	65.0	68.3
Slovakia	66.6	63.5	69.7
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	66.4	65.0	67.8
Georgia	66.3	63.1	69.4
Poland	66.2	62.3	70.1
Yugoslavia	66.1	64.2	68.1
Panama	66.0	64.9	67.2
Antigua and Barbuda	65.8	63.4	68.3
Grenada	65.5	62.4	68.5
United Arab Emirates	65.4	65.0	65.8
Republic of Korea	65.0	62.3	67.7
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	65.0	62.9	67.1
Barbados	65.0	62.4	67.6
Saint Lucia	65.0	62.4	67.6
Mexico	65.0	62.4	67.6
Bosnia and Herzegovina	64.9	63.4	66.4
Trinidad and Tobago	64.6	62.8	66.4
Saudi Arabia	64.5	65.1	64.0
Brunei Darussalam	64.4	63.4	65.4
Bulgaria	64.4	61.2	67.7
Bahrain	64.4	63.9	64.9
Hungary	64.1	60.4	67.9
Lithuania	64.1	60.6	67.5
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	63.7	61.8	65.6
Azerbaijan	63.7	60.6	66.7
Qatar	63.5	64.2	62.8
Cook Islands	63.4	62.2	64.5
Kuwait	63.2	63.0	63.4
Estonia	63.1	58.1	68.1
Ukraine	63.0	58.5	67.5
Paraguay	63.0	60.7	65.3
Oman	63.0	61.8	64.1
Turkey	62.9	64.0	61.8
Colombia	62.9	60.3	65.5
Tonga	62.9	61.4	64.3
Sri Lanka	62.8	59.3	66.3
Suriname	62.7	60.2	65.2
Mauritius	62.7	59.0	66.3
Dominican Republic	62.5	62.1	62.9
Romania	62.3	58.8	65.8
China	62.3	61.2	63.3
Latvia	62.2	57.1	67.2
Belarus	61.7	67.2
Algeria	61.6	62.5	60.7
Niue	61.6	61.0	62.2
Saint Kitts and Nevis	61.6	58.7	64.4
El Salvador	61.5	58.6	64.5
Republic of Moldova	61.5	58.5	64.5
Malaysia	61.4	61.3	61.6
Tunisia	61.4	62.0	60.7
Russian Federation	61.3	56.1	66.4
Honduras	61.1	60.0	62.3
Ecuador	61.0	59.9	62.1
Belize	60.9	58.5	63.3
Lebanon	60.6	61.2	60.1
Iran, Islamic Republic of	60.5	61.3	59.8
Samoa	60.5	58.7	62.3
Guyana	60.2	57.1	63.3
Thailand	60.2	58.4	62.1
Uzbekistan	60.2	58.0	62.3
Jordan	60.0	60.7	59.3
Albania	60.0	56.5	63.4
Indonesia	59.7	58.8	60.6
Micronesia, Federated States of	59.6	58.7	60.6
Peru	59.4	58.0	60.8
Fiji	59.4	57.7	61.1
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	59.3	59.7	58.9
Seychelles	59.3	56.4	62.1
Bahamas	59.1	56.7	61.6
Morocco	59.1	58.7	59.4
Brazil	59.1	55.2	62.9
Palau	59.0	57.4	60.7
Philippines	58.9	57.1	60.7
Syrian Arab Republic	58.8	58.8	58.9
Egypt	58.5	58.6	58.3
Vietnam	58.2	56.7	59.6
Nicaragua	58.1	56.4	59.9
Cape Verde	57.6	54.6	60.6
Tuvalu	57.4	57.1	57.6
Tajikistan	57.3	55.1	59.4
Marshall Islands	56.8	56.0	57.6
Kazakhstan	56.4	51.5	61.2
Kyrgyzstan	56.3	53.4	59.1
Pakistan	55.9	55.0	56.8
Kiribati	55.3	53.9	56.6
Iraq	55.3	55.4	55.1
Solomon Islands	54.9	54.5	55.3
Turkmenistan	54.3	51.9	56.7
Guatemala	54.3	52.1	56.4
Maldives	53.9	54.4	53.3
Mongolia	53.8	51.3	56.3
Sao Tome and Principe	53.5	52.1	54.8
Bolivia	53.3	52.5	54.1
India	53.2	52.8	53.5
Vanuatu	52.8	51.3	54.4
Nauru	52.5	49.8	55.1
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	52.3	51.4	53.1
Bhutan	51.8	51.4	52.2
Myanmar	51.6	51.4	51.9
Bangladesh	49.9	50.1	49.8
Yemen	49.7	49.7	49.7
Nepal	49.5	49.4	49.5
Gambia	48.3	47.2	49.4
Gabon	47.8	46.6	49.0
Papua New Guinea	47.0	45.5	48.5
Comoros	46.8	46.1	47.5
Lao People's Democratic Republic	46.1	45.0	47.1
Cambodia	45.7	43.9	47.5
Ghana	45.5	45.0	46.0
Congo	45.1	44.3	45.9
Senegal	44.6	43.5	45.6
Equatorial Guinea	44.1	42.8	45.4
Haiti	43.8	42.4	45.2
Sudan	43.0	42.6	43.5
Côte d'Ivoire	42.8	42.2	43.3
Cameroon	42.2	41.5	43.0
Benin	42.2	41.9	42.6
Mauritania	41.4	40.2	42.5
Togo	40.7	40.0	41.4
South Africa	39.8	38.6	41.0
Chad	39.4	38.6	40.2
Kenya	39.3	39.0	39.6
Nigeria	38.3	38.1	38.4
Swaziland	38.1	37.8	38.4
Angola	38.0	37.0	38.9
Djibouti	37.9	37.7	38.1
Guinea	37.8	37.0	38.5
Afghanistan	37.7	36.7	38.7
Eritrea	37.7	38.5	36.9
Guinea-Bissau	37.2	36.8	37.5
Lesotho	36.9	36.6	37.2
Madagascar	36.6	36.5	36.8
Somalia	36.4	35.9	36.9
Democratic Republic of the Congo	36.3	36.4	36.2
Central African Republic	36.0	35.6	36.5
United Republic of Tanzania	36.0	35.9	36.1
Namibia	35.6	35.8	35.4
Burkina Faso	35.5	35.3	35.7
Burundi	34.6	34.6	34.6
Mozambique	34.4	33.7	35.1
Liberia	34.0	33.8	34.2
Ethiopia	33.5	33.5	33.5
Mali	33.1	32.6	33.5
Zimbabwe	32.9	33.4	32.4
Rwanda	32.8	32.9	32.7
Uganda	32.7	32.9	32.5
Botswana	32.3	32.3	32.2
Zambia	30.3	30.0	30.7
Malawi	29.4	29.3	29.4
Niger	29.1	28.1	30.1
Sierra Leone	25.9	25.8	26.0


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