Can you name the Countries (from each continent) with the shortest life expectancy? by Sqwerty

Can you name the Countries (from each continent) with the shortest life expectancy?

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Source: UN data 2005-2010
Where possible the data has been taken from the UN data 2005-2010. Omitted countries data comes from the CIA World Factbook (2009 estimates)*
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lowest Life expectancy by continent Quiz

by Sqwerty

Created Jul 24, 2010 in Geography
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	scoripyo:	Jul 24th, 2010 at 16:11 GMT		1 point
	For some reason, Suriname doesn't work to type in

	Sqwerty:	Jul 24th, 2010 at 16:50 GMT		3 points
	Thankyou scoripyo, I've fixed it

	hollabackitsobi:	Jul 24th, 2010 at 17:42 GMT		4 points
	REALLY surprised at Russia. Wow.

	caronenv:	Jul 24th, 2010 at 21:45 GMT		1 point
	Excellent game. Minor correction needed is the spelling of Grenada. Also, I didn't guess it but I assume that Bahamas will work as well as The Bahamas?

	Sqwerty:	Jul 25th, 2010 at 06:32 GMT		1 point
	Thankyou caronenv,I've fixed that one too and yes both bahamas work.

	fabolous:	Feb 2nd, 2011 at 18:00 GMT		1 point
	angola ahead of swaziland i guess

	folio1701:	Feb 2nd, 2011 at 19:20 GMT		4 points
	Damn, I wouldn't have much longer to live if I lived in Angola.

	tbh444:	Feb 2nd, 2011 at 23:02 GMT		4 points
	Should Moldova be in there? 68.9 according to the source, would have been very surprising if it was higher than estonia

	Sqwerty:	Feb 3rd, 2011 at 14:28 GMT		1 point
	tbh444. You are right and I have changed it.

	American:	Feb 3rd, 2011 at 20:28 GMT		2 points
	Missed every African country.. the pirates misled me

	Jelle:	Feb 3rd, 2011 at 22:29 GMT		2 points
	Nice, quiz. Except it's spelled 'expectancy'. Also, I'm very surprised lesotho isn't here.

	Jelle:	Feb 3rd, 2011 at 22:31 GMT		1 point
	actually, according to your source, Lesotho should be here.

	UTR:	Feb 3rd, 2011 at 23:28 GMT		4 points
	Madagascar would've made the list if it hadn't closed its ports.

	MoneyGrip:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 03:48 GMT		2 points
	Mildly surprised that Bangladesh didn't make the cut.

	Sqwerty:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 04:02 GMT		1 point
	Jelle, as it is the same life expectancy as Sierra Leone, both are now accepted.

	gwukelic:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 04:39 GMT		2 points
	It's official. I'm definitely never moving to Afghanistan.

	Riko:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 06:59 GMT		1 point
	@UTR: Well played sir/madam! It is worth noting that these statistics have factored in infant and child mortality. I wonder how the answers would change if these were adjusted life expectancies which measure the average life expectancies for those who make it past a certain age (usually 5, 15 or 21) and exclude some deaths like war casualties and widespread diseases(like AIDS).

	sporcloid:	Feb 5th, 2011 at 18:32 GMT		6 points
	It's sad to think that living conditions on a small island like Hispaniola are so different that living on the Haitian side reduces life expectancy by more than 11 years.

	spikethedee:	Feb 6th, 2011 at 14:40 GMT		1 point
	I'll second the surprise that Bangladesh isn't on there!

	jefrunner:	Feb 7th, 2011 at 19:45 GMT		1 point
	I was thinking Bangladesh too. Nowhere near as much time to get through Africa as I needed, but, man, eastern Europe made things easy.

	HiddenPalace:	Feb 7th, 2011 at 21:19 GMT		1 point
	I ended up getting them all first time with a minute to spare. Obviously the lowest life expectancies in the world are found in Southern Africa due to the AIDS epidemic. Alcoholism and related issues have reduced Russian life expectancy, especially of men, since the fall of the USSR.

	tuvalu:	Feb 8th, 2011 at 14:07 GMT		4 points
	Help Africa.

	Manitopiaaa:	Feb 9th, 2011 at 09:16 GMT		1 point
	@hollabackitsobi: Russian men and women have the largest gap between genders when it comes to life expectancy in the world. The women live into the 70s while I think that male figure is in the high 50s, low 60s. It's really interesting and a major part of Russia's population collapse.

	Holadude19507:	Dec 11th, 2011 at 19:44 GMT		1 point
	I'm not surprised Bangladesh isn't here. Overall, South Asia does relatively well; Sri Lanka's, for example, is only 3 years behind the USA, and better than some developed countries. India's is 69, still above world average.