The average life-span of people in the world is is 67.2. Within this, the highest in Europe is 77.8 years and the lowest in Africa is 53 years. In Hungary, the average life-span for women is 79.33 years for women and 72.86 for men, which is higher than the pan-European average. However, the most prominent countries are South Korea, Japan, Switzerland, Singapore, Australia, Spain, New Zealand, Canada, Israel, Italy and France.