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Table 1 Top five punching above their weight countries and bottom five at each level of development (2015)

From: Punching above their weight: a network to understand broader determinants of increasing life expectancy

Low income

Middle Income

High Income

Top performers (top row punches most above weight)

 Nepal

Honduras

Japan

 Madagascar

Viet Nam

Spain

 Rwanda

Nicaragua

Chile

 Liberia

Bangladesh

Greece

 Ethiopia

Solomon Islands

South Korea

Bottom performers (bottom row punches the most below weight)

 Central African Republic

Swaziland

Brunei Darussalam

 Mali

Cote d’Ivoire

Saudi Arabia

 South Sudan

Nigeria

Trinidad and Tobago

 Chad

Angola

Qatar

 Sierra Leone

Equatorial Guinea

Kuwait

  1. Note: Performance is defined as the distance from the regression line linking life expectancy at birth (2015) [28] and gross domestic product (2015) [29]