Life expectancy

Years a newborn would live under the mortality rates of that year.

measured by: World Bank
originally from: UN Population Division, World Population Prospects
years covered: 1960–2024
subject: Society

Higher is generally taken as better.

How this is measured

A synthetic figure, not a forecast: it asks how long a baby born this year would live if the mortality rates of this year held for its whole life, which they will not. That construction is why it drops sharply in a bad year — an epidemic or a war — and recovers just as sharply, and why historical figures are dragged down mostly by deaths in infancy.

Ranked for 2024

170 countries and territories have a figure for 2024. This is the most recent year the series covers well; the viewer holds every year from 1960.

#	Country	Region	Life expectancy
1	Kuwait	Middle East & North Africa	84.6
2	Switzerland	Europe	84.4
3	Sweden	Europe	84.1
4	Japan	Asia-Pacific	84.0
5	Italy	Europe	84.0
6	Spain	Europe	83.9
7	South Korea	Asia-Pacific	83.6
8	Israel	Middle East & North Africa	83.2
9	Luxembourg	Europe	83.2
10	Norway	Europe	83.2
11	United Arab Emirates	Middle East & North Africa	83.1
12	Australia	Asia-Pacific	83.1
13	Ireland	Europe	83.0
14	France	Europe	83.0
15	Iceland	Europe	82.8
16	Qatar	Middle East & North Africa	82.5
17	Portugal	Europe	82.4
18	Finland	Europe	82.3
19	Belgium	Europe	82.3
20	Slovenia	Europe	82.3
21	Denmark	Europe	82.3
22	Canada	Americas	82.1
23	New Zealand	Asia-Pacific	82.0
24	Austria	Europe	82.0
25	Netherlands	Europe	82.0
26	Puerto Rico	Americas	81.9
27	Greece	Europe	81.8
28	Cyprus	Europe	81.8
29	United Kingdom	Europe	81.4
30	Chile	Americas	81.4
31	Costa Rica	Americas	81.0
32	Germany	Europe	80.8
33	Oman	Middle East & North Africa	80.2
34	Czechia	Europe	80.0
35	Albania	Europe	79.8
36	Panama	Americas	79.8
37	Estonia	Europe	79.3
38	Saudi Arabia	Middle East & North Africa	79.0
39	Croatia	Europe	78.9
40	New Caledonia	Asia-Pacific	78.9
41	United States	Americas	78.9
42	Poland	Europe	78.4
43	Slovakia	Europe	78.4
44	Armenia	Eurasia	78.3
45	Uruguay	Americas	78.3
46	Cuba	Americas	78.3
47	Kosovo	Europe	78.2
48	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Europe	78.0
49	China	Asia-Pacific	78.0
50	Jordan	Middle East & North Africa	78.0
51	Lebanon	Middle East & North Africa	77.9
52	Peru	Americas	77.9
53	Colombia	Americas	77.9
54	Montenegro	Europe	77.9
55	Iran	Middle East & North Africa	77.9
56	Sri Lanka	Asia-Pacific	77.7
57	Ecuador	Americas	77.6
58	Argentina	Americas	77.5
59	Turkey	Eurasia	77.4
60	Lithuania	Europe	77.2
61	Malaysia	Asia-Pacific	76.8
62	Hungary	Europe	76.7
63	Tunisia	Middle East & North Africa	76.7
64	North Macedonia	Europe	76.6
65	Thailand	Asia-Pacific	76.6
66	Algeria	Middle East & North Africa	76.5
67	Romania	Europe	76.5
68	Latvia	Europe	76.4
69	Brazil	Americas	76.0
70	Serbia	Europe	76.0
71	Bulgaria	Europe	75.8
72	Brunei	Asia-Pacific	75.5
73	Morocco	Middle East & North Africa	75.5
74	Mexico	Americas	75.3
75	Nicaragua	Americas	75.1
76	Bangladesh	Asia-Pacific	74.9
77	Vietnam	Asia-Pacific	74.7
78	Bahamas	Americas	74.7
79	Ukraine	Eurasia	74.7
80	Georgia	Eurasia	74.7
81	Azerbaijan	Eurasia	74.6
82	Kazakhstan	Eurasia	74.5
83	Belarus	Eurasia	74.4
84	Paraguay	Americas	74.0
85	Dominican Republic	Americas	73.9
86	Suriname	Americas	73.8
87	North Korea	Asia-Pacific	73.7
88	Belize	Americas	73.7
89	Trinidad and Tobago	Americas	73.6
90	Russia	Eurasia	73.4
91	Bhutan	Asia-Pacific	73.3
92	Honduras	Americas	73.0
93	Guatemala	Americas	72.7
94	Venezuela	Americas	72.7
95	Syria	Middle East & North Africa	72.6
96	Uzbekistan	Eurasia	72.5
97	Iraq	Middle East & North Africa	72.4
98	Kyrgyzstan	Eurasia	72.4
99	Mongolia	Asia-Pacific	72.4
100	El Salvador	Americas	72.3
101	India	Asia-Pacific	72.2
102	Tajikistan	Eurasia	71.9
103	Egypt	Middle East & North Africa	71.8
104	Vanuatu	Asia-Pacific	71.7
105	Jamaica	Americas	71.6
106	Moldova	Eurasia	71.3
107	Indonesia	Asia-Pacific	71.3
108	Libya	Middle East & North Africa	71.1
109	Cambodia	Asia-Pacific	70.8
110	Solomon Islands	Asia-Pacific	70.7
111	Nepal	Asia-Pacific	70.6
112	Guyana	Americas	70.3
113	Greenland	Americas	70.3
114	Turkmenistan	Eurasia	70.2
115	Philippines	Asia-Pacific	69.9
116	Yemen	Middle East & North Africa	69.4
117	Botswana	Sub-Saharan Africa	69.3
118	Laos	Asia-Pacific	69.2
119	Palestine	Middle East & North Africa	69.2
120	Senegal	Sub-Saharan Africa	68.9
121	Eritrea	Sub-Saharan Africa	68.9
122	Bolivia	Americas	68.7
123	Mauritania	Sub-Saharan Africa	68.7
124	Gabon	Sub-Saharan Africa	68.5
125	Uganda	Sub-Saharan Africa	68.5
126	Rwanda	Sub-Saharan Africa	68.0
127	Timor-Leste	Asia-Pacific	67.9
128	Pakistan	Asia-Pacific	67.8
129	Ethiopia	Sub-Saharan Africa	67.6
130	Malawi	Sub-Saharan Africa	67.6
131	Namibia	Sub-Saharan Africa	67.5
132	Fiji	Asia-Pacific	67.5
133	Tanzania	Sub-Saharan Africa	67.2
134	Myanmar	Asia-Pacific	67.1
135	Zambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	66.5
136	Sudan	Sub-Saharan Africa	66.5
137	South Africa	Sub-Saharan Africa	66.3
138	Afghanistan	Asia-Pacific	66.3
139	Papua New Guinea	Asia-Pacific	66.3
140	Djibouti	Sub-Saharan Africa	66.2
141	Gambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	66.1
142	Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	66.0
143	Ghana	Sub-Saharan Africa	65.7
144	Haiti	Americas	65.1
145	Angola	Sub-Saharan Africa	64.8
146	Eswatini	Sub-Saharan Africa	64.3
147	Guinea-Bissau	Sub-Saharan Africa	64.3
148	Cameroon	Sub-Saharan Africa	64.0
149	Equatorial Guinea	Sub-Saharan Africa	63.9
150	Madagascar	Sub-Saharan Africa	63.8
151	Kenya	Sub-Saharan Africa	63.8
152	Burundi	Sub-Saharan Africa	63.8
153	Mozambique	Sub-Saharan Africa	63.8
154	Zimbabwe	Sub-Saharan Africa	63.1
155	Togo	Sub-Saharan Africa	62.9
156	Liberia	Sub-Saharan Africa	62.3
157	Côte d'Ivoire	Sub-Saharan Africa	62.1
158	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	62.1
159	Sierra Leone	Sub-Saharan Africa	62.0
160	Niger	Sub-Saharan Africa	61.4
161	Burkina Faso	Sub-Saharan Africa	61.3
162	Benin	Sub-Saharan Africa	61.0
163	Guinea	Sub-Saharan Africa	60.9
164	Mali	Sub-Saharan Africa	60.7
165	Somalia	Sub-Saharan Africa	59.0
166	Lesotho	Sub-Saharan Africa	57.8
167	South Sudan	Sub-Saharan Africa	57.7
168	Central African Republic	Sub-Saharan Africa	57.7
169	Chad	Sub-Saharan Africa	55.2
170	Nigeria	Sub-Saharan Africa	54.6

Data by year

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Source and licence

World Bank — World Development Indicators

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