Life Expectancy Ranking (2023)

In 2023, life expectancy was highest in Monaco at 86.37 years, followed by San Marino at 85.71 years and Hong Kong at 85.25 years. The average across countries was 73.77 years, the median was 74.52 years, and Nigeria recorded the lowest life expectancy at 54.46 years, according to the World Bank.

Data is available for the period 1960 to 2023 across 218 countries.

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Rank	Country	Current Value ↓	Previous Value	Year
1	Monaco	86.37	85.75	2023
2	San Marino	85.71	85.71	2023
3	Hong Kong	85.25	83.66	2023
4	Liechtenstein	84.84	84.12	2023
5	French Polynesia	84.07	83.86	2023
6	Switzerland	84.06	83.6	2023
7	Andorra	84.04	84.02	2023
8	Japan	84.04	84	2023
9	Spain	83.88	83.13	2023
10	Italy	83.7	82.7	2023
11	Gibraltar	83.55	83.52	2023
12	Malta	83.51	82.45	2023
13	South Korea	83.43	82.68	2023
14	Luxembourg	83.36	82.95	2023
15	Sweden	83.31	83.06	2023
16	Israel	83.2	82.7	2023
17	Kuwait	83.19	80.59	2023
18	Macao SAR China	83.18	83.08	2023
19	Faroe Islands	83.14	82.94	2023
20	Norway	83.11	82.51	2023
21	Australia	83.05	83.2	2023
22	New Zealand	83	81.96	2023
23	France	82.93	82.13	2023
24	United Arab Emirates	82.91	80.49	2023
25	Singapore	82.9	82.9	2023
26	Ireland	82.86	82.51	2023
27	Iceland	82.61	82.12	2023
28	Belgium	82.4	81.75	2023
29	Qatar	82.37	81.86	2023
30	Bermuda	82.31	82.06	2023
31	Portugal	82.28	81.63	2023
32	Slovenia	81.98	81.28	2023
33	Netherlands	81.91	81.61	2023
34	Denmark	81.85	81.3	2023
35	Finland	81.69	81.19	2023
36	Puerto Rico	81.69	79.43	2023
37	Canada	81.65	81.25	2023
38	Cyprus	81.65	80.43	2023
39	Austria	81.54	81.3	2023
40	Greece	81.54	80.79	2023
41	Bahrain	81.28	80.99	2023
42	United Kingdom	81.24	81.01	2023
43	Chile	81.17	79.18	2023
44	Maldives	81.04	80.76	2023
45	Isle of Man	81	80.96	2023
46	Costa Rica	80.8	79.32	2023
47	Germany	80.54	80.61	2023
48	U.S. Virgin Islands	80.52	80.32	2023
49	Cayman Islands	80.36	79.98	2023
50	Saint Martin (French part)	80.22	80.24	2023
51	Oman	80.03	77.91	2023
52	Czech Republic	79.88	78.93	2023
53	Albania	79.6	78.77	2023
54	Panama	79.59	79.32	2023
55	Northern Mariana Islands	78.81	78.53	2023
56	New Caledonia	78.77	77.7	2023
57	Saudi Arabia	78.73	77.31	2023
58	Poland	78.51	77.16	2023
59	Estonia	78.49	77.84	2023
60	Croatia	78.47	77.58	2023
61	United States	78.39	77.43	2023
62	Uruguay	78.14	76.47	2023
63	Cuba	78.08	77.63	2023
64	Kosovo	78.03	77.62	2023
65	Slovakia	78.02	76.97	2023
66	Turks & Caicos Islands	78.01	77.92	2023
67	China	77.95	78.2	2023
68	Bosnia & Herzegovina	77.85	76.78	2023
69	Lebanon	77.82	78	2023
70	Jordan	77.81	77.09	2023
71	Peru	77.74	76.83	2023
72	Colombia	77.72	76.51	2023
73	Iran	77.65	76.8	2023
74	Antigua & Barbuda	77.6	77.48	2023
75	Montenegro	77.59	76.19	2023
76	Sri Lanka	77.48	77.3	2023
77	Armenia	77.47	74.77	2023
78	Argentina	77.39	75.81	2023
79	Ecuador	77.39	76.58	2023
80	British Virgin Islands	77.28	77.18	2023
81	Guam	77.21	77.1	2023
82	Turkey	77.16	77.59	2023
83	Lithuania	76.99	75.64	2023
84	Curaçao	76.8	76.73	2023
85	Hungary	76.77	75.87	2023
86	Malaysia	76.66	75.44	2023
87	Romania	76.61	75.15	2023
88	Tunisia	76.51	76.05	2023
89	Thailand	76.41	75.29	2023
90	Sint Maarten	76.37	76.18	2023
91	Aruba	76.35	76.23	2023
92	Algeria	76.26	76.13	2023
93	Serbia	76.22	75.24	2023
94	Barbados	76.18	75.68	2023
95	Cape Verde	76.06	75.91	2023
96	Brazil	75.85	74.87	2023
97	Bulgaria	75.71	74.16	2023
98	Latvia	75.68	74.28	2023
99	Brunei	75.33	72.92	2023
100	North Macedonia	75.32	74.42	2023
101	Morocco	75.31	75.16	2023
102	Grenada	75.2	75.15	2023
103	Mexico	75.07	73.97	2023
104	Seychelles	74.96	73.7	2023
105	Nicaragua	74.95	74.46	2023
106	Bangladesh	74.67	74.26	2023
107	Vietnam	74.59	74.5	2023
108	Bahamas	74.55	74.49	2023
109	Georgia	74.5	74.14	2023
110	Azerbaijan	74.43	74.12	2023
111	Kazakhstan	74.4	73.5	2023
112	Belarus	74.18	74.1	2023
113	Paraguay	73.84	72.32	2023
114	Dominican Republic	73.72	74.21	2023
115	North Korea	73.64	73.64	2023
116	Suriname	73.63	73.25	2023
117	Belize	73.57	72.19	2023
118	Trinidad & Tobago	73.49	73.33	2023
119	Ukraine	73.42	72.66	2023
120	Mauritius	73.41	73.51	2023
121	Russia	73.25	72.55	2023
122	Bhutan	72.97	72.75	2023
123	Tonga	72.89	72.64	2023
124	Honduras	72.88	72.72	2023
125	American Samoa	72.85	72.75	2023
126	Saint Lucia	72.7	72.67	2023
127	Guatemala	72.6	71.21	2023
128	Venezuela	72.51	72.57	2023
129	Uzbekistan	72.39	72.15	2023
130	Iraq	72.32	72.04	2023
131	Kyrgyzstan	72.25	72.05	2023
132	Saint Kitts & Nevis	72.14	70.31	2023
133	Mongolia	72.12	71.9	2023
134	Syria	72.12	72.79	2023
135	El Salvador	72.1	71.97	2023
136	India	72	71.7	2023
137	Tajikistan	71.79	71.56	2023
138	Samoa	71.7	71.55	2023
139	Egypt	71.63	71.01	2023
140	Greenland	71.55	71.54	2023
141	Jamaica	71.48	71.48	2023
142	Vanuatu	71.48	71.3	2023
143	Saint Vincent & Grenadines	71.23	71.19	2023
144	Moldova	71.2	71.55	2023
145	Indonesia	71.15	70.92	2023
146	Dominica	71.13	71.08	2023
147	Cambodia	70.67	70.53	2023
148	Solomon Islands	70.53	70.41	2023
149	Nepal	70.35	70.09	2023
150	Guyana	70.18	69.89	2023
151	Turkmenistan	70.07	69.91	2023
152	Philippines	69.83	69.47	2023
153	São Tomé & Príncipe	69.72	69.24	2023
154	Libya	69.34	74.46	2023
155	Yemen	69.3	67.95	2023
156	Palau	69.27	68.92	2023
157	Botswana	69.16	68.75	2023
158	Laos	68.96	68.72	2023
159	Senegal	68.68	67.79	2023
160	Eritrea	68.62	67.79	2023
161	Bolivia	68.58	67.43	2023
162	Mauritania	68.48	68.28	2023
163	Gabon	68.34	67.71	2023
164	Uganda	68.25	67.67	2023
165	Rwanda	67.78	67.53	2023
166	Timor-Leste	67.69	67.37	2023
167	Pakistan	67.65	67.42	2023
168	Namibia	67.39	64.19	2023
169	Malawi	67.35	66.04	2023
170	Ethiopia	67.32	66.9	2023
171	Fiji	67.32	67.15	2023
172	Federated States of Micronesia	67.2	66.96	2023
173	Tuvalu	67.11	66.85	2023
174	Tanzania	67	66.88	2023
175	Marshall Islands	66.94	66.72	2023
176	Myanmar	66.89	66.51	2023
177	Comoros	66.78	66.48	2023
178	Kiribati	66.47	66.27	2023
179	Zambia	66.35	65.28	2023
180	Sudan	66.33	65.69	2023
181	South Africa	66.14	65.45	2023
182	Papua New Guinea	66.13	65.27	2023
183	Afghanistan	66.03	65.62	2023
184	Djibouti	65.99	65.54	2023
185	Gambia	65.86	64.86	2023
186	Congo - Brazzaville	65.77	65	2023
187	Ghana	65.5	65.25	2023
188	Palestinian Territories	65.17	76.66	2023
189	Haiti	64.94	63.95	2023
190	Angola	64.62	64.25	2023
191	Eswatini	64.12	63.03	2023
192	Guinea-Bissau	64.08	63.6	2023
193	Equatorial Guinea	63.71	63.35	2023
194	Cameroon	63.7	62.44	2023
195	Burundi	63.65	62.88	2023
196	Kenya	63.65	63.55	2023
197	Madagascar	63.63	63.07	2023
198	Mozambique	63.61	63.01	2023
199	Zimbabwe	62.77	62.36	2023
200	Togo	62.74	62.29	2023
201	Liberia	62.16	61.93	2023
202	Nauru	62.11	61.93	2023
203	Côte d'Ivoire	61.94	61.56	2023
204	Congo - Kinshasa	61.9	60.98	2023
205	Sierra Leone	61.79	61.27	2023
206	Niger	61.18	60.4	2023
207	Burkina Faso	61.09	60.7	2023
208	Benin	60.77	60.48	2023
209	Guinea	60.74	60.43	2023
210	Mali	60.44	60.03	2023
211	Somalia	58.82	53.93	2023
212	South Sudan	57.62	57.2	2023
213	Central African Republic	57.41	18.82	2023
214	Lesotho	57.38	56.81	2023
215	Chad	55.07	54.53	2023
216	Nigeria	54.46	54.08	2023

Life Expectancy Ranking (2023) : Definition

Life Expectancy measures the average number of years a newborn is expected to live under current age-specific mortality rates, reported in years for the reference year.