Life expectancy by country

How many years a newborn baby can expect to live. The map opens on 2023, with figures for 235 countries.

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Highest in 2023

  1. Monaco 86.4
  2. San Marino 85.7
  3. Hong Kong 85.5
  4. Japan 84.7
  5. South Korea 84.3

Lowest in 2023

  1. Nigeria 54.5
  2. Chad 55.1
  3. Lesotho 57.4
  4. Central African Rep. 57.4
  5. S. Sudan 57.6

About the data

Period life expectancy is the number of years the average person born in a certain year would live if they experienced the same chances of dying at each age as people did that year.

Unit
years at birth
Years
1950–2023
Data as of
2026-09-28
Source
Our World in Data
License
CC BY 4.0
Credit
Our World in Data; Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. CC BY 4.0

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