Life expectancy by country
How many years a newborn baby can expect to live. The map opens on 2023, with figures for 235 countries.
Highest in 2023
- Monaco 86.4
- San Marino 85.7
- Hong Kong 85.5
- Japan 84.7
- South Korea 84.3
Lowest in 2023
- Nigeria 54.5
- Chad 55.1
- Lesotho 57.4
- Central African Rep. 57.4
- 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
All countries
- Afghanistan 66.0 (2023)
- Albania 79.6 (2023)
- Algeria 76.3 (2023)
- American Samoa 72.9 (2023)
- Andorra 84.0 (2023)
- Angola 64.6 (2023)
- Anguilla 79.3 (2023)
- Antigua and Barb. 77.6 (2023)
- Argentina 77.4 (2023)
- Armenia 75.7 (2023)
- Aruba 76.4 (2023)
- Australia 83.9 (2023)
- Austria 82.0 (2023)
- Azerbaijan 74.4 (2023)
- Bahamas 74.6 (2023)
- Bahrain 81.3 (2023)
- Bangladesh 74.7 (2023)
- Barbados 76.2 (2023)
- Belarus 74.4 (2023)
- Belgium 82.1 (2023)
- Belize 73.6 (2023)
- Benin 60.8 (2023)
- Bermuda 82.3 (2023)
- Bhutan 73.0 (2023)
- Bolivia 68.6 (2023)
- Bosnia and Herz. 77.9 (2023)
- Botswana 69.2 (2023)
- Brazil 75.8 (2023)
- British Virgin Is. 77.3 (2023)
- Brunei 75.3 (2023)
- Bulgaria 75.6 (2023)
- Burkina Faso 61.1 (2023)
- Burundi 63.7 (2023)
- Cabo Verde 76.1 (2023)
- Cambodia 70.7 (2023)
- Cameroon 63.7 (2023)
- Canada 82.6 (2023)
- Caribbean Netherlands 77.4 (2023)
- Cayman Is. 80.4 (2023)
- Central African Rep. 57.4 (2023)
- Chad 55.1 (2023)
- Chile 81.2 (2023)
- China 78.0 (2023)
- Colombia 77.7 (2023)
- Comoros 66.8 (2023)
- Congo 65.8 (2023)
- Cook Is. 75.3 (2023)
- Costa Rica 80.8 (2023)
- Côte d'Ivoire 61.9 (2023)
- Croatia 78.6 (2023)
- Cuba 78.1 (2023)
- Curaçao 76.8 (2023)
- Cyprus 81.6 (2023)
- Czechia 79.8 (2023)
- Dem. Rep. Congo 61.9 (2023)
- Denmark 81.9 (2023)
- Djibouti 66.0 (2023)
- Dominica 71.1 (2023)
- Dominican Rep. 73.7 (2023)
- Ecuador 77.4 (2023)
- Egypt 71.6 (2023)
- El Salvador 72.1 (2023)
- Eq. Guinea 63.7 (2023)
- Eritrea 68.6 (2023)
- Estonia 79.2 (2023)
- eSwatini 64.1 (2023)
- Ethiopia 67.3 (2023)
- Faeroe Is. 80.2 (2023)
- Falkland Is. 79.2 (2023)
- Fiji 67.3 (2023)
- Finland 81.9 (2023)
- Fr. Polynesia 84.1 (2023)
- France 83.3 (2023)
- French Guiana 77.0 (2023)
- Gabon 68.3 (2023)
- Gambia 65.9 (2023)
- Georgia 74.5 (2023)
- Germany 81.4 (2023)
- Ghana 65.5 (2023)
- Gibraltar 83.6 (2023)
- Greece 81.9 (2023)
- Greenland 70.1 (2023)
- Grenada 75.2 (2023)
- Guadeloupe 82.1 (2023)
- Guam 77.2 (2023)
- Guatemala 72.6 (2023)
- Guernsey 83.3 (2023)
- Guinea 60.7 (2023)
- Guinea-Bissau 64.1 (2023)
- Guyana 70.2 (2023)
- Haiti 64.9 (2023)
- Honduras 72.9 (2023)
- Hong Kong 85.5 (2023)
- Hungary 77.0 (2023)
- Iceland 82.7 (2023)
- India 72.0 (2023)
- Indonesia 71.1 (2023)
- Iran 77.7 (2023)
- Iraq 72.3 (2023)
- Ireland 82.4 (2023)
- Isle of Man 81.0 (2023)
- Israel 82.4 (2023)
- Italy 83.7 (2023)
- Jamaica 71.5 (2023)
- Japan 84.7 (2023)
- Jersey 79.7 (2023)
- Jordan 77.8 (2023)
- Judea and Samaria and Gaza Strip 65.2 (2023)
- Kazakhstan 74.4 (2023)
- Kenya 63.6 (2023)
- Kiribati 66.5 (2023)
- Kosovo 78.0 (2023)
- Kuwait 80.4 (2023)
- Kyrgyzstan 71.7 (2023)
- Laos 69.0 (2023)
- Latvia 76.2 (2023)
- Lebanon 77.8 (2023)
- Lesotho 57.4 (2023)
- Liberia 62.2 (2023)
- Libya 69.3 (2023)
- Liechtenstein 83.6 (2023)
- Lithuania 76.0 (2023)
- Luxembourg 82.2 (2023)
- Macao 83.1 (2023)
- Madagascar 63.6 (2023)
- Malawi 67.4 (2023)
- Malaysia 76.7 (2023)
- Maldives 81.0 (2023)
- Mali 60.4 (2023)
- Malta 83.3 (2023)
- Marshall Is. 66.9 (2023)
- Martinique 82.6 (2023)
- Mauritania 68.5 (2023)
- Mauritius 74.9 (2023)
- Mayotte 76.1 (2023)
- Mexico 75.1 (2023)
- Micronesia 67.2 (2023)
- Moldova 71.2 (2023)
- Monaco 86.4 (2023)
- Mongolia 71.7 (2023)
- Montenegro 77.1 (2023)
- Montserrat 76.2 (2023)
- Morocco 75.3 (2023)
- Mozambique 63.6 (2023)
- Myanmar 66.9 (2023)
- N. Mariana Is. 78.8 (2023)
- Namibia 67.4 (2023)
- Nauru 62.1 (2023)
- Nepal 70.4 (2023)
- Netherlands 82.2 (2023)
- New Caledonia 78.8 (2023)
- New Zealand 82.1 (2023)
- Nicaragua 74.9 (2023)
- Niger 61.2 (2023)
- Nigeria 54.5 (2023)
- Niue 70.0 (2023)
- North Korea 73.6 (2023)
- North Macedonia 77.4 (2023)
- Norway 83.3 (2023)
- Oman 80.0 (2023)
- Pakistan 67.6 (2023)
- Palau 69.3 (2023)
- Panama 79.6 (2023)
- Papua New Guinea 66.1 (2023)
- Paraguay 73.8 (2023)
- Peru 77.7 (2023)
- Philippines 69.8 (2023)
- Poland 78.6 (2023)
- Portugal 82.4 (2023)
- Puerto Rico 81.7 (2023)
- Qatar 82.4 (2023)
- Réunion 83.5 (2023)
- Romania 75.9 (2023)
- Russia 73.2 (2023)
- Rwanda 67.8 (2023)
- S. Sudan 57.6 (2023)
- Saint Helena 76.8 (2023)
- Saint Lucia 72.7 (2023)
- Samoa 71.7 (2023)
- San Marino 85.7 (2023)
- São Tomé and Principe 69.7 (2023)
- Saudi Arabia 78.7 (2023)
- Senegal 68.7 (2023)
- Serbia 76.8 (2023)
- Seychelles 72.9 (2023)
- Sierra Leone 61.8 (2023)
- Singapore 83.7 (2023)
- Sint Maarten 76.4 (2023)
- Slovakia 78.3 (2023)
- Slovenia 81.6 (2023)
- Solomon Is. 70.5 (2023)
- Somalia 58.8 (2023)
- South Africa 66.1 (2023)
- South Korea 84.3 (2023)
- Spain 83.7 (2023)
- Sri Lanka 77.5 (2023)
- St-Barthélemy 84.3 (2023)
- St-Martin 80.2 (2023)
- St. Kitts and Nevis 72.1 (2023)
- St. Pierre and Miquelon 76.8 (2023)
- St. Vin. and Gren. 71.2 (2023)
- Sudan 66.3 (2023)
- Suriname 73.6 (2023)
- Sweden 83.3 (2023)
- Switzerland 84.0 (2023)
- Syria 72.1 (2023)
- Tajikistan 71.8 (2023)
- Tanzania 67.0 (2023)
- Thailand 76.4 (2023)
- Timor-Leste 67.7 (2023)
- Togo 62.7 (2023)
- Tokelau 77.1 (2023)
- Tonga 72.9 (2023)
- Trinidad and Tobago 73.5 (2023)
- Tunisia 76.5 (2023)
- Turkey 77.2 (2023)
- Turkmenistan 70.1 (2023)
- Turks and Caicos Is. 78.0 (2023)
- Tuvalu 67.1 (2023)
- U.S. Virgin Is. 75.5 (2023)
- Uganda 68.3 (2023)
- Ukraine 73.4 (2023)
- United Arab Emirates 82.9 (2023)
- United Kingdom 81.3 (2023)
- United States of America 79.3 (2023)
- Uruguay 78.1 (2023)
- Uzbekistan 72.4 (2023)
- Vanuatu 71.5 (2023)
- Vatican 83.0 (2023)
- Venezuela 72.5 (2023)
- Vietnam 74.6 (2023)
- Wallis and Futuna Is. 78.6 (2023)
- Yemen 69.3 (2023)
- Zambia 66.3 (2023)
- Zimbabwe 62.8 (2023)