Life expectancy in Jamaica
71.5
years at birth · 2023
158th highest of 235 countries
In 2013: 72.4
Nearby in the ranking
- Samoa 71.7
- Kyrgyzstan 71.7
- Egypt 71.6
- Jamaica 71.5
- Vanuatu 71.5
- St. Vin. and Gren. 71.2
- Moldova 71.2
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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