Life expectancy in Niger
61.2
years at birth · 2023
225th highest of 235 countries
In 2013: 58.4
Nearby in the ranking
- Côte d'Ivoire 61.9
- Dem. Rep. Congo 61.9
- Sierra Leone 61.8
- Niger 61.2
- Burkina Faso 61.1
- Benin 60.8
- Guinea 60.7
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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