Life expectancy in Sierra Leone

61.8

years at birth · 2023

224th highest of 235 countries

In 2013: 54.1

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Nearby in the ranking

  1. Nauru 62.1
  2. Côte d'Ivoire 61.9
  3. Dem. Rep. Congo 61.9
  4. Sierra Leone 61.8
  5. Niger 61.2
  6. Burkina Faso 61.1
  7. Benin 60.8

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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