Life expectancy at birth, estimates and projections to 2100
The average number of years a newborn would live if the death rates of the year stayed the same throughout life. UN estimates up to 2023 and medium-variant projections from 2024.
216 countries have a value for 2023, the latest period in the data.
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Years. Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division (2024). World Population Prospects 2024. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years. Dashed lines are projections.
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In short
- Among the 216 countries with a value for 2023, the highest is Monaco (86.4 years) and the lowest Nigeria (54.5 years).
- Half of the countries are above 74.5 years and half below.
- From 2022 to 2023 the value rose in 203 countries and fell in 13.
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All countries in 2023 Every value is for 2023, so the countries are compared at the same point in time.
- 1 Monaco 86.4 years
- 2 San Marino 85.7 years
- 3 Hong Kong SAR, China 85.5 years
- 4 Japan 84.7 years
- 5 South Korea 84.3 years
- 6 French Polynesia 84.1 years
- 7 Andorra 84.0 years
- 8 Switzerland 84.0 years
- 9 Australia 83.9 years
- 10 Singapore 83.7 years
- 11 Italy 83.7 years
- 12 Spain 83.7 years
- 13 Liechtenstein 83.6 years
- 14 Gibraltar 83.6 years
- 15 France 83.3 years
- 16 Norway 83.3 years
- 17 Malta 83.3 years
- 18 Sweden 83.3 years
- 19 Macao SAR, China 83.1 years
- 20 United Arab Emirates 82.9 years
- 21 Iceland 82.7 years
- 22 Canada 82.6 years
- 23 Ireland 82.4 years
- 24 Israel 82.4 years
- 25 Qatar 82.4 years
- 26 Portugal 82.4 years
- 27 Bermuda 82.3 years
- 28 Luxembourg 82.2 years
- 29 Netherlands 82.2 years
- 30 Belgium 82.1 years
- 31 New Zealand 82.1 years
- 32 Austria 82.0 years
- 33 Denmark 81.9 years
- 34 Finland 81.9 years
- 35 Greece 81.9 years
- 36 Puerto Rico (US) 81.7 years
- 37 Cyprus 81.6 years
- 38 Slovenia 81.6 years
- 39 Germany 81.4 years
- 40 United Kingdom 81.3 years
- 41 Bahrain 81.3 years
- 42 Chile 81.2 years
- 43 Maldives 81.0 years
- 44 Isle of Man 81.0 years
- 45 Costa Rica 80.8 years
- 46 Kuwait 80.4 years
- 47 Cayman Islands 80.4 years
- 48 Saint Martin (French part) 80.2 years
- 49 Faroe Islands 80.2 years
- 50 Oman 80.0 years
- 51 Czechia 79.8 years
- 52 Albania 79.6 years
- 53 Panama 79.6 years
- 54 United States 79.3 years
- 55 Estonia 79.2 years
- 56 Northern Mariana Islands 78.8 years
- 57 New Caledonia 78.8 years
- 58 Saudi Arabia 78.7 years
- 59 Poland 78.6 years
- 60 Croatia 78.6 years
- 61 Slovakia 78.3 years
- 62 Uruguay 78.1 years
- 63 Cuba 78.1 years
- 64 Kosovo 78.0 years
- 65 Turks and Caicos Islands 78.0 years
- 66 China 78.0 years
- 67 Bosnia and Herzegovina 77.9 years
- 68 Lebanon 77.8 years
- 69 Jordan 77.8 years
- 70 Peru 77.7 years
- 71 Colombia 77.7 years
- 72 Iran 77.7 years
- 73 Antigua and Barbuda 77.6 years
- 74 Sri Lanka 77.5 years
- 75 Argentina 77.4 years
- 76 North Macedonia 77.4 years
- 77 Ecuador 77.4 years
- 78 British Virgin Islands 77.3 years
- 79 Guam 77.2 years
- 80 Türkiye 77.2 years
- 81 Montenegro 77.1 years
- 82 Hungary 77.0 years
- 83 Curaçao 76.8 years
- 84 Serbia 76.8 years
- 85 Malaysia 76.7 years
- 86 Tunisia 76.5 years
- 87 Thailand 76.4 years
- 88 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 76.4 years
- 89 Aruba 76.4 years
- 90 Algeria 76.3 years
- 91 Latvia 76.2 years
- 92 Barbados 76.2 years
- 93 Cabo Verde 76.1 years
- 94 Lithuania 76.0 years
- 95 Romania 75.9 years
- 96 Brazil 75.8 years
- 97 Armenia 75.7 years
- 98 Bulgaria 75.6 years
- 99 US Virgin Islands 75.5 years
- 100 Brunei 75.3 years
- 101 Morocco 75.3 years
- 102 Grenada 75.2 years
- 103 Mexico 75.1 years
- 104 Nicaragua 74.9 years
- 105 Mauritius 74.9 years
- 106 Bangladesh 74.7 years
- 107 Viet Nam 74.6 years
- 108 Bahamas 74.6 years
- 109 Georgia 74.5 years
- 110 Belarus 74.4 years
- 111 Azerbaijan 74.4 years
- 112 Kazakhstan 74.4 years
- 113 Paraguay 73.8 years
- 114 Dominican Republic 73.7 years
- 115 North Korea 73.6 years
- 116 Suriname 73.6 years
- 117 Belize 73.6 years
- 118 Trinidad and Tobago 73.5 years
- 119 Ukraine 73.4 years
- 120 Russia 73.2 years
- 121 Bhutan 73.0 years
- 122 Tonga 72.9 years
- 123 Honduras 72.9 years
- 124 Seychelles 72.9 years
- 125 American Samoa 72.9 years
- 126 Saint Lucia 72.7 years
- 127 Guatemala 72.6 years
- 128 Venezuela 72.5 years
- 129 Uzbekistan 72.4 years
- 130 Iraq 72.3 years
- 131 Saint Kitts and Nevis 72.1 years
- 132 Syria 72.1 years
- 133 El Salvador 72.1 years
- 134 India 72.0 years
- 135 Tajikistan 71.8 years
- 136 Mongolia 71.7 years
- 137 Samoa 71.7 years
- 138 Kyrgyzstan 71.7 years
- 139 Egypt 71.6 years
- 140 Jamaica 71.5 years
- 141 Vanuatu 71.5 years
- 142 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 71.2 years
- 143 Moldova 71.2 years
- 144 Indonesia 71.1 years
- 145 Dominica 71.1 years
- 146 Cambodia 70.7 years
- 147 Solomon Islands 70.5 years
- 148 Nepal 70.4 years
- 149 Guyana 70.2 years
- 150 Turkmenistan 70.1 years
- 151 Greenland 70.1 years
- 152 Philippines 69.8 years
- 153 São Tomé and Príncipe 69.7 years
- 154 Libya 69.3 years
- 155 Yemen 69.3 years
- 156 Palau 69.3 years
- 157 Botswana 69.2 years
- 158 Laos 69.0 years
- 159 Senegal 68.7 years
- 160 Eritrea 68.6 years
- 161 Bolivia 68.6 years
- 162 Mauritania 68.5 years
- 163 Gabon 68.3 years
- 164 Uganda 68.3 years
- 165 Rwanda 67.8 years
- 166 Timor-Leste 67.7 years
- 167 Pakistan 67.6 years
- 168 Namibia 67.4 years
- 169 Malawi 67.4 years
- 170 Fiji 67.3 years
- 171 Ethiopia 67.3 years
- 172 Micronesia 67.2 years
- 173 Tuvalu 67.1 years
- 174 Tanzania 67.0 years
- 175 Marshall Islands 66.9 years
- 176 Myanmar 66.9 years
- 177 Comoros 66.8 years
- 178 Kiribati 66.5 years
- 179 Zambia 66.3 years
- 180 Sudan 66.3 years
- 181 South Africa 66.1 years
- 182 Papua New Guinea 66.1 years
- 183 Afghanistan 66.0 years
- 184 Djibouti 66.0 years
- 185 Gambia 65.9 years
- 186 Republic of the Congo 65.8 years
- 187 Ghana 65.5 years
- 188 West Bank and Gaza 65.2 years
- 189 Haiti 64.9 years
- 190 Angola 64.6 years
- 191 Eswatini 64.1 years
- 192 Guinea-Bissau 64.1 years
- 193 Equatorial Guinea 63.7 years
- 194 Cameroon 63.7 years
- 195 Burundi 63.7 years
- 196 Kenya 63.6 years
- 197 Madagascar 63.6 years
- 198 Mozambique 63.6 years
- 199 Zimbabwe 62.8 years
- 200 Togo 62.7 years
- 201 Liberia 62.2 years
- 202 Naoero 62.1 years
- 203 Côte d'Ivoire 61.9 years
- 204 Democratic Republic of the Congo 61.9 years
- 205 Sierra Leone 61.8 years
- 206 Niger 61.2 years
- 207 Burkina Faso 61.1 years
- 208 Benin 60.8 years
- 209 Guinea 60.7 years
- 210 Mali 60.4 years
- 211 Somalia, Fed. Rep. 58.8 years
- 212 South Sudan 57.6 years
- 213 Central African Republic 57.4 years
- 214 Lesotho 57.4 years
- 215 Chad 55.1 years
- 216 Nigeria 54.5 years
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Grey: no value for 2023. Colour groups split countries into roughly equal numbers. Boundaries: Natural Earth.