Life expectancy at birth, men by country, 2024
The number of years a newborn boy would live if current mortality patterns stayed the same throughout his life.
217 places ranked for 2024. Highest: Monaco (84.6 years). Lowest: Chad (53.4 years). The median is 71.6 years.
Highest 10
- 1. Monaco 84.6 years
- 2. San Marino 84.3 years
- 3. Kuwait 83.8 years
- 4. Hong Kong SAR, China 82.7 years
- 5. Switzerland 82.7 years
- 6. Sweden 82.6 years
- 7. Andorra 82.3 years
- 8. Liechtenstein 82.2 years
- 9. United Arab Emirates 82.2 years
- 10. Italy 82.0 years
Lowest 10
- 217. Chad 53.4 years
- 216. Nigeria 54.3 years
- 215. South Sudan 54.8 years
- 214. Lesotho 55.0 years
- 213. Central African Republic 55.5 years
- 212. Somalia, Fed. Rep. 56.5 years
- 211. Burkina Faso 59.1 years
- 210. Mali 59.3 years
- 209. Benin 59.5 years
- 208. Guinea 59.7 years
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The chart shows the 40 highest values; the table lists all 217. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators.
In short
- Among the 217 countries with a value for 2024, the highest is Monaco (84.6 years) and the lowest Chad (53.4 years).
- Half of the countries are above 71.6 years and half below.
- From 2023 to 2024 the value rose in 207 countries and fell in 8.
- The figure for the world was 71.1 years in 2024, against 70.5 years in 2019 (+0.8%).
Full ranking
| # | Country | Value | Period | Relative size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monaco | 84.6 years | 2024 | |
| 2 | San Marino | 84.3 years | 2024 | |
| 3 | Kuwait | 83.8 years | 2024 | |
| 4 | Hong Kong SAR, China | 82.7 years | 2024 | |
| 5 | Switzerland | 82.7 years | 2024 | |
| 6 | Sweden | 82.6 years | 2024 | |
| 7 | Andorra | 82.3 years | 2024 | |
| 8 | Liechtenstein | 82.2 years | 2024 | |
| 9 | United Arab Emirates | 82.2 years | 2024 | |
| 10 | Italy | 82.0 years | 2024 | |
| 11 | French Polynesia | 81.9 years | 2024 | |
| 12 | Qatar | 81.8 years | 2024 | |
| 13 | Norway | 81.6 years | 2024 | |
| 14 | Ireland | 81.4 years | 2024 | |
| 15 | Spain | 81.4 years | 2024 | |
| 16 | Faroe Islands | 81.3 years | 2024 | |
| 17 | Iceland | 81.2 years | 2024 | |
| 18 | Malta | 81.2 years | 2024 | |
| 19 | Singapore | 81.2 years | 2024 | |
| 20 | Australia | 81.1 years | 2024 | |
| 21 | Israel | 81.1 years | 2024 | |
| 22 | Japan | 81.1 years | 2024 | |
| 23 | Gibraltar | 81.0 years | 2024 | |
| 24 | Luxembourg | 81.0 years | 2024 | |
| 25 | Bahrain | 80.9 years | 2024 | |
| 26 | South Korea | 80.8 years | 2024 | |
| 27 | Macao SAR, China | 80.6 years | 2024 | |
| 28 | Netherlands | 80.6 years | 2024 | |
| 29 | Denmark | 80.4 years | 2024 | |
| 30 | New Zealand | 80.4 years | 2024 | |
| 31 | Belgium | 80.3 years | 2024 | |
| 32 | France | 80.2 years | 2024 | |
| 33 | Canada | 80.0 years | 2024 | |
| 34 | Maldives | 79.9 years | 2024 | |
| 35 | Cyprus | 79.8 years | 2024 | |
| 36 | Austria | 79.8 years | 2024 | |
| 37 | Finland | 79.8 years | 2024 | |
| 38 | Portugal | 79.7 years | 2024 | |
| 39 | Slovenia | 79.7 years | 2024 | |
| 40 | United Kingdom | 79.5 years | 2024 | |
| 41 | Chile | 79.5 years | 2024 | |
| 42 | Greece | 79.4 years | 2024 | |
| 43 | Channel Islands | 79.1 years | 2024 | |
| 44 | Bermuda | 79.1 years | 2024 | |
| 45 | Isle of Man | 79.0 years | 2024 | |
| 46 | Oman | 78.7 years | 2024 | |
| 47 | Germany | 78.5 years | 2024 | |
| 48 | Costa Rica | 78.4 years | 2024 | |
| 49 | Puerto Rico (US) | 78.3 years | 2024 | |
| 50 | Cayman Islands | 78.2 years | 2024 | |
| 51 | Albania | 77.9 years | 2024 | |
| 52 | US Virgin Islands | 77.6 years | 2024 | |
| 53 | Saudi Arabia | 77.3 years | 2024 | |
| 54 | Northern Mariana Islands | 77.3 years | 2024 | |
| 55 | Czechia | 77.1 years | 2024 | |
| 56 | Saint Martin (French part) | 77.0 years | 2024 | |
| 57 | Panama | 76.9 years | 2024 | |
| 58 | United States | 76.5 years | 2024 | |
| 59 | New Caledonia | 76.5 years | 2024 | |
| 60 | Croatia | 76.1 years | 2024 | |
| 61 | Kosovo | 76.0 years | 2024 | |
| 62 | Turks and Caicos Islands | 76.0 years | 2024 | |
| 63 | Iran | 76.0 years | 2024 | |
| 64 | Jordan | 75.9 years | 2024 | |
| 65 | Lebanon | 75.9 years | 2024 | |
| 66 | Cuba | 75.9 years | 2024 | |
| 67 | Peru | 75.6 years | 2024 | |
| 68 | Montenegro | 75.5 years | 2024 | |
| 69 | China | 75.2 years | 2024 | |
| 70 | Slovakia | 75.2 years | 2024 | |
| 71 | Colombia | 75.2 years | 2024 | |
| 72 | Armenia | 75.1 years | 2024 | |
| 73 | Estonia | 75.1 years | 2024 | |
| 74 | Algeria | 75.1 years | 2024 | |
| 75 | Argentina | 75.0 years | 2024 | |
| 76 | Ecuador | 74.9 years | 2024 | |
| 77 | Poland | 74.8 years | 2024 | |
| 78 | Antigua and Barbuda | 74.7 years | 2024 | |
| 79 | British Virgin Islands | 74.7 years | 2024 | |
| 80 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 74.6 years | 2024 | |
| 81 | Türkiye | 74.6 years | 2024 | |
| 82 | North Macedonia | 74.5 years | 2024 | |
| 83 | Malaysia | 74.4 years | 2024 | |
| 84 | Sri Lanka | 74.4 years | 2024 | |
| 85 | Uruguay | 74.4 years | 2024 | |
| 86 | Tunisia | 74.1 years | 2024 | |
| 87 | Sint Maarten (Dutch part) | 73.8 years | 2024 | |
| 88 | Aruba | 73.8 years | 2024 | |
| 89 | Barbados | 73.8 years | 2024 | |
| 90 | Hungary | 73.7 years | 2024 | |
| 91 | Serbia | 73.7 years | 2024 | |
| 92 | Guam | 73.7 years | 2024 | |
| 93 | Brunei | 73.5 years | 2024 | |
| 94 | Morocco | 73.3 years | 2024 | |
| 95 | Bangladesh | 73.3 years | 2024 | |
| 96 | Cabo Verde | 73.1 years | 2024 | |
| 97 | Lithuania | 73.0 years | 2024 | |
| 98 | Brazil | 73.0 years | 2024 | |
| 99 | Romania | 72.8 years | 2024 | |
| 100 | Curaçao | 72.7 years | 2024 | |
| 101 | Grenada | 72.5 years | 2024 | |
| 102 | Nicaragua | 72.5 years | 2024 | |
| 103 | Mexico | 72.4 years | 2024 | |
| 104 | Thailand | 72.3 years | 2024 | |
| 105 | Bulgaria | 72.2 years | 2024 | |
| 106 | Seychelles | 72.1 years | 2024 | |
| 107 | Azerbaijan | 71.7 years | 2024 | |
| 108 | Latvia | 71.6 years | 2024 | |
| 109 | Bhutan | 71.6 years | 2024 | |
| 110 | North Korea | 71.6 years | 2024 | |
| 111 | Belize | 71.1 years | 2024 | |
| 112 | Bahamas | 71.1 years | 2024 | |
| 113 | Paraguay | 71.0 years | 2024 | |
| 114 | India | 70.7 years | 2024 | |
| 115 | Dominican Republic | 70.7 years | 2024 | |
| 116 | Suriname | 70.6 years | 2024 | |
| 117 | Trinidad and Tobago | 70.5 years | 2024 | |
| 118 | Iraq | 70.5 years | 2024 | |
| 119 | Honduras | 70.5 years | 2024 | |
| 120 | Guatemala | 70.4 years | 2024 | |
| 121 | Mauritius | 70.4 years | 2024 | |
| 122 | American Samoa | 70.3 years | 2024 | |
| 123 | Kazakhstan | 70.3 years | 2024 | |
| 124 | Syria | 70.2 years | 2024 | |
| 125 | Viet Nam | 70.1 years | 2024 | |
| 126 | Samoa | 70.0 years | 2024 | |
| 127 | Ukraine | 69.8 years | 2024 | |
| 128 | Georgia | 69.7 years | 2024 | |
| 129 | Belarus | 69.7 years | 2024 | |
| 130 | Tajikistan | 69.7 years | 2024 | |
| 131 | Egypt | 69.7 years | 2024 | |
| 132 | Libya | 69.6 years | 2024 | |
| 133 | Vanuatu | 69.6 years | 2024 | |
| 134 | Uzbekistan | 69.6 years | 2024 | |
| 135 | Tonga | 69.5 years | 2024 | |
| 136 | Saint Lucia | 69.5 years | 2024 | |
| 137 | Solomon Islands | 69.4 years | 2024 | |
| 138 | Indonesia | 69.2 years | 2024 | |
| 139 | Nepal | 69.1 years | 2024 | |
| 140 | Jamaica | 69.1 years | 2024 | |
| 141 | Venezuela | 68.9 years | 2024 | |
| 142 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 68.8 years | 2024 | |
| 143 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 68.7 years | 2024 | |
| 144 | Greenland | 68.4 years | 2024 | |
| 145 | Kyrgyzstan | 68.4 years | 2024 | |
| 146 | Dominica | 68.4 years | 2024 | |
| 147 | Russia | 68.3 years | 2024 | |
| 148 | Cambodia | 68.1 years | 2024 | |
| 149 | Mongolia | 67.9 years | 2024 | |
| 150 | El Salvador | 67.8 years | 2024 | |
| 151 | Yemen | 67.4 years | 2024 | |
| 152 | Palau | 67.3 years | 2024 | |
| 153 | Laos | 67.0 years | 2024 | |
| 154 | Senegal | 67.0 years | 2024 | |
| 155 | Turkmenistan | 67.0 years | 2024 | |
| 156 | Philippines | 67.0 years | 2024 | |
| 157 | Botswana | 66.8 years | 2024 | |
| 158 | Eritrea | 66.8 years | 2024 | |
| 159 | Mauritania | 66.7 years | 2024 | |
| 160 | Moldova | 66.7 years | 2024 | |
| 161 | Guyana | 66.6 years | 2024 | |
| 162 | São Tomé and Príncipe | 66.4 years | 2024 | |
| 163 | Bolivia | 66.3 years | 2024 | |
| 164 | Timor-Leste | 66.3 years | 2024 | |
| 165 | Gabon | 66.1 years | 2024 | |
| 166 | Rwanda | 65.7 years | 2024 | |
| 167 | Uganda | 65.5 years | 2024 | |
| 168 | Fiji | 65.5 years | 2024 | |
| 169 | Pakistan | 65.5 years | 2024 | |
| 170 | West Bank and Gaza | 65.2 years | 2024 | |
| 171 | Marshall Islands | 65.0 years | 2024 | |
| 172 | Comoros | 65.0 years | 2024 | |
| 173 | Afghanistan | 64.7 years | 2024 | |
| 174 | Kiribati | 64.7 years | 2024 | |
| 175 | Tanzania | 64.4 years | 2024 | |
| 176 | Ethiopia | 64.4 years | 2024 | |
| 177 | Gambia | 64.4 years | 2024 | |
| 178 | Republic of the Congo | 64.3 years | 2024 | |
| 179 | Malawi | 64.3 years | 2024 | |
| 180 | Zambia | 64.1 years | 2024 | |
| 181 | Myanmar | 64.0 years | 2024 | |
| 182 | Tuvalu | 63.9 years | 2024 | |
| 183 | Papua New Guinea | 63.8 years | 2024 | |
| 184 | Djibouti | 63.7 years | 2024 | |
| 185 | Micronesia | 63.6 years | 2024 | |
| 186 | Namibia | 63.5 years | 2024 | |
| 187 | Sudan | 63.4 years | 2024 | |
| 188 | Ghana | 63.3 years | 2024 | |
| 189 | South Africa | 62.8 years | 2024 | |
| 190 | Togo | 62.7 years | 2024 | |
| 191 | Angola | 62.3 years | 2024 | |
| 192 | Equatorial Guinea | 62.2 years | 2024 | |
| 193 | Madagascar | 62.1 years | 2024 | |
| 194 | Haiti | 61.9 years | 2024 | |
| 195 | Guinea-Bissau | 61.8 years | 2024 | |
| 196 | Cameroon | 61.8 years | 2024 | |
| 197 | Burundi | 61.8 years | 2024 | |
| 198 | Kenya | 61.6 years | 2024 | |
| 199 | Eswatini | 61.3 years | 2024 | |
| 200 | Liberia | 61.0 years | 2024 | |
| 201 | Zimbabwe | 60.5 years | 2024 | |
| 202 | Niger | 60.5 years | 2024 | |
| 203 | Mozambique | 60.5 years | 2024 | |
| 204 | Naoero | 60.4 years | 2024 | |
| 205 | Sierra Leone | 60.2 years | 2024 | |
| 206 | Côte d'Ivoire | 60.2 years | 2024 | |
| 207 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 60.0 years | 2024 | |
| 208 | Guinea | 59.7 years | 2024 | |
| 209 | Benin | 59.5 years | 2024 | |
| 210 | Mali | 59.3 years | 2024 | |
| 211 | Burkina Faso | 59.1 years | 2024 | |
| 212 | Somalia, Fed. Rep. | 56.5 years | 2024 | |
| 213 | Central African Republic | 55.5 years | 2024 | |
| 214 | Lesotho | 55.0 years | 2024 | |
| 215 | South Sudan | 54.8 years | 2024 | |
| 216 | Nigeria | 54.3 years | 2024 | |
| 217 | Chad | 53.4 years | 2024 |
Places are ordered from the highest to the lowest value. Group medians on this site are the middle value of the members with data for the same year; they are not official aggregates.
How this ranking works
Every country is ranked on its value for 2024, the latest period that most countries have, so all values are for the same point in time. Countries without a value for 2024 are left out. Groups and aggregates such as the European Union are not ranked. Values are as published by World Bank; the ranking is a plain ordering from the highest to the lowest value and says nothing about whether a high value is good or bad.
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