GDP per capita and life expectancy, 2024

Each point is one country: GDP per capita, PPP across and life expectancy at birth up, both for 2024. 195 countries have both values. A pattern shows that two measures go together; it does not show that one causes the other.

What the plot shows

Across the 195 countries, higher values of GDP per capita, PPP tend to go with higher values of life expectancy at birth. The correlation is 0.86, a very strong relationship.
Furthest above the overall pattern (a higher life expectancy at birth than the pattern suggests): Solomon Islands, Jordan, Lebanon.
Furthest below it: Nigeria, Guyana, Naoero.

The correlation runs from −1 to 1. It is calculated from the values in the table, on logarithms where an axis uses a logarithmic scale, and shows how closely the points follow a straight line, not cause and effect.

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Colours show World Bank regions. The horizontal axis uses a logarithmic scale because values range widely.

Values for 2024

Country	GDP per capita, PPP	Life expectancy at birth
Afghanistan	Int$1,964 per person	66.3 years
Albania	Int$21,641 per person	79.8 years
Algeria	Int$15,502 per person	76.5 years
Andorra	Int$66,233 per person	84.2 years
Angola	Int$8,753 per person	64.8 years
Antigua and Barbuda	Int$29,299 per person	77.8 years
Argentina	Int$26,772 per person	77.5 years
Armenia	Int$20,079 per person	78.3 years
Aruba	Int$45,428 per person	76.5 years
Australia	Int$60,310 per person	83.1 years
Austria	Int$63,788 per person	82.0 years
Azerbaijan	Int$22,091 per person	74.6 years
Bahamas	Int$36,244 per person	74.7 years
Bahrain	Int$59,060 per person	81.4 years
Bangladesh	Int$8,487 per person	74.9 years
Barbados	Int$21,558 per person	76.3 years
Belarus	Int$29,136 per person	74.4 years
Belgium	Int$63,311 per person	82.3 years
Belize	Int$12,621 per person	73.7 years
Benin	Int$3,901 per person	61.0 years
Bermuda	Int$104,300 per person	82.5 years
Bhutan	Int$15,604 per person	73.3 years
Bolivia	Int$11,329 per person	68.7 years
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Int$20,578 per person	78.0 years
Botswana	Int$18,108 per person	69.3 years
Brazil	Int$19,652 per person	76.0 years
Brunei	Int$79,072 per person	75.5 years
Bulgaria	Int$34,221 per person	75.8 years
Burkina Faso	Int$2,549 per person	61.3 years
Burundi	Int$1,048 per person	63.8 years
Cabo Verde	Int$9,826 per person	76.2 years
Cambodia	Int$7,012 per person	70.8 years
Cameroon	Int$4,917 per person	64.0 years
Canada	Int$57,534 per person	82.1 years
Cayman Islands	Int$80,997 per person	80.5 years
Central African Republic	Int$1,111 per person	57.7 years
Chad	Int$2,431 per person	55.2 years
Chile	Int$30,268 per person	81.4 years
China	Int$23,841 per person	78.0 years
Colombia	Int$18,482 per person	77.9 years
Comoros	Int$3,556 per person	67.0 years
Costa Rica	Int$27,325 per person	81.0 years
Croatia	Int$42,829 per person	78.9 years
Curaçao	Int$28,762 per person	77.0 years
Cyprus	Int$52,862 per person	81.8 years
Czechia	Int$47,973 per person	80.0 years
Côte d'Ivoire	Int$6,747 per person	62.1 years
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Int$1,602 per person	62.1 years
Denmark	Int$71,035 per person	82.3 years
Djibouti	Int$6,871 per person	66.2 years
Dominica	Int$18,739 per person	71.3 years
Dominican Republic	Int$24,230 per person	73.9 years
Ecuador	Int$13,922 per person	77.6 years
Egypt	Int$16,798 per person	71.8 years
El Salvador	Int$11,647 per person	72.3 years
Equatorial Guinea	Int$14,998 per person	63.9 years
Estonia	Int$41,186 per person	79.3 years
Eswatini	Int$10,386 per person	64.3 years
Ethiopia	Int$2,892 per person	67.6 years
Faroe Islands	Int$72,114 per person	83.1 years
Fiji	Int$13,592 per person	67.5 years
Finland	Int$55,901 per person	82.3 years
France	Int$54,799 per person	83.0 years
Gabon	Int$18,924 per person	68.5 years
Gambia	Int$3,058 per person	66.1 years
Georgia	Int$24,147 per person	74.7 years
Germany	Int$62,655 per person	80.8 years
Ghana	Int$7,073 per person	65.7 years
Greece	Int$37,474 per person	81.8 years
Grenada	Int$17,485 per person	75.4 years
Guatemala	Int$12,644 per person	72.7 years
Guinea	Int$4,016 per person	60.9 years
Guinea-Bissau	Int$2,718 per person	64.3 years
Guyana	Int$70,517 per person	70.3 years
Haiti	Int$2,784 per person	65.1 years
Honduras	Int$6,591 per person	73.0 years
Hong Kong SAR, China	Int$66,186 per person	85.4 years
Hungary	Int$40,747 per person	76.7 years
Iceland	Int$68,230 per person	82.8 years
India	Int$9,416 per person	72.2 years
Indonesia	Int$14,471 per person	71.3 years
Iran	Int$17,484 per person	77.9 years
Iraq	Int$12,725 per person	72.4 years
Ireland	Int$118,833 per person	83.0 years
Israel	Int$47,389 per person	83.2 years
Italy	Int$53,285 per person	84.0 years
Jamaica	Int$11,340 per person	71.6 years
Japan	Int$47,480 per person	84.0 years
Jordan	Int$10,468 per person	78.0 years
Kazakhstan	Int$35,974 per person	74.5 years
Kenya	Int$5,842 per person	63.8 years
Kiribati	Int$3,275 per person	66.6 years
Kosovo	Int$15,716 per person	78.2 years
Kuwait	Int$46,664 per person	84.6 years
Kyrgyzstan	Int$7,211 per person	72.4 years
Laos	Int$8,600 per person	69.2 years
Latvia	Int$37,615 per person	76.4 years
Lebanon	Int$10,469 per person	77.9 years
Lesotho	Int$2,698 per person	57.8 years
Liberia	Int$1,646 per person	62.3 years
Libya	Int$12,584 per person	71.1 years
Lithuania	Int$47,462 per person	77.2 years
Luxembourg	Int$128,475 per person	83.2 years
Macao SAR, China	Int$111,694 per person	83.3 years
Madagascar	Int$1,659 per person	63.8 years
Malawi	Int$1,634 per person	67.6 years
Malaysia	Int$34,116 per person	76.8 years
Maldives	Int$23,034 per person	81.3 years
Mali	Int$2,918 per person	60.7 years
Malta	Int$62,398 per person	83.0 years
Marshall Islands	Int$7,237 per person	67.1 years
Mauritania	Int$6,483 per person	68.7 years
Mauritius	Int$27,845 per person	73.8 years
Mexico	Int$21,970 per person	75.3 years
Micronesia	Int$3,911 per person	67.4 years
Moldova	Int$16,394 per person	71.3 years
Mongolia	Int$16,843 per person	72.4 years
Montenegro	Int$28,106 per person	77.9 years
Morocco	Int$9,163 per person	75.5 years
Mozambique	Int$1,501 per person	63.8 years
Myanmar	Int$5,276 per person	67.1 years
Namibia	Int$10,276 per person	67.5 years
Naoero	Int$11,958 per person	62.3 years
Nepal	Int$5,047 per person	70.6 years
Netherlands	Int$70,494 per person	82.0 years
New Zealand	Int$48,325 per person	82.0 years
Nicaragua	Int$7,661 per person	75.1 years
Niger	Int$1,796 per person	61.4 years
Nigeria	Int$7,994 per person	54.6 years
North Macedonia	Int$24,203 per person	76.6 years
Norway	Int$94,804 per person	83.2 years
Oman	Int$36,721 per person	80.2 years
Pakistan	Int$5,502 per person	67.8 years
Palau	Int$18,500 per person	69.4 years
Panama	Int$36,395 per person	79.8 years
Papua New Guinea	Int$4,293 per person	66.3 years
Paraguay	Int$16,367 per person	74.0 years
Peru	Int$15,709 per person	77.9 years
Philippines	Int$10,378 per person	69.9 years
Poland	Int$45,153 per person	78.4 years
Portugal	Int$42,228 per person	82.4 years
Puerto Rico (US)	Int$44,216 per person	81.9 years
Qatar	Int$111,314 per person	82.5 years
Republic of the Congo	Int$6,153 per person	66.0 years
Romania	Int$40,504 per person	76.5 years
Russia	Int$41,891 per person	73.4 years
Rwanda	Int$3,325 per person	68.0 years
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Int$30,656 per person	72.3 years
Saint Lucia	Int$24,700 per person	72.8 years
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Int$18,714 per person	71.4 years
Samoa	Int$7,687 per person	71.8 years
Saudi Arabia	Int$63,194 per person	79.0 years
Senegal	Int$4,478 per person	68.9 years
Serbia	Int$26,901 per person	76.0 years
Seychelles	Int$29,288 per person	76.3 years
Sierra Leone	Int$3,099 per person	62.0 years
Singapore	Int$134,549 per person	83.3 years
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	Int$47,303 per person	76.5 years
Slovakia	Int$40,302 per person	78.4 years
Slovenia	Int$48,658 per person	82.3 years
Solomon Islands	Int$2,354 per person	70.7 years
Somalia, Fed. Rep.	Int$1,409 per person	59.0 years
South Africa	Int$13,598 per person	66.3 years
South Korea	Int$55,071 per person	83.6 years
Spain	Int$48,460 per person	83.9 years
Sri Lanka	Int$13,793 per person	77.7 years
Sudan	Int$1,861 per person	66.5 years
Suriname	Int$19,179 per person	73.8 years
Sweden	Int$62,558 per person	84.1 years
Switzerland	Int$85,448 per person	84.4 years
São Tomé and Príncipe	Int$5,512 per person	69.9 years
Tajikistan	Int$4,756 per person	71.9 years
Tanzania	Int$3,713 per person	67.2 years
Thailand	Int$21,882 per person	76.6 years
Timor-Leste	Int$3,891 per person	67.9 years
Togo	Int$3,351 per person	62.9 years
Tonga	Int$7,181 per person	73.1 years
Trinidad and Tobago	Int$31,960 per person	73.6 years
Tunisia	Int$12,775 per person	76.7 years
Turkmenistan	Int$18,471 per person	70.2 years
Turks and Caicos Islands	Int$33,391 per person	78.2 years
Tuvalu	Int$5,592 per person	67.3 years
Türkiye	Int$36,154 per person	77.4 years
Uganda	Int$2,880 per person	68.5 years
Ukraine	Int$16,371 per person	74.7 years
United Arab Emirates	Int$69,702 per person	83.1 years
United Kingdom	Int$53,412 per person	81.4 years
United States	Int$75,698 per person	78.9 years
Uruguay	Int$32,149 per person	78.3 years
Uzbekistan	Int$10,997 per person	72.5 years
Vanuatu	Int$3,837 per person	71.7 years
Viet Nam	Int$14,396 per person	74.7 years
West Bank and Gaza	Int$4,191 per person	69.2 years
Zambia	Int$3,708 per person	66.5 years
Zimbabwe	Int$5,212 per person	63.1 years

GDP per capita, PPP (constant 2021 international dollars)

GDP per person converted to international dollars using purchasing power parity rates, at constant 2021 prices. It adjusts for price-level differences, so it compares living standards across countries and over time.

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: World Bank, International Comparison Program

Life expectancy at birth (UN estimates)

The number of years a newborn would live if the mortality patterns at the time of birth stayed the same throughout life.

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects