GlobeVS

Rankings

Life expectancy by country — world rankings

Ranking 169 countries with data.

Life expectancy

Rank Country Value
1 Kuwait 84.6 years (2024)
2 Switzerland 84.4 years (2024)
3 Sweden 84.1 years (2024)
4 Japan 84.0 years (2024)
5 Italy 84.0 years (2024)
6 Spain 83.9 years (2024)
7 South Korea 83.6 years (2024)
8 Israel 83.2 years (2024)
9 Luxembourg 83.2 years (2024)
10 Norway 83.2 years (2024)
11 United Arab Emirates 83.1 years (2024)
12 Australia 83.1 years (2024)
13 Ireland 83.0 years (2024)
14 France 83.0 years (2024)
15 Iceland 82.8 years (2024)
16 Qatar 82.5 years (2024)
17 Portugal 82.4 years (2024)
18 Finland 82.3 years (2024)
19 Belgium 82.3 years (2024)
20 Slovenia 82.3 years (2024)
21 Denmark 82.3 years (2024)
22 Canada 82.1 years (2024)
23 New Zealand 82.0 years (2024)
24 Austria 82.0 years (2024)
25 Netherlands 82.0 years (2024)
26 Puerto Rico 81.9 years (2024)
27 Greece 81.8 years (2024)
28 Cyprus 81.8 years (2024)
29 United Kingdom 81.4 years (2024)
30 Chile 81.4 years (2024)
31 Costa Rica 81.0 years (2024)
32 Germany 80.8 years (2024)
33 Oman 80.2 years (2024)
34 Czechia 80.0 years (2024)
35 Albania 79.8 years (2024)
36 Panama 79.8 years (2024)
37 Estonia 79.3 years (2024)
38 Saudi Arabia 79.0 years (2024)
39 Croatia 78.9 years (2024)
40 New Caledonia 78.9 years (2024)
41 United States 78.9 years (2024)
42 Poland 78.4 years (2024)
43 Slovakia 78.4 years (2024)
44 Armenia 78.3 years (2024)
45 Uruguay 78.3 years (2024)
46 Cuba 78.3 years (2024)
47 Bosnia and Herz. 78.0 years (2024)
48 China 78.0 years (2024)
49 Jordan 78.0 years (2024)
50 Lebanon 77.9 years (2024)
51 Peru 77.9 years (2024)
52 Colombia 77.9 years (2024)
53 Montenegro 77.9 years (2024)
54 Iran 77.9 years (2024)
55 Sri Lanka 77.7 years (2024)
56 Ecuador 77.6 years (2024)
57 Argentina 77.5 years (2024)
58 Turkey 77.4 years (2024)
59 Lithuania 77.2 years (2024)
60 Malaysia 76.8 years (2024)
61 Hungary 76.7 years (2024)
62 Tunisia 76.7 years (2024)
63 Macedonia 76.6 years (2024)
64 Thailand 76.6 years (2024)
65 Algeria 76.5 years (2024)
66 Romania 76.5 years (2024)
67 Latvia 76.4 years (2024)
68 Brazil 76.0 years (2024)
69 Serbia 76.0 years (2024)
70 Bulgaria 75.8 years (2024)
71 Brunei 75.5 years (2024)
72 Morocco 75.5 years (2024)
73 Mexico 75.3 years (2024)
74 Nicaragua 75.1 years (2024)
75 Bangladesh 74.9 years (2024)
76 Vietnam 74.7 years (2024)
77 Bahamas 74.7 years (2024)
78 Ukraine 74.7 years (2024)
79 Georgia 74.7 years (2024)
80 Azerbaijan 74.6 years (2024)
81 Kazakhstan 74.5 years (2024)
82 Belarus 74.4 years (2024)
83 Paraguay 74.0 years (2024)
84 Dominican Rep. 73.9 years (2024)
85 Suriname 73.8 years (2024)
86 North Korea 73.7 years (2024)
87 Belize 73.7 years (2024)
88 Trinidad and Tobago 73.6 years (2024)
89 Russia 73.4 years (2024)
90 Bhutan 73.3 years (2024)
91 Honduras 73.0 years (2024)
92 Guatemala 72.7 years (2024)
93 Venezuela 72.7 years (2024)
94 Syria 72.6 years (2024)
95 Uzbekistan 72.5 years (2024)
96 Iraq 72.4 years (2024)
97 Kyrgyzstan 72.4 years (2024)
98 Mongolia 72.4 years (2024)
99 El Salvador 72.3 years (2024)
100 India 72.2 years (2024)
101 Tajikistan 71.9 years (2024)
102 Egypt 71.8 years (2024)
103 Vanuatu 71.7 years (2024)
104 Jamaica 71.6 years (2024)
105 Moldova 71.3 years (2024)
106 Indonesia 71.3 years (2024)
107 Libya 71.1 years (2024)
108 Cambodia 70.8 years (2024)
109 Solomon Is. 70.7 years (2024)
110 Nepal 70.6 years (2024)
111 Guyana 70.3 years (2024)
112 Greenland 70.3 years (2024)
113 Turkmenistan 70.2 years (2024)
114 Philippines 69.9 years (2024)
115 Yemen 69.4 years (2024)
116 Botswana 69.3 years (2024)
117 Laos 69.2 years (2024)
118 Palestine 69.2 years (2024)
119 Senegal 68.9 years (2024)
120 Eritrea 68.9 years (2024)
121 Bolivia 68.7 years (2024)
122 Mauritania 68.7 years (2024)
123 Gabon 68.5 years (2024)
124 Uganda 68.5 years (2024)
125 Rwanda 68.0 years (2024)
126 Timor-Leste 67.9 years (2024)
127 Pakistan 67.8 years (2024)
128 Ethiopia 67.6 years (2024)
129 Malawi 67.6 years (2024)
130 Namibia 67.5 years (2024)
131 Fiji 67.5 years (2024)
132 Tanzania 67.2 years (2024)
133 Myanmar 67.1 years (2024)
134 Zambia 66.5 years (2024)
135 Sudan 66.5 years (2024)
136 South Africa 66.3 years (2024)
137 Afghanistan 66.3 years (2024)
138 Papua New Guinea 66.3 years (2024)
139 Djibouti 66.2 years (2024)
140 Gambia 66.1 years (2024)
141 Congo 66.0 years (2024)
142 Ghana 65.7 years (2024)
143 Haiti 65.1 years (2024)
144 Angola 64.8 years (2024)
145 eSwatini 64.3 years (2024)
146 Guinea-Bissau 64.3 years (2024)
147 Cameroon 64.0 years (2024)
148 Eq. Guinea 63.9 years (2024)
149 Madagascar 63.8 years (2024)
150 Kenya 63.8 years (2024)
151 Burundi 63.8 years (2024)
152 Mozambique 63.8 years (2024)
153 Zimbabwe 63.1 years (2024)
154 Togo 62.9 years (2024)
155 Liberia 62.3 years (2024)
156 Côte d'Ivoire 62.1 years (2024)
157 Dem. Rep. Congo 62.1 years (2024)
158 Sierra Leone 62.0 years (2024)
159 Niger 61.4 years (2024)
160 Burkina Faso 61.3 years (2024)
161 Benin 61.0 years (2024)
162 Guinea 60.9 years (2024)
163 Mali 60.7 years (2024)
164 Somalia 59.0 years (2024)
165 Lesotho 57.8 years (2024)
166 S. Sudan 57.7 years (2024)
167 Central African Rep. 57.7 years (2024)
168 Chad 55.2 years (2024)
169 Nigeria 54.6 years (2024)

Ordered by value, highest first (ties break by country slug). Countries without data for this metric are not listed — they occupy no rank.

Surface area is computed from Natural Earth 1:110m boundaries with an equal-area spherical formula — not the World Bank's land-area figure; population density is our own derived metric (latest population ÷ that area).

The unweighted median across the 169 countries with data is 73.8 years — shown for context, not a world average.

More rankings

Compare any two countries metric by metric →

See countries at their true size on a drag-and-drop map →

Measure the distance between two countries →

Back to the homepage

Data & method

Indicators: World Bank Open Data, 43 indicators — CC BY 4.0 © World Bank — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; Human Development Index — CC BY 3.0 IGO © United Nations Development Programme — https://hdr.undp.org/terms-use

Boundaries: Natural Earth 1:110m (public domain); surface areas are computed with an equal-area spherical formula (Chamberlin–Duquette).

Reference facts (capital, languages, currencies, subregion): mledoze/countries (ODbL).