Life Expectancy of the World Population

Life expectancy at birth. Data based on the latest United Nations Population Division estimates.
See also: Population

Both Sexes

73.8

(life expectancy at birth, both sexes combined)

Females

76.4

(life expectancy at birth, females)

Males

71.2

(life expectancy at birth, males)

Countries ranked by life expectancy (2026)

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Rank	Country	Life Expectancy (both sexes)	Females Life Expectancy	Males Life Expectancy
1	Monaco	86.73	88.85	84.78
2	San Marino	86.03	87.44	84.54
3	Hong Kong	85.9	88.51	83.22
4	Japan	85.15	88.18	82.13
5	South Korea	84.64	87.51	81.56
6	Saint Barthelemy	84.63	87.14	81.81
7	Andorra	84.46	86.48	82.55
8	French Polynesia	84.44	86.86	82.16
9	Switzerland	84.37	86.2	82.48
10	Australia	84.34	86.07	82.59
11	Italy	84.18	86.13	82.12
12	Singapore	84.13	86.6	81.67
13	Spain	84.08	86.71	81.4
14	Liechtenstein	84.06	85.64	82.39
15	Réunion	83.92	86.68	80.94
16	Gibraltar	83.9	86.45	81.33
17	Malta	83.78	85.63	81.88
18	Norway	83.76	85.21	82.31
19	Sweden	83.73	85.45	82.03
20	France	83.7	86.42	80.86
21	Macao	83.6	85.64	81.47
22	Holy See	83.41	85.44	81.31
23	United Arab Emirates	83.39	84.55	82.56
24	Iceland	83.3	84.69	81.96
25	Canada	83.05	85.16	80.94
26	Martinique	83.04	85.95	79.81
27	Ireland	82.92	84.86	81.01
28	Israel	82.9	84.94	80.8
29	Portugal	82.89	85.51	80.11
30	Qatar	82.83	83.72	82.13
31	Bermuda	82.83	86.14	79.44
32	Luxembourg	82.64	84.17	81.08
33	Netherlands	82.61	84.1	81.09
34	Belgium	82.59	84.69	80.46
35	Guadeloupe	82.56	85.88	78.75
36	New Zealand	82.52	84.1	80.93
37	Austria	82.45	84.69	80.17
38	Finland	82.4	85.02	79.8
39	Greece	82.39	84.73	79.95
40	Denmark	82.39	84.19	80.57
41	Puerto Rico	82.27	85.63	78.72
42	Cyprus	82.15	84.05	80.24
43	Slovenia	82.09	84.69	79.54
44	Germany	81.86	84.11	79.62
45	United Kingdom	81.75	83.57	79.89
46	Bahrain	81.74	82.4	81.21
47	Maldives	81.73	83.34	80.44
48	Chile	81.72	83.51	79.88
49	Isle of Man	81.39	83.4	79.42
50	Costa Rica	81.38	83.87	78.84
51	Taiwan	81.14	84.02	78.32
52	Kuwait	80.97	82.3	79.83
53	Cayman Islands	80.9	83.28	78.62
54	Saint Martin	80.85	84.21	77.43
55	Faeroe Islands	80.81	83.02	78.87
56	Oman	80.65	82.36	79.17
57	Czech Republic (Czechia)	80.25	82.96	77.53
58	Panama	80.15	82.99	77.33
59	Albania	80.13	81.89	78.33
60	Anguilla	79.86	83.05	76.67
61	Falkland Islands	79.78	81.7	77.81
62	United States	79.76	82.23	77.39
63	Estonia	79.64	83.42	75.57
64	Saudi Arabia	79.4	81.67	77.78
65	New Caledonia	79.23	81.67	76.83
66	Northern Mariana Islands	79.22	81.12	77.59
67	Poland	79.15	82.74	75.53
68	Croatia	79.09	82.09	76.01
69	Wallis & Futuna	79.03	80	78.05
70	China	79.02	81.78	76.38
71	Slovakia	78.81	81.98	75.6
72	Cuba	78.62	81	76.25
73	Uruguay	78.62	82.29	74.78
74	Turks and Caicos	78.5	80.72	76.35
75	Bosnia and Herzegovina	78.42	81.38	75.09
76	Turkey	78.38	81.33	75.5
77	Jordan	78.3	80.6	76.24
78	Peru	78.3	80.61	76.02
79	Colombia	78.27	80.92	75.57
80	Iran	78.25	80.17	76.43
81	Lebanon	78.22	80.11	76.17
82	Antigua and Barbuda	78.11	80.75	75.12
83	Sri Lanka	78.03	81.04	74.85
84	Caribbean Netherlands	77.95	80.6	75.75
85	Ecuador	77.94	80.62	75.28
86	Argentina	77.83	80.28	75.3
87	North Macedonia	77.81	79.96	75.56
88	Guam	77.81	81.88	74.11
89	British Virgin Islands	77.76	80.46	75.05
90	Montenegro	77.6	80.74	74.31
91	French Guiana	77.54	80.44	74.71
92	Hungary	77.5	80.61	74.26
93	State of Palestine	77.42	79.75	74.96
94	Tokelau	77.42	79.28	75.33
95	Curaçao	77.34	81.22	73.06
96	Serbia	77.33	80.5	74.09
97	Saint Helena	77.3	80.97	74.35
98	Saint Pierre & Miquelon	77.28	81.87	73.34
99	Malaysia	77.16	79.82	74.81
100	Tunisia	77.1	79.68	74.55
101	Thailand	77.06	81.36	72.92
102	Algeria	76.89	78.34	75.5
103	Sint Maarten	76.86	79.92	74.17
104	Aruba	76.78	79.19	74.14
105	Montserrat	76.66	79.23	74.58
106	Barbados	76.64	79.05	74.09
107	Latvia	76.63	80.85	72.13
108	Mayotte	76.61	78.85	74.63
109	Cabo Verde	76.56	79.68	73.44
110	Lithuania	76.48	81.05	71.81
111	Romania	76.4	79.95	72.91
112	Brazil	76.37	79.46	73.33
113	Armenia	76.18	79.87	71.95
114	U.S. Virgin Islands	76.15	81.73	71.17
115	Bulgaria	76.13	79.66	72.7
116	Morocco	75.86	78.13	73.71
117	Cook Islands	75.85	79.48	72.44
118	Brunei	75.83	78.07	73.81
119	Grenada	75.67	78.78	72.83
120	Mexico	75.63	78.35	72.82
121	Bangladesh	75.47	77.22	73.82
122	Mauritius	75.44	78.65	72.46
123	Nicaragua	75.43	77.9	72.81
124	Libya	75.18	77.83	72.71
125	Vietnam	75.05	79.62	70.42
126	Ukraine	75.02	79.67	70.18
127	Bahamas	75.01	78.59	71.37
128	Georgia	74.98	79.49	70.11
129	Belarus	74.97	79.52	70.14
130	Azerbaijan	74.89	77.6	72.02
131	Kazakhstan	74.81	78.77	70.59
132	Paraguay	74.24	77.35	71.25
133	Dominican Republic	74.12	77.35	70.92
134	Belize	74.08	77	71.4
135	Suriname	74.04	77.26	70.87
136	North Korea	73.98	76.16	71.77
137	Trinidad and Tobago	73.89	77.1	70.77
138	Bhutan	73.8	75.84	72.08
139	Russia	73.7	79.46	67.91
140	Syria	73.43	75.91	70.96
141	Tonga	73.39	76.84	69.79
142	Honduras	73.39	76.03	70.8
143	Seychelles	73.28	76.98	70.37
144	American Samoa	73.25	76.28	70.55
145	Saint Lucia	73.15	76.75	69.74
146	Guatemala	73.04	75.37	70.71
147	Venezuela	73.01	76.99	69.22
148	Uzbekistan	72.78	75.84	69.79
149	El Salvador	72.74	76.91	68.23
150	India	72.72	74.39	71.16
151	Iraq	72.63	74.45	70.67
152	Saint Kitts & Nevis	72.58	76.44	68.96
153	Mongolia	72.49	77.11	68.01
154	Tajikistan	72.19	74.45	69.89
155	Egypt	72.16	74.41	69.98
156	Kyrgyzstan	72.11	75.7	68.56
157	Samoa	72.08	74.14	70.17
158	Vanuatu	72.02	74.49	69.89
159	Western Sahara	71.98	74.22	70.24
160	Jamaica	71.86	74.45	69.27
161	St. Vincent & Grenadines	71.65	74.78	69.01
162	Dominica	71.62	75.06	68.63
163	Moldova	71.6	75.93	66.96
164	Indonesia	71.58	73.77	69.42
165	Nepal	71.16	72.7	69.56
166	Cambodia	71.14	73.72	68.45
167	Solomon Islands	70.98	72.52	69.58
168	Guyana	70.57	74.35	66.84
169	Turkmenistan	70.45	73.33	67.24
170	Greenland	70.44	72.89	68.42
171	Niue	70.36	73.17	67.75
172	Sao Tome & Principe	70.26	74.26	66.73
173	Philippines	70.17	73.23	67.2
174	Yemen	69.73	71.88	67.63
175	Laos	69.7	72.05	67.47
176	Palau	69.61	72.23	67.44
177	Botswana	69.57	72.17	67.03
178	Eritrea	69.4	71.48	67.23
179	Senegal	69.39	71.51	67.42
180	Mauritania	69.16	71.2	67.09
181	Bolivia	69.06	71.69	66.56
182	Uganda	68.92	71.83	65.9
183	Gabon	68.88	71.64	66.4
184	Rwanda	68.47	70.63	66.12
185	Timor-Leste	68.33	70.14	66.66
186	Ethiopia	68.15	71.58	64.88
187	Pakistan	68.06	70.61	65.69
188	Malawi	67.92	71.14	64.61
189	Namibia	67.81	71.78	63.73
190	Fiji	67.77	69.9	65.73
191	Micronesia	67.65	71.57	63.9
192	Tanzania	67.63	70.44	64.78
193	Tuvalu	67.56	71.19	64.2
194	Myanmar	67.5	70.8	64.37
195	Comoros	67.48	69.69	65.43
196	Marshall Islands	67.32	69.76	65.21
197	Sudan	66.89	70.21	63.78
198	Zambia	66.88	69.27	64.42
199	Kiribati	66.86	68.63	64.91
200	Afghanistan	66.77	68.33	65.15
201	South Africa	66.66	70.16	63.12
202	Djibouti	66.61	69.18	64.11
203	Papua New Guinea	66.5	69.47	64.04
204	Gambia	66.45	68.18	64.71
205	Congo	66.42	68.17	64.7
206	Ghana	66.08	68.57	63.67
207	Haiti	65.45	68.83	62.21
208	Angola	65.17	67.73	62.62
209	Guinea-Bissau	64.59	66.91	62.13
210	Eswatini	64.54	67.41	61.58
211	Cameroon	64.51	66.79	62.3
212	Equatorial Guinea	64.3	66.33	62.59
213	Madagascar	64.25	66.06	62.51
214	Kenya	64.19	66.51	61.96
215	Mozambique	64.14	67.11	60.83
216	Burundi	64.14	66.24	62.04
217	Zimbabwe	63.63	65.9	61.01
218	Togo	63.33	63.61	63.03
219	Liberia	62.62	63.97	61.27
220	Nauru	62.61	64.55	60.68
221	Côte d'Ivoire	62.44	64.66	60.47
222	DR Congo	62.39	64.57	60.25
223	Sierra Leone	62.33	64.09	60.57
224	Niger	61.88	62.9	60.9
225	Burkina Faso	61.65	63.81	59.45
226	Benin	61.32	62.81	59.84
227	Guinea	61.23	62.45	59.95
228	Mali	61.11	62.62	59.66
229	Somalia	59.26	61.86	56.77
230	Lesotho	58.63	61.29	55.85
231	Central African Republic	58.15	60.06	55.97
232	South Sudan	57.97	60.98	54.99
233	Chad	55.58	57.56	53.68
234	Nigeria	54.95	55.3	54.6