Life expectancy by country, 2026

Life expectancy at birth, both sexes. Values are UN medium-variant projections.

◀▶2026

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	2016
1	Monaco	86.7 yrs	85.6 yrs
2	San Marino	86.0 yrs	84.8 yrs
3	China, Hong Kong SAR	85.9 yrs	84.4 yrs
4	Japan	85.2 yrs	84.1 yrs
5	Saint Barthélemy	84.6 yrs	83.2 yrs
6	Republic of Korea	84.6 yrs	82.9 yrs
7	Andorra	84.5 yrs	84.5 yrs
8	Switzerland	84.4 yrs	83.5 yrs
9	French Polynesia	84.4 yrs	82.6 yrs
10	Australia	84.3 yrs	82.8 yrs
11	Italy	84.2 yrs	83.0 yrs
12	Singapore	84.1 yrs	82.9 yrs
13	Spain	84.1 yrs	83.0 yrs
14	Liechtenstein	84.1 yrs	82.9 yrs
15	Gibraltar	83.9 yrs	82.7 yrs
16	Réunion	83.9 yrs	82.0 yrs
17	Norway	83.8 yrs	82.4 yrs
18	Malta	83.8 yrs	82.7 yrs
19	Guernsey	83.7 yrs	82.6 yrs
20	Sweden	83.7 yrs	82.3 yrs
21	France	83.7 yrs	82.4 yrs
22	China, Macao SAR	83.6 yrs	83.0 yrs
23	United Arab Emirates	83.4 yrs	82.2 yrs
24	Holy See	83.4 yrs	82.9 yrs
25	Iceland	83.3 yrs	81.8 yrs
26	Canada	83.0 yrs	82.0 yrs
27	Martinique	83.0 yrs	81.8 yrs
28	Ireland	82.9 yrs	81.7 yrs
29	Israel	82.9 yrs	82.6 yrs
30	Portugal	82.9 yrs	81.4 yrs
31	Qatar	82.8 yrs	82.2 yrs
32	Bermuda	82.8 yrs	80.5 yrs
33	Netherlands	82.6 yrs	81.5 yrs
34	Guadeloupe	82.6 yrs	81.6 yrs
35	Belgium	82.6 yrs	81.3 yrs
36	Luxembourg	82.6 yrs	81.6 yrs
37	Austria	82.5 yrs	81.6 yrs
38	New Zealand	82.5 yrs	82.0 yrs
39	Greece	82.4 yrs	81.3 yrs
40	Denmark	82.4 yrs	80.9 yrs
41	Finland	82.4 yrs	81.3 yrs
42	Puerto Rico	82.3 yrs	80.3 yrs
43	Cyprus	82.2 yrs	81.5 yrs
44	Slovenia	82.1 yrs	80.5 yrs
45	Germany	81.9 yrs	80.8 yrs
46	United Kingdom	81.8 yrs	81.1 yrs
47	Chile	81.7 yrs	80.3 yrs
48	Bahrain	81.7 yrs	80.4 yrs
49	Maldives	81.7 yrs	78.9 yrs
50	Costa Rica	81.4 yrs	80.0 yrs
51	Isle of Man	81.4 yrs	80.4 yrs
52	China, Taiwan Province of China	81.1 yrs	79.7 yrs
53	Kuwait	81.0 yrs	79.5 yrs
54	Cayman Islands	80.9 yrs	78.4 yrs
55	Saint Martin (French part)	80.8 yrs	79.9 yrs
56	Faroe Islands	80.8 yrs	79.6 yrs
57	Oman	80.7 yrs	79.6 yrs
58	Czechia	80.3 yrs	79.0 yrs
59	Panama	80.2 yrs	77.8 yrs
60	Albania	80.1 yrs	78.6 yrs
61	Jersey	80.1 yrs	80.3 yrs
62	Anguilla	79.9 yrs	77.9 yrs
63	United States of America	79.8 yrs	78.7 yrs
64	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	79.8 yrs	78.5 yrs
65	Estonia	79.6 yrs	77.8 yrs
66	Saudi Arabia	79.4 yrs	78.3 yrs
67	New Caledonia	79.2 yrs	77.4 yrs
68	Poland	79.2 yrs	77.6 yrs
69	Northern Mariana Islands	79.2 yrs	77.4 yrs
70	Croatia	79.1 yrs	77.6 yrs
71	Wallis and Futuna Islands	79.0 yrs	77.5 yrs
72	China	79.0 yrs	77.2 yrs
73	Slovakia	78.8 yrs	77.2 yrs
74	Uruguay	78.6 yrs	77.3 yrs
75	Cuba	78.6 yrs	77.6 yrs
76	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	78.6 yrs	76.8 yrs
77	Turks and Caicos Islands	78.5 yrs	77.4 yrs
78	Türkiye	78.4 yrs	76.6 yrs
79	Bosnia and Herzegovina	78.4 yrs	77.1 yrs
80	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	78.3 yrs	76.2 yrs
81	Colombia	78.3 yrs	76.2 yrs
82	Peru	78.3 yrs	76.0 yrs
83	Jordan	78.3 yrs	75.5 yrs
84	Lebanon	78.2 yrs	78.3 yrs
85	Antigua and Barbuda	78.1 yrs	77.0 yrs
86	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	78.0 yrs	77.4 yrs
87	Sri Lanka	78.0 yrs	76.1 yrs
88	Ecuador	77.9 yrs	76.1 yrs
89	Argentina	77.8 yrs	76.1 yrs
90	Guam	77.8 yrs	76.5 yrs
91	British Virgin Islands	77.8 yrs	76.6 yrs
92	North Macedonia	77.8 yrs	75.6 yrs
93	Montenegro	77.6 yrs	76.6 yrs
94	Hungary	77.5 yrs	76.2 yrs
95	French Guiana	77.5 yrs	76.7 yrs
96	Tokelau	77.4 yrs	75.9 yrs
97	State of Palestine	77.4 yrs	74.9 yrs
98	Curaçao	77.3 yrs	76.3 yrs
99	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	77.3 yrs	76.5 yrs
100	Serbia	77.3 yrs	75.7 yrs
101	Saint Helena	77.3 yrs	75.8 yrs
102	Malaysia	77.2 yrs	75.4 yrs
103	Thailand	77.1 yrs	76.8 yrs
104	Tunisia	77.1 yrs	75.0 yrs
105	Algeria	76.9 yrs	75.3 yrs
106	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	76.9 yrs	76.0 yrs
107	Aruba	76.8 yrs	75.5 yrs
108	Barbados	76.7 yrs	76.2 yrs
109	Montserrat	76.7 yrs	75.2 yrs
110	Cabo Verde	76.6 yrs	74.3 yrs
111	Mayotte	76.6 yrs	76.5 yrs
112	Latvia	76.6 yrs	74.8 yrs
113	Lithuania	76.5 yrs	74.8 yrs
114	Brazil	76.4 yrs	75.1 yrs
115	Romania	76.4 yrs	75.0 yrs
116	Armenia	76.2 yrs	74.5 yrs
117	United States Virgin Islands	76.2 yrs	74.4 yrs
118	Bulgaria	76.1 yrs	74.8 yrs
119	Morocco	75.9 yrs	73.2 yrs
120	Cook Islands	75.8 yrs	74.2 yrs
121	Brunei Darussalam	75.8 yrs	74.9 yrs
122	Grenada	75.7 yrs	75.0 yrs
123	Mexico	75.6 yrs	74.4 yrs
124	Bangladesh	75.5 yrs	71.1 yrs
125	Nicaragua	75.4 yrs	73.2 yrs
126	Mauritius	75.4 yrs	74.8 yrs
127	Libya	75.2 yrs	71.8 yrs
128	Ukraine	75.0 yrs	73.4 yrs
129	Georgia	75.0 yrs	73.1 yrs
130	Bahamas	75.0 yrs	74.0 yrs
131	Viet Nam	75.0 yrs	74.0 yrs
132	Belarus	75.0 yrs	74.2 yrs
133	Azerbaijan	74.9 yrs	72.6 yrs
134	Kazakhstan	74.8 yrs	72.5 yrs
135	Paraguay	74.2 yrs	73.5 yrs
136	Dominican Republic	74.1 yrs	72.9 yrs
137	Belize	74.1 yrs	71.8 yrs
138	Suriname	74.0 yrs	71.0 yrs
139	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	74.0 yrs	73.0 yrs
140	Trinidad and Tobago	73.9 yrs	72.9 yrs
141	Bhutan	73.8 yrs	71.1 yrs
142	Russian Federation	73.7 yrs	71.9 yrs
143	Syrian Arab Republic	73.4 yrs	65.2 yrs
144	Tonga	73.4 yrs	72.0 yrs
145	Honduras	73.4 yrs	71.6 yrs
146	Seychelles	73.3 yrs	72.3 yrs
147	American Samoa	73.3 yrs	72.6 yrs
148	Saint Lucia	73.2 yrs	72.5 yrs
149	Guatemala	73.0 yrs	71.2 yrs
150	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	73.0 yrs	72.0 yrs
151	Uzbekistan	72.8 yrs	71.6 yrs
152	India	72.7 yrs	69.7 yrs
153	El Salvador	72.7 yrs	70.9 yrs
154	Iraq	72.6 yrs	68.7 yrs
155	Saint Kitts and Nevis	72.6 yrs	71.2 yrs
156	Mongolia	72.5 yrs	69.7 yrs
157	Egypt	72.2 yrs	70.4 yrs
158	Tajikistan	72.2 yrs	70.0 yrs
159	Kyrgyzstan	72.1 yrs	69.9 yrs
160	Samoa	72.1 yrs	71.0 yrs
161	Vanuatu	72.0 yrs	70.4 yrs
162	Western Sahara	72.0 yrs	69.6 yrs
163	Jamaica	71.9 yrs	72.0 yrs
164	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	71.7 yrs	70.7 yrs
165	Indonesia	71.6 yrs	69.7 yrs
166	Dominica	71.6 yrs	71.2 yrs
167	Republic of Moldova	71.6 yrs	70.2 yrs
168	Nepal	71.2 yrs	68.4 yrs
169	Cambodia	71.1 yrs	69.6 yrs
170	Solomon Islands	71.0 yrs	69.5 yrs
171	Guyana	70.6 yrs	68.1 yrs
172	Turkmenistan	70.5 yrs	69.1 yrs
173	Greenland	70.4 yrs	70.4 yrs
174	Sao Tome and Principe	70.3 yrs	66.6 yrs
175	Niue	70.3 yrs	68.8 yrs
176	Philippines	70.2 yrs	69.5 yrs
177	Yemen	69.7 yrs	67.1 yrs
178	Lao People's Democratic Republic	69.7 yrs	67.0 yrs
179	Palau	69.6 yrs	69.0 yrs
180	Botswana	69.6 yrs	64.3 yrs
181	Eritrea	69.4 yrs	66.2 yrs
182	Senegal	69.4 yrs	66.7 yrs
183	Mauritania	69.2 yrs	66.8 yrs
184	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	69.1 yrs	67.4 yrs
185	Uganda	68.9 yrs	64.5 yrs
186	Gabon	68.9 yrs	66.6 yrs
187	Rwanda	68.5 yrs	65.7 yrs
188	Timor-Leste	68.3 yrs	65.6 yrs
189	Ethiopia	68.2 yrs	64.2 yrs
190	Pakistan	68.1 yrs	65.9 yrs
191	Malawi	67.9 yrs	63.2 yrs
192	Namibia	67.8 yrs	60.8 yrs
193	Fiji	67.8 yrs	66.7 yrs
194	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	67.7 yrs	65.6 yrs
195	United Republic of Tanzania	67.6 yrs	64.4 yrs
196	Tuvalu	67.6 yrs	65.5 yrs
197	Comoros	67.5 yrs	64.8 yrs
198	Myanmar	67.5 yrs	65.6 yrs
199	Marshall Islands	67.3 yrs	65.5 yrs
200	Kiribati	66.9 yrs	65.8 yrs
201	Zambia	66.9 yrs	61.1 yrs
202	Sudan	66.9 yrs	64.7 yrs
203	Afghanistan	66.8 yrs	62.6 yrs
204	South Africa	66.7 yrs	64.8 yrs
205	Djibouti	66.6 yrs	63.3 yrs
206	Gambia	66.5 yrs	63.4 yrs
207	Papua New Guinea	66.5 yrs	64.7 yrs
208	Congo	66.4 yrs	63.9 yrs
209	Ghana	66.1 yrs	63.5 yrs
210	Haiti	65.5 yrs	63.3 yrs
211	Angola	65.2 yrs	61.6 yrs
212	Guinea-Bissau	64.6 yrs	60.6 yrs
213	Eswatini	64.5 yrs	56.2 yrs
214	Cameroon	64.5 yrs	60.3 yrs
215	Madagascar	64.3 yrs	63.4 yrs
216	Equatorial Guinea	64.3 yrs	61.1 yrs
217	Kenya	64.2 yrs	62.5 yrs
218	Burundi	64.1 yrs	60.8 yrs
219	Mozambique	64.1 yrs	59.5 yrs
220	Zimbabwe	63.6 yrs	59.8 yrs
221	Togo	63.3 yrs	59.7 yrs
222	Nauru	62.6 yrs	61.0 yrs
223	Liberia	62.6 yrs	60.5 yrs
224	Côte d'Ivoire	62.4 yrs	58.8 yrs
225	Democratic Republic of the Congo	62.4 yrs	59.1 yrs
226	Sierra Leone	62.3 yrs	56.9 yrs
227	Niger	61.9 yrs	59.2 yrs
228	Burkina Faso	61.6 yrs	59.2 yrs
229	Benin	61.3 yrs	59.3 yrs
230	Guinea	61.2 yrs	58.5 yrs
231	Mali	61.1 yrs	58.3 yrs
232	Somalia	59.3 yrs	55.3 yrs
233	Lesotho	58.6 yrs	52.9 yrs
234	Central African Republic	58.1 yrs	51.0 yrs
235	South Sudan	58.0 yrs	36.7 yrs
236	Chad	55.6 yrs	51.6 yrs
237	Nigeria	55.0 yrs	52.2 yrs

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024. Includes small territories.