Life expectancy by country, 1960

Life expectancy at birth, both sexes. Values are UN estimates.

◀▶1960

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1950
1	Guernsey	75.2 yrs	71.2 yrs
2	Iceland	74.0 yrs	71.0 yrs
3	Norway	73.6 yrs	71.6 yrs
4	Netherlands	73.3 yrs	71.4 yrs
5	San Marino	73.2 yrs	71.6 yrs
6	Sweden	73.0 yrs	71.1 yrs
7	Denmark	72.2 yrs	70.3 yrs
8	Andorra	72.1 yrs	67.2 yrs
9	Faroe Islands	72.0 yrs	60.6 yrs
10	Monaco	71.9 yrs	68.0 yrs
11	Switzerland	71.4 yrs	68.9 yrs
12	New Zealand	71.2 yrs	69.3 yrs
13	United Kingdom	71.0 yrs	68.6 yrs
14	Canada	71.0 yrs	68.2 yrs
15	Australia	70.9 yrs	69.0 yrs
16	Liechtenstein	70.9 yrs	65.3 yrs
17	Greece	70.5 yrs	66.2 yrs
18	Jersey	70.5 yrs	69.4 yrs
19	Czechia	70.5 yrs	64.4 yrs
20	France	70.4 yrs	66.4 yrs
21	Slovakia	70.3 yrs	60.8 yrs
22	Latvia	70.3 yrs	64.6 yrs
23	Lithuania	70.3 yrs	66.1 yrs
24	Ireland	70.2 yrs	65.6 yrs
25	Gibraltar	70.2 yrs	65.1 yrs
26	United States of America	69.8 yrs	68.1 yrs
27	Israel	69.8 yrs	69.9 yrs
28	Belgium	69.6 yrs	66.3 yrs
29	Ukraine	69.4 yrs	61.2 yrs
30	Estonia	69.3 yrs	66.4 yrs
31	Germany	69.3 yrs	66.8 yrs
32	Belarus	69.3 yrs	58.6 yrs
33	Italy	69.2 yrs	65.7 yrs
34	Spain	69.2 yrs	61.8 yrs
35	Holy See	69.2 yrs	65.8 yrs
36	Bulgaria	69.2 yrs	61.5 yrs
37	Finland	69.0 yrs	64.2 yrs
38	Austria	68.8 yrs	64.8 yrs
39	Luxembourg	68.8 yrs	65.5 yrs
40	Puerto Rico	68.6 yrs	60.4 yrs
41	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	68.5 yrs	61.5 yrs
42	Slovenia	68.5 yrs	61.8 yrs
43	Malta	68.4 yrs	63.5 yrs
44	Russian Federation	68.3 yrs	55.5 yrs
45	Hungary	68.1 yrs	62.1 yrs
46	Uruguay	67.7 yrs	65.6 yrs
47	Saint Martin (French part)	67.7 yrs	65.1 yrs
48	Saint Helena	67.7 yrs	66.0 yrs
49	Japan	67.7 yrs	59.3 yrs
50	Poland	67.1 yrs	58.3 yrs
51	Bermuda	66.5 yrs	60.4 yrs
52	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	66.3 yrs	62.9 yrs
53	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	66.3 yrs	62.4 yrs
54	China, Hong Kong SAR	66.2 yrs	57.8 yrs
55	Croatia	66.0 yrs	58.5 yrs
56	Serbia	65.7 yrs	55.1 yrs
57	Montenegro	65.7 yrs	58.0 yrs
58	Romania	65.6 yrs	60.5 yrs
59	Curaçao	65.4 yrs	60.3 yrs
60	Singapore	65.3 yrs	54.1 yrs
61	American Samoa	65.0 yrs	59.2 yrs
62	Isle of Man	64.6 yrs	63.1 yrs
63	Argentina	64.2 yrs	61.3 yrs
64	Barbados	64.2 yrs	53.6 yrs
65	Portugal	64.2 yrs	58.5 yrs
66	Aruba	64.0 yrs	58.0 yrs
67	Lebanon	63.9 yrs	59.9 yrs
68	China, Macao SAR	63.9 yrs	58.3 yrs
69	Jamaica	63.8 yrs	56.6 yrs
70	Costa Rica	63.5 yrs	57.5 yrs
71	Cyprus	63.3 yrs	55.8 yrs
72	Cuba	63.3 yrs	59.0 yrs
73	Grenada	63.1 yrs	52.7 yrs
74	Guam	62.9 yrs	59.6 yrs
75	British Virgin Islands	62.7 yrs	53.4 yrs
76	Antigua and Barbuda	62.6 yrs	58.1 yrs
77	United States Virgin Islands	62.6 yrs	59.9 yrs
78	Trinidad and Tobago	62.5 yrs	57.0 yrs
79	Bahamas	62.5 yrs	58.9 yrs
80	China, Taiwan Province of China	62.5 yrs	56.6 yrs
81	Martinique	61.6 yrs	55.0 yrs
82	Georgia	61.4 yrs	57.7 yrs
83	Northern Mariana Islands	61.4 yrs	58.2 yrs
84	Guadeloupe	61.1 yrs	53.1 yrs
85	Sri Lanka	60.6 yrs	53.2 yrs
86	Seychelles	60.5 yrs	57.8 yrs
87	North Macedonia	60.5 yrs	50.6 yrs
88	Panama	60.3 yrs	55.4 yrs
89	Paraguay	60.2 yrs	58.0 yrs
90	Saint Barthélemy	60.1 yrs	54.0 yrs
91	Dominica	60.1 yrs	44.5 yrs
92	French Polynesia	59.5 yrs	51.9 yrs
93	Niue	59.4 yrs	54.6 yrs
94	Republic of Moldova	59.4 yrs	54.0 yrs
95	Philippines	59.2 yrs	53.6 yrs
96	Armenia	59.1 yrs	54.5 yrs
97	Kuwait	58.9 yrs	49.7 yrs
98	Anguilla	58.8 yrs	55.1 yrs
99	Cayman Islands	58.8 yrs	54.0 yrs
100	Brunei Darussalam	58.7 yrs	50.6 yrs
101	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	58.6 yrs	46.9 yrs
102	Tokelau	58.6 yrs	54.7 yrs
103	Fiji	58.6 yrs	51.7 yrs
104	Montserrat	58.6 yrs	48.6 yrs
105	Greenland	58.5 yrs	39.5 yrs
106	Bosnia and Herzegovina	58.5 yrs	47.3 yrs
107	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	58.4 yrs	51.1 yrs
108	Mauritius	58.4 yrs	51.9 yrs
109	Tonga	58.3 yrs	48.4 yrs
110	Kazakhstan	58.0 yrs	55.6 yrs
111	Viet Nam	58.0 yrs	48.0 yrs
112	Saint Lucia	57.9 yrs	48.3 yrs
113	Nauru	57.9 yrs	56.6 yrs
114	Qatar	57.8 yrs	50.8 yrs
115	Réunion	57.7 yrs	47.6 yrs
116	Guyana	57.5 yrs	49.2 yrs
117	Belize	57.4 yrs	49.2 yrs
118	Chile	57.2 yrs	53.1 yrs
119	Malaysia	57.2 yrs	48.5 yrs
120	Saint Kitts and Nevis	56.8 yrs	54.8 yrs
121	Colombia	56.6 yrs	48.3 yrs
122	Suriname	56.6 yrs	50.7 yrs
123	Uzbekistan	56.5 yrs	53.3 yrs
124	Albania	56.4 yrs	44.5 yrs
125	Turks and Caicos Islands	56.3 yrs	48.6 yrs
126	French Guiana	55.8 yrs	47.7 yrs
127	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	55.8 yrs	14.2 yrs
128	Kyrgyzstan	55.1 yrs	52.1 yrs
129	Samoa	55.1 yrs	49.2 yrs
130	Palau	54.9 yrs	52.7 yrs
131	Marshall Islands	54.4 yrs	52.6 yrs
132	Mayotte	54.4 yrs	42.3 yrs
133	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	54.2 yrs	48.4 yrs
134	Republic of Korea	53.8 yrs	22.2 yrs
135	Mexico	53.6 yrs	43.8 yrs
136	Zimbabwe	53.5 yrs	49.4 yrs
137	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	53.5 yrs	49.5 yrs
138	Ecuador	53.4 yrs	48.5 yrs
139	Brazil	53.2 yrs	48.5 yrs
140	Cook Islands	52.7 yrs	38.0 yrs
141	Syrian Arab Republic	52.7 yrs	42.5 yrs
142	Jordan	52.7 yrs	40.9 yrs
143	South Africa	52.6 yrs	43.1 yrs
144	Tajikistan	52.5 yrs	49.4 yrs
145	New Caledonia	52.3 yrs	45.1 yrs
146	Turkmenistan	52.1 yrs	48.1 yrs
147	Dominican Republic	51.7 yrs	44.1 yrs
148	Iraq	51.5 yrs	37.4 yrs
149	Botswana	51.2 yrs	46.2 yrs
150	Azerbaijan	50.9 yrs	46.3 yrs
151	Türkiye	50.8 yrs	47.3 yrs
152	United Arab Emirates	50.6 yrs	42.1 yrs
153	Zambia	50.6 yrs	46.8 yrs
154	Thailand	50.6 yrs	45.2 yrs
155	Bahrain	50.6 yrs	38.6 yrs
156	Peru	50.6 yrs	46.0 yrs
157	Lesotho	50.2 yrs	44.6 yrs
158	Vanuatu	49.8 yrs	43.9 yrs
159	Sudan	49.6 yrs	45.8 yrs
160	State of Palestine	49.3 yrs	45.8 yrs
161	Cabo Verde	48.7 yrs	44.9 yrs
162	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	48.7 yrs	43.5 yrs
163	Kenya	48.5 yrs	36.9 yrs
164	Namibia	48.5 yrs	42.0 yrs
165	El Salvador	48.3 yrs	44.2 yrs
166	Tuvalu	48.3 yrs	40.0 yrs
167	Kiribati	48.0 yrs	45.7 yrs
168	Solomon Islands	47.7 yrs	41.4 yrs
169	Congo	47.6 yrs	39.6 yrs
170	Wallis and Futuna Islands	47.3 yrs	44.1 yrs
171	Honduras	47.1 yrs	41.0 yrs
172	Rwanda	47.0 yrs	43.2 yrs
173	Ghana	46.9 yrs	43.1 yrs
174	Indonesia	46.8 yrs	40.2 yrs
175	Eswatini	46.4 yrs	43.4 yrs
176	Gabon	46.4 yrs	39.3 yrs
177	Nicaragua	46.4 yrs	40.6 yrs
178	Guatemala	45.8 yrs	37.8 yrs
179	Papua New Guinea	45.8 yrs	39.4 yrs
180	India	45.6 yrs	41.2 yrs
181	Uganda	45.6 yrs	39.7 yrs
182	Saudi Arabia	45.3 yrs	40.0 yrs
183	Mongolia	44.5 yrs	38.6 yrs
184	Egypt	44.4 yrs	34.0 yrs
185	Pakistan	44.1 yrs	34.3 yrs
186	Myanmar	44.1 yrs	35.7 yrs
187	Tunisia	44.0 yrs	38.2 yrs
188	Bangladesh	44.0 yrs	37.4 yrs
189	Sao Tome and Principe	43.6 yrs	39.1 yrs
190	Mauritania	43.6 yrs	38.4 yrs
191	Somalia	43.5 yrs	41.5 yrs
192	Togo	43.5 yrs	41.9 yrs
193	Djibouti	43.4 yrs	40.7 yrs
194	Haiti	43.4 yrs	37.2 yrs
195	Madagascar	43.4 yrs	39.7 yrs
196	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	43.3 yrs	38.2 yrs
197	Burundi	43.3 yrs	40.9 yrs
198	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	43.3 yrs	40.7 yrs
199	Equatorial Guinea	42.7 yrs	40.1 yrs
200	United Republic of Tanzania	42.6 yrs	41.0 yrs
201	Cambodia	42.1 yrs	38.9 yrs
202	Morocco	41.7 yrs	38.8 yrs
203	Mozambique	41.2 yrs	37.3 yrs
204	Lao People's Democratic Republic	41.0 yrs	38.9 yrs
205	Algeria	40.8 yrs	42.7 yrs
206	Comoros	40.8 yrs	37.4 yrs
207	Democratic Republic of the Congo	40.8 yrs	38.2 yrs
208	Libya	40.8 yrs	33.1 yrs
209	Senegal	39.7 yrs	36.5 yrs
210	Ethiopia	39.6 yrs	35.5 yrs
211	Central African Republic	39.6 yrs	35.4 yrs
212	Chad	39.2 yrs	35.2 yrs
213	Benin	38.8 yrs	35.4 yrs
214	Western Sahara	38.7 yrs	34.9 yrs
215	Nepal	38.6 yrs	37.6 yrs
216	Maldives	38.2 yrs	36.5 yrs
217	Liberia	38.1 yrs	38.0 yrs
218	Angola	37.9 yrs	35.9 yrs
219	Guinea-Bissau	37.5 yrs	35.7 yrs
220	Eritrea	37.4 yrs	33.3 yrs
221	Côte d'Ivoire	37.2 yrs	30.8 yrs
222	Nigeria	37.2 yrs	35.5 yrs
223	Guinea	36.6 yrs	35.6 yrs
224	Bhutan	36.4 yrs	35.3 yrs
225	Niger	36.2 yrs	35.9 yrs
226	Burkina Faso	36.1 yrs	33.0 yrs
227	Oman	35.4 yrs	29.3 yrs
228	Malawi	35.0 yrs	32.7 yrs
229	Cameroon	34.7 yrs	33.1 yrs
230	Gambia	34.6 yrs	31.2 yrs
231	Yemen	33.5 yrs	28.9 yrs
232	China	33.4 yrs	43.8 yrs
233	Sierra Leone	33.1 yrs	28.9 yrs
234	Afghanistan	32.8 yrs	28.2 yrs
235	Timor-Leste	32.4 yrs	29.2 yrs
236	Mali	30.5 yrs	28.7 yrs
237	South Sudan	28.1 yrs	30.2 yrs

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