Life expectancy by country, 1961

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

◀▶1961

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1951
1	Norway	73.6 yrs	72.5 yrs
2	Netherlands	73.5 yrs	71.5 yrs
3	Sweden	73.5 yrs	71.4 yrs
4	Iceland	73.4 yrs	71.0 yrs
5	San Marino	73.4 yrs	71.7 yrs
6	Guernsey	72.9 yrs	71.7 yrs
7	Andorra	72.6 yrs	67.5 yrs
8	Faroe Islands	72.6 yrs	61.7 yrs
9	Denmark	72.5 yrs	70.9 yrs
10	Monaco	72.2 yrs	68.4 yrs
11	Switzerland	71.7 yrs	68.7 yrs
12	Canada	71.2 yrs	68.5 yrs
13	Australia	71.1 yrs	68.7 yrs
14	France	71.0 yrs	66.1 yrs
15	Liechtenstein	71.0 yrs	65.8 yrs
16	New Zealand	70.9 yrs	69.1 yrs
17	United Kingdom	70.8 yrs	68.2 yrs
18	Slovakia	70.8 yrs	61.1 yrs
19	Jersey	70.6 yrs	69.6 yrs
20	Czechia	70.6 yrs	65.3 yrs
21	Belgium	70.5 yrs	66.8 yrs
22	Latvia	70.5 yrs	65.2 yrs
23	Lithuania	70.5 yrs	66.2 yrs
24	Greece	70.4 yrs	66.7 yrs
25	United States of America	70.3 yrs	68.2 yrs
26	Gibraltar	70.2 yrs	65.3 yrs
27	Bulgaria	70.2 yrs	60.7 yrs
28	Ukraine	70.0 yrs	61.4 yrs
29	Belarus	70.0 yrs	59.4 yrs
30	Israel	69.8 yrs	67.6 yrs
31	Italy	69.8 yrs	65.3 yrs
32	Germany	69.8 yrs	67.1 yrs
33	Holy See	69.8 yrs	65.3 yrs
34	Austria	69.7 yrs	65.2 yrs
35	Ireland	69.6 yrs	64.8 yrs
36	Estonia	69.6 yrs	66.8 yrs
37	Spain	69.6 yrs	61.5 yrs
38	Luxembourg	69.2 yrs	65.9 yrs
39	Hungary	69.0 yrs	62.5 yrs
40	Finland	69.0 yrs	65.6 yrs
41	Slovenia	68.9 yrs	62.4 yrs
42	Russian Federation	68.6 yrs	55.3 yrs
43	Puerto Rico	68.5 yrs	60.3 yrs
44	Malta	68.4 yrs	63.9 yrs
45	Japan	68.4 yrs	61.0 yrs
46	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	68.0 yrs	62.7 yrs
47	Saint Martin (French part)	67.9 yrs	65.3 yrs
48	Uruguay	67.8 yrs	65.8 yrs
49	Poland	67.8 yrs	58.9 yrs
50	Saint Helena	67.7 yrs	66.2 yrs
51	Bermuda	67.5 yrs	60.6 yrs
52	China, Hong Kong SAR	66.9 yrs	58.7 yrs
53	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	66.7 yrs	63.1 yrs
54	Croatia	66.5 yrs	59.0 yrs
55	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	66.5 yrs	63.3 yrs
56	Romania	66.4 yrs	61.2 yrs
57	Serbia	66.3 yrs	55.6 yrs
58	Montenegro	66.1 yrs	58.5 yrs
59	Curaçao	65.8 yrs	61.0 yrs
60	Singapore	65.7 yrs	55.3 yrs
61	American Samoa	65.7 yrs	59.6 yrs
62	Barbados	65.0 yrs	54.7 yrs
63	Argentina	64.6 yrs	61.7 yrs
64	China, Macao SAR	64.5 yrs	58.8 yrs
65	Isle of Man	64.4 yrs	63.4 yrs
66	Jamaica	64.3 yrs	57.1 yrs
67	Lebanon	64.3 yrs	60.3 yrs
68	Aruba	64.2 yrs	58.7 yrs
69	Cyprus	64.1 yrs	56.8 yrs
70	Costa Rica	63.9 yrs	57.8 yrs
71	Cuba	63.7 yrs	59.4 yrs
72	Grenada	63.5 yrs	53.8 yrs
73	Antigua and Barbuda	63.3 yrs	58.6 yrs
74	British Virgin Islands	63.3 yrs	54.3 yrs
75	Guam	63.2 yrs	59.9 yrs
76	United States Virgin Islands	63.2 yrs	57.1 yrs
77	Trinidad and Tobago	63.0 yrs	57.3 yrs
78	China, Taiwan Province of China	63.0 yrs	57.2 yrs
79	Martinique	62.9 yrs	54.2 yrs
80	Bahamas	62.8 yrs	59.2 yrs
81	Portugal	62.8 yrs	58.8 yrs
82	North Macedonia	61.8 yrs	48.5 yrs
83	Georgia	61.7 yrs	58.0 yrs
84	Northern Mariana Islands	61.7 yrs	58.5 yrs
85	Guadeloupe	61.6 yrs	53.8 yrs
86	Sri Lanka	61.2 yrs	54.0 yrs
87	Dominica	61.0 yrs	46.3 yrs
88	Anguilla	60.9 yrs	55.6 yrs
89	Panama	60.9 yrs	55.9 yrs
90	Saint Barthélemy	60.6 yrs	55.0 yrs
91	Seychelles	60.6 yrs	58.0 yrs
92	Paraguay	60.5 yrs	58.3 yrs
93	Kuwait	60.0 yrs	50.6 yrs
94	Niue	60.0 yrs	55.0 yrs
95	Republic of Moldova	59.9 yrs	54.5 yrs
96	French Polynesia	59.9 yrs	52.8 yrs
97	Armenia	59.6 yrs	55.0 yrs
98	Philippines	59.5 yrs	54.1 yrs
99	Mauritius	59.5 yrs	52.5 yrs
100	Montserrat	59.5 yrs	49.6 yrs
101	Greenland	59.4 yrs	41.1 yrs
102	Cayman Islands	59.4 yrs	54.5 yrs
103	Brunei Darussalam	59.4 yrs	51.5 yrs
104	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	59.3 yrs	48.6 yrs
105	Bosnia and Herzegovina	59.3 yrs	48.4 yrs
106	Saint Lucia	59.1 yrs	49.8 yrs
107	Fiji	59.1 yrs	52.2 yrs
108	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	59.1 yrs	52.0 yrs
109	Tokelau	59.0 yrs	55.1 yrs
110	Tonga	58.8 yrs	49.8 yrs
111	Réunion	58.8 yrs	48.6 yrs
112	Qatar	58.5 yrs	51.5 yrs
113	Viet Nam	58.5 yrs	48.7 yrs
114	Kazakhstan	58.2 yrs	55.9 yrs
115	Nauru	58.0 yrs	56.8 yrs
116	Malaysia	58.0 yrs	49.2 yrs
117	Guyana	57.9 yrs	50.2 yrs
118	Albania	57.5 yrs	45.3 yrs
119	Suriname	57.3 yrs	51.1 yrs
120	Saint Kitts and Nevis	57.3 yrs	55.2 yrs
121	Chile	57.3 yrs	53.5 yrs
122	Colombia	57.2 yrs	49.0 yrs
123	Turks and Caicos Islands	57.1 yrs	49.4 yrs
124	Uzbekistan	56.9 yrs	53.7 yrs
125	French Guiana	56.9 yrs	48.4 yrs
126	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	56.4 yrs	17.7 yrs
127	Samoa	55.7 yrs	49.8 yrs
128	Kyrgyzstan	55.4 yrs	52.4 yrs
129	Mayotte	55.4 yrs	43.6 yrs
130	Palau	55.1 yrs	52.9 yrs
131	Marshall Islands	54.7 yrs	52.7 yrs
132	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	54.7 yrs	48.9 yrs
133	Mexico	54.4 yrs	44.8 yrs
134	Republic of Korea	54.4 yrs	26.6 yrs
135	Cook Islands	54.1 yrs	39.6 yrs
136	Ecuador	54.0 yrs	48.9 yrs
137	Zimbabwe	54.0 yrs	49.8 yrs
138	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	53.8 yrs	49.7 yrs
139	Jordan	53.7 yrs	42.0 yrs
140	Syrian Arab Republic	53.6 yrs	43.5 yrs
141	Brazil	53.6 yrs	49.0 yrs
142	New Caledonia	53.1 yrs	45.7 yrs
143	South Africa	53.1 yrs	44.1 yrs
144	Tajikistan	52.9 yrs	49.6 yrs
145	Belize	52.9 yrs	49.9 yrs
146	Dominican Republic	52.5 yrs	44.8 yrs
147	Turkmenistan	52.5 yrs	48.6 yrs
148	Iraq	52.3 yrs	39.0 yrs
149	Bahrain	52.3 yrs	39.3 yrs
150	Botswana	51.8 yrs	46.6 yrs
151	United Arab Emirates	51.6 yrs	42.9 yrs
152	Türkiye	51.6 yrs	47.6 yrs
153	Azerbaijan	51.4 yrs	46.6 yrs
154	Peru	51.2 yrs	46.5 yrs
155	Thailand	51.1 yrs	45.9 yrs
156	Zambia	51.0 yrs	47.2 yrs
157	Vanuatu	50.4 yrs	42.2 yrs
158	Lesotho	50.3 yrs	45.2 yrs
159	Sudan	50.0 yrs	46.2 yrs
160	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	49.9 yrs	42.1 yrs
161	State of Palestine	49.8 yrs	46.0 yrs
162	Cabo Verde	49.4 yrs	45.5 yrs
163	Kenya	49.3 yrs	38.0 yrs
164	Namibia	49.2 yrs	42.5 yrs
165	Tuvalu	49.0 yrs	40.8 yrs
166	El Salvador	48.6 yrs	43.8 yrs
167	Kiribati	48.5 yrs	45.8 yrs
168	Congo	48.4 yrs	40.3 yrs
169	Solomon Islands	48.3 yrs	42.0 yrs
170	Wallis and Futuna Islands	47.7 yrs	44.3 yrs
171	Honduras	47.7 yrs	41.6 yrs
172	Rwanda	47.5 yrs	43.5 yrs
173	Indonesia	47.4 yrs	40.8 yrs
174	Nicaragua	47.3 yrs	40.8 yrs
175	Ghana	47.1 yrs	43.6 yrs
176	Gabon	47.1 yrs	40.0 yrs
177	Eswatini	46.8 yrs	43.7 yrs
178	Papua New Guinea	46.4 yrs	35.5 yrs
179	Uganda	46.3 yrs	40.2 yrs
180	Guatemala	46.1 yrs	38.3 yrs
181	Saudi Arabia	45.9 yrs	40.5 yrs
182	India	45.8 yrs	41.6 yrs
183	Mongolia	45.4 yrs	39.0 yrs
184	Sao Tome and Principe	45.2 yrs	39.1 yrs
185	Egypt	45.1 yrs	35.3 yrs
186	Pakistan	45.0 yrs	35.4 yrs
187	Bangladesh	44.9 yrs	38.1 yrs
188	Myanmar	44.6 yrs	36.5 yrs
189	Tunisia	44.3 yrs	38.7 yrs
190	Mauritania	44.3 yrs	38.9 yrs
191	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	43.9 yrs	38.7 yrs
192	Djibouti	43.8 yrs	41.0 yrs
193	Togo	43.8 yrs	42.1 yrs
194	Haiti	43.8 yrs	38.1 yrs
195	Madagascar	43.8 yrs	39.9 yrs
196	Somalia	43.7 yrs	41.7 yrs
197	Morocco	43.7 yrs	39.1 yrs
198	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	43.6 yrs	40.9 yrs
199	Burundi	43.4 yrs	41.2 yrs
200	Equatorial Guinea	43.0 yrs	40.4 yrs
201	United Republic of Tanzania	42.8 yrs	41.2 yrs
202	Cambodia	42.6 yrs	39.0 yrs
203	Libya	42.4 yrs	33.5 yrs
204	Mozambique	41.5 yrs	37.7 yrs
205	Lao People's Democratic Republic	41.3 yrs	39.2 yrs
206	Comoros	41.2 yrs	34.3 yrs
207	Algeria	40.8 yrs	43.3 yrs
208	Ethiopia	40.2 yrs	35.9 yrs
209	Democratic Republic of the Congo	40.2 yrs	38.5 yrs
210	China	40.2 yrs	44.6 yrs
211	Central African Republic	40.1 yrs	35.8 yrs
212	Senegal	39.7 yrs	36.9 yrs
213	Chad	39.4 yrs	35.5 yrs
214	Benin	39.2 yrs	35.7 yrs
215	Western Sahara	39.1 yrs	35.3 yrs
216	Nepal	39.0 yrs	37.6 yrs
217	Maldives	38.6 yrs	37.1 yrs
218	Liberia	38.1 yrs	38.0 yrs
219	Eritrea	37.9 yrs	33.6 yrs
220	Côte d'Ivoire	37.9 yrs	31.4 yrs
221	Guinea-Bissau	37.8 yrs	35.9 yrs
222	Nigeria	37.4 yrs	35.7 yrs
223	Angola	36.9 yrs	36.0 yrs
224	Guinea	36.8 yrs	35.6 yrs
225	Bhutan	36.6 yrs	35.3 yrs
226	Oman	36.4 yrs	29.8 yrs
227	Burkina Faso	36.4 yrs	33.4 yrs
228	Niger	36.3 yrs	35.9 yrs
229	Cameroon	35.2 yrs	33.9 yrs
230	Malawi	35.2 yrs	32.8 yrs
231	Gambia	35.1 yrs	31.4 yrs
232	Yemen	34.1 yrs	29.3 yrs
233	Sierra Leone	33.6 yrs	29.3 yrs
234	Afghanistan	33.3 yrs	28.6 yrs
235	Timor-Leste	32.8 yrs	29.5 yrs
236	Mali	30.6 yrs	28.9 yrs
237	South Sudan	28.3 yrs	30.6 yrs

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