Life expectancy by country, 1962

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

◀▶1962

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1952
1	Iceland	73.6 yrs	72.4 yrs
2	Guernsey	73.6 yrs	72.7 yrs
3	San Marino	73.5 yrs	71.9 yrs
4	Norway	73.5 yrs	72.7 yrs
5	Sweden	73.3 yrs	71.8 yrs
6	Netherlands	73.2 yrs	72.1 yrs
7	Faroe Islands	73.1 yrs	62.7 yrs
8	Andorra	73.0 yrs	68.0 yrs
9	Monaco	72.4 yrs	68.9 yrs
10	Denmark	72.3 yrs	70.8 yrs
11	Switzerland	71.3 yrs	69.6 yrs
12	Canada	71.2 yrs	68.7 yrs
13	New Zealand	71.2 yrs	69.4 yrs
14	United Kingdom	70.9 yrs	69.5 yrs
15	Australia	70.9 yrs	69.1 yrs
16	Liechtenstein	70.9 yrs	66.2 yrs
17	Jersey	70.8 yrs	69.8 yrs
18	France	70.5 yrs	67.4 yrs
19	Belarus	70.5 yrs	60.5 yrs
20	Ukraine	70.4 yrs	62.1 yrs
21	Greece	70.3 yrs	67.3 yrs
22	Slovakia	70.3 yrs	64.3 yrs
23	Gibraltar	70.2 yrs	65.6 yrs
24	Belgium	70.2 yrs	68.0 yrs
25	United States of America	70.1 yrs	68.4 yrs
26	Ireland	70.0 yrs	67.2 yrs
27	Germany	70.0 yrs	67.5 yrs
28	Czechia	69.9 yrs	66.9 yrs
29	Latvia	69.9 yrs	65.7 yrs
30	Estonia	69.8 yrs	67.2 yrs
31	Spain	69.6 yrs	64.8 yrs
32	Austria	69.5 yrs	66.8 yrs
33	Bulgaria	69.5 yrs	59.6 yrs
34	Lithuania	69.4 yrs	66.2 yrs
35	Israel	69.3 yrs	67.2 yrs
36	Italy	69.2 yrs	65.9 yrs
37	Holy See	69.2 yrs	65.7 yrs
38	Malta	69.2 yrs	64.1 yrs
39	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	68.9 yrs	66.1 yrs
40	Puerto Rico	68.9 yrs	61.8 yrs
41	Slovenia	68.8 yrs	63.8 yrs
42	Finland	68.7 yrs	66.5 yrs
43	Japan	68.7 yrs	63.0 yrs
44	Russian Federation	68.5 yrs	57.6 yrs
45	Luxembourg	68.4 yrs	66.1 yrs
46	Saint Martin (French part)	68.2 yrs	65.4 yrs
47	Poland	68.0 yrs	59.7 yrs
48	Uruguay	67.9 yrs	66.1 yrs
49	Saint Helena	67.9 yrs	66.4 yrs
50	Bermuda	67.9 yrs	61.1 yrs
51	Hungary	67.9 yrs	63.9 yrs
52	Croatia	67.3 yrs	59.8 yrs
53	China, Hong Kong SAR	67.3 yrs	59.8 yrs
54	Romania	67.2 yrs	61.8 yrs
55	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	67.0 yrs	63.1 yrs
56	Serbia	67.0 yrs	57.4 yrs
57	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	66.7 yrs	63.6 yrs
58	Montenegro	66.4 yrs	59.1 yrs
59	Singapore	66.1 yrs	56.4 yrs
60	Curaçao	66.0 yrs	61.6 yrs
61	American Samoa	66.0 yrs	60.2 yrs
62	Barbados	65.7 yrs	55.9 yrs
63	China, Macao SAR	65.1 yrs	59.3 yrs
64	Cyprus	64.7 yrs	57.7 yrs
65	Argentina	64.6 yrs	62.5 yrs
66	Aruba	64.6 yrs	59.5 yrs
67	Jamaica	64.6 yrs	58.1 yrs
68	Lebanon	64.6 yrs	60.8 yrs
69	Cuba	64.4 yrs	59.8 yrs
70	Isle of Man	64.4 yrs	63.6 yrs
71	Portugal	64.3 yrs	59.8 yrs
72	Costa Rica	64.2 yrs	58.1 yrs
73	Antigua and Barbuda	64.0 yrs	59.0 yrs
74	Grenada	63.8 yrs	54.8 yrs
75	British Virgin Islands	63.8 yrs	55.2 yrs
76	China, Taiwan Province of China	63.8 yrs	57.9 yrs
77	Guam	63.4 yrs	60.2 yrs
78	Trinidad and Tobago	63.4 yrs	57.7 yrs
79	Bahamas	63.2 yrs	59.6 yrs
80	United States Virgin Islands	62.8 yrs	58.9 yrs
81	Guadeloupe	62.3 yrs	54.2 yrs
82	Martinique	62.3 yrs	54.9 yrs
83	Georgia	62.1 yrs	58.4 yrs
84	Northern Mariana Islands	62.0 yrs	58.8 yrs
85	Dominica	61.9 yrs	48.2 yrs
86	Sri Lanka	61.6 yrs	54.9 yrs
87	Anguilla	61.4 yrs	56.1 yrs
88	Panama	61.4 yrs	56.4 yrs
89	Kuwait	61.0 yrs	51.4 yrs
90	Saint Barthélemy	61.0 yrs	56.6 yrs
91	Paraguay	60.8 yrs	58.4 yrs
92	Seychelles	60.7 yrs	58.4 yrs
93	Niue	60.5 yrs	55.4 yrs
94	Mauritius	60.5 yrs	52.1 yrs
95	Republic of Moldova	60.3 yrs	55.1 yrs
96	Montserrat	60.3 yrs	50.7 yrs
97	French Polynesia	60.2 yrs	53.8 yrs
98	Cayman Islands	60.1 yrs	55.0 yrs
99	Bosnia and Herzegovina	60.1 yrs	49.4 yrs
100	Armenia	60.0 yrs	55.5 yrs
101	Greenland	59.9 yrs	42.9 yrs
102	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	59.9 yrs	49.5 yrs
103	Saint Lucia	59.9 yrs	52.4 yrs
104	Philippines	59.8 yrs	54.7 yrs
105	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	59.7 yrs	52.7 yrs
106	Fiji	59.6 yrs	52.6 yrs
107	Tokelau	59.4 yrs	55.5 yrs
108	Réunion	59.4 yrs	50.1 yrs
109	Tonga	59.3 yrs	51.2 yrs
110	North Macedonia	59.3 yrs	52.5 yrs
111	Qatar	59.2 yrs	52.1 yrs
112	Malaysia	58.9 yrs	50.1 yrs
113	Brunei Darussalam	58.8 yrs	52.4 yrs
114	Belize	58.7 yrs	50.7 yrs
115	Albania	58.5 yrs	46.3 yrs
116	Kazakhstan	58.4 yrs	56.1 yrs
117	Guyana	58.3 yrs	51.3 yrs
118	Viet Nam	58.2 yrs	49.4 yrs
119	Suriname	58.0 yrs	51.4 yrs
120	Nauru	58.0 yrs	57.0 yrs
121	French Guiana	57.9 yrs	49.0 yrs
122	Saint Kitts and Nevis	57.8 yrs	55.7 yrs
123	Chile	57.8 yrs	53.9 yrs
124	Colombia	57.7 yrs	49.8 yrs
125	Turks and Caicos Islands	57.7 yrs	50.3 yrs
126	Uzbekistan	57.2 yrs	54.0 yrs
127	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	57.0 yrs	32.8 yrs
128	Samoa	56.3 yrs	50.4 yrs
129	Mayotte	56.3 yrs	44.8 yrs
130	Kyrgyzstan	55.7 yrs	52.6 yrs
131	Cook Islands	55.5 yrs	41.2 yrs
132	Palau	55.4 yrs	53.1 yrs
133	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	55.4 yrs	49.5 yrs
134	Marshall Islands	55.2 yrs	52.7 yrs
135	Mexico	55.1 yrs	45.7 yrs
136	Republic of Korea	55.0 yrs	36.6 yrs
137	Ecuador	54.7 yrs	49.2 yrs
138	Syrian Arab Republic	54.6 yrs	44.3 yrs
139	Jordan	54.6 yrs	43.2 yrs
140	Zimbabwe	54.5 yrs	50.2 yrs
141	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	54.0 yrs	49.9 yrs
142	Brazil	54.0 yrs	49.5 yrs
143	Bahrain	53.9 yrs	39.9 yrs
144	New Caledonia	53.8 yrs	46.5 yrs
145	South Africa	53.6 yrs	45.0 yrs
146	Iraq	53.5 yrs	40.5 yrs
147	Tajikistan	53.4 yrs	49.9 yrs
148	Dominican Republic	53.2 yrs	45.6 yrs
149	Turkmenistan	52.9 yrs	49.0 yrs
150	United Arab Emirates	52.5 yrs	43.6 yrs
151	Türkiye	52.4 yrs	48.1 yrs
152	Botswana	52.3 yrs	47.0 yrs
153	Azerbaijan	52.0 yrs	47.0 yrs
154	Peru	51.5 yrs	46.8 yrs
155	Thailand	51.4 yrs	46.5 yrs
156	Zambia	51.3 yrs	47.6 yrs
157	China	51.0 yrs	45.3 yrs
158	Vanuatu	50.9 yrs	45.3 yrs
159	Sudan	50.4 yrs	46.5 yrs
160	State of Palestine	50.4 yrs	46.3 yrs
161	Lesotho	50.3 yrs	45.9 yrs
162	Cabo Verde	50.2 yrs	46.1 yrs
163	Kenya	50.1 yrs	38.6 yrs
164	Namibia	50.0 yrs	43.1 yrs
165	Tuvalu	49.8 yrs	41.7 yrs
166	El Salvador	49.0 yrs	44.8 yrs
167	Kiribati	49.0 yrs	45.9 yrs
168	Congo	49.0 yrs	41.1 yrs
169	Solomon Islands	49.0 yrs	42.6 yrs
170	Honduras	48.6 yrs	42.0 yrs
171	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	48.4 yrs	44.0 yrs
172	Wallis and Futuna Islands	48.2 yrs	44.4 yrs
173	Indonesia	48.1 yrs	41.5 yrs
174	Nicaragua	48.0 yrs	41.9 yrs
175	Gabon	47.8 yrs	40.7 yrs
176	Rwanda	47.8 yrs	43.8 yrs
177	Ghana	47.3 yrs	44.0 yrs
178	Eswatini	47.1 yrs	44.0 yrs
179	Uganda	46.8 yrs	40.8 yrs
180	Sao Tome and Principe	46.8 yrs	39.1 yrs
181	Papua New Guinea	46.7 yrs	40.7 yrs
182	Guatemala	46.5 yrs	38.9 yrs
183	Saudi Arabia	46.5 yrs	41.1 yrs
184	Mongolia	46.3 yrs	39.4 yrs
185	India	46.1 yrs	42.1 yrs
186	Pakistan	45.9 yrs	36.5 yrs
187	Egypt	45.8 yrs	36.6 yrs
188	Bangladesh	45.8 yrs	38.8 yrs
189	Tunisia	45.6 yrs	39.3 yrs
190	Myanmar	45.3 yrs	37.7 yrs
191	Mauritania	45.0 yrs	39.2 yrs
192	Haiti	44.2 yrs	38.8 yrs
193	Madagascar	44.2 yrs	40.3 yrs
194	Morocco	44.2 yrs	39.6 yrs
195	Djibouti	44.1 yrs	41.2 yrs
196	Libya	44.1 yrs	33.8 yrs
197	Somalia	44.0 yrs	41.9 yrs
198	Togo	44.0 yrs	42.2 yrs
199	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	44.0 yrs	41.0 yrs
200	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	43.8 yrs	39.1 yrs
201	Burundi	43.5 yrs	41.5 yrs
202	Equatorial Guinea	43.3 yrs	40.6 yrs
203	United Republic of Tanzania	43.2 yrs	41.4 yrs
204	Cambodia	43.1 yrs	39.3 yrs
205	Cameroon	42.6 yrs	34.6 yrs
206	Lao People's Democratic Republic	42.3 yrs	39.4 yrs
207	Mozambique	41.8 yrs	38.1 yrs
208	Comoros	41.5 yrs	38.0 yrs
209	Central African Republic	40.6 yrs	36.3 yrs
210	Ethiopia	40.5 yrs	36.2 yrs
211	Democratic Republic of the Congo	40.4 yrs	38.9 yrs
212	Senegal	39.7 yrs	37.4 yrs
213	Chad	39.6 yrs	35.9 yrs
214	Benin	39.6 yrs	36.0 yrs
215	Algeria	39.5 yrs	43.5 yrs
216	Western Sahara	39.5 yrs	35.6 yrs
217	Nepal	39.3 yrs	37.6 yrs
218	Maldives	39.1 yrs	37.0 yrs
219	Côte d'Ivoire	38.6 yrs	32.0 yrs
220	Eritrea	38.4 yrs	34.0 yrs
221	Liberia	38.2 yrs	38.0 yrs
222	Guinea-Bissau	38.0 yrs	36.1 yrs
223	Nigeria	37.6 yrs	35.9 yrs
224	Oman	37.4 yrs	30.2 yrs
225	Angola	37.2 yrs	36.2 yrs
226	Guinea	37.0 yrs	35.7 yrs
227	Bhutan	37.0 yrs	35.4 yrs
228	Burkina Faso	36.8 yrs	33.6 yrs
229	Niger	36.3 yrs	35.9 yrs
230	Gambia	35.6 yrs	31.7 yrs
231	Malawi	35.5 yrs	33.0 yrs
232	Sierra Leone	34.2 yrs	29.7 yrs
233	Afghanistan	33.8 yrs	29.0 yrs
234	Yemen	33.7 yrs	29.6 yrs
235	Timor-Leste	33.2 yrs	29.8 yrs
236	Mali	30.8 yrs	29.1 yrs
237	South Sudan	28.5 yrs	31.0 yrs

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