Life expectancy by country, 1963

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

◀▶1963

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1953
1	Guernsey	73.8 yrs	71.5 yrs
2	San Marino	73.6 yrs	72.0 yrs
3	Sweden	73.5 yrs	71.9 yrs
4	Faroe Islands	73.4 yrs	63.9 yrs
5	Andorra	73.3 yrs	68.6 yrs
6	Netherlands	73.3 yrs	71.7 yrs
7	Norway	73.1 yrs	73.2 yrs
8	Iceland	72.9 yrs	72.3 yrs
9	Monaco	72.5 yrs	69.6 yrs
10	Denmark	72.4 yrs	71.2 yrs
11	Canada	71.3 yrs	69.1 yrs
12	Switzerland	71.3 yrs	69.5 yrs
13	New Zealand	71.3 yrs	70.2 yrs
14	Australia	71.0 yrs	69.7 yrs
15	Jersey	71.0 yrs	70.0 yrs
16	Liechtenstein	70.9 yrs	66.9 yrs
17	United Kingdom	70.8 yrs	69.8 yrs
18	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	70.8 yrs	65.8 yrs
19	Belarus	70.8 yrs	61.5 yrs
20	Ukraine	70.7 yrs	63.0 yrs
21	Greece	70.7 yrs	67.5 yrs
22	Slovakia	70.7 yrs	65.7 yrs
23	Lithuania	70.6 yrs	66.3 yrs
24	Czechia	70.4 yrs	67.5 yrs
25	Gibraltar	70.3 yrs	66.2 yrs
26	France	70.3 yrs	67.3 yrs
27	Bulgaria	70.3 yrs	64.2 yrs
28	Latvia	70.3 yrs	66.2 yrs
29	Ireland	70.2 yrs	67.9 yrs
30	Germany	70.1 yrs	67.8 yrs
31	Belgium	70.0 yrs	68.4 yrs
32	United States of America	69.9 yrs	68.7 yrs
33	Estonia	69.9 yrs	67.5 yrs
34	Spain	69.8 yrs	65.7 yrs
35	Japan	69.8 yrs	63.3 yrs
36	Austria	69.7 yrs	67.3 yrs
37	Israel	69.6 yrs	66.4 yrs
38	Italy	69.3 yrs	66.6 yrs
39	Holy See	69.3 yrs	66.3 yrs
40	Malta	69.3 yrs	64.3 yrs
41	Finland	69.2 yrs	66.6 yrs
42	Russian Federation	69.1 yrs	58.8 yrs
43	Hungary	68.9 yrs	63.9 yrs
44	Puerto Rico	68.7 yrs	64.5 yrs
45	Luxembourg	68.7 yrs	66.4 yrs
46	Slovenia	68.6 yrs	65.3 yrs
47	Saint Martin (French part)	68.5 yrs	65.6 yrs
48	Poland	68.3 yrs	61.3 yrs
49	Uruguay	68.0 yrs	66.3 yrs
50	China, Hong Kong SAR	68.0 yrs	60.9 yrs
51	Saint Helena	67.9 yrs	66.7 yrs
52	Romania	67.8 yrs	62.5 yrs
53	Bermuda	67.7 yrs	61.8 yrs
54	Croatia	67.6 yrs	61.5 yrs
55	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	67.5 yrs	63.7 yrs
56	Serbia	67.3 yrs	59.8 yrs
57	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	66.8 yrs	64.0 yrs
58	Montenegro	66.8 yrs	59.7 yrs
59	Singapore	66.5 yrs	57.5 yrs
60	Curaçao	66.3 yrs	62.1 yrs
61	Barbados	66.2 yrs	57.0 yrs
62	American Samoa	66.2 yrs	60.8 yrs
63	China, Macao SAR	65.7 yrs	59.8 yrs
64	Jamaica	65.0 yrs	58.9 yrs
65	Argentina	64.9 yrs	62.5 yrs
66	Aruba	64.9 yrs	60.1 yrs
67	Portugal	64.9 yrs	61.1 yrs
68	Lebanon	64.9 yrs	61.2 yrs
69	Antigua and Barbuda	64.7 yrs	59.4 yrs
70	Isle of Man	64.5 yrs	64.1 yrs
71	China, Taiwan Province of China	64.5 yrs	58.6 yrs
72	Cuba	64.3 yrs	60.2 yrs
73	Costa Rica	64.3 yrs	59.1 yrs
74	British Virgin Islands	64.3 yrs	56.2 yrs
75	Guam	63.8 yrs	60.5 yrs
76	Grenada	63.8 yrs	55.7 yrs
77	Trinidad and Tobago	63.6 yrs	58.3 yrs
78	Bahamas	63.5 yrs	60.0 yrs
79	Guadeloupe	62.7 yrs	55.0 yrs
80	Dominica	62.6 yrs	50.0 yrs
81	Martinique	62.6 yrs	57.6 yrs
82	Georgia	62.5 yrs	58.8 yrs
83	Northern Mariana Islands	62.3 yrs	59.1 yrs
84	Kuwait	62.0 yrs	52.3 yrs
85	Sri Lanka	62.0 yrs	55.6 yrs
86	Anguilla	61.9 yrs	56.6 yrs
87	Cyprus	61.8 yrs	58.4 yrs
88	Panama	61.8 yrs	56.8 yrs
89	United States Virgin Islands	61.5 yrs	61.5 yrs
90	North Macedonia	61.4 yrs	53.1 yrs
91	Saint Barthélemy	61.1 yrs	57.6 yrs
92	Paraguay	61.1 yrs	58.5 yrs
93	Mauritius	61.1 yrs	51.5 yrs
94	Niue	61.0 yrs	55.8 yrs
95	Montserrat	61.0 yrs	51.7 yrs
96	Seychelles	60.9 yrs	58.7 yrs
97	Cayman Islands	60.8 yrs	55.4 yrs
98	Brunei Darussalam	60.6 yrs	53.3 yrs
99	Republic of Moldova	60.6 yrs	55.7 yrs
100	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	60.5 yrs	51.1 yrs
101	Saint Lucia	60.5 yrs	53.2 yrs
102	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	60.5 yrs	53.4 yrs
103	Bosnia and Herzegovina	60.5 yrs	51.1 yrs
104	French Polynesia	60.5 yrs	54.7 yrs
105	Armenia	60.4 yrs	56.0 yrs
106	Greenland	60.3 yrs	44.6 yrs
107	Fiji	60.2 yrs	53.4 yrs
108	Qatar	60.0 yrs	52.8 yrs
109	Philippines	60.0 yrs	55.4 yrs
110	Tokelau	59.8 yrs	55.8 yrs
111	Tonga	59.8 yrs	52.5 yrs
112	Réunion	59.8 yrs	51.5 yrs
113	Malaysia	59.7 yrs	51.1 yrs
114	Albania	59.5 yrs	47.4 yrs
115	Belize	59.3 yrs	51.4 yrs
116	French Guiana	58.9 yrs	49.5 yrs
117	Guyana	58.6 yrs	52.4 yrs
118	Kazakhstan	58.6 yrs	56.4 yrs
119	Suriname	58.5 yrs	52.1 yrs
120	Saint Kitts and Nevis	58.4 yrs	56.0 yrs
121	Turks and Caicos Islands	58.4 yrs	51.1 yrs
122	Chile	58.4 yrs	54.3 yrs
123	Colombia	58.3 yrs	50.6 yrs
124	Nauru	58.1 yrs	57.2 yrs
125	Uzbekistan	57.6 yrs	54.3 yrs
126	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	57.6 yrs	40.3 yrs
127	Mayotte	57.3 yrs	46.1 yrs
128	Samoa	56.9 yrs	51.0 yrs
129	Viet Nam	56.9 yrs	50.0 yrs
130	Cook Islands	56.6 yrs	42.8 yrs
131	Kyrgyzstan	56.0 yrs	52.9 yrs
132	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	56.0 yrs	50.0 yrs
133	Marshall Islands	55.7 yrs	52.8 yrs
134	Palau	55.6 yrs	53.3 yrs
135	Bahrain	55.5 yrs	40.7 yrs
136	Mexico	55.5 yrs	47.0 yrs
137	Jordan	55.5 yrs	44.5 yrs
138	Syrian Arab Republic	55.4 yrs	45.3 yrs
139	Ecuador	55.3 yrs	49.6 yrs
140	Republic of Korea	55.0 yrs	40.5 yrs
141	Zimbabwe	54.9 yrs	50.6 yrs
142	New Caledonia	54.5 yrs	47.2 yrs
143	Brazil	54.5 yrs	50.0 yrs
144	Iraq	54.4 yrs	42.1 yrs
145	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	54.2 yrs	50.3 yrs
146	South Africa	53.9 yrs	46.0 yrs
147	Tajikistan	53.8 yrs	50.2 yrs
148	Dominican Republic	53.8 yrs	46.4 yrs
149	United Arab Emirates	53.5 yrs	44.4 yrs
150	Turkmenistan	53.2 yrs	49.4 yrs
151	Türkiye	53.1 yrs	48.2 yrs
152	Botswana	52.9 yrs	47.5 yrs
153	Azerbaijan	52.7 yrs	47.4 yrs
154	Peru	52.6 yrs	47.1 yrs
155	Thailand	52.0 yrs	47.1 yrs
156	China	51.7 yrs	45.9 yrs
157	Zambia	51.6 yrs	48.0 yrs
158	Vanuatu	51.5 yrs	45.8 yrs
159	Cabo Verde	51.1 yrs	46.4 yrs
160	State of Palestine	51.0 yrs	46.6 yrs
161	Kenya	50.8 yrs	39.8 yrs
162	Sudan	50.8 yrs	46.9 yrs
163	Tuvalu	50.6 yrs	42.5 yrs
164	Namibia	50.6 yrs	43.8 yrs
165	Lesotho	50.3 yrs	46.6 yrs
166	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	50.1 yrs	43.5 yrs
167	Solomon Islands	49.8 yrs	43.2 yrs
168	Kiribati	49.7 yrs	46.0 yrs
169	Congo	49.7 yrs	41.9 yrs
170	El Salvador	49.4 yrs	45.0 yrs
171	Honduras	49.4 yrs	42.5 yrs
172	Nicaragua	48.8 yrs	42.5 yrs
173	Indonesia	48.7 yrs	42.2 yrs
174	Wallis and Futuna Islands	48.6 yrs	44.7 yrs
175	Gabon	48.4 yrs	41.5 yrs
176	Sao Tome and Principe	48.4 yrs	39.1 yrs
177	Papua New Guinea	47.7 yrs	41.3 yrs
178	Eswatini	47.5 yrs	44.3 yrs
179	Ghana	47.5 yrs	44.5 yrs
180	Uganda	47.4 yrs	41.3 yrs
181	Saudi Arabia	47.1 yrs	41.6 yrs
182	Mongolia	47.1 yrs	39.8 yrs
183	Pakistan	46.8 yrs	37.6 yrs
184	Guatemala	46.6 yrs	39.5 yrs
185	India	46.5 yrs	42.4 yrs
186	Egypt	46.5 yrs	37.9 yrs
187	Tunisia	46.4 yrs	39.8 yrs
188	Myanmar	46.0 yrs	38.6 yrs
189	Mauritania	45.8 yrs	39.6 yrs
190	Bangladesh	45.7 yrs	39.4 yrs
191	Libya	45.6 yrs	34.2 yrs
192	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	45.1 yrs	39.5 yrs
193	Morocco	44.8 yrs	40.0 yrs
194	Madagascar	44.6 yrs	40.7 yrs
195	Djibouti	44.4 yrs	41.5 yrs
196	Togo	44.3 yrs	42.3 yrs
197	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	44.3 yrs	41.4 yrs
198	Somalia	44.2 yrs	42.1 yrs
199	Rwanda	44.0 yrs	44.1 yrs
200	Cambodia	43.6 yrs	39.6 yrs
201	United Republic of Tanzania	43.6 yrs	41.5 yrs
202	Burundi	43.6 yrs	41.7 yrs
203	Equatorial Guinea	43.5 yrs	40.9 yrs
204	Algeria	43.1 yrs	43.6 yrs
205	Cameroon	43.1 yrs	35.5 yrs
206	Haiti	42.7 yrs	39.5 yrs
207	Mozambique	42.0 yrs	38.5 yrs
208	Comoros	41.9 yrs	38.4 yrs
209	Lao People's Democratic Republic	41.5 yrs	39.7 yrs
210	Central African Republic	41.1 yrs	36.6 yrs
211	Ethiopia	41.0 yrs	36.6 yrs
212	Democratic Republic of the Congo	40.6 yrs	39.1 yrs
213	Benin	40.1 yrs	36.3 yrs
214	Chad	39.9 yrs	36.3 yrs
215	Western Sahara	39.8 yrs	36.0 yrs
216	Senegal	39.7 yrs	37.8 yrs
217	Nepal	39.6 yrs	37.7 yrs
218	Maldives	39.6 yrs	37.0 yrs
219	Côte d'Ivoire	39.3 yrs	32.5 yrs
220	Eritrea	38.8 yrs	34.4 yrs
221	Oman	38.5 yrs	30.7 yrs
222	Liberia	38.3 yrs	38.1 yrs
223	Nigeria	37.8 yrs	36.0 yrs
224	Angola	37.4 yrs	36.4 yrs
225	Bhutan	37.4 yrs	35.4 yrs
226	Guinea	37.2 yrs	35.8 yrs
227	Burkina Faso	37.1 yrs	33.9 yrs
228	Niger	36.4 yrs	35.9 yrs
229	Gambia	36.1 yrs	31.9 yrs
230	Guinea-Bissau	35.6 yrs	36.3 yrs
231	Malawi	35.6 yrs	33.2 yrs
232	Sierra Leone	34.7 yrs	30.1 yrs
233	Afghanistan	34.2 yrs	29.4 yrs
234	Timor-Leste	33.7 yrs	30.1 yrs
235	Yemen	33.4 yrs	30.0 yrs
236	Mali	31.0 yrs	29.4 yrs
237	South Sudan	28.3 yrs	31.4 yrs

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