Life expectancy by country, 1964

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

◀▶1964

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1954
1	Netherlands	73.7 yrs	72.4 yrs
2	San Marino	73.7 yrs	72.2 yrs
3	Sweden	73.7 yrs	72.3 yrs
4	Faroe Islands	73.7 yrs	65.2 yrs
5	Andorra	73.6 yrs	69.3 yrs
6	Norway	73.6 yrs	73.2 yrs
7	Iceland	73.5 yrs	73.3 yrs
8	Guernsey	73.1 yrs	73.1 yrs
9	Monaco	72.7 yrs	70.0 yrs
10	Denmark	72.5 yrs	71.3 yrs
11	Switzerland	72.2 yrs	70.0 yrs
12	Lithuania	71.9 yrs	66.5 yrs
13	Canada	71.6 yrs	69.9 yrs
14	United Kingdom	71.5 yrs	70.2 yrs
15	Latvia	71.5 yrs	66.7 yrs
16	New Zealand	71.3 yrs	70.3 yrs
17	France	71.3 yrs	68.2 yrs
18	Belarus	71.3 yrs	62.5 yrs
19	Jersey	71.1 yrs	70.1 yrs
20	Slovakia	71.1 yrs	66.7 yrs
21	Bulgaria	71.1 yrs	64.4 yrs
22	Liechtenstein	71.1 yrs	67.5 yrs
23	Ukraine	71.0 yrs	64.1 yrs
24	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	70.9 yrs	66.5 yrs
25	Estonia	70.7 yrs	67.8 yrs
26	Germany	70.7 yrs	68.1 yrs
27	Belgium	70.7 yrs	68.6 yrs
28	Australia	70.6 yrs	69.9 yrs
29	Czechia	70.6 yrs	68.0 yrs
30	Ireland	70.5 yrs	68.0 yrs
31	Greece	70.5 yrs	68.0 yrs
32	Spain	70.5 yrs	66.9 yrs
33	Italy	70.4 yrs	67.9 yrs
34	Gibraltar	70.4 yrs	66.8 yrs
35	Holy See	70.3 yrs	67.5 yrs
36	United States of America	70.2 yrs	69.5 yrs
37	Japan	70.2 yrs	64.5 yrs
38	Austria	70.1 yrs	67.3 yrs
39	Israel	69.6 yrs	66.3 yrs
40	Hungary	69.5 yrs	65.4 yrs
41	Russian Federation	69.5 yrs	59.9 yrs
42	Finland	69.4 yrs	67.5 yrs
43	Malta	69.3 yrs	65.1 yrs
44	Poland	68.9 yrs	62.3 yrs
45	Saint Martin (French part)	68.8 yrs	65.9 yrs
46	Luxembourg	68.8 yrs	66.7 yrs
47	China, Hong Kong SAR	68.6 yrs	61.9 yrs
48	Slovenia	68.5 yrs	66.1 yrs
49	Romania	68.3 yrs	63.0 yrs
50	Puerto Rico	68.2 yrs	65.6 yrs
51	Uruguay	68.1 yrs	66.5 yrs
52	Croatia	68.0 yrs	62.2 yrs
53	Serbia	68.0 yrs	60.7 yrs
54	Saint Helena	68.0 yrs	67.0 yrs
55	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	67.8 yrs	64.1 yrs
56	Bermuda	67.5 yrs	62.5 yrs
57	Montenegro	67.4 yrs	60.8 yrs
58	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	66.8 yrs	64.3 yrs
59	Singapore	66.7 yrs	59.4 yrs
60	Barbados	66.7 yrs	58.3 yrs
61	Curaçao	66.6 yrs	62.7 yrs
62	American Samoa	66.1 yrs	61.3 yrs
63	China, Macao SAR	66.0 yrs	60.3 yrs
64	Antigua and Barbuda	65.4 yrs	59.8 yrs
65	Aruba	65.3 yrs	60.8 yrs
66	Cuba	65.3 yrs	60.7 yrs
67	Jamaica	65.3 yrs	59.6 yrs
68	Portugal	65.1 yrs	62.2 yrs
69	Lebanon	65.1 yrs	61.6 yrs
70	China, Taiwan Province of China	64.9 yrs	58.9 yrs
71	Argentina	64.8 yrs	63.1 yrs
72	British Virgin Islands	64.8 yrs	57.4 yrs
73	Isle of Man	64.7 yrs	64.5 yrs
74	Costa Rica	64.5 yrs	59.9 yrs
75	Grenada	64.2 yrs	56.7 yrs
76	United States Virgin Islands	64.2 yrs	63.8 yrs
77	Guam	64.1 yrs	60.9 yrs
78	Trinidad and Tobago	64.0 yrs	59.1 yrs
79	Bahamas	63.9 yrs	60.3 yrs
80	Dominica	63.3 yrs	51.7 yrs
81	Martinique	63.2 yrs	58.5 yrs
82	Kuwait	63.0 yrs	53.1 yrs
83	Georgia	62.8 yrs	59.1 yrs
84	Guadeloupe	62.6 yrs	56.1 yrs
85	Northern Mariana Islands	62.6 yrs	59.5 yrs
86	Anguilla	62.4 yrs	57.1 yrs
87	Sri Lanka	62.4 yrs	56.4 yrs
88	Cyprus	62.2 yrs	59.3 yrs
89	Panama	62.1 yrs	57.2 yrs
90	Montserrat	61.7 yrs	52.7 yrs
91	Saint Barthélemy	61.5 yrs	58.2 yrs
92	Niue	61.5 yrs	56.2 yrs
93	Bosnia and Herzegovina	61.5 yrs	51.9 yrs
94	Mauritius	61.5 yrs	52.2 yrs
95	North Macedonia	61.5 yrs	55.7 yrs
96	Cayman Islands	61.4 yrs	55.9 yrs
97	Paraguay	61.4 yrs	58.6 yrs
98	Saint Lucia	61.3 yrs	54.5 yrs
99	Brunei Darussalam	61.3 yrs	54.2 yrs
100	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	61.2 yrs	54.1 yrs
101	Seychelles	61.1 yrs	59.0 yrs
102	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	61.1 yrs	52.7 yrs
103	Republic of Moldova	61.0 yrs	56.3 yrs
104	Armenia	60.8 yrs	56.4 yrs
105	French Polynesia	60.8 yrs	55.6 yrs
106	Qatar	60.7 yrs	53.5 yrs
107	Greenland	60.7 yrs	46.6 yrs
108	Fiji	60.7 yrs	54.2 yrs
109	Malaysia	60.5 yrs	52.0 yrs
110	Albania	60.4 yrs	48.4 yrs
111	Tonga	60.3 yrs	53.6 yrs
112	Réunion	60.3 yrs	53.0 yrs
113	Tokelau	60.1 yrs	56.2 yrs
114	Philippines	60.1 yrs	56.0 yrs
115	Belize	59.8 yrs	52.2 yrs
116	French Guiana	59.7 yrs	50.1 yrs
117	Turks and Caicos Islands	59.1 yrs	51.9 yrs
118	Guyana	59.0 yrs	53.3 yrs
119	Saint Kitts and Nevis	59.0 yrs	56.3 yrs
120	Suriname	58.9 yrs	52.8 yrs
121	Kazakhstan	58.8 yrs	56.6 yrs
122	Colombia	58.8 yrs	51.3 yrs
123	Chile	58.8 yrs	54.7 yrs
124	Mayotte	58.3 yrs	47.4 yrs
125	Nauru	58.2 yrs	57.4 yrs
126	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	58.2 yrs	50.6 yrs
127	Uzbekistan	57.9 yrs	54.6 yrs
128	Cook Islands	57.8 yrs	44.3 yrs
129	Viet Nam	57.5 yrs	52.0 yrs
130	Bahrain	57.0 yrs	41.6 yrs
131	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	56.7 yrs	50.6 yrs
132	Jordan	56.5 yrs	45.6 yrs
133	Kyrgyzstan	56.3 yrs	53.2 yrs
134	Marshall Islands	56.3 yrs	52.9 yrs
135	Syrian Arab Republic	56.2 yrs	46.4 yrs
136	Ecuador	56.0 yrs	50.0 yrs
137	Mexico	55.9 yrs	48.3 yrs
138	Palau	55.8 yrs	53.5 yrs
139	Zimbabwe	55.4 yrs	51.0 yrs
140	New Caledonia	55.3 yrs	47.9 yrs
141	Republic of Korea	55.3 yrs	46.1 yrs
142	Iraq	55.2 yrs	43.5 yrs
143	Brazil	54.9 yrs	50.4 yrs
144	Dominican Republic	54.6 yrs	47.1 yrs
145	United Arab Emirates	54.5 yrs	45.2 yrs
146	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	54.3 yrs	50.9 yrs
147	Tajikistan	54.2 yrs	50.5 yrs
148	South Africa	54.2 yrs	47.1 yrs
149	Samoa	54.0 yrs	51.6 yrs
150	Turkmenistan	53.6 yrs	49.8 yrs
151	Türkiye	53.6 yrs	48.8 yrs
152	Botswana	53.4 yrs	48.0 yrs
153	Azerbaijan	53.3 yrs	47.8 yrs
154	Peru	53.3 yrs	47.5 yrs
155	Thailand	52.5 yrs	47.6 yrs
156	China	52.3 yrs	46.8 yrs
157	Cabo Verde	52.1 yrs	46.6 yrs
158	Vanuatu	52.0 yrs	46.5 yrs
159	State of Palestine	51.5 yrs	46.9 yrs
160	Namibia	51.4 yrs	44.4 yrs
161	Kenya	51.3 yrs	41.0 yrs
162	Tuvalu	51.3 yrs	43.4 yrs
163	Zambia	51.2 yrs	48.4 yrs
164	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	51.1 yrs	46.5 yrs
165	Sudan	50.9 yrs	47.3 yrs
166	Solomon Islands	50.6 yrs	43.7 yrs
167	Kiribati	50.4 yrs	46.1 yrs
168	Congo	50.4 yrs	42.6 yrs
169	Lesotho	50.3 yrs	47.3 yrs
170	Honduras	50.2 yrs	43.0 yrs
171	El Salvador	49.8 yrs	45.5 yrs
172	Sao Tome and Principe	49.7 yrs	39.2 yrs
173	Nicaragua	49.6 yrs	43.1 yrs
174	Indonesia	49.4 yrs	42.9 yrs
175	Wallis and Futuna Islands	49.1 yrs	45.0 yrs
176	Gabon	49.0 yrs	42.2 yrs
177	Papua New Guinea	48.3 yrs	42.0 yrs
178	Rwanda	48.1 yrs	44.4 yrs
179	Mongolia	48.0 yrs	40.2 yrs
180	Uganda	47.9 yrs	41.8 yrs
181	Eswatini	47.9 yrs	44.6 yrs
182	Pakistan	47.8 yrs	38.6 yrs
183	Saudi Arabia	47.7 yrs	42.1 yrs
184	Ghana	47.6 yrs	45.0 yrs
185	Libya	47.6 yrs	34.6 yrs
186	Tunisia	47.3 yrs	40.0 yrs
187	Egypt	47.1 yrs	39.1 yrs
188	Guatemala	47.1 yrs	40.1 yrs
189	Bangladesh	46.8 yrs	40.4 yrs
190	India	46.7 yrs	43.3 yrs
191	Myanmar	46.6 yrs	39.6 yrs
192	Mauritania	46.6 yrs	40.1 yrs
193	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	45.7 yrs	40.0 yrs
194	Morocco	45.4 yrs	40.4 yrs
195	Madagascar	45.0 yrs	41.0 yrs
196	Haiti	44.9 yrs	40.0 yrs
197	Djibouti	44.8 yrs	41.8 yrs
198	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	44.7 yrs	41.7 yrs
199	Togo	44.6 yrs	42.5 yrs
200	Somalia	44.4 yrs	42.3 yrs
201	United Republic of Tanzania	44.1 yrs	41.7 yrs
202	Cambodia	44.0 yrs	39.9 yrs
203	Equatorial Guinea	43.8 yrs	41.1 yrs
204	Cameroon	43.6 yrs	36.5 yrs
205	Burundi	43.6 yrs	42.0 yrs
206	Algeria	43.0 yrs	40.6 yrs
207	Comoros	42.3 yrs	38.7 yrs
208	Lao People's Democratic Republic	41.9 yrs	40.0 yrs
209	Mozambique	41.7 yrs	38.9 yrs
210	Central African Republic	41.6 yrs	37.0 yrs
211	Ethiopia	41.3 yrs	37.0 yrs
212	Benin	40.5 yrs	36.7 yrs
213	Nepal	40.2 yrs	37.8 yrs
214	Western Sahara	40.2 yrs	36.4 yrs
215	Democratic Republic of the Congo	40.1 yrs	39.4 yrs
216	Chad	40.1 yrs	36.8 yrs
217	Maldives	40.1 yrs	37.0 yrs
218	Côte d'Ivoire	40.0 yrs	33.2 yrs
219	Senegal	39.8 yrs	38.2 yrs
220	Oman	39.6 yrs	31.2 yrs
221	Eritrea	39.2 yrs	34.8 yrs
222	Liberia	38.5 yrs	38.1 yrs
223	Nigeria	38.0 yrs	36.2 yrs
224	Bhutan	37.8 yrs	35.4 yrs
225	Angola	37.7 yrs	36.6 yrs
226	Guinea	37.4 yrs	35.9 yrs
227	Burkina Faso	37.4 yrs	34.2 yrs
228	Gambia	36.6 yrs	32.2 yrs
229	Niger	36.5 yrs	36.0 yrs
230	Guinea-Bissau	35.8 yrs	36.4 yrs
231	Malawi	35.7 yrs	33.4 yrs
232	Sierra Leone	35.3 yrs	30.5 yrs
233	Yemen	34.9 yrs	30.4 yrs
234	Afghanistan	34.7 yrs	29.7 yrs
235	Timor-Leste	34.1 yrs	30.4 yrs
236	South Sudan	32.5 yrs	31.7 yrs
237	Mali	31.2 yrs	29.5 yrs

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