Life expectancy by country, 1966

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

◀▶1966

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1956
1	Faroe Islands	74.2 yrs	68.0 yrs
2	Sweden	74.1 yrs	72.7 yrs
3	Andorra	74.0 yrs	70.2 yrs
4	Norway	74.0 yrs	73.5 yrs
5	San Marino	73.8 yrs	72.5 yrs
6	Guernsey	73.7 yrs	75.9 yrs
7	Netherlands	73.5 yrs	72.5 yrs
8	Iceland	73.1 yrs	72.9 yrs
9	Monaco	73.0 yrs	70.7 yrs
10	Switzerland	72.5 yrs	70.2 yrs
11	Denmark	72.5 yrs	72.0 yrs
12	Canada	71.9 yrs	70.0 yrs
13	Greece	71.9 yrs	68.1 yrs
14	Lithuania	71.9 yrs	66.8 yrs
15	Belarus	71.8 yrs	64.5 yrs
16	Liechtenstein	71.6 yrs	68.9 yrs
17	France	71.5 yrs	68.5 yrs
18	United Kingdom	71.4 yrs	70.4 yrs
19	Jersey	71.3 yrs	70.4 yrs
20	Ukraine	71.2 yrs	66.3 yrs
21	Gibraltar	71.2 yrs	68.5 yrs
22	Spain	71.2 yrs	66.8 yrs
23	Bulgaria	71.2 yrs	65.2 yrs
24	Latvia	71.2 yrs	67.6 yrs
25	New Zealand	71.1 yrs	70.7 yrs
26	Japan	71.1 yrs	65.6 yrs
27	Italy	71.0 yrs	67.6 yrs
28	Israel	70.9 yrs	66.6 yrs
29	Holy See	70.9 yrs	67.3 yrs
30	Estonia	70.7 yrs	68.5 yrs
31	Australia	70.7 yrs	70.0 yrs
32	Germany	70.7 yrs	68.6 yrs
33	Belgium	70.6 yrs	68.8 yrs
34	Czechia	70.5 yrs	69.4 yrs
35	Slovakia	70.4 yrs	68.4 yrs
36	Ireland	70.2 yrs	69.0 yrs
37	United States of America	70.2 yrs	69.6 yrs
38	Austria	70.2 yrs	67.7 yrs
39	Puerto Rico	70.2 yrs	66.4 yrs
40	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	70.1 yrs	66.5 yrs
41	Hungary	69.9 yrs	66.0 yrs
42	Poland	69.7 yrs	63.4 yrs
43	Malta	69.7 yrs	66.8 yrs
44	Finland	69.6 yrs	68.0 yrs
45	Saint Martin (French part)	69.4 yrs	66.5 yrs
46	Serbia	69.4 yrs	61.9 yrs
47	Russian Federation	69.4 yrs	66.5 yrs
48	China, Hong Kong SAR	69.3 yrs	63.5 yrs
49	Croatia	68.9 yrs	63.6 yrs
50	Slovenia	68.9 yrs	66.5 yrs
51	Luxembourg	68.9 yrs	67.1 yrs
52	Montenegro	68.6 yrs	62.0 yrs
53	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	68.5 yrs	65.2 yrs
54	Saint Helena	68.4 yrs	67.4 yrs
55	Uruguay	68.3 yrs	66.9 yrs
56	Romania	68.2 yrs	63.6 yrs
57	Bermuda	67.7 yrs	64.2 yrs
58	Barbados	67.7 yrs	60.5 yrs
59	Singapore	67.2 yrs	62.6 yrs
60	Curaçao	67.1 yrs	63.8 yrs
61	Antigua and Barbuda	66.9 yrs	60.7 yrs
62	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	66.9 yrs	65.0 yrs
63	China, Macao SAR	66.8 yrs	61.0 yrs
64	Cyprus	66.5 yrs	60.4 yrs
65	Aruba	66.1 yrs	62.0 yrs
66	Cuba	66.1 yrs	61.5 yrs
67	China, Taiwan Province of China	66.1 yrs	60.3 yrs
68	Jamaica	65.9 yrs	61.2 yrs
69	Grenada	65.7 yrs	59.0 yrs
70	Portugal	65.6 yrs	61.2 yrs
71	Lebanon	65.5 yrs	62.2 yrs
72	British Virgin Islands	65.5 yrs	59.5 yrs
73	Argentina	65.4 yrs	63.6 yrs
74	Isle of Man	65.2 yrs	65.0 yrs
75	Costa Rica	65.1 yrs	61.2 yrs
76	Kuwait	64.9 yrs	54.9 yrs
77	Guam	64.6 yrs	61.5 yrs
78	Bahamas	64.6 yrs	61.0 yrs
79	Dominica	64.5 yrs	55.0 yrs
80	Martinique	64.5 yrs	59.6 yrs
81	Trinidad and Tobago	64.3 yrs	60.3 yrs
82	United States Virgin Islands	63.7 yrs	61.0 yrs
83	North Macedonia	63.5 yrs	58.5 yrs
84	Anguilla	63.4 yrs	58.2 yrs
85	Georgia	63.4 yrs	59.9 yrs
86	Northern Mariana Islands	63.3 yrs	60.1 yrs
87	Sri Lanka	63.2 yrs	57.9 yrs
88	Guadeloupe	63.1 yrs	57.6 yrs
89	Bosnia and Herzegovina	63.1 yrs	53.9 yrs
90	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	62.9 yrs	55.5 yrs
91	Montserrat	62.9 yrs	54.6 yrs
92	Cayman Islands	62.8 yrs	56.8 yrs
93	Niue	62.6 yrs	57.2 yrs
94	Panama	62.6 yrs	57.9 yrs
95	Saint Lucia	62.5 yrs	55.9 yrs
96	Brunei Darussalam	62.4 yrs	55.7 yrs
97	Qatar	62.2 yrs	54.9 yrs
98	Albania	62.1 yrs	50.9 yrs
99	Saint Barthélemy	62.1 yrs	59.0 yrs
100	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	62.1 yrs	54.9 yrs
101	Mauritius	62.1 yrs	55.1 yrs
102	Paraguay	61.8 yrs	59.0 yrs
103	Seychelles	61.7 yrs	59.8 yrs
104	Malaysia	61.7 yrs	53.7 yrs
105	Greenland	61.6 yrs	51.1 yrs
106	Fiji	61.6 yrs	56.2 yrs
107	Armenia	61.5 yrs	57.4 yrs
108	Republic of Moldova	61.5 yrs	57.4 yrs
109	Réunion	61.4 yrs	54.9 yrs
110	French Polynesia	61.4 yrs	57.2 yrs
111	French Guiana	61.3 yrs	51.5 yrs
112	Tonga	61.2 yrs	55.7 yrs
113	Tokelau	60.9 yrs	57.0 yrs
114	Belize	60.9 yrs	53.9 yrs
115	Philippines	60.6 yrs	57.3 yrs
116	Turks and Caicos Islands	60.4 yrs	53.3 yrs
117	Chile	60.4 yrs	55.5 yrs
118	Saint Kitts and Nevis	60.1 yrs	56.4 yrs
119	Mayotte	60.1 yrs	49.9 yrs
120	Cook Islands	59.8 yrs	47.3 yrs
121	Colombia	59.7 yrs	52.5 yrs
122	Bahrain	59.7 yrs	44.1 yrs
123	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	59.4 yrs	52.8 yrs
124	Guyana	59.3 yrs	55.2 yrs
125	Kazakhstan	59.3 yrs	57.1 yrs
126	Suriname	59.2 yrs	54.1 yrs
127	Uzbekistan	58.6 yrs	55.2 yrs
128	Nauru	58.4 yrs	57.6 yrs
129	American Samoa	58.3 yrs	62.3 yrs
130	Samoa	58.2 yrs	52.8 yrs
131	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	57.8 yrs	51.7 yrs
132	Jordan	57.8 yrs	48.0 yrs
133	Syrian Arab Republic	57.5 yrs	48.5 yrs
134	Mexico	57.4 yrs	50.4 yrs
135	Iraq	57.3 yrs	46.4 yrs
136	Marshall Islands	57.3 yrs	53.2 yrs
137	Ecuador	57.0 yrs	50.9 yrs
138	Kyrgyzstan	57.0 yrs	53.9 yrs
139	New Caledonia	56.9 yrs	49.4 yrs
140	Viet Nam	56.9 yrs	55.5 yrs
141	United Arab Emirates	56.6 yrs	46.9 yrs
142	Zimbabwe	56.4 yrs	51.8 yrs
143	Palau	56.2 yrs	53.9 yrs
144	Dominican Republic	56.0 yrs	48.7 yrs
145	Brazil	55.6 yrs	51.3 yrs
146	Republic of Korea	55.4 yrs	50.2 yrs
147	Tajikistan	55.1 yrs	51.1 yrs
148	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	54.7 yrs	51.8 yrs
149	South Africa	54.7 yrs	49.2 yrs
150	Türkiye	54.6 yrs	49.5 yrs
151	Azerbaijan	54.5 yrs	48.8 yrs
152	Turkmenistan	54.4 yrs	50.6 yrs
153	Peru	54.4 yrs	48.4 yrs
154	Botswana	54.4 yrs	49.0 yrs
155	Cabo Verde	53.9 yrs	47.1 yrs
156	Thailand	53.7 yrs	48.6 yrs
157	China	53.7 yrs	47.8 yrs
158	Vanuatu	53.1 yrs	47.7 yrs
159	Tuvalu	52.8 yrs	45.0 yrs
160	State of Palestine	52.8 yrs	47.6 yrs
161	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	52.5 yrs	46.3 yrs
162	Kenya	52.4 yrs	43.5 yrs
163	Sao Tome and Principe	52.3 yrs	39.5 yrs
164	Zambia	52.3 yrs	49.1 yrs
165	Solomon Islands	52.3 yrs	42.8 yrs
166	Namibia	52.3 yrs	45.7 yrs
167	Kiribati	51.7 yrs	46.5 yrs
168	Congo	51.6 yrs	44.3 yrs
169	Nicaragua	51.6 yrs	44.3 yrs
170	Honduras	51.6 yrs	44.3 yrs
171	Sudan	51.3 yrs	48.1 yrs
172	Libya	51.0 yrs	36.0 yrs
173	El Salvador	50.7 yrs	46.6 yrs
174	Lesotho	50.4 yrs	48.6 yrs
175	Gabon	50.3 yrs	43.6 yrs
176	Wallis and Futuna Islands	50.0 yrs	45.7 yrs
177	Pakistan	49.8 yrs	40.6 yrs
178	Papua New Guinea	49.6 yrs	43.3 yrs
179	Mongolia	49.4 yrs	41.4 yrs
180	Saudi Arabia	49.2 yrs	43.1 yrs
181	Tunisia	49.2 yrs	41.4 yrs
182	Eswatini	49.0 yrs	45.1 yrs
183	Uganda	48.5 yrs	43.0 yrs
184	Indonesia	48.4 yrs	44.3 yrs
185	Myanmar	48.2 yrs	41.2 yrs
186	Mauritania	48.1 yrs	41.1 yrs
187	Rwanda	48.1 yrs	45.2 yrs
188	Egypt	48.0 yrs	41.0 yrs
189	Ghana	47.7 yrs	45.8 yrs
190	Bangladesh	47.6 yrs	41.6 yrs
191	Guatemala	47.5 yrs	41.3 yrs
192	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	47.1 yrs	41.0 yrs
193	Morocco	46.5 yrs	41.2 yrs
194	Madagascar	46.0 yrs	41.7 yrs
195	India	45.9 yrs	44.1 yrs
196	Djibouti	45.6 yrs	42.3 yrs
197	Haiti	45.6 yrs	41.6 yrs
198	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	45.5 yrs	42.2 yrs
199	Togo	45.2 yrs	42.8 yrs
200	Cambodia	45.0 yrs	40.5 yrs
201	United Republic of Tanzania	44.9 yrs	42.0 yrs
202	Cameroon	44.8 yrs	38.4 yrs
203	Somalia	44.8 yrs	42.7 yrs
204	Equatorial Guinea	44.3 yrs	41.7 yrs
205	Burundi	43.5 yrs	42.4 yrs
206	Comoros	43.1 yrs	39.4 yrs
207	Algeria	42.8 yrs	40.9 yrs
208	Central African Republic	42.8 yrs	37.8 yrs
209	Lao People's Democratic Republic	42.4 yrs	40.6 yrs
210	Democratic Republic of the Congo	42.2 yrs	39.9 yrs
211	Oman	42.0 yrs	32.4 yrs
212	Mozambique	41.8 yrs	39.6 yrs
213	Maldives	41.4 yrs	37.1 yrs
214	Côte d'Ivoire	41.3 yrs	34.5 yrs
215	Benin	41.3 yrs	37.3 yrs
216	Nepal	41.2 yrs	37.9 yrs
217	Western Sahara	41.0 yrs	37.2 yrs
218	Chad	40.1 yrs	37.9 yrs
219	Senegal	39.9 yrs	38.9 yrs
220	Ethiopia	39.3 yrs	37.8 yrs
221	Liberia	39.0 yrs	38.1 yrs
222	Bhutan	38.8 yrs	35.6 yrs
223	Nigeria	38.4 yrs	36.5 yrs
224	Angola	38.3 yrs	37.1 yrs
225	Burkina Faso	38.1 yrs	34.8 yrs
226	Guinea	38.0 yrs	36.1 yrs
227	Eritrea	37.6 yrs	35.6 yrs
228	Gambia	37.6 yrs	32.8 yrs
229	Sierra Leone	36.6 yrs	31.3 yrs
230	Yemen	36.3 yrs	31.3 yrs
231	Niger	36.3 yrs	36.0 yrs
232	Guinea-Bissau	36.1 yrs	36.8 yrs
233	Malawi	35.8 yrs	33.9 yrs
234	Afghanistan	35.6 yrs	30.8 yrs
235	Timor-Leste	35.2 yrs	31.0 yrs
236	Mali	31.8 yrs	29.9 yrs
237	South Sudan	25.6 yrs	31.6 yrs

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