Life expectancy by country, 1969

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

◀▶1969

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1959
1	Faroe Islands	74.7 yrs	71.3 yrs
2	Andorra	74.3 yrs	71.6 yrs
3	San Marino	74.2 yrs	73.0 yrs
4	Sweden	74.1 yrs	73.4 yrs
5	Iceland	73.7 yrs	72.6 yrs
6	Norway	73.7 yrs	73.5 yrs
7	Netherlands	73.6 yrs	73.2 yrs
8	Monaco	73.3 yrs	71.3 yrs
9	Denmark	73.2 yrs	72.2 yrs
10	Switzerland	72.7 yrs	71.5 yrs
11	Liechtenstein	72.5 yrs	70.6 yrs
12	Guernsey	72.4 yrs	73.9 yrs
13	Canada	72.4 yrs	70.6 yrs
14	Greece	72.1 yrs	69.6 yrs
15	Japan	71.9 yrs	67.5 yrs
16	Gibraltar	71.8 yrs	70.1 yrs
17	United Kingdom	71.7 yrs	70.8 yrs
18	Belarus	71.7 yrs	68.0 yrs
19	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	71.6 yrs	68.3 yrs
20	New Zealand	71.5 yrs	70.8 yrs
21	Jersey	71.2 yrs	70.5 yrs
22	France	71.2 yrs	70.2 yrs
23	Lithuania	71.2 yrs	69.4 yrs
24	Australia	71.1 yrs	70.4 yrs
25	Spain	71.1 yrs	68.7 yrs
26	Israel	71.0 yrs	68.9 yrs
27	China, Hong Kong SAR	71.0 yrs	65.4 yrs
28	Italy	70.9 yrs	69.3 yrs
29	Ireland	70.8 yrs	69.4 yrs
30	Ukraine	70.8 yrs	68.7 yrs
31	Holy See	70.7 yrs	69.2 yrs
32	Belgium	70.7 yrs	70.3 yrs
33	Saint Martin (French part)	70.6 yrs	67.4 yrs
34	United States of America	70.5 yrs	69.9 yrs
35	Germany	70.5 yrs	69.3 yrs
36	Puerto Rico	70.5 yrs	68.1 yrs
37	Bulgaria	70.5 yrs	66.6 yrs
38	Estonia	70.3 yrs	68.7 yrs
39	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	70.2 yrs	66.0 yrs
40	Montenegro	70.2 yrs	64.7 yrs
41	Latvia	70.2 yrs	69.5 yrs
42	Malta	70.1 yrs	68.4 yrs
43	Austria	70.0 yrs	68.4 yrs
44	Serbia	70.0 yrs	65.2 yrs
45	Slovakia	69.8 yrs	69.0 yrs
46	Poland	69.8 yrs	66.4 yrs
47	Finland	69.7 yrs	68.8 yrs
48	Luxembourg	69.7 yrs	68.4 yrs
49	Czechia	69.4 yrs	69.9 yrs
50	Hungary	69.4 yrs	67.3 yrs
51	Croatia	69.0 yrs	65.5 yrs
52	Antigua and Barbuda	68.8 yrs	62.1 yrs
53	Uruguay	68.6 yrs	67.5 yrs
54	Slovenia	68.6 yrs	68.2 yrs
55	Saint Helena	68.6 yrs	67.7 yrs
56	Russian Federation	68.6 yrs	67.4 yrs
57	Barbados	68.5 yrs	63.3 yrs
58	China, Macao SAR	68.3 yrs	63.7 yrs
59	Singapore	68.1 yrs	64.8 yrs
60	Bermuda	68.1 yrs	65.7 yrs
61	Curaçao	67.9 yrs	65.1 yrs
62	China, Taiwan Province of China	67.7 yrs	61.6 yrs
63	Cyprus	67.6 yrs	62.3 yrs
64	Cuba	67.4 yrs	62.8 yrs
65	Kuwait	67.3 yrs	57.9 yrs
66	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	67.2 yrs	65.9 yrs
67	Romania	67.2 yrs	64.9 yrs
68	Aruba	67.1 yrs	63.6 yrs
69	Grenada	67.0 yrs	62.4 yrs
70	Jamaica	66.5 yrs	63.3 yrs
71	Costa Rica	66.4 yrs	62.9 yrs
72	Portugal	66.4 yrs	62.9 yrs
73	British Virgin Islands	66.2 yrs	62.2 yrs
74	American Samoa	66.0 yrs	64.3 yrs
75	Lebanon	65.9 yrs	63.6 yrs
76	Bahamas	65.8 yrs	62.1 yrs
77	United States Virgin Islands	65.8 yrs	61.8 yrs
78	Dominica	65.7 yrs	59.1 yrs
79	Isle of Man	65.6 yrs	64.8 yrs
80	Guam	65.5 yrs	62.6 yrs
81	Martinique	65.4 yrs	61.5 yrs
82	Argentina	65.1 yrs	64.1 yrs
83	Trinidad and Tobago	64.8 yrs	61.9 yrs
84	Montserrat	64.7 yrs	57.6 yrs
85	Albania	64.5 yrs	55.1 yrs
86	Anguilla	64.5 yrs	59.9 yrs
87	Saint Barthélemy	64.5 yrs	59.9 yrs
88	Georgia	64.5 yrs	61.0 yrs
89	Bosnia and Herzegovina	64.5 yrs	57.6 yrs
90	Northern Mariana Islands	64.5 yrs	61.0 yrs
91	Qatar	64.3 yrs	57.0 yrs
92	Guadeloupe	64.2 yrs	60.3 yrs
93	Sri Lanka	64.1 yrs	60.0 yrs
94	Cayman Islands	64.0 yrs	58.2 yrs
95	Saint Lucia	64.0 yrs	57.3 yrs
96	Niue	64.0 yrs	58.8 yrs
97	Brunei Darussalam	64.0 yrs	58.0 yrs
98	North Macedonia	64.0 yrs	59.5 yrs
99	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	63.8 yrs	57.7 yrs
100	Panama	63.7 yrs	59.6 yrs
101	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	63.5 yrs	57.8 yrs
102	Bahrain	63.4 yrs	49.0 yrs
103	Seychelles	63.3 yrs	60.4 yrs
104	Greenland	63.0 yrs	57.3 yrs
105	Malaysia	62.9 yrs	56.3 yrs
106	Réunion	62.9 yrs	56.2 yrs
107	French Guiana	62.9 yrs	54.7 yrs
108	Tonga	62.7 yrs	57.8 yrs
109	Mayotte	62.7 yrs	53.4 yrs
110	Mauritius	62.7 yrs	57.4 yrs
111	Armenia	62.5 yrs	58.7 yrs
112	Cook Islands	62.5 yrs	51.4 yrs
113	Belize	62.5 yrs	56.6 yrs
114	Paraguay	62.4 yrs	59.9 yrs
115	Chile	62.3 yrs	56.6 yrs
116	Republic of Moldova	62.2 yrs	59.0 yrs
117	French Polynesia	62.2 yrs	59.0 yrs
118	Turks and Caicos Islands	62.1 yrs	55.6 yrs
119	Tokelau	62.0 yrs	58.2 yrs
120	Fiji	61.4 yrs	58.2 yrs
121	Republic of Korea	61.4 yrs	52.9 yrs
122	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	61.4 yrs	55.2 yrs
123	Saint Kitts and Nevis	61.1 yrs	56.5 yrs
124	Colombia	61.0 yrs	55.9 yrs
125	Philippines	61.0 yrs	58.8 yrs
126	Jordan	60.5 yrs	51.6 yrs
127	Samoa	59.9 yrs	54.6 yrs
128	United Arab Emirates	59.8 yrs	49.7 yrs
129	Guyana	59.8 yrs	57.0 yrs
130	Kazakhstan	59.8 yrs	57.7 yrs
131	Syrian Arab Republic	59.8 yrs	51.7 yrs
132	Uzbekistan	59.7 yrs	56.2 yrs
133	Iraq	59.6 yrs	49.7 yrs
134	Suriname	59.4 yrs	55.9 yrs
135	New Caledonia	59.3 yrs	51.6 yrs
136	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	59.3 yrs	53.6 yrs
137	Marshall Islands	58.5 yrs	54.0 yrs
138	Nauru	58.4 yrs	57.9 yrs
139	Mexico	58.4 yrs	52.7 yrs
140	Ecuador	58.3 yrs	52.7 yrs
141	Kyrgyzstan	57.9 yrs	54.8 yrs
142	Dominican Republic	57.9 yrs	51.0 yrs
143	Zimbabwe	57.5 yrs	53.0 yrs
144	Palau	57.3 yrs	54.6 yrs
145	Brazil	56.9 yrs	52.7 yrs
146	Tajikistan	56.3 yrs	52.2 yrs
147	Türkiye	56.2 yrs	50.1 yrs
148	Azerbaijan	56.1 yrs	50.3 yrs
149	Cabo Verde	56.0 yrs	48.1 yrs
150	China	56.0 yrs	40.2 yrs
151	Botswana	55.9 yrs	50.7 yrs
152	Peru	55.8 yrs	50.0 yrs
153	Thailand	55.7 yrs	50.1 yrs
154	Turkmenistan	55.7 yrs	51.8 yrs
155	Sao Tome and Principe	55.4 yrs	42.1 yrs
156	South Africa	55.4 yrs	51.9 yrs
157	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	55.2 yrs	53.2 yrs
158	Libya	55.2 yrs	39.3 yrs
159	Solomon Islands	55.1 yrs	47.0 yrs
160	Vanuatu	54.8 yrs	49.3 yrs
161	Viet Nam	54.8 yrs	57.4 yrs
162	Tuvalu	54.7 yrs	47.5 yrs
163	State of Palestine	54.7 yrs	48.8 yrs
164	Namibia	54.1 yrs	47.8 yrs
165	Kiribati	53.8 yrs	47.5 yrs
166	Kenya	53.7 yrs	47.5 yrs
167	Honduras	53.7 yrs	46.4 yrs
168	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	53.4 yrs	48.1 yrs
169	Nicaragua	53.4 yrs	46.1 yrs
170	Congo	53.1 yrs	46.8 yrs
171	Zambia	53.0 yrs	50.3 yrs
172	Indonesia	52.6 yrs	46.2 yrs
173	Tunisia	52.3 yrs	43.4 yrs
174	Pakistan	52.3 yrs	43.3 yrs
175	Gabon	52.1 yrs	45.8 yrs
176	Sudan	52.0 yrs	49.2 yrs
177	Saudi Arabia	51.8 yrs	44.8 yrs
178	Wallis and Futuna Islands	51.7 yrs	46.9 yrs
179	Papua New Guinea	51.5 yrs	45.1 yrs
180	Mongolia	51.4 yrs	43.7 yrs
181	El Salvador	51.3 yrs	48.0 yrs
182	Lesotho	51.1 yrs	49.9 yrs
183	Eswatini	50.6 yrs	46.1 yrs
184	Mauritania	50.1 yrs	42.9 yrs
185	Myanmar	50.0 yrs	43.4 yrs
186	Uganda	49.5 yrs	45.0 yrs
187	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	49.4 yrs	42.8 yrs
188	Egypt	48.7 yrs	43.7 yrs
189	Bangladesh	48.7 yrs	43.7 yrs
190	India	48.3 yrs	45.3 yrs
191	Morocco	48.2 yrs	42.7 yrs
192	Ghana	47.9 yrs	46.7 yrs
193	Guatemala	47.5 yrs	44.3 yrs
194	Rwanda	47.4 yrs	46.5 yrs
195	Madagascar	47.3 yrs	43.0 yrs
196	Cameroon	47.2 yrs	39.8 yrs
197	Djibouti	47.1 yrs	43.1 yrs
198	Haiti	46.9 yrs	43.0 yrs
199	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	46.7 yrs	43.0 yrs
200	Togo	46.4 yrs	43.3 yrs
201	United Republic of Tanzania	46.0 yrs	42.5 yrs
202	Cambodia	45.9 yrs	41.6 yrs
203	Oman	45.6 yrs	34.5 yrs
204	Somalia	45.5 yrs	43.3 yrs
205	Comoros	44.6 yrs	40.5 yrs
206	Central African Republic	44.6 yrs	39.1 yrs
207	Maldives	43.6 yrs	37.9 yrs
208	Lao People's Democratic Republic	43.5 yrs	40.8 yrs
209	Côte d'Ivoire	43.3 yrs	36.5 yrs
210	Algeria	43.0 yrs	40.9 yrs
211	Democratic Republic of the Congo	43.0 yrs	40.6 yrs
212	Burundi	43.0 yrs	43.1 yrs
213	Nepal	42.7 yrs	38.4 yrs
214	Benin	42.6 yrs	38.4 yrs
215	Mozambique	42.3 yrs	40.9 yrs
216	Western Sahara	42.2 yrs	38.3 yrs
217	Ethiopia	42.1 yrs	39.2 yrs
218	Chad	41.0 yrs	39.0 yrs
219	Eritrea	40.8 yrs	37.0 yrs
220	Bhutan	40.6 yrs	36.1 yrs
221	Senegal	40.4 yrs	39.5 yrs
222	Liberia	40.0 yrs	38.1 yrs
223	Yemen	39.6 yrs	32.9 yrs
224	Angola	39.3 yrs	37.7 yrs
225	Gambia	39.0 yrs	34.1 yrs
226	Nigeria	39.0 yrs	37.0 yrs
227	Burkina Faso	39.0 yrs	35.7 yrs
228	Guinea	38.8 yrs	36.5 yrs
229	Sierra Leone	38.2 yrs	32.6 yrs
230	Afghanistan	37.0 yrs	32.3 yrs
231	Guinea-Bissau	37.0 yrs	37.3 yrs
232	Timor-Leste	36.8 yrs	32.0 yrs
233	Malawi	36.3 yrs	34.8 yrs
234	Niger	36.0 yrs	36.1 yrs
235	Mali	32.9 yrs	30.3 yrs
236	Equatorial Guinea	31.0 yrs	42.5 yrs
237	South Sudan	25.4 yrs	27.8 yrs

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