Life expectancy by country, 1970

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

◀▶1970

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1960
1	Faroe Islands	74.8 yrs	72.0 yrs
2	Sweden	74.7 yrs	73.0 yrs
3	Andorra	74.5 yrs	72.1 yrs
4	San Marino	74.3 yrs	73.2 yrs
5	Norway	74.1 yrs	73.6 yrs
6	Iceland	73.8 yrs	74.0 yrs
7	Netherlands	73.6 yrs	73.3 yrs
8	Denmark	73.4 yrs	72.2 yrs
9	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	73.3 yrs	68.5 yrs
10	Monaco	73.3 yrs	71.9 yrs
11	Switzerland	73.1 yrs	71.4 yrs
12	Greece	72.8 yrs	70.5 yrs
13	Liechtenstein	72.8 yrs	70.9 yrs
14	Guernsey	72.6 yrs	75.2 yrs
15	Canada	72.6 yrs	71.0 yrs
16	Spain	72.2 yrs	69.2 yrs
17	France	72.1 yrs	70.4 yrs
18	Japan	72.0 yrs	67.7 yrs
19	United Kingdom	71.9 yrs	71.0 yrs
20	Gibraltar	71.9 yrs	70.2 yrs
21	Belarus	71.7 yrs	69.3 yrs
22	Italy	71.6 yrs	69.2 yrs
23	Holy See	71.5 yrs	69.2 yrs
24	Bulgaria	71.3 yrs	69.2 yrs
25	China, Hong Kong SAR	71.3 yrs	66.2 yrs
26	Israel	71.2 yrs	69.8 yrs
27	New Zealand	71.2 yrs	71.2 yrs
28	Jersey	71.1 yrs	70.5 yrs
29	Lithuania	71.1 yrs	70.3 yrs
30	Saint Martin (French part)	71.0 yrs	67.7 yrs
31	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	70.9 yrs	66.3 yrs
32	Belgium	70.9 yrs	69.6 yrs
33	Ireland	70.8 yrs	70.2 yrs
34	Ukraine	70.8 yrs	69.4 yrs
35	United States of America	70.7 yrs	69.8 yrs
36	Australia	70.7 yrs	70.9 yrs
37	Germany	70.7 yrs	69.3 yrs
38	Estonia	70.4 yrs	69.3 yrs
39	Malta	70.4 yrs	68.4 yrs
40	Montenegro	70.4 yrs	65.7 yrs
41	Finland	70.3 yrs	69.0 yrs
42	Puerto Rico	70.3 yrs	68.6 yrs
43	Latvia	70.2 yrs	70.3 yrs
44	Austria	70.1 yrs	68.8 yrs
45	Slovakia	69.7 yrs	70.3 yrs
46	Serbia	69.7 yrs	65.7 yrs
47	Poland	69.6 yrs	67.1 yrs
48	Czechia	69.5 yrs	70.5 yrs
49	Antigua and Barbuda	69.4 yrs	62.6 yrs
50	Croatia	69.2 yrs	66.0 yrs
51	Hungary	69.2 yrs	68.1 yrs
52	Luxembourg	69.2 yrs	68.8 yrs
53	Slovenia	69.0 yrs	68.5 yrs
54	China, Taiwan Province of China	69.0 yrs	62.5 yrs
55	China, Macao SAR	68.8 yrs	63.9 yrs
56	Uruguay	68.7 yrs	67.7 yrs
57	Russian Federation	68.7 yrs	68.3 yrs
58	Saint Helena	68.6 yrs	67.7 yrs
59	Singapore	68.5 yrs	65.3 yrs
60	Barbados	68.5 yrs	64.2 yrs
61	Bermuda	68.4 yrs	66.5 yrs
62	Curaçao	68.2 yrs	65.4 yrs
63	Cyprus	68.0 yrs	63.3 yrs
64	Kuwait	68.0 yrs	58.9 yrs
65	Cuba	67.9 yrs	63.3 yrs
66	Romania	67.9 yrs	65.6 yrs
67	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	67.5 yrs	66.3 yrs
68	Aruba	67.4 yrs	64.0 yrs
69	Portugal	67.0 yrs	64.2 yrs
70	Grenada	66.9 yrs	63.1 yrs
71	Costa Rica	66.8 yrs	63.5 yrs
72	Jamaica	66.7 yrs	63.8 yrs
73	British Virgin Islands	66.4 yrs	62.7 yrs
74	United States Virgin Islands	66.4 yrs	62.6 yrs
75	American Samoa	66.4 yrs	65.0 yrs
76	Dominica	66.2 yrs	60.1 yrs
77	Bahamas	66.2 yrs	62.5 yrs
78	Lebanon	66.0 yrs	63.9 yrs
79	Guam	65.8 yrs	62.9 yrs
80	Argentina	65.7 yrs	64.2 yrs
81	Isle of Man	65.7 yrs	64.6 yrs
82	Saint Barthélemy	65.3 yrs	60.1 yrs
83	Montserrat	65.3 yrs	58.6 yrs
84	Albania	65.2 yrs	56.4 yrs
85	Anguilla	65.0 yrs	58.8 yrs
86	Martinique	65.0 yrs	61.6 yrs
87	North Macedonia	65.0 yrs	60.5 yrs
88	Qatar	64.9 yrs	57.8 yrs
89	Georgia	64.9 yrs	61.4 yrs
90	Trinidad and Tobago	64.9 yrs	62.5 yrs
91	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	64.8 yrs	58.4 yrs
92	Bosnia and Herzegovina	64.8 yrs	58.5 yrs
93	Northern Mariana Islands	64.8 yrs	61.4 yrs
94	Guadeloupe	64.7 yrs	61.1 yrs
95	Brunei Darussalam	64.5 yrs	58.7 yrs
96	Cayman Islands	64.4 yrs	58.8 yrs
97	Niue	64.4 yrs	59.4 yrs
98	Bahrain	64.4 yrs	50.6 yrs
99	Sri Lanka	64.3 yrs	60.6 yrs
100	Saint Lucia	64.3 yrs	57.9 yrs
101	Panama	64.1 yrs	60.3 yrs
102	Seychelles	64.0 yrs	60.5 yrs
103	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	64.0 yrs	58.6 yrs
104	Mauritius	63.7 yrs	58.4 yrs
105	Cook Islands	63.6 yrs	52.7 yrs
106	Mayotte	63.5 yrs	54.4 yrs
107	Malaysia	63.3 yrs	57.2 yrs
108	French Guiana	63.3 yrs	55.8 yrs
109	Tonga	63.2 yrs	58.3 yrs
110	Réunion	63.2 yrs	57.7 yrs
111	Greenland	63.0 yrs	58.5 yrs
112	Belize	63.0 yrs	57.4 yrs
113	Armenia	62.8 yrs	59.1 yrs
114	Turks and Caicos Islands	62.7 yrs	56.3 yrs
115	Chile	62.6 yrs	57.2 yrs
116	Paraguay	62.5 yrs	60.2 yrs
117	French Polynesia	62.5 yrs	59.5 yrs
118	Republic of Moldova	62.4 yrs	59.4 yrs
119	Tokelau	62.3 yrs	58.6 yrs
120	Republic of Korea	62.2 yrs	53.8 yrs
121	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	62.0 yrs	55.8 yrs
122	Fiji	61.6 yrs	58.6 yrs
123	Colombia	61.5 yrs	56.6 yrs
124	Saint Kitts and Nevis	61.4 yrs	56.8 yrs
125	United Arab Emirates	60.8 yrs	50.6 yrs
126	Philippines	60.8 yrs	59.2 yrs
127	Syrian Arab Republic	60.6 yrs	52.7 yrs
128	Iraq	60.5 yrs	51.5 yrs
129	Samoa	60.4 yrs	55.1 yrs
130	Uzbekistan	60.1 yrs	56.5 yrs
131	New Caledonia	60.1 yrs	52.3 yrs
132	Guyana	60.0 yrs	57.5 yrs
133	Kazakhstan	60.0 yrs	58.0 yrs
134	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	59.8 yrs	54.2 yrs
135	Jordan	59.8 yrs	52.7 yrs
136	Suriname	59.5 yrs	56.6 yrs
137	Ecuador	58.9 yrs	53.4 yrs
138	Mexico	58.9 yrs	53.6 yrs
139	Marshall Islands	58.8 yrs	54.4 yrs
140	Dominican Republic	58.5 yrs	51.7 yrs
141	Nauru	58.5 yrs	57.9 yrs
142	Kyrgyzstan	58.2 yrs	55.1 yrs
143	Zimbabwe	57.8 yrs	53.5 yrs
144	Palau	57.7 yrs	54.9 yrs
145	Brazil	57.3 yrs	53.2 yrs
146	China	56.8 yrs	33.4 yrs
147	Türkiye	56.7 yrs	50.8 yrs
148	Azerbaijan	56.6 yrs	50.9 yrs
149	Cabo Verde	56.6 yrs	48.7 yrs
150	Tajikistan	56.6 yrs	52.5 yrs
151	Thailand	56.5 yrs	50.6 yrs
152	Botswana	56.5 yrs	51.2 yrs
153	Libya	56.4 yrs	40.8 yrs
154	Sao Tome and Principe	56.3 yrs	43.6 yrs
155	Solomon Islands	56.1 yrs	47.7 yrs
156	Turkmenistan	56.0 yrs	52.1 yrs
157	South Africa	55.7 yrs	52.6 yrs
158	Tuvalu	55.4 yrs	48.3 yrs
159	State of Palestine	55.4 yrs	49.3 yrs
160	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	55.4 yrs	53.5 yrs
161	Vanuatu	55.3 yrs	49.8 yrs
162	Viet Nam	54.9 yrs	58.0 yrs
163	Namibia	54.7 yrs	48.5 yrs
164	Kiribati	54.4 yrs	48.0 yrs
165	Honduras	54.4 yrs	47.1 yrs
166	Kenya	54.1 yrs	48.5 yrs
167	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	54.0 yrs	48.7 yrs
168	Tunisia	53.8 yrs	44.0 yrs
169	Nicaragua	53.8 yrs	46.4 yrs
170	Congo	53.5 yrs	47.6 yrs
171	Zambia	53.4 yrs	50.6 yrs
172	Indonesia	53.3 yrs	46.8 yrs
173	Pakistan	52.9 yrs	44.1 yrs
174	Gabon	52.7 yrs	46.4 yrs
175	Saudi Arabia	52.7 yrs	45.3 yrs
176	Wallis and Futuna Islands	52.3 yrs	47.3 yrs
177	Sudan	52.3 yrs	49.6 yrs
178	Papua New Guinea	52.1 yrs	45.8 yrs
179	Mongolia	52.0 yrs	44.5 yrs
180	Lesotho	51.5 yrs	50.2 yrs
181	El Salvador	51.4 yrs	48.3 yrs
182	Eswatini	51.2 yrs	46.4 yrs
183	Myanmar	50.5 yrs	44.1 yrs
184	Mauritania	50.5 yrs	43.6 yrs
185	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	50.2 yrs	43.3 yrs
186	Uganda	49.6 yrs	45.6 yrs
187	Egypt	49.0 yrs	44.4 yrs
188	Morocco	48.7 yrs	41.7 yrs
189	India	48.6 yrs	45.6 yrs
190	Guatemala	48.5 yrs	45.8 yrs
191	Cameroon	48.0 yrs	34.7 yrs
192	Ghana	47.9 yrs	46.9 yrs
193	Madagascar	47.9 yrs	43.4 yrs
194	Peru	47.7 yrs	50.6 yrs
195	Djibouti	47.5 yrs	43.4 yrs
196	Haiti	47.3 yrs	43.4 yrs
197	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	47.1 yrs	43.3 yrs
198	Rwanda	47.1 yrs	47.0 yrs
199	Togo	46.8 yrs	43.5 yrs
200	Oman	46.6 yrs	35.4 yrs
201	United Republic of Tanzania	46.5 yrs	42.6 yrs
202	Somalia	45.6 yrs	43.5 yrs
203	Comoros	45.2 yrs	40.8 yrs
204	Central African Republic	45.2 yrs	39.6 yrs
205	Maldives	44.5 yrs	38.2 yrs
206	Côte d'Ivoire	44.0 yrs	37.2 yrs
207	Lao People's Democratic Republic	43.8 yrs	41.0 yrs
208	Algeria	43.3 yrs	40.8 yrs
209	Democratic Republic of the Congo	43.3 yrs	40.8 yrs
210	Burundi	43.2 yrs	43.3 yrs
211	Nepal	43.1 yrs	38.6 yrs
212	Benin	43.0 yrs	38.8 yrs
213	Bangladesh	42.7 yrs	44.0 yrs
214	Western Sahara	42.7 yrs	38.7 yrs
215	Mozambique	42.5 yrs	41.2 yrs
216	Ethiopia	42.1 yrs	39.6 yrs
217	Chad	41.4 yrs	39.2 yrs
218	Eritrea	41.2 yrs	37.4 yrs
219	Bhutan	41.2 yrs	36.4 yrs
220	Senegal	40.8 yrs	39.7 yrs
221	Yemen	40.6 yrs	33.5 yrs
222	Liberia	40.4 yrs	38.1 yrs
223	Nigeria	40.0 yrs	37.2 yrs
224	Angola	39.7 yrs	37.9 yrs
225	Gambia	39.5 yrs	34.6 yrs
226	Burkina Faso	39.5 yrs	36.1 yrs
227	Guinea	39.1 yrs	36.6 yrs
228	Cambodia	38.6 yrs	42.1 yrs
229	Sierra Leone	38.6 yrs	33.1 yrs
230	Afghanistan	37.5 yrs	32.8 yrs
231	Timor-Leste	37.4 yrs	32.4 yrs
232	Guinea-Bissau	37.3 yrs	37.5 yrs
233	Malawi	36.6 yrs	35.0 yrs
234	Niger	35.9 yrs	36.2 yrs
235	Mali	33.4 yrs	30.5 yrs
236	Equatorial Guinea	31.1 yrs	42.7 yrs
237	South Sudan	25.6 yrs	28.1 yrs

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