Life expectancy by country, 1971

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

◀▶1971

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1961
1	Faroe Islands	75.0 yrs	72.6 yrs
2	Andorra	74.6 yrs	72.6 yrs
3	Sweden	74.6 yrs	73.5 yrs
4	San Marino	74.4 yrs	73.4 yrs
5	Norway	74.2 yrs	73.6 yrs
6	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	74.0 yrs	68.0 yrs
7	Netherlands	73.9 yrs	73.5 yrs
8	Iceland	73.5 yrs	73.4 yrs
9	Denmark	73.4 yrs	72.5 yrs
10	Monaco	73.4 yrs	72.2 yrs
11	Switzerland	73.2 yrs	71.7 yrs
12	Guernsey	73.0 yrs	72.9 yrs
13	Canada	73.0 yrs	71.2 yrs
14	Liechtenstein	73.0 yrs	71.0 yrs
15	Greece	72.9 yrs	70.4 yrs
16	Japan	72.8 yrs	68.4 yrs
17	United Kingdom	72.2 yrs	70.8 yrs
18	Gibraltar	72.1 yrs	70.2 yrs
19	France	72.1 yrs	71.0 yrs
20	Lithuania	72.0 yrs	70.5 yrs
21	Italy	71.9 yrs	69.8 yrs
22	Israel	71.8 yrs	69.8 yrs
23	Spain	71.7 yrs	69.6 yrs
24	New Zealand	71.7 yrs	70.9 yrs
25	Holy See	71.7 yrs	69.8 yrs
26	Ireland	71.6 yrs	69.6 yrs
27	Belarus	71.6 yrs	70.0 yrs
28	Australia	71.5 yrs	71.1 yrs
29	China, Hong Kong SAR	71.5 yrs	66.9 yrs
30	Saint Martin (French part)	71.3 yrs	67.9 yrs
31	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	71.3 yrs	66.7 yrs
32	Jersey	71.2 yrs	70.6 yrs
33	United States of America	71.1 yrs	70.3 yrs
34	Puerto Rico	71.1 yrs	68.5 yrs
35	Belgium	71.1 yrs	70.5 yrs
36	Ukraine	70.9 yrs	70.0 yrs
37	Germany	70.9 yrs	69.8 yrs
38	Bulgaria	70.9 yrs	70.2 yrs
39	Montenegro	70.8 yrs	66.1 yrs
40	Estonia	70.6 yrs	69.6 yrs
41	Latvia	70.6 yrs	70.5 yrs
42	Austria	70.3 yrs	69.7 yrs
43	Finland	70.2 yrs	69.0 yrs
44	Malta	70.1 yrs	68.4 yrs
45	Antigua and Barbuda	69.9 yrs	63.3 yrs
46	Slovakia	69.9 yrs	70.8 yrs
47	Poland	69.8 yrs	67.8 yrs
48	Slovenia	69.7 yrs	68.9 yrs
49	Serbia	69.7 yrs	66.3 yrs
50	Czechia	69.7 yrs	70.6 yrs
51	Croatia	69.5 yrs	66.5 yrs
52	China, Taiwan Province of China	69.4 yrs	63.0 yrs
53	Luxembourg	69.3 yrs	69.2 yrs
54	China, Macao SAR	69.2 yrs	64.5 yrs
55	Hungary	69.1 yrs	69.0 yrs
56	Bermuda	69.0 yrs	67.5 yrs
57	Uruguay	68.9 yrs	67.8 yrs
58	Russian Federation	68.9 yrs	68.6 yrs
59	Singapore	68.8 yrs	65.7 yrs
60	Barbados	68.8 yrs	65.0 yrs
61	Saint Helena	68.7 yrs	67.7 yrs
62	Curaçao	68.5 yrs	65.8 yrs
63	Kuwait	68.5 yrs	60.0 yrs
64	Cuba	68.4 yrs	63.7 yrs
65	Romania	68.4 yrs	66.4 yrs
66	Cyprus	68.3 yrs	64.1 yrs
67	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	67.9 yrs	66.5 yrs
68	Aruba	67.8 yrs	64.2 yrs
69	Costa Rica	67.4 yrs	63.9 yrs
70	Martinique	67.3 yrs	62.9 yrs
71	Jamaica	67.0 yrs	64.3 yrs
72	United States Virgin Islands	67.0 yrs	63.2 yrs
73	Grenada	66.9 yrs	63.5 yrs
74	Dominica	66.8 yrs	61.0 yrs
75	Portugal	66.8 yrs	62.8 yrs
76	American Samoa	66.8 yrs	65.7 yrs
77	British Virgin Islands	66.7 yrs	63.3 yrs
78	Bahamas	66.5 yrs	62.8 yrs
79	Saint Barthélemy	66.2 yrs	60.6 yrs
80	Guam	66.1 yrs	63.2 yrs
81	Lebanon	66.1 yrs	64.3 yrs
82	Albania	65.9 yrs	57.5 yrs
83	Isle of Man	65.8 yrs	64.4 yrs
84	Montserrat	65.8 yrs	59.5 yrs
85	Argentina	65.6 yrs	64.6 yrs
86	Anguilla	65.5 yrs	60.9 yrs
87	Qatar	65.5 yrs	58.5 yrs
88	Bahrain	65.3 yrs	52.3 yrs
89	Guadeloupe	65.2 yrs	61.6 yrs
90	Georgia	65.2 yrs	61.7 yrs
91	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	65.2 yrs	59.1 yrs
92	Bosnia and Herzegovina	65.2 yrs	59.3 yrs
93	North Macedonia	65.2 yrs	61.8 yrs
94	Northern Mariana Islands	65.2 yrs	61.7 yrs
95	Brunei Darussalam	65.0 yrs	59.4 yrs
96	Trinidad and Tobago	64.9 yrs	63.0 yrs
97	Cayman Islands	64.8 yrs	59.4 yrs
98	Niue	64.7 yrs	60.0 yrs
99	Panama	64.7 yrs	60.9 yrs
100	Cook Islands	64.6 yrs	54.1 yrs
101	Seychelles	64.6 yrs	60.6 yrs
102	Saint Lucia	64.5 yrs	59.1 yrs
103	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	64.4 yrs	59.3 yrs
104	Mayotte	64.3 yrs	55.4 yrs
105	Sri Lanka	64.2 yrs	61.2 yrs
106	Malaysia	63.8 yrs	58.0 yrs
107	Mauritius	63.8 yrs	59.5 yrs
108	Réunion	63.7 yrs	58.8 yrs
109	Tonga	63.6 yrs	58.8 yrs
110	French Guiana	63.6 yrs	56.9 yrs
111	Belize	63.5 yrs	52.9 yrs
112	Turks and Caicos Islands	63.3 yrs	57.1 yrs
113	Chile	63.1 yrs	57.3 yrs
114	Armenia	63.0 yrs	59.6 yrs
115	Greenland	63.0 yrs	59.4 yrs
116	French Polynesia	62.8 yrs	59.9 yrs
117	Paraguay	62.7 yrs	60.5 yrs
118	Republic of Moldova	62.7 yrs	59.9 yrs
119	Republic of Korea	62.7 yrs	54.4 yrs
120	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	62.7 yrs	56.4 yrs
121	Tokelau	62.6 yrs	59.0 yrs
122	Colombia	62.0 yrs	57.2 yrs
123	United Arab Emirates	61.8 yrs	51.6 yrs
124	Jordan	61.8 yrs	53.7 yrs
125	Saint Kitts and Nevis	61.7 yrs	57.3 yrs
126	Fiji	61.7 yrs	59.1 yrs
127	Iraq	61.3 yrs	52.3 yrs
128	Syrian Arab Republic	61.3 yrs	53.6 yrs
129	Philippines	61.1 yrs	59.5 yrs
130	Samoa	60.9 yrs	55.7 yrs
131	New Caledonia	60.8 yrs	53.1 yrs
132	Uzbekistan	60.4 yrs	56.9 yrs
133	Kazakhstan	60.3 yrs	58.2 yrs
134	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	60.2 yrs	54.7 yrs
135	Guyana	60.1 yrs	57.9 yrs
136	Suriname	59.6 yrs	57.3 yrs
137	Mexico	59.4 yrs	54.4 yrs
138	Ecuador	59.3 yrs	54.0 yrs
139	Dominican Republic	59.1 yrs	52.5 yrs
140	Marshall Islands	59.1 yrs	54.7 yrs
141	Kyrgyzstan	58.5 yrs	55.4 yrs
142	Nauru	58.4 yrs	58.0 yrs
143	Palau	58.1 yrs	55.1 yrs
144	Zimbabwe	58.0 yrs	54.0 yrs
145	Brazil	57.8 yrs	53.6 yrs
146	China	57.7 yrs	40.2 yrs
147	Libya	57.6 yrs	42.4 yrs
148	Türkiye	57.2 yrs	51.6 yrs
149	Thailand	57.1 yrs	51.1 yrs
150	Botswana	57.1 yrs	51.8 yrs
151	Azerbaijan	57.0 yrs	51.4 yrs
152	Cabo Verde	57.0 yrs	49.4 yrs
153	Sao Tome and Principe	57.0 yrs	45.2 yrs
154	Solomon Islands	57.0 yrs	48.3 yrs
155	Tajikistan	56.9 yrs	52.9 yrs
156	Peru	56.5 yrs	51.2 yrs
157	Turkmenistan	56.4 yrs	52.5 yrs
158	Tuvalu	56.0 yrs	49.0 yrs
159	State of Palestine	56.0 yrs	49.8 yrs
160	South Africa	56.0 yrs	53.1 yrs
161	Vanuatu	55.9 yrs	50.4 yrs
162	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	55.6 yrs	53.8 yrs
163	Viet Nam	55.6 yrs	58.5 yrs
164	Namibia	55.3 yrs	49.2 yrs
165	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	55.1 yrs	49.9 yrs
166	Honduras	55.0 yrs	47.7 yrs
167	Kiribati	54.9 yrs	48.5 yrs
168	Tunisia	54.9 yrs	44.3 yrs
169	Kenya	54.5 yrs	49.3 yrs
170	Nicaragua	54.2 yrs	47.3 yrs
171	Congo	54.0 yrs	48.4 yrs
172	Zambia	53.9 yrs	51.0 yrs
173	Indonesia	53.8 yrs	47.4 yrs
174	Saudi Arabia	53.7 yrs	45.9 yrs
175	Gabon	53.3 yrs	47.1 yrs
176	Wallis and Futuna Islands	52.9 yrs	47.7 yrs
177	Papua New Guinea	52.6 yrs	46.4 yrs
178	Mongolia	52.6 yrs	45.4 yrs
179	Sudan	52.5 yrs	50.0 yrs
180	Lesotho	51.9 yrs	50.3 yrs
181	Eswatini	51.8 yrs	46.8 yrs
182	El Salvador	51.7 yrs	48.6 yrs
183	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	51.1 yrs	43.9 yrs
184	Myanmar	51.0 yrs	44.6 yrs
185	Mauritania	50.8 yrs	44.3 yrs
186	Guatemala	50.3 yrs	46.1 yrs
187	Egypt	49.5 yrs	45.1 yrs
188	Morocco	49.2 yrs	43.7 yrs
189	Pakistan	49.0 yrs	45.0 yrs
190	India	48.9 yrs	45.8 yrs
191	Cameroon	48.6 yrs	35.2 yrs
192	Madagascar	48.2 yrs	43.8 yrs
193	Ghana	48.0 yrs	47.1 yrs
194	Oman	47.9 yrs	36.4 yrs
195	Haiti	47.6 yrs	43.8 yrs
196	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	47.5 yrs	43.6 yrs
197	Djibouti	47.3 yrs	43.8 yrs
198	Togo	47.2 yrs	43.8 yrs
199	Uganda	47.1 yrs	46.3 yrs
200	United Republic of Tanzania	47.0 yrs	42.8 yrs
201	Rwanda	46.8 yrs	47.5 yrs
202	Comoros	45.9 yrs	41.2 yrs
203	Somalia	45.8 yrs	43.7 yrs
204	Central African Republic	45.8 yrs	40.1 yrs
205	Maldives	45.5 yrs	38.6 yrs
206	Côte d'Ivoire	44.8 yrs	37.9 yrs
207	Lao People's Democratic Republic	44.1 yrs	41.3 yrs
208	Algeria	43.8 yrs	40.8 yrs
209	Democratic Republic of the Congo	43.6 yrs	40.2 yrs
210	Nepal	43.6 yrs	39.0 yrs
211	Benin	43.4 yrs	39.2 yrs
212	Burundi	43.2 yrs	43.4 yrs
213	Western Sahara	42.9 yrs	39.1 yrs
214	Mozambique	42.6 yrs	41.5 yrs
215	Ethiopia	42.2 yrs	40.2 yrs
216	Yemen	41.8 yrs	34.1 yrs
217	Bhutan	41.8 yrs	36.6 yrs
218	Eritrea	41.5 yrs	37.9 yrs
219	Senegal	41.2 yrs	39.7 yrs
220	Chad	40.9 yrs	39.4 yrs
221	Liberia	40.7 yrs	38.1 yrs
222	Nigeria	40.6 yrs	37.4 yrs
223	Angola	40.1 yrs	36.9 yrs
224	Gambia	40.0 yrs	35.1 yrs
225	Burkina Faso	39.9 yrs	36.4 yrs
226	Guinea	39.4 yrs	36.8 yrs
227	Sierra Leone	39.1 yrs	33.6 yrs
228	Cambodia	38.7 yrs	42.6 yrs
229	Afghanistan	37.9 yrs	33.3 yrs
230	Timor-Leste	37.9 yrs	32.8 yrs
231	Guinea-Bissau	37.5 yrs	37.8 yrs
232	Equatorial Guinea	37.2 yrs	43.0 yrs
233	Malawi	37.1 yrs	35.2 yrs
234	Niger	35.3 yrs	36.3 yrs
235	Mali	33.8 yrs	30.6 yrs
236	South Sudan	31.0 yrs	28.3 yrs
237	Bangladesh	26.5 yrs	44.9 yrs

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