Life expectancy by country, 1972

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

◀▶1972

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1962
1	Faroe Islands	75.1 yrs	73.1 yrs
2	Andorra	74.9 yrs	73.0 yrs
3	Sweden	74.7 yrs	73.3 yrs
4	San Marino	74.6 yrs	73.5 yrs
5	Iceland	74.4 yrs	73.6 yrs
6	Norway	74.3 yrs	73.5 yrs
7	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	74.1 yrs	68.9 yrs
8	Netherlands	73.8 yrs	73.2 yrs
9	Switzerland	73.8 yrs	71.3 yrs
10	Denmark	73.5 yrs	72.3 yrs
11	Monaco	73.4 yrs	72.4 yrs
12	Liechtenstein	73.4 yrs	70.9 yrs
13	Japan	73.3 yrs	68.7 yrs
14	Spain	73.0 yrs	69.6 yrs
15	Guernsey	72.9 yrs	73.6 yrs
16	Canada	72.8 yrs	71.2 yrs
17	Greece	72.7 yrs	70.3 yrs
18	Gibraltar	72.4 yrs	70.2 yrs
19	France	72.3 yrs	70.5 yrs
20	Italy	72.2 yrs	69.2 yrs
21	United Kingdom	72.0 yrs	70.9 yrs
22	Holy See	72.0 yrs	69.2 yrs
23	Australia	71.8 yrs	70.9 yrs
24	New Zealand	71.8 yrs	71.2 yrs
25	Belarus	71.8 yrs	70.5 yrs
26	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	71.7 yrs	67.0 yrs
27	China, Hong Kong SAR	71.7 yrs	67.3 yrs
28	Israel	71.6 yrs	69.3 yrs
29	Saint Martin (French part)	71.6 yrs	68.2 yrs
30	Belgium	71.4 yrs	70.2 yrs
31	Jersey	71.3 yrs	70.8 yrs
32	Montenegro	71.3 yrs	66.4 yrs
33	Lithuania	71.3 yrs	69.4 yrs
34	United States of America	71.2 yrs	70.1 yrs
35	Germany	71.2 yrs	70.0 yrs
36	Ireland	71.0 yrs	70.0 yrs
37	Ukraine	71.0 yrs	70.4 yrs
38	Finland	70.9 yrs	68.7 yrs
39	Bulgaria	70.9 yrs	69.5 yrs
40	Puerto Rico	70.8 yrs	68.9 yrs
41	Malta	70.7 yrs	69.2 yrs
42	Austria	70.6 yrs	69.5 yrs
43	Luxembourg	70.5 yrs	68.4 yrs
44	Estonia	70.4 yrs	69.8 yrs
45	Antigua and Barbuda	70.3 yrs	64.0 yrs
46	Slovakia	70.3 yrs	70.3 yrs
47	Slovenia	70.3 yrs	68.8 yrs
48	Latvia	70.3 yrs	69.9 yrs
49	Czechia	70.2 yrs	69.9 yrs
50	Poland	70.1 yrs	68.0 yrs
51	Serbia	70.0 yrs	67.0 yrs
52	Croatia	69.8 yrs	67.3 yrs
53	Hungary	69.7 yrs	67.9 yrs
54	China, Macao SAR	69.7 yrs	65.1 yrs
55	Bermuda	69.6 yrs	67.9 yrs
56	China, Taiwan Province of China	69.6 yrs	63.8 yrs
57	Uruguay	69.2 yrs	67.9 yrs
58	Portugal	69.2 yrs	64.3 yrs
59	Barbados	69.1 yrs	65.7 yrs
60	Cuba	69.0 yrs	64.4 yrs
61	Singapore	69.0 yrs	66.1 yrs
62	Romania	69.0 yrs	67.2 yrs
63	Kuwait	68.9 yrs	61.0 yrs
64	Curaçao	68.8 yrs	66.0 yrs
65	Saint Helena	68.8 yrs	67.9 yrs
66	Russian Federation	68.8 yrs	68.5 yrs
67	Cyprus	68.6 yrs	64.7 yrs
68	Aruba	68.3 yrs	64.6 yrs
69	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	68.3 yrs	66.7 yrs
70	Costa Rica	68.0 yrs	64.2 yrs
71	Martinique	67.6 yrs	62.3 yrs
72	Dominica	67.5 yrs	61.9 yrs
73	Jamaica	67.3 yrs	64.6 yrs
74	Grenada	67.2 yrs	63.8 yrs
75	American Samoa	67.2 yrs	66.0 yrs
76	Saint Barthélemy	66.9 yrs	61.0 yrs
77	British Virgin Islands	66.9 yrs	63.8 yrs
78	Bahamas	66.8 yrs	63.2 yrs
79	Albania	66.5 yrs	58.5 yrs
80	Guam	66.5 yrs	63.4 yrs
81	Montserrat	66.4 yrs	60.3 yrs
82	Lebanon	66.2 yrs	64.6 yrs
83	Qatar	66.1 yrs	59.2 yrs
84	Bahrain	66.1 yrs	53.9 yrs
85	Argentina	66.0 yrs	64.6 yrs
86	Isle of Man	66.0 yrs	64.4 yrs
87	Anguilla	65.9 yrs	61.4 yrs
88	Bosnia and Herzegovina	65.7 yrs	60.1 yrs
89	Guadeloupe	65.6 yrs	62.3 yrs
90	Cook Islands	65.6 yrs	55.5 yrs
91	North Macedonia	65.6 yrs	59.3 yrs
92	Northern Mariana Islands	65.6 yrs	62.0 yrs
93	Georgia	65.5 yrs	62.1 yrs
94	Brunei Darussalam	65.5 yrs	58.8 yrs
95	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	65.5 yrs	59.7 yrs
96	United States Virgin Islands	65.5 yrs	62.8 yrs
97	Cayman Islands	65.4 yrs	60.1 yrs
98	Seychelles	65.3 yrs	60.7 yrs
99	Trinidad and Tobago	65.2 yrs	63.4 yrs
100	Panama	65.2 yrs	61.4 yrs
101	Niue	65.1 yrs	60.5 yrs
102	Mayotte	65.0 yrs	56.3 yrs
103	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	64.8 yrs	59.9 yrs
104	Sri Lanka	64.6 yrs	61.6 yrs
105	Saint Lucia	64.6 yrs	59.9 yrs
106	Réunion	64.3 yrs	59.4 yrs
107	Malaysia	64.2 yrs	58.9 yrs
108	Tonga	64.1 yrs	59.3 yrs
109	Belize	64.0 yrs	58.7 yrs
110	French Guiana	64.0 yrs	57.9 yrs
111	Turks and Caicos Islands	63.8 yrs	57.7 yrs
112	Mauritius	63.8 yrs	60.5 yrs
113	Chile	63.7 yrs	57.8 yrs
114	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	63.3 yrs	57.0 yrs
115	Armenia	63.2 yrs	60.0 yrs
116	Republic of Korea	63.2 yrs	55.0 yrs
117	French Polynesia	63.1 yrs	60.2 yrs
118	Paraguay	62.9 yrs	60.8 yrs
119	Republic of Moldova	62.9 yrs	60.3 yrs
120	Tokelau	62.8 yrs	59.4 yrs
121	United Arab Emirates	62.7 yrs	52.5 yrs
122	Greenland	62.7 yrs	59.9 yrs
123	Colombia	62.5 yrs	57.7 yrs
124	Jordan	62.5 yrs	54.6 yrs
125	Saint Kitts and Nevis	62.1 yrs	57.8 yrs
126	Syrian Arab Republic	62.0 yrs	54.6 yrs
127	Iraq	61.8 yrs	53.5 yrs
128	Fiji	61.6 yrs	59.6 yrs
129	Samoa	61.4 yrs	56.3 yrs
130	New Caledonia	61.4 yrs	53.8 yrs
131	Philippines	60.9 yrs	59.8 yrs
132	Uzbekistan	60.8 yrs	57.2 yrs
133	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	60.6 yrs	55.4 yrs
134	Kazakhstan	60.5 yrs	58.4 yrs
135	Guyana	60.1 yrs	58.3 yrs
136	Mexico	60.0 yrs	55.1 yrs
137	Ecuador	59.8 yrs	54.7 yrs
138	Suriname	59.7 yrs	58.0 yrs
139	Dominican Republic	59.7 yrs	53.2 yrs
140	Marshall Islands	59.5 yrs	55.2 yrs
141	Kyrgyzstan	58.8 yrs	55.7 yrs
142	Libya	58.7 yrs	44.1 yrs
143	Palau	58.6 yrs	55.4 yrs
144	China	58.6 yrs	51.0 yrs
145	Nauru	58.4 yrs	58.0 yrs
146	Brazil	58.3 yrs	54.0 yrs
147	Zimbabwe	58.2 yrs	54.5 yrs
148	Türkiye	58.0 yrs	52.4 yrs
149	Solomon Islands	57.9 yrs	49.0 yrs
150	Thailand	57.8 yrs	51.4 yrs
151	Botswana	57.7 yrs	52.3 yrs
152	Azerbaijan	57.5 yrs	52.0 yrs
153	Cabo Verde	57.5 yrs	50.2 yrs
154	Sao Tome and Principe	57.5 yrs	46.8 yrs
155	Tajikistan	57.2 yrs	53.4 yrs
156	Peru	57.0 yrs	51.5 yrs
157	State of Palestine	56.7 yrs	50.4 yrs
158	Turkmenistan	56.6 yrs	52.9 yrs
159	Vanuatu	56.4 yrs	50.9 yrs
160	South Africa	56.4 yrs	53.6 yrs
161	Tunisia	56.1 yrs	45.6 yrs
162	Namibia	55.9 yrs	50.0 yrs
163	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	55.8 yrs	54.0 yrs
164	Honduras	55.7 yrs	48.6 yrs
165	Kiribati	55.3 yrs	49.0 yrs
166	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	55.1 yrs	48.4 yrs
167	Kenya	55.0 yrs	50.1 yrs
168	Saudi Arabia	54.7 yrs	46.5 yrs
169	Tuvalu	54.7 yrs	49.8 yrs
170	Indonesia	54.4 yrs	48.1 yrs
171	Congo	54.4 yrs	49.0 yrs
172	Zambia	54.4 yrs	51.3 yrs
173	Gabon	53.8 yrs	47.8 yrs
174	Pakistan	53.8 yrs	45.9 yrs
175	Wallis and Futuna Islands	53.5 yrs	48.2 yrs
176	Papua New Guinea	53.3 yrs	46.7 yrs
177	Mongolia	53.1 yrs	46.3 yrs
178	Sudan	52.8 yrs	50.4 yrs
179	Eswatini	52.4 yrs	47.1 yrs
180	Lesotho	52.3 yrs	50.3 yrs
181	El Salvador	52.0 yrs	49.0 yrs
182	Viet Nam	51.9 yrs	58.2 yrs
183	Guatemala	51.8 yrs	46.5 yrs
184	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	51.7 yrs	43.8 yrs
185	Myanmar	51.4 yrs	45.3 yrs
186	Mauritania	51.0 yrs	45.0 yrs
187	Egypt	49.9 yrs	45.8 yrs
188	Morocco	49.7 yrs	44.2 yrs
189	Bangladesh	49.6 yrs	45.8 yrs
190	India	49.2 yrs	46.1 yrs
191	Cameroon	49.1 yrs	42.6 yrs
192	Oman	48.7 yrs	37.4 yrs
193	Djibouti	48.5 yrs	44.1 yrs
194	Madagascar	48.5 yrs	44.2 yrs
195	Ghana	48.3 yrs	47.3 yrs
196	Nicaragua	48.0 yrs	48.0 yrs
197	Haiti	47.9 yrs	44.2 yrs
198	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	47.8 yrs	44.0 yrs
199	Togo	47.7 yrs	44.0 yrs
200	United Republic of Tanzania	47.4 yrs	43.2 yrs
201	Uganda	47.2 yrs	46.8 yrs
202	Comoros	46.5 yrs	41.5 yrs
203	Maldives	46.4 yrs	39.1 yrs
204	Rwanda	46.3 yrs	47.8 yrs
205	Central African Republic	46.3 yrs	40.6 yrs
206	Somalia	46.0 yrs	44.0 yrs
207	Côte d'Ivoire	45.6 yrs	38.6 yrs
208	Algeria	44.4 yrs	39.5 yrs
209	Lao People's Democratic Republic	44.4 yrs	42.3 yrs
210	Equatorial Guinea	44.4 yrs	43.3 yrs
211	Nepal	44.1 yrs	39.3 yrs
212	Democratic Republic of the Congo	43.9 yrs	40.4 yrs
213	Benin	43.9 yrs	39.6 yrs
214	Western Sahara	43.5 yrs	39.5 yrs
215	Yemen	42.7 yrs	33.7 yrs
216	Bhutan	42.5 yrs	37.0 yrs
217	Mozambique	42.5 yrs	41.8 yrs
218	Chad	41.9 yrs	39.6 yrs
219	Senegal	41.8 yrs	39.7 yrs
220	Nigeria	41.3 yrs	37.6 yrs
221	Liberia	41.2 yrs	38.2 yrs
222	Ethiopia	41.0 yrs	40.5 yrs
223	Eritrea	40.7 yrs	38.4 yrs
224	Angola	40.5 yrs	37.2 yrs
225	Gambia	40.5 yrs	35.6 yrs
226	Burkina Faso	40.4 yrs	36.8 yrs
227	Guinea	39.7 yrs	37.0 yrs
228	Sierra Leone	39.5 yrs	34.2 yrs
229	Cambodia	38.9 yrs	43.1 yrs
230	Afghanistan	38.4 yrs	33.8 yrs
231	Timor-Leste	38.4 yrs	33.2 yrs
232	Guinea-Bissau	37.8 yrs	38.0 yrs
233	Malawi	37.6 yrs	35.5 yrs
234	Niger	35.8 yrs	36.3 yrs
235	Mali	34.5 yrs	30.8 yrs
236	South Sudan	31.3 yrs	28.5 yrs
237	Burundi	25.8 yrs	43.5 yrs

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