Life expectancy by country, 1973

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

◀▶1973

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1963
1	Faroe Islands	75.2 yrs	73.4 yrs
2	Andorra	75.1 yrs	73.3 yrs
3	Sweden	74.9 yrs	73.5 yrs
4	San Marino	74.8 yrs	73.6 yrs
5	Norway	74.4 yrs	73.1 yrs
6	Iceland	74.3 yrs	72.9 yrs
7	Netherlands	74.2 yrs	73.3 yrs
8	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	74.2 yrs	70.8 yrs
9	Guernsey	74.2 yrs	73.8 yrs
10	Switzerland	74.1 yrs	71.3 yrs
11	Denmark	73.7 yrs	72.4 yrs
12	Liechtenstein	73.7 yrs	70.9 yrs
13	Monaco	73.4 yrs	72.5 yrs
14	Japan	73.4 yrs	69.8 yrs
15	Canada	73.1 yrs	71.3 yrs
16	Greece	73.0 yrs	70.7 yrs
17	Gibraltar	72.7 yrs	70.3 yrs
18	Spain	72.7 yrs	69.8 yrs
19	France	72.5 yrs	70.3 yrs
20	United Kingdom	72.2 yrs	70.8 yrs
21	China, Hong Kong SAR	72.2 yrs	68.0 yrs
22	Italy	72.1 yrs	69.3 yrs
23	Australia	72.1 yrs	71.0 yrs
24	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	72.1 yrs	67.5 yrs
25	Holy See	71.9 yrs	69.3 yrs
26	Saint Martin (French part)	71.8 yrs	68.5 yrs
27	New Zealand	71.7 yrs	71.3 yrs
28	Belarus	71.7 yrs	70.8 yrs
29	Israel	71.6 yrs	69.6 yrs
30	Jersey	71.6 yrs	71.0 yrs
31	Belgium	71.6 yrs	70.0 yrs
32	Montenegro	71.6 yrs	66.8 yrs
33	Lithuania	71.6 yrs	70.6 yrs
34	United States of America	71.4 yrs	69.9 yrs
35	Germany	71.4 yrs	70.1 yrs
36	Finland	71.4 yrs	69.2 yrs
37	Bulgaria	71.3 yrs	70.3 yrs
38	Malta	71.3 yrs	69.3 yrs
39	Ireland	71.2 yrs	70.2 yrs
40	Austria	71.2 yrs	69.7 yrs
41	Puerto Rico	71.0 yrs	68.7 yrs
42	Ukraine	70.8 yrs	70.7 yrs
43	Slovenia	70.8 yrs	68.6 yrs
44	Antigua and Barbuda	70.7 yrs	64.7 yrs
45	Estonia	70.7 yrs	69.9 yrs
46	Poland	70.7 yrs	68.3 yrs
47	Serbia	70.5 yrs	67.3 yrs
48	Bermuda	70.4 yrs	67.7 yrs
49	Luxembourg	70.3 yrs	68.7 yrs
50	Latvia	70.2 yrs	70.3 yrs
51	Croatia	70.1 yrs	67.6 yrs
52	Czechia	70.1 yrs	70.4 yrs
53	China, Macao SAR	70.1 yrs	65.7 yrs
54	Slovakia	70.0 yrs	70.7 yrs
55	China, Taiwan Province of China	69.8 yrs	64.5 yrs
56	Hungary	69.6 yrs	68.9 yrs
57	Singapore	69.4 yrs	66.5 yrs
58	Uruguay	69.3 yrs	68.0 yrs
59	Cuba	69.3 yrs	64.3 yrs
60	Kuwait	69.2 yrs	62.0 yrs
61	Curaçao	69.1 yrs	66.3 yrs
62	Barbados	69.1 yrs	66.2 yrs
63	Cyprus	69.0 yrs	61.8 yrs
64	Russian Federation	69.0 yrs	69.1 yrs
65	Aruba	68.9 yrs	64.9 yrs
66	Saint Helena	68.9 yrs	67.9 yrs
67	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	68.8 yrs	66.8 yrs
68	Costa Rica	68.7 yrs	64.3 yrs
69	Romania	68.7 yrs	67.8 yrs
70	Portugal	68.6 yrs	64.9 yrs
71	Dominica	68.1 yrs	62.6 yrs
72	Martinique	68.0 yrs	62.6 yrs
73	Grenada	67.6 yrs	63.8 yrs
74	Jamaica	67.6 yrs	65.0 yrs
75	American Samoa	67.6 yrs	66.2 yrs
76	Saint Barthélemy	67.4 yrs	61.1 yrs
77	Bahamas	67.2 yrs	63.5 yrs
78	British Virgin Islands	67.2 yrs	64.3 yrs
79	Albania	67.1 yrs	59.5 yrs
80	North Macedonia	67.1 yrs	61.4 yrs
81	Montserrat	67.0 yrs	61.0 yrs
82	United States Virgin Islands	67.0 yrs	61.5 yrs
83	Guam	66.9 yrs	63.8 yrs
84	Bahrain	66.9 yrs	55.5 yrs
85	Qatar	66.6 yrs	60.0 yrs
86	Bosnia and Herzegovina	66.6 yrs	60.5 yrs
87	Anguilla	66.3 yrs	61.9 yrs
88	Lebanon	66.3 yrs	64.9 yrs
89	Argentina	66.2 yrs	64.9 yrs
90	Isle of Man	66.2 yrs	64.5 yrs
91	Guadeloupe	66.1 yrs	62.7 yrs
92	Brunei Darussalam	66.0 yrs	60.6 yrs
93	Northern Mariana Islands	66.0 yrs	62.3 yrs
94	Cook Islands	65.9 yrs	56.6 yrs
95	Cayman Islands	65.9 yrs	60.8 yrs
96	Seychelles	65.9 yrs	60.9 yrs
97	Georgia	65.8 yrs	62.5 yrs
98	Panama	65.8 yrs	61.8 yrs
99	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	65.7 yrs	60.5 yrs
100	Mayotte	65.7 yrs	57.3 yrs
101	Trinidad and Tobago	65.4 yrs	63.6 yrs
102	Niue	65.4 yrs	61.0 yrs
103	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	65.1 yrs	60.5 yrs
104	Sri Lanka	64.8 yrs	62.0 yrs
105	Réunion	64.8 yrs	59.8 yrs
106	Malaysia	64.7 yrs	59.7 yrs
107	Saint Lucia	64.6 yrs	60.5 yrs
108	Belize	64.5 yrs	59.3 yrs
109	Chile	64.4 yrs	58.4 yrs
110	Tonga	64.4 yrs	59.8 yrs
111	French Guiana	64.4 yrs	58.9 yrs
112	Mauritius	64.3 yrs	61.1 yrs
113	Turks and Caicos Islands	64.2 yrs	58.4 yrs
114	Republic of Korea	63.8 yrs	55.0 yrs
115	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	63.8 yrs	57.6 yrs
116	United Arab Emirates	63.5 yrs	53.5 yrs
117	Armenia	63.5 yrs	60.4 yrs
118	French Polynesia	63.4 yrs	60.5 yrs
119	Republic of Moldova	63.2 yrs	60.6 yrs
120	Paraguay	63.1 yrs	61.1 yrs
121	Jordan	63.1 yrs	55.5 yrs
122	Colombia	63.0 yrs	58.3 yrs
123	Tokelau	63.0 yrs	59.8 yrs
124	Saint Kitts and Nevis	62.5 yrs	58.4 yrs
125	Greenland	62.4 yrs	60.3 yrs
126	Iraq	62.3 yrs	54.4 yrs
127	New Caledonia	62.1 yrs	54.5 yrs
128	Samoa	61.9 yrs	56.9 yrs
129	Uzbekistan	61.1 yrs	57.6 yrs
130	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	61.0 yrs	56.0 yrs
131	Syrian Arab Republic	60.8 yrs	55.4 yrs
132	Kazakhstan	60.7 yrs	58.6 yrs
133	Philippines	60.7 yrs	60.0 yrs
134	Fiji	60.6 yrs	60.2 yrs
135	Mexico	60.5 yrs	55.5 yrs
136	Ecuador	60.3 yrs	55.3 yrs
137	Guyana	60.2 yrs	58.6 yrs
138	Dominican Republic	60.2 yrs	53.8 yrs
139	Suriname	59.8 yrs	58.5 yrs
140	Marshall Islands	59.8 yrs	55.7 yrs
141	Libya	59.7 yrs	45.6 yrs
142	China	59.5 yrs	51.7 yrs
143	Kyrgyzstan	59.2 yrs	56.0 yrs
144	Palau	59.0 yrs	55.6 yrs
145	Solomon Islands	58.8 yrs	49.8 yrs
146	Brazil	58.7 yrs	54.5 yrs
147	Türkiye	58.5 yrs	53.1 yrs
148	Nauru	58.4 yrs	58.1 yrs
149	Thailand	58.3 yrs	52.0 yrs
150	Botswana	58.3 yrs	52.9 yrs
151	Zimbabwe	58.1 yrs	54.9 yrs
152	Cabo Verde	58.0 yrs	51.1 yrs
153	Azerbaijan	57.9 yrs	52.7 yrs
154	Sao Tome and Principe	57.9 yrs	48.4 yrs
155	State of Palestine	57.6 yrs	51.0 yrs
156	Tajikistan	57.4 yrs	53.8 yrs
157	Peru	57.3 yrs	52.6 yrs
158	Tuvalu	57.2 yrs	50.6 yrs
159	Tunisia	57.1 yrs	46.4 yrs
160	Vanuatu	57.0 yrs	51.5 yrs
161	Turkmenistan	56.8 yrs	53.2 yrs
162	South Africa	56.7 yrs	53.9 yrs
163	Namibia	56.4 yrs	50.6 yrs
164	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	56.0 yrs	54.2 yrs
165	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	55.9 yrs	50.1 yrs
166	Kiribati	55.8 yrs	49.7 yrs
167	Saudi Arabia	55.8 yrs	47.1 yrs
168	Viet Nam	55.7 yrs	56.9 yrs
169	Kenya	55.5 yrs	50.8 yrs
170	Nicaragua	55.0 yrs	48.8 yrs
171	Indonesia	54.9 yrs	48.7 yrs
172	Zambia	54.9 yrs	51.6 yrs
173	Congo	54.7 yrs	49.7 yrs
174	Honduras	54.6 yrs	49.4 yrs
175	Gabon	54.4 yrs	48.4 yrs
176	Wallis and Futuna Islands	54.1 yrs	48.6 yrs
177	Pakistan	54.1 yrs	46.8 yrs
178	Papua New Guinea	53.9 yrs	47.7 yrs
179	Mongolia	53.6 yrs	47.1 yrs
180	Eswatini	53.0 yrs	47.5 yrs
181	Sudan	53.0 yrs	50.8 yrs
182	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	52.9 yrs	45.1 yrs
183	Guatemala	52.9 yrs	46.6 yrs
184	El Salvador	52.8 yrs	49.4 yrs
185	Lesotho	52.6 yrs	50.3 yrs
186	Myanmar	51.8 yrs	46.0 yrs
187	Mauritania	51.2 yrs	45.8 yrs
188	Morocco	50.2 yrs	44.8 yrs
189	Egypt	50.1 yrs	46.5 yrs
190	Oman	50.0 yrs	38.5 yrs
191	Bangladesh	49.9 yrs	45.7 yrs
192	India	49.6 yrs	46.5 yrs
193	Cameroon	49.5 yrs	43.1 yrs
194	Djibouti	49.1 yrs	44.4 yrs
195	Madagascar	48.9 yrs	44.6 yrs
196	Ghana	48.6 yrs	47.5 yrs
197	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	48.3 yrs	44.3 yrs
198	Haiti	48.2 yrs	42.7 yrs
199	Togo	48.1 yrs	44.3 yrs
200	United Republic of Tanzania	47.9 yrs	43.6 yrs
201	Maldives	47.5 yrs	39.6 yrs
202	Uganda	47.0 yrs	47.4 yrs
203	Comoros	47.0 yrs	41.9 yrs
204	Central African Republic	46.9 yrs	41.1 yrs
205	Côte d'Ivoire	46.4 yrs	39.3 yrs
206	Somalia	46.2 yrs	44.2 yrs
207	Rwanda	45.9 yrs	44.0 yrs
208	Algeria	45.1 yrs	43.1 yrs
209	Lao People's Democratic Republic	44.7 yrs	41.5 yrs
210	Equatorial Guinea	44.7 yrs	43.5 yrs
211	Nepal	44.5 yrs	39.6 yrs
212	Benin	44.4 yrs	40.1 yrs
213	Western Sahara	44.2 yrs	39.8 yrs
214	Democratic Republic of the Congo	44.1 yrs	40.6 yrs
215	Yemen	43.6 yrs	33.4 yrs
216	Bhutan	43.1 yrs	37.4 yrs
217	Mozambique	42.7 yrs	42.0 yrs
218	Senegal	42.4 yrs	39.7 yrs
219	Chad	42.4 yrs	39.9 yrs
220	Nigeria	41.8 yrs	37.8 yrs
221	Liberia	41.6 yrs	38.3 yrs
222	Ethiopia	41.1 yrs	41.0 yrs
223	Eritrea	41.1 yrs	38.8 yrs
224	Gambia	41.1 yrs	36.1 yrs
225	Burkina Faso	41.0 yrs	37.1 yrs
226	Angola	40.9 yrs	37.4 yrs
227	Sierra Leone	40.0 yrs	34.7 yrs
228	Guinea	39.9 yrs	37.2 yrs
229	Cambodia	39.1 yrs	43.6 yrs
230	Afghanistan	39.0 yrs	34.2 yrs
231	Timor-Leste	39.0 yrs	33.7 yrs
232	Malawi	38.4 yrs	35.6 yrs
233	Guinea-Bissau	38.2 yrs	35.6 yrs
234	Burundi	37.4 yrs	43.6 yrs
235	South Sudan	36.3 yrs	28.3 yrs
236	Niger	35.9 yrs	36.4 yrs
237	Mali	35.1 yrs	31.0 yrs

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