Life expectancy by country, 1975

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

◀▶1975

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1965
1	Andorra	75.6 yrs	73.9 yrs
2	Iceland	75.3 yrs	73.8 yrs
3	San Marino	75.3 yrs	73.7 yrs
4	Faroe Islands	75.3 yrs	74.0 yrs
5	Sweden	75.0 yrs	73.9 yrs
6	Switzerland	74.8 yrs	72.3 yrs
7	Norway	74.8 yrs	73.7 yrs
8	Netherlands	74.5 yrs	73.6 yrs
9	Japan	74.4 yrs	70.3 yrs
10	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	74.3 yrs	69.2 yrs
11	Liechtenstein	74.3 yrs	71.2 yrs
12	Denmark	74.1 yrs	72.4 yrs
13	Guernsey	73.6 yrs	72.2 yrs
14	Canada	73.5 yrs	71.8 yrs
15	Greece	73.5 yrs	71.5 yrs
16	Spain	73.5 yrs	70.9 yrs
17	Monaco	73.5 yrs	72.9 yrs
18	Gibraltar	73.3 yrs	70.8 yrs
19	France	72.9 yrs	71.1 yrs
20	Australia	72.8 yrs	70.8 yrs
21	China, Hong Kong SAR	72.8 yrs	68.9 yrs
22	United Kingdom	72.7 yrs	71.5 yrs
23	Italy	72.7 yrs	70.3 yrs
24	Holy See	72.6 yrs	70.1 yrs
25	United States of America	72.5 yrs	70.3 yrs
26	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	72.3 yrs	68.0 yrs
27	New Zealand	72.2 yrs	71.2 yrs
28	Malta	72.1 yrs	69.5 yrs
29	Saint Martin (French part)	72.0 yrs	69.0 yrs
30	Puerto Rico	72.0 yrs	69.3 yrs
31	Belgium	72.0 yrs	70.6 yrs
32	Jersey	71.9 yrs	71.3 yrs
33	Montenegro	71.9 yrs	68.1 yrs
34	Finland	71.8 yrs	69.1 yrs
35	Ireland	71.7 yrs	70.6 yrs
36	Israel	71.6 yrs	70.5 yrs
37	Serbia	71.6 yrs	68.7 yrs
38	Antigua and Barbuda	71.5 yrs	66.2 yrs
39	Germany	71.5 yrs	70.6 yrs
40	Belarus	71.4 yrs	71.6 yrs
41	Austria	71.3 yrs	69.9 yrs
42	Bermuda	71.2 yrs	67.6 yrs
43	China, Macao SAR	71.2 yrs	66.3 yrs
44	Slovenia	71.1 yrs	68.7 yrs
45	Lithuania	71.1 yrs	71.7 yrs
46	Croatia	71.0 yrs	68.5 yrs
47	Bulgaria	71.0 yrs	71.3 yrs
48	China, Taiwan Province of China	70.9 yrs	65.7 yrs
49	Poland	70.6 yrs	69.4 yrs
50	Czechia	70.5 yrs	70.3 yrs
51	Ukraine	70.4 yrs	71.1 yrs
52	Cuba	70.4 yrs	65.6 yrs
53	Cyprus	70.3 yrs	66.1 yrs
54	Costa Rica	70.3 yrs	64.8 yrs
55	Slovakia	70.3 yrs	70.3 yrs
56	Luxembourg	70.3 yrs	69.2 yrs
57	Singapore	70.2 yrs	66.9 yrs
58	Estonia	70.1 yrs	70.7 yrs
59	Barbados	69.8 yrs	67.2 yrs
60	Uruguay	69.7 yrs	68.2 yrs
61	Curaçao	69.7 yrs	66.9 yrs
62	Kuwait	69.7 yrs	63.9 yrs
63	Aruba	69.6 yrs	65.6 yrs
64	Romania	69.6 yrs	68.4 yrs
65	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	69.5 yrs	66.9 yrs
66	Hungary	69.4 yrs	69.2 yrs
67	Latvia	69.3 yrs	71.2 yrs
68	Saint Helena	69.1 yrs	68.2 yrs
69	Dominica	69.1 yrs	63.9 yrs
70	Martinique	69.0 yrs	64.2 yrs
71	Saint Barthélemy	68.9 yrs	62.0 yrs
72	Portugal	68.8 yrs	66.1 yrs
73	Bahrain	68.3 yrs	58.4 yrs
74	Bosnia and Herzegovina	68.3 yrs	62.2 yrs
75	Russian Federation	68.3 yrs	69.3 yrs
76	American Samoa	68.3 yrs	66.0 yrs
77	Jamaica	68.2 yrs	65.7 yrs
78	Albania	68.1 yrs	61.3 yrs
79	Bahamas	68.1 yrs	64.3 yrs
80	British Virgin Islands	68.1 yrs	65.2 yrs
81	Guam	68.0 yrs	64.4 yrs
82	Grenada	68.0 yrs	64.8 yrs
83	Montserrat	67.8 yrs	62.3 yrs
84	Qatar	67.7 yrs	61.4 yrs
85	United States Virgin Islands	67.6 yrs	64.8 yrs
86	North Macedonia	67.3 yrs	62.6 yrs
87	Guadeloupe	67.2 yrs	63.2 yrs
88	Panama	67.2 yrs	62.3 yrs
89	Anguilla	67.1 yrs	62.9 yrs
90	Argentina	67.0 yrs	65.0 yrs
91	Cayman Islands	67.0 yrs	62.2 yrs
92	Brunei Darussalam	67.0 yrs	61.7 yrs
93	Mayotte	67.0 yrs	59.2 yrs
94	Seychelles	66.8 yrs	61.4 yrs
95	Isle of Man	66.8 yrs	64.9 yrs
96	Northern Mariana Islands	66.8 yrs	63.0 yrs
97	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	66.7 yrs	61.9 yrs
98	Georgia	66.5 yrs	63.1 yrs
99	Niue	66.1 yrs	62.1 yrs
100	Chile	66.0 yrs	59.5 yrs
101	Réunion	66.0 yrs	61.0 yrs
102	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	65.9 yrs	61.6 yrs
103	Saint Lucia	65.9 yrs	61.9 yrs
104	Cook Islands	65.8 yrs	58.8 yrs
105	Trinidad and Tobago	65.7 yrs	64.2 yrs
106	Malaysia	65.7 yrs	61.1 yrs
107	Sri Lanka	65.4 yrs	62.8 yrs
108	Belize	65.4 yrs	60.4 yrs
109	Turks and Caicos Islands	65.2 yrs	59.8 yrs
110	United Arab Emirates	65.1 yrs	55.5 yrs
111	Tonga	65.1 yrs	60.7 yrs
112	French Guiana	65.0 yrs	60.5 yrs
113	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	64.8 yrs	58.8 yrs
114	Republic of Korea	64.7 yrs	55.8 yrs
115	Mauritius	64.4 yrs	62.1 yrs
116	French Polynesia	64.3 yrs	61.1 yrs
117	Syrian Arab Republic	64.2 yrs	56.9 yrs
118	Jordan	64.2 yrs	57.3 yrs
119	Colombia	64.0 yrs	59.3 yrs
120	Armenia	63.9 yrs	61.2 yrs
121	Republic of Moldova	63.7 yrs	61.3 yrs
122	Tokelau	63.5 yrs	60.5 yrs
123	Paraguay	63.4 yrs	61.6 yrs
124	Saint Kitts and Nevis	63.2 yrs	59.6 yrs
125	New Caledonia	63.2 yrs	56.1 yrs
126	Samoa	62.8 yrs	57.9 yrs
127	Viet Nam	61.9 yrs	57.0 yrs
128	Mexico	61.9 yrs	56.7 yrs
129	Greenland	61.8 yrs	61.2 yrs
130	Fiji	61.7 yrs	61.4 yrs
131	Uzbekistan	61.6 yrs	58.3 yrs
132	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	61.6 yrs	57.2 yrs
133	Libya	61.6 yrs	49.3 yrs
134	Iraq	61.4 yrs	56.4 yrs
135	Dominican Republic	61.3 yrs	52.8 yrs
136	Ecuador	61.1 yrs	56.5 yrs
137	Kazakhstan	61.1 yrs	59.0 yrs
138	China	61.0 yrs	53.0 yrs
139	Philippines	60.9 yrs	60.4 yrs
140	Guyana	60.4 yrs	59.1 yrs
141	Marshall Islands	60.3 yrs	56.8 yrs
142	Suriname	60.0 yrs	59.1 yrs
143	Palau	60.0 yrs	55.9 yrs
144	Kyrgyzstan	59.8 yrs	56.6 yrs
145	Thailand	59.7 yrs	53.1 yrs
146	Brazil	59.6 yrs	55.2 yrs
147	Türkiye	59.5 yrs	54.1 yrs
148	Botswana	59.5 yrs	53.9 yrs
149	Tunisia	59.3 yrs	48.2 yrs
150	Cabo Verde	59.0 yrs	53.0 yrs
151	Azerbaijan	58.7 yrs	53.9 yrs
152	State of Palestine	58.7 yrs	52.2 yrs
153	Sao Tome and Principe	58.6 yrs	51.1 yrs
154	Solomon Islands	58.4 yrs	51.4 yrs
155	Zimbabwe	58.3 yrs	55.9 yrs
156	Tuvalu	58.3 yrs	52.1 yrs
157	Nauru	58.3 yrs	58.3 yrs
158	Peru	58.2 yrs	53.9 yrs
159	Vanuatu	58.1 yrs	52.5 yrs
160	Tajikistan	57.9 yrs	54.6 yrs
161	Saudi Arabia	57.8 yrs	48.4 yrs
162	Lebanon	57.7 yrs	65.3 yrs
163	South Africa	57.6 yrs	54.4 yrs
164	Namibia	57.5 yrs	52.0 yrs
165	Honduras	57.5 yrs	50.9 yrs
166	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	57.3 yrs	52.0 yrs
167	Turkmenistan	57.2 yrs	54.0 yrs
168	Kenya	56.6 yrs	51.9 yrs
169	Kiribati	56.4 yrs	51.0 yrs
170	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	56.2 yrs	54.5 yrs
171	Indonesia	56.0 yrs	42.8 yrs
172	Nicaragua	55.8 yrs	50.6 yrs
173	Zambia	55.7 yrs	52.1 yrs
174	Wallis and Futuna Islands	55.5 yrs	49.6 yrs
175	Gabon	55.5 yrs	49.7 yrs
176	Congo	55.4 yrs	51.0 yrs
177	Papua New Guinea	55.0 yrs	48.9 yrs
178	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	54.8 yrs	46.4 yrs
179	Pakistan	54.7 yrs	48.5 yrs
180	Eswatini	54.4 yrs	48.4 yrs
181	Mongolia	54.3 yrs	48.7 yrs
182	Lesotho	53.5 yrs	50.3 yrs
183	El Salvador	53.4 yrs	50.2 yrs
184	Sudan	53.3 yrs	51.0 yrs
185	Guatemala	52.8 yrs	47.2 yrs
186	Oman	52.5 yrs	40.8 yrs
187	Myanmar	52.5 yrs	47.4 yrs
188	Egypt	51.7 yrs	47.6 yrs
189	Mauritania	51.6 yrs	47.4 yrs
190	Morocco	51.4 yrs	45.9 yrs
191	India	50.8 yrs	45.6 yrs
192	Bangladesh	50.6 yrs	46.0 yrs
193	Cameroon	49.9 yrs	44.2 yrs
194	Djibouti	49.9 yrs	45.2 yrs
195	Madagascar	49.6 yrs	45.5 yrs
196	Maldives	49.6 yrs	40.8 yrs
197	Ghana	49.3 yrs	47.7 yrs
198	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	49.3 yrs	45.1 yrs
199	Togo	49.0 yrs	44.9 yrs
200	United Republic of Tanzania	48.9 yrs	44.5 yrs
201	Haiti	48.7 yrs	45.4 yrs
202	Côte d'Ivoire	48.0 yrs	40.6 yrs
203	Central African Republic	47.9 yrs	42.2 yrs
204	Algeria	46.9 yrs	42.9 yrs
205	Comoros	46.9 yrs	42.7 yrs
206	Uganda	46.5 yrs	48.3 yrs
207	Lao People's Democratic Republic	46.1 yrs	42.2 yrs
208	Yemen	45.5 yrs	35.6 yrs
209	Nepal	45.5 yrs	40.7 yrs
210	Benin	45.4 yrs	41.0 yrs
211	Rwanda	45.3 yrs	48.2 yrs
212	Democratic Republic of the Congo	44.5 yrs	40.8 yrs
213	Somalia	44.5 yrs	44.6 yrs
214	Bhutan	44.5 yrs	38.3 yrs
215	Senegal	43.9 yrs	39.8 yrs
216	Mozambique	43.8 yrs	41.8 yrs
217	Burundi	43.5 yrs	41.8 yrs
218	Nigeria	43.0 yrs	38.2 yrs
219	Chad	42.7 yrs	40.0 yrs
220	Burkina Faso	42.5 yrs	37.8 yrs
221	Liberia	42.5 yrs	38.7 yrs
222	Gambia	42.2 yrs	37.1 yrs
223	Guinea-Bissau	41.9 yrs	35.9 yrs
224	Sierra Leone	41.0 yrs	35.9 yrs
225	Angola	40.8 yrs	38.0 yrs
226	Guinea	40.6 yrs	37.6 yrs
227	Malawi	40.1 yrs	35.7 yrs
228	Afghanistan	40.0 yrs	35.1 yrs
229	Eritrea	39.0 yrs	39.6 yrs
230	Ethiopia	38.9 yrs	41.4 yrs
231	Equatorial Guinea	37.3 yrs	44.1 yrs
232	South Sudan	36.9 yrs	28.8 yrs
233	Niger	36.6 yrs	36.4 yrs
234	Mali	36.5 yrs	31.5 yrs
235	Western Sahara	36.0 yrs	40.6 yrs
236	Timor-Leste	24.3 yrs	34.6 yrs
237	Cambodia	12.8 yrs	44.5 yrs

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