Life expectancy by country, 1976

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

◀▶1976

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1966
1	Iceland	76.6 yrs	73.1 yrs
2	Andorra	75.9 yrs	74.0 yrs
3	San Marino	75.4 yrs	73.8 yrs
4	Faroe Islands	75.4 yrs	74.2 yrs
5	Sweden	75.0 yrs	74.1 yrs
6	Norway	75.0 yrs	74.0 yrs
7	Switzerland	74.9 yrs	72.5 yrs
8	Japan	74.8 yrs	71.1 yrs
9	Netherlands	74.7 yrs	73.5 yrs
10	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	74.7 yrs	70.1 yrs
11	Liechtenstein	74.6 yrs	71.6 yrs
12	Canada	73.9 yrs	71.9 yrs
13	Greece	73.8 yrs	71.9 yrs
14	Spain	73.8 yrs	71.2 yrs
15	Denmark	73.8 yrs	72.5 yrs
16	Monaco	73.8 yrs	73.0 yrs
17	Guernsey	73.6 yrs	73.7 yrs
18	Gibraltar	73.4 yrs	71.2 yrs
19	Italy	73.1 yrs	71.0 yrs
20	France	73.1 yrs	71.5 yrs
21	China, Hong Kong SAR	73.0 yrs	69.3 yrs
22	Holy See	72.9 yrs	70.9 yrs
23	United States of America	72.8 yrs	70.2 yrs
24	Australia	72.8 yrs	70.7 yrs
25	Israel	72.7 yrs	70.9 yrs
26	United Kingdom	72.6 yrs	71.4 yrs
27	New Zealand	72.4 yrs	71.1 yrs
28	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	72.3 yrs	68.5 yrs
29	Malta	72.2 yrs	69.7 yrs
30	Saint Martin (French part)	72.1 yrs	69.4 yrs
31	Puerto Rico	72.1 yrs	70.2 yrs
32	Belgium	72.1 yrs	70.6 yrs
33	Montenegro	72.1 yrs	68.6 yrs
34	Jersey	72.0 yrs	71.3 yrs
35	Germany	72.0 yrs	70.7 yrs
36	Finland	72.0 yrs	69.6 yrs
37	Serbia	71.9 yrs	69.4 yrs
38	China, Macao SAR	71.9 yrs	66.8 yrs
39	Ireland	71.8 yrs	70.2 yrs
40	Antigua and Barbuda	71.8 yrs	66.9 yrs
41	Austria	71.8 yrs	70.2 yrs
42	Croatia	71.4 yrs	68.9 yrs
43	Bulgaria	71.4 yrs	71.2 yrs
44	Bermuda	71.3 yrs	67.7 yrs
45	Belarus	71.2 yrs	71.8 yrs
46	Lithuania	71.2 yrs	71.9 yrs
47	China, Taiwan Province of China	71.2 yrs	66.1 yrs
48	Slovenia	71.1 yrs	68.9 yrs
49	Costa Rica	71.0 yrs	65.1 yrs
50	Cuba	70.9 yrs	66.1 yrs
51	Cyprus	70.8 yrs	66.5 yrs
52	Singapore	70.6 yrs	67.2 yrs
53	Czechia	70.6 yrs	70.5 yrs
54	Slovakia	70.5 yrs	70.4 yrs
55	Poland	70.4 yrs	69.7 yrs
56	Luxembourg	70.2 yrs	68.9 yrs
57	Ukraine	70.1 yrs	71.2 yrs
58	Barbados	70.1 yrs	67.7 yrs
59	Curaçao	70.0 yrs	67.1 yrs
60	Uruguay	69.9 yrs	68.3 yrs
61	Kuwait	69.9 yrs	64.9 yrs
62	Romania	69.9 yrs	68.2 yrs
63	Aruba	69.8 yrs	66.1 yrs
64	Estonia	69.7 yrs	70.7 yrs
65	Saint Barthélemy	69.7 yrs	62.1 yrs
66	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	69.7 yrs	66.9 yrs
67	Hungary	69.7 yrs	69.9 yrs
68	Martinique	69.7 yrs	64.5 yrs
69	Dominica	69.4 yrs	64.5 yrs
70	Latvia	69.4 yrs	71.2 yrs
71	Saint Helena	69.3 yrs	68.4 yrs
72	Portugal	69.1 yrs	65.6 yrs
73	Bahrain	68.9 yrs	59.7 yrs
74	Albania	68.6 yrs	62.1 yrs
75	Bosnia and Herzegovina	68.6 yrs	63.1 yrs
76	Bahamas	68.5 yrs	64.6 yrs
77	American Samoa	68.5 yrs	58.3 yrs
78	Jamaica	68.4 yrs	65.9 yrs
79	British Virgin Islands	68.4 yrs	65.5 yrs
80	Guam	68.3 yrs	64.6 yrs
81	Qatar	68.2 yrs	62.2 yrs
82	Montserrat	68.2 yrs	62.9 yrs
83	Russian Federation	68.1 yrs	69.4 yrs
84	Grenada	68.0 yrs	65.7 yrs
85	North Macedonia	67.9 yrs	63.5 yrs
86	Guadeloupe	67.8 yrs	63.1 yrs
87	Panama	67.8 yrs	62.6 yrs
88	United States Virgin Islands	67.8 yrs	63.7 yrs
89	Mayotte	67.6 yrs	60.1 yrs
90	Cayman Islands	67.5 yrs	62.8 yrs
91	Anguilla	67.4 yrs	63.4 yrs
92	Brunei Darussalam	67.4 yrs	62.4 yrs
93	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	67.3 yrs	62.9 yrs
94	Northern Mariana Islands	67.3 yrs	63.3 yrs
95	Seychelles	67.2 yrs	61.7 yrs
96	Argentina	67.0 yrs	65.4 yrs
97	Isle of Man	67.0 yrs	65.2 yrs
98	Georgia	66.9 yrs	63.4 yrs
99	Chile	66.8 yrs	60.4 yrs
100	Réunion	66.7 yrs	61.4 yrs
101	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	66.5 yrs	62.1 yrs
102	Niue	66.5 yrs	62.6 yrs
103	Saint Lucia	66.2 yrs	62.5 yrs
104	Malaysia	66.2 yrs	61.7 yrs
105	Trinidad and Tobago	66.0 yrs	64.3 yrs
106	United Arab Emirates	65.8 yrs	56.6 yrs
107	Sri Lanka	65.8 yrs	63.2 yrs
108	Belize	65.8 yrs	60.9 yrs
109	Turks and Caicos Islands	65.6 yrs	60.4 yrs
110	Cook Islands	65.5 yrs	59.8 yrs
111	Tonga	65.4 yrs	61.2 yrs
112	French Guiana	65.3 yrs	61.3 yrs
113	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	65.3 yrs	59.4 yrs
114	Republic of Korea	65.0 yrs	55.4 yrs
115	Syrian Arab Republic	64.8 yrs	57.5 yrs
116	French Polynesia	64.8 yrs	61.4 yrs
117	Jordan	64.7 yrs	57.8 yrs
118	Colombia	64.6 yrs	59.7 yrs
119	Armenia	64.1 yrs	61.5 yrs
120	Mauritius	64.0 yrs	62.1 yrs
121	Republic of Moldova	64.0 yrs	61.5 yrs
122	New Caledonia	63.8 yrs	56.9 yrs
123	Tokelau	63.7 yrs	60.9 yrs
124	Viet Nam	63.7 yrs	56.9 yrs
125	Iraq	63.6 yrs	57.3 yrs
126	Paraguay	63.6 yrs	61.8 yrs
127	Saint Kitts and Nevis	63.5 yrs	60.1 yrs
128	Samoa	63.3 yrs	58.2 yrs
129	Mexico	62.5 yrs	57.4 yrs
130	Libya	62.5 yrs	51.0 yrs
131	Fiji	62.1 yrs	61.6 yrs
132	Uzbekistan	61.9 yrs	58.6 yrs
133	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	61.9 yrs	57.8 yrs
134	Greenland	61.7 yrs	61.6 yrs
135	Dominican Republic	61.7 yrs	56.0 yrs
136	Ecuador	61.4 yrs	57.0 yrs
137	Kazakhstan	61.3 yrs	59.3 yrs
138	China	61.2 yrs	53.7 yrs
139	Solomon Islands	61.1 yrs	52.3 yrs
140	Philippines	60.9 yrs	60.6 yrs
141	Guyana	60.5 yrs	59.3 yrs
142	Palau	60.5 yrs	56.2 yrs
143	Thailand	60.4 yrs	53.7 yrs
144	Marshall Islands	60.4 yrs	57.3 yrs
145	Tunisia	60.3 yrs	49.2 yrs
146	Botswana	60.2 yrs	54.4 yrs
147	Kyrgyzstan	60.1 yrs	57.0 yrs
148	Suriname	60.1 yrs	59.2 yrs
149	Türkiye	60.0 yrs	54.6 yrs
150	Brazil	60.0 yrs	55.6 yrs
151	Azerbaijan	59.5 yrs	54.5 yrs
152	Cabo Verde	59.4 yrs	53.9 yrs
153	State of Palestine	59.4 yrs	52.8 yrs
154	Saudi Arabia	58.8 yrs	49.2 yrs
155	Sao Tome and Principe	58.8 yrs	52.3 yrs
156	Tuvalu	58.8 yrs	52.8 yrs
157	Vanuatu	58.7 yrs	53.1 yrs
158	Peru	58.6 yrs	54.4 yrs
159	Nauru	58.2 yrs	58.4 yrs
160	Tajikistan	58.1 yrs	55.1 yrs
161	Honduras	58.1 yrs	51.6 yrs
162	Namibia	58.0 yrs	52.3 yrs
163	South Africa	58.0 yrs	54.7 yrs
164	Zimbabwe	57.6 yrs	56.4 yrs
165	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	57.5 yrs	52.5 yrs
166	Turkmenistan	57.5 yrs	54.4 yrs
167	Kenya	57.1 yrs	52.4 yrs
168	Kiribati	56.6 yrs	51.7 yrs
169	Indonesia	56.5 yrs	48.4 yrs
170	Wallis and Futuna Islands	56.2 yrs	50.0 yrs
171	Zambia	56.1 yrs	52.3 yrs
172	Nicaragua	56.1 yrs	51.6 yrs
173	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	56.1 yrs	54.7 yrs
174	Gabon	56.0 yrs	50.3 yrs
175	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	55.8 yrs	47.1 yrs
176	Congo	55.7 yrs	51.6 yrs
177	Papua New Guinea	55.5 yrs	49.6 yrs
178	Eswatini	55.2 yrs	49.0 yrs
179	Pakistan	55.1 yrs	49.8 yrs
180	Mongolia	54.6 yrs	49.4 yrs
181	Oman	54.5 yrs	42.0 yrs
182	El Salvador	54.4 yrs	50.7 yrs
183	Lesotho	53.9 yrs	50.4 yrs
184	Sudan	53.3 yrs	51.3 yrs
185	Myanmar	52.9 yrs	48.2 yrs
186	Egypt	52.5 yrs	48.0 yrs
187	Morocco	52.0 yrs	46.5 yrs
188	Mauritania	51.8 yrs	48.1 yrs
189	India	51.3 yrs	45.9 yrs
190	Bangladesh	51.0 yrs	47.6 yrs
191	Maldives	50.8 yrs	41.4 yrs
192	Djibouti	50.3 yrs	45.6 yrs
193	Cameroon	50.0 yrs	44.8 yrs
194	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	50.0 yrs	45.5 yrs
195	Madagascar	49.8 yrs	46.0 yrs
196	Ghana	49.7 yrs	47.7 yrs
197	United Republic of Tanzania	49.5 yrs	44.9 yrs
198	Togo	49.5 yrs	45.2 yrs
199	Haiti	49.0 yrs	45.6 yrs
200	Côte d'Ivoire	48.9 yrs	41.3 yrs
201	Comoros	48.6 yrs	43.1 yrs
202	Central African Republic	48.4 yrs	42.8 yrs
203	Algeria	48.0 yrs	42.8 yrs
204	Guatemala	47.6 yrs	47.5 yrs
205	Yemen	46.4 yrs	36.3 yrs
206	Uganda	46.2 yrs	48.5 yrs
207	Nepal	46.0 yrs	41.2 yrs
208	Benin	46.0 yrs	41.3 yrs
209	Lao People's Democratic Republic	46.0 yrs	42.4 yrs
210	Rwanda	45.3 yrs	48.1 yrs
211	Bhutan	45.2 yrs	38.8 yrs
212	Senegal	44.8 yrs	39.9 yrs
213	Democratic Republic of the Congo	44.7 yrs	42.2 yrs
214	Somalia	44.7 yrs	44.8 yrs
215	Nigeria	44.2 yrs	38.4 yrs
216	Mozambique	43.9 yrs	41.8 yrs
217	Burundi	43.7 yrs	43.5 yrs
218	Burkina Faso	43.3 yrs	38.1 yrs
219	Gambia	42.9 yrs	37.6 yrs
220	Liberia	42.9 yrs	39.0 yrs
221	Chad	42.7 yrs	40.1 yrs
222	Eritrea	42.6 yrs	37.6 yrs
223	Guinea-Bissau	42.3 yrs	36.1 yrs
224	Sierra Leone	41.4 yrs	36.6 yrs
225	Ethiopia	41.3 yrs	39.3 yrs
226	Guinea	41.0 yrs	38.0 yrs
227	Malawi	41.0 yrs	35.8 yrs
228	Angola	40.8 yrs	38.3 yrs
229	Afghanistan	40.5 yrs	35.6 yrs
230	Mali	37.2 yrs	31.8 yrs
231	Niger	37.1 yrs	36.3 yrs
232	South Sudan	37.1 yrs	25.6 yrs
233	Lebanon	36.4 yrs	65.5 yrs
234	Western Sahara	36.3 yrs	41.0 yrs
235	Equatorial Guinea	30.5 yrs	44.3 yrs
236	Timor-Leste	25.9 yrs	35.2 yrs
237	Cambodia	11.6 yrs	45.0 yrs

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