Life expectancy by country, 1977

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

◀▶1977

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1967
1	Andorra	76.2 yrs	74.1 yrs
2	Iceland	76.1 yrs	73.7 yrs
3	San Marino	75.6 yrs	74.0 yrs
4	Faroe Islands	75.5 yrs	74.3 yrs
5	Switzerland	75.4 yrs	72.7 yrs
6	Sweden	75.4 yrs	74.2 yrs
7	Norway	75.4 yrs	74.1 yrs
8	Netherlands	75.3 yrs	73.8 yrs
9	Japan	75.3 yrs	71.4 yrs
10	Liechtenstein	74.8 yrs	72.0 yrs
11	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	74.7 yrs	71.3 yrs
12	Denmark	74.7 yrs	73.0 yrs
13	Spain	74.3 yrs	71.3 yrs
14	Canada	74.2 yrs	72.1 yrs
15	Monaco	74.2 yrs	73.1 yrs
16	Guernsey	74.1 yrs	73.4 yrs
17	Greece	73.8 yrs	71.4 yrs
18	France	73.7 yrs	71.5 yrs
19	Australia	73.5 yrs	71.0 yrs
20	Gibraltar	73.5 yrs	71.5 yrs
21	Italy	73.4 yrs	71.0 yrs
22	Holy See	73.3 yrs	70.9 yrs
23	China, Hong Kong SAR	73.3 yrs	69.9 yrs
24	United States of America	73.2 yrs	70.5 yrs
25	United Kingdom	73.1 yrs	72.1 yrs
26	Belgium	72.8 yrs	70.9 yrs
27	Israel	72.7 yrs	70.9 yrs
28	Germany	72.6 yrs	71.0 yrs
29	Finland	72.5 yrs	69.8 yrs
30	Puerto Rico	72.4 yrs	70.7 yrs
31	Malta	72.3 yrs	69.8 yrs
32	Antigua and Barbuda	72.2 yrs	67.6 yrs
33	Saint Martin (French part)	72.2 yrs	69.8 yrs
34	Austria	72.1 yrs	70.1 yrs
35	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	72.1 yrs	69.0 yrs
36	New Zealand	72.1 yrs	71.4 yrs
37	Jersey	72.0 yrs	71.2 yrs
38	Ireland	71.9 yrs	71.2 yrs
39	Serbia	71.8 yrs	70.1 yrs
40	Montenegro	71.8 yrs	69.3 yrs
41	China, Macao SAR	71.8 yrs	67.4 yrs
42	Bermuda	71.6 yrs	67.8 yrs
43	Costa Rica	71.5 yrs	65.5 yrs
44	Luxembourg	71.5 yrs	69.5 yrs
45	Cuba	71.4 yrs	66.5 yrs
46	Croatia	71.4 yrs	69.0 yrs
47	Cyprus	71.3 yrs	66.9 yrs
48	Slovenia	71.3 yrs	69.0 yrs
49	China, Taiwan Province of China	71.3 yrs	66.7 yrs
50	Belarus	71.1 yrs	71.9 yrs
51	Lithuania	71.1 yrs	72.0 yrs
52	Singapore	70.9 yrs	67.3 yrs
53	Bulgaria	70.8 yrs	70.4 yrs
54	Czechia	70.6 yrs	70.3 yrs
55	Barbados	70.6 yrs	67.9 yrs
56	Saint Barthélemy	70.4 yrs	62.5 yrs
57	Slovakia	70.4 yrs	71.0 yrs
58	Poland	70.3 yrs	69.9 yrs
59	Portugal	70.3 yrs	66.5 yrs
60	Martinique	70.3 yrs	65.1 yrs
61	Curaçao	70.2 yrs	67.4 yrs
62	Kuwait	70.2 yrs	65.8 yrs
63	Uruguay	70.1 yrs	68.4 yrs
64	Aruba	70.0 yrs	66.4 yrs
65	Ukraine	70.0 yrs	71.1 yrs
66	Hungary	69.9 yrs	69.5 yrs
67	Estonia	69.8 yrs	71.0 yrs
68	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	69.8 yrs	66.9 yrs
69	Dominica	69.7 yrs	64.9 yrs
70	Latvia	69.5 yrs	70.9 yrs
71	Romania	69.5 yrs	68.1 yrs
72	Saint Helena	69.4 yrs	68.4 yrs
73	Bahrain	69.4 yrs	61.0 yrs
74	Albania	69.0 yrs	63.0 yrs
75	Guam	69.0 yrs	64.9 yrs
76	Bahamas	68.8 yrs	65.0 yrs
77	Bosnia and Herzegovina	68.8 yrs	63.7 yrs
78	British Virgin Islands	68.7 yrs	65.9 yrs
79	American Samoa	68.7 yrs	65.8 yrs
80	Qatar	68.6 yrs	62.9 yrs
81	Jamaica	68.6 yrs	66.1 yrs
82	Montserrat	68.6 yrs	63.5 yrs
83	Guadeloupe	68.5 yrs	63.4 yrs
84	Panama	68.3 yrs	62.9 yrs
85	Mayotte	68.2 yrs	61.0 yrs
86	North Macedonia	68.2 yrs	63.8 yrs
87	Cayman Islands	68.1 yrs	63.2 yrs
88	United States Virgin Islands	68.1 yrs	64.5 yrs
89	Grenada	67.9 yrs	66.5 yrs
90	Russian Federation	67.9 yrs	69.2 yrs
91	Anguilla	67.8 yrs	63.7 yrs
92	Brunei Darussalam	67.8 yrs	62.9 yrs
93	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	67.7 yrs	63.5 yrs
94	Northern Mariana Islands	67.7 yrs	63.7 yrs
95	Argentina	67.6 yrs	65.5 yrs
96	Seychelles	67.6 yrs	62.1 yrs
97	Chile	67.5 yrs	61.0 yrs
98	Isle of Man	67.4 yrs	65.4 yrs
99	Réunion	67.4 yrs	62.1 yrs
100	Georgia	67.3 yrs	63.8 yrs
101	Saint Lucia	67.0 yrs	63.2 yrs
102	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	66.9 yrs	62.5 yrs
103	Niue	66.8 yrs	63.1 yrs
104	Malaysia	66.7 yrs	62.0 yrs
105	United Arab Emirates	66.5 yrs	57.6 yrs
106	Sri Lanka	66.4 yrs	63.6 yrs
107	Trinidad and Tobago	66.2 yrs	64.5 yrs
108	Belize	66.1 yrs	61.4 yrs
109	Turks and Caicos Islands	66.0 yrs	61.0 yrs
110	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	65.8 yrs	60.1 yrs
111	Tonga	65.6 yrs	61.7 yrs
112	French Guiana	65.5 yrs	61.9 yrs
113	Syrian Arab Republic	65.4 yrs	58.0 yrs
114	Cook Islands	65.3 yrs	60.6 yrs
115	French Polynesia	65.3 yrs	61.6 yrs
116	Colombia	65.2 yrs	60.1 yrs
117	Jordan	65.1 yrs	59.0 yrs
118	Mauritius	64.8 yrs	61.7 yrs
119	Republic of Korea	64.6 yrs	60.9 yrs
120	Armenia	64.4 yrs	61.9 yrs
121	New Caledonia	64.2 yrs	57.7 yrs
122	Republic of Moldova	64.2 yrs	61.8 yrs
123	Viet Nam	64.1 yrs	56.7 yrs
124	Tokelau	64.0 yrs	61.3 yrs
125	Iraq	63.9 yrs	58.4 yrs
126	Paraguay	63.9 yrs	62.0 yrs
127	Samoa	63.7 yrs	58.9 yrs
128	Saint Kitts and Nevis	63.7 yrs	60.5 yrs
129	Libya	63.1 yrs	52.5 yrs
130	Mexico	63.0 yrs	58.0 yrs
131	Fiji	62.7 yrs	61.4 yrs
132	China	62.5 yrs	54.4 yrs
133	Uzbekistan	62.2 yrs	59.0 yrs
134	Dominican Republic	62.2 yrs	56.6 yrs
135	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	62.1 yrs	58.3 yrs
136	Ecuador	61.9 yrs	57.5 yrs
137	Greenland	61.6 yrs	62.2 yrs
138	Kazakhstan	61.5 yrs	59.5 yrs
139	Solomon Islands	61.5 yrs	53.1 yrs
140	Philippines	61.4 yrs	60.8 yrs
141	Tunisia	61.3 yrs	50.2 yrs
142	Thailand	60.9 yrs	54.3 yrs
143	Türkiye	60.9 yrs	55.2 yrs
144	Palau	60.9 yrs	56.5 yrs
145	Botswana	60.9 yrs	54.9 yrs
146	Guyana	60.6 yrs	59.5 yrs
147	Marshall Islands	60.6 yrs	57.8 yrs
148	Brazil	60.5 yrs	56.0 yrs
149	Kyrgyzstan	60.4 yrs	57.3 yrs
150	Suriname	60.3 yrs	59.2 yrs
151	Lebanon	60.3 yrs	65.7 yrs
152	State of Palestine	60.1 yrs	50.9 yrs
153	Azerbaijan	60.0 yrs	55.0 yrs
154	Cabo Verde	60.0 yrs	54.7 yrs
155	Saudi Arabia	59.8 yrs	50.0 yrs
156	Vanuatu	59.3 yrs	53.7 yrs
157	Tuvalu	59.2 yrs	53.5 yrs
158	Sao Tome and Principe	59.0 yrs	53.5 yrs
159	Peru	58.9 yrs	54.9 yrs
160	Honduras	58.7 yrs	52.3 yrs
161	Namibia	58.6 yrs	52.9 yrs
162	South Africa	58.5 yrs	55.0 yrs
163	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	58.4 yrs	53.0 yrs
164	Tajikistan	58.2 yrs	55.5 yrs
165	Nauru	58.1 yrs	58.6 yrs
166	Kenya	57.7 yrs	52.8 yrs
167	Turkmenistan	57.7 yrs	54.8 yrs
168	Indonesia	57.1 yrs	51.3 yrs
169	Zimbabwe	57.0 yrs	56.8 yrs
170	Wallis and Futuna Islands	56.9 yrs	50.6 yrs
171	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	56.7 yrs	47.8 yrs
172	Gabon	56.5 yrs	50.9 yrs
173	Zambia	56.3 yrs	52.5 yrs
174	Kiribati	56.1 yrs	52.5 yrs
175	Nicaragua	56.1 yrs	52.4 yrs
176	Eswatini	56.0 yrs	49.5 yrs
177	Congo	56.0 yrs	51.9 yrs
178	Papua New Guinea	56.0 yrs	50.3 yrs
179	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	55.8 yrs	54.9 yrs
180	Oman	55.5 yrs	43.2 yrs
181	Pakistan	55.5 yrs	50.8 yrs
182	Guatemala	55.2 yrs	47.7 yrs
183	Mongolia	54.8 yrs	50.1 yrs
184	Lesotho	54.5 yrs	50.5 yrs
185	El Salvador	54.0 yrs	50.8 yrs
186	Sudan	53.5 yrs	51.5 yrs
187	Egypt	53.3 yrs	48.1 yrs
188	Myanmar	53.3 yrs	48.9 yrs
189	Morocco	52.8 yrs	47.1 yrs
190	Mauritania	52.0 yrs	48.9 yrs
191	India	51.8 yrs	46.2 yrs
192	Maldives	51.8 yrs	42.1 yrs
193	Bangladesh	51.3 yrs	48.1 yrs
194	Djibouti	50.8 yrs	46.1 yrs
195	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	50.4 yrs	45.9 yrs
196	Togo	50.2 yrs	45.6 yrs
197	Ghana	50.1 yrs	47.7 yrs
198	Cameroon	50.1 yrs	45.6 yrs
199	United Republic of Tanzania	50.0 yrs	45.2 yrs
200	Madagascar	49.9 yrs	46.5 yrs
201	Côte d'Ivoire	49.6 yrs	42.0 yrs
202	Algeria	49.3 yrs	42.7 yrs
203	Comoros	49.2 yrs	43.6 yrs
204	Haiti	49.2 yrs	46.1 yrs
205	Central African Republic	48.8 yrs	43.4 yrs
206	Yemen	47.4 yrs	37.1 yrs
207	Somalia	47.0 yrs	45.0 yrs
208	Nepal	46.6 yrs	41.7 yrs
209	Benin	46.5 yrs	41.8 yrs
210	Lao People's Democratic Republic	46.4 yrs	42.9 yrs
211	Bhutan	46.0 yrs	39.4 yrs
212	Uganda	45.8 yrs	49.0 yrs
213	Senegal	45.7 yrs	40.0 yrs
214	Rwanda	45.6 yrs	48.0 yrs
215	Democratic Republic of the Congo	44.9 yrs	42.3 yrs
216	Nigeria	44.9 yrs	37.5 yrs
217	Burkina Faso	44.2 yrs	38.4 yrs
218	Burundi	44.0 yrs	43.3 yrs
219	Mozambique	43.9 yrs	42.0 yrs
220	Gambia	43.4 yrs	38.1 yrs
221	Liberia	43.2 yrs	39.3 yrs
222	Eritrea	43.0 yrs	40.1 yrs
223	Chad	42.9 yrs	40.4 yrs
224	Guinea-Bissau	42.6 yrs	36.3 yrs
225	Malawi	42.0 yrs	35.9 yrs
226	Equatorial Guinea	42.0 yrs	44.6 yrs
227	Sierra Leone	41.8 yrs	37.3 yrs
228	Ethiopia	41.4 yrs	41.9 yrs
229	Guinea	41.4 yrs	38.2 yrs
230	Angola	41.2 yrs	38.6 yrs
231	Afghanistan	41.1 yrs	36.0 yrs
232	Western Sahara	38.3 yrs	41.4 yrs
233	Mali	38.0 yrs	32.2 yrs
234	Niger	37.7 yrs	36.2 yrs
235	South Sudan	37.4 yrs	25.9 yrs
236	Timor-Leste	24.9 yrs	35.7 yrs
237	Cambodia	11.3 yrs	45.2 yrs

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