Life expectancy by country, 1978

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

◀▶1978

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1968
1	Andorra	76.5 yrs	74.2 yrs
2	Iceland	76.4 yrs	73.9 yrs
3	San Marino	75.9 yrs	74.1 yrs
4	Japan	75.7 yrs	71.7 yrs
5	Faroe Islands	75.6 yrs	74.5 yrs
6	Sweden	75.5 yrs	74.0 yrs
7	Norway	75.4 yrs	73.9 yrs
8	Switzerland	75.3 yrs	72.7 yrs
9	Netherlands	75.2 yrs	73.6 yrs
10	Monaco	74.7 yrs	73.2 yrs
11	Liechtenstein	74.7 yrs	72.3 yrs
12	Canada	74.5 yrs	72.2 yrs
13	Spain	74.5 yrs	71.7 yrs
14	Guernsey	74.4 yrs	72.4 yrs
15	Greece	74.4 yrs	71.5 yrs
16	Denmark	74.4 yrs	73.2 yrs
17	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	74.2 yrs	69.8 yrs
18	Italy	73.8 yrs	70.9 yrs
19	France	73.8 yrs	71.5 yrs
20	Australia	73.7 yrs	70.7 yrs
21	Holy See	73.7 yrs	70.7 yrs
22	China, Hong Kong SAR	73.6 yrs	70.7 yrs
23	Gibraltar	73.5 yrs	71.7 yrs
24	United States of America	73.4 yrs	70.2 yrs
25	Israel	73.1 yrs	70.8 yrs
26	Finland	73.1 yrs	69.8 yrs
27	United Kingdom	73.0 yrs	71.7 yrs
28	New Zealand	73.0 yrs	71.1 yrs
29	Belgium	72.7 yrs	70.6 yrs
30	Germany	72.6 yrs	70.6 yrs
31	Antigua and Barbuda	72.5 yrs	68.2 yrs
32	Puerto Rico	72.5 yrs	70.6 yrs
33	Malta	72.3 yrs	69.9 yrs
34	Austria	72.2 yrs	70.3 yrs
35	Saint Martin (French part)	72.2 yrs	70.2 yrs
36	China, Macao SAR	72.2 yrs	68.0 yrs
37	Jersey	72.1 yrs	71.1 yrs
38	Costa Rica	72.0 yrs	65.8 yrs
39	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	72.0 yrs	69.5 yrs
40	Bermuda	72.0 yrs	67.9 yrs
41	Ireland	71.9 yrs	70.9 yrs
42	Cuba	71.9 yrs	66.9 yrs
43	Montenegro	71.9 yrs	69.8 yrs
44	Cyprus	71.7 yrs	67.3 yrs
45	China, Taiwan Province of China	71.7 yrs	66.8 yrs
46	Slovenia	71.6 yrs	68.6 yrs
47	Luxembourg	71.5 yrs	70.0 yrs
48	Serbia	71.4 yrs	70.1 yrs
49	Croatia	71.3 yrs	68.9 yrs
50	Singapore	71.2 yrs	67.7 yrs
51	Saint Barthélemy	71.1 yrs	63.7 yrs
52	Barbados	71.1 yrs	68.2 yrs
53	Bulgaria	71.1 yrs	71.2 yrs
54	Belarus	71.0 yrs	71.9 yrs
55	Portugal	70.8 yrs	66.8 yrs
56	Martinique	70.8 yrs	65.4 yrs
57	Lithuania	70.8 yrs	71.6 yrs
58	Czechia	70.7 yrs	69.9 yrs
59	Curaçao	70.5 yrs	67.7 yrs
60	Kuwait	70.5 yrs	66.6 yrs
61	Slovakia	70.4 yrs	70.5 yrs
62	Poland	70.4 yrs	69.8 yrs
63	Aruba	70.3 yrs	66.7 yrs
64	Uruguay	70.3 yrs	68.5 yrs
65	Dominica	70.1 yrs	65.3 yrs
66	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	69.9 yrs	67.0 yrs
67	Ukraine	69.8 yrs	71.0 yrs
68	Bahrain	69.8 yrs	62.3 yrs
69	Romania	69.8 yrs	68.0 yrs
70	Estonia	69.7 yrs	70.6 yrs
71	Guam	69.6 yrs	65.2 yrs
72	Saint Helena	69.5 yrs	68.5 yrs
73	Hungary	69.5 yrs	69.3 yrs
74	Albania	69.4 yrs	63.8 yrs
75	Latvia	69.3 yrs	70.5 yrs
76	Qatar	69.1 yrs	63.6 yrs
77	British Virgin Islands	69.0 yrs	66.0 yrs
78	North Macedonia	69.0 yrs	64.6 yrs
79	Guadeloupe	68.9 yrs	63.6 yrs
80	Bahamas	68.9 yrs	65.4 yrs
81	Montserrat	68.9 yrs	64.1 yrs
82	American Samoa	68.9 yrs	65.8 yrs
83	Bosnia and Herzegovina	68.8 yrs	64.0 yrs
84	Jamaica	68.7 yrs	66.3 yrs
85	Panama	68.7 yrs	63.2 yrs
86	Mayotte	68.7 yrs	61.9 yrs
87	Cayman Islands	68.5 yrs	63.6 yrs
88	Brunei Darussalam	68.3 yrs	63.5 yrs
89	United States Virgin Islands	68.3 yrs	65.2 yrs
90	Anguilla	68.2 yrs	64.1 yrs
91	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	68.1 yrs	63.9 yrs
92	Réunion	68.1 yrs	62.4 yrs
93	Argentina	68.0 yrs	65.2 yrs
94	Chile	68.0 yrs	61.7 yrs
95	Grenada	67.9 yrs	66.9 yrs
96	Seychelles	67.9 yrs	62.6 yrs
97	Northern Mariana Islands	67.9 yrs	64.1 yrs
98	Russian Federation	67.8 yrs	69.1 yrs
99	Isle of Man	67.7 yrs	65.5 yrs
100	Georgia	67.6 yrs	64.1 yrs
101	Saint Lucia	67.4 yrs	63.8 yrs
102	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	67.3 yrs	63.1 yrs
103	Malaysia	67.2 yrs	62.4 yrs
104	United Arab Emirates	67.1 yrs	58.7 yrs
105	Niue	67.1 yrs	63.5 yrs
106	Sri Lanka	66.8 yrs	63.9 yrs
107	Turks and Caicos Islands	66.4 yrs	61.6 yrs
108	Belize	66.3 yrs	62.0 yrs
109	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	66.3 yrs	60.8 yrs
110	Trinidad and Tobago	66.2 yrs	64.6 yrs
111	French Guiana	66.0 yrs	62.4 yrs
112	Syrian Arab Republic	65.9 yrs	59.1 yrs
113	French Polynesia	65.9 yrs	61.9 yrs
114	Colombia	65.8 yrs	60.6 yrs
115	Tonga	65.8 yrs	62.2 yrs
116	Jordan	65.6 yrs	59.8 yrs
117	Cook Islands	65.4 yrs	61.5 yrs
118	Mauritius	65.3 yrs	62.1 yrs
119	Republic of Korea	65.0 yrs	60.9 yrs
120	Armenia	64.7 yrs	62.2 yrs
121	New Caledonia	64.7 yrs	58.5 yrs
122	Viet Nam	64.5 yrs	52.7 yrs
123	Republic of Moldova	64.5 yrs	62.0 yrs
124	Tokelau	64.4 yrs	61.6 yrs
125	Iraq	64.2 yrs	59.0 yrs
126	Samoa	64.1 yrs	59.4 yrs
127	Paraguay	64.1 yrs	62.2 yrs
128	Saint Kitts and Nevis	64.0 yrs	60.8 yrs
129	Libya	63.8 yrs	53.9 yrs
130	Mexico	63.4 yrs	58.2 yrs
131	Fiji	63.1 yrs	61.7 yrs
132	China	63.1 yrs	55.2 yrs
133	Dominican Republic	62.6 yrs	57.3 yrs
134	Solomon Islands	62.5 yrs	54.1 yrs
135	Uzbekistan	62.4 yrs	59.4 yrs
136	Ecuador	62.4 yrs	58.0 yrs
137	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	62.3 yrs	58.8 yrs
138	Tunisia	62.1 yrs	51.3 yrs
139	Kazakhstan	61.8 yrs	59.6 yrs
140	Greenland	61.8 yrs	62.7 yrs
141	Türkiye	61.6 yrs	55.6 yrs
142	Philippines	61.5 yrs	60.9 yrs
143	Botswana	61.5 yrs	55.4 yrs
144	Thailand	61.3 yrs	55.0 yrs
145	Palau	61.3 yrs	56.9 yrs
146	Brazil	60.9 yrs	56.5 yrs
147	State of Palestine	60.8 yrs	54.1 yrs
148	Kyrgyzstan	60.7 yrs	57.6 yrs
149	Saudi Arabia	60.7 yrs	50.9 yrs
150	Marshall Islands	60.7 yrs	58.2 yrs
151	Guyana	60.6 yrs	59.7 yrs
152	Azerbaijan	60.5 yrs	55.6 yrs
153	Cabo Verde	60.4 yrs	55.4 yrs
154	Suriname	60.4 yrs	59.3 yrs
155	Lebanon	60.0 yrs	65.8 yrs
156	Vanuatu	59.9 yrs	54.2 yrs
157	Tuvalu	59.6 yrs	54.1 yrs
158	Peru	59.3 yrs	55.4 yrs
159	Honduras	59.3 yrs	53.0 yrs
160	Sao Tome and Principe	59.1 yrs	54.5 yrs
161	Namibia	59.1 yrs	53.5 yrs
162	South Africa	59.0 yrs	55.2 yrs
163	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	58.8 yrs	53.6 yrs
164	Tajikistan	58.4 yrs	55.9 yrs
165	Turkmenistan	58.3 yrs	55.3 yrs
166	Nauru	58.3 yrs	58.6 yrs
167	Kenya	58.2 yrs	53.3 yrs
168	Wallis and Futuna Islands	57.7 yrs	51.1 yrs
169	Indonesia	57.6 yrs	51.9 yrs
170	Oman	57.0 yrs	44.4 yrs
171	Gabon	57.0 yrs	51.5 yrs
172	Kiribati	56.9 yrs	53.1 yrs
173	Eswatini	56.8 yrs	50.1 yrs
174	Papua New Guinea	56.5 yrs	50.9 yrs
175	Guatemala	56.4 yrs	47.8 yrs
176	Congo	56.3 yrs	52.6 yrs
177	Zambia	56.3 yrs	52.7 yrs
178	Pakistan	56.1 yrs	51.6 yrs
179	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	56.0 yrs	48.0 yrs
180	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	55.4 yrs	55.0 yrs
181	Lesotho	55.2 yrs	50.8 yrs
182	Mongolia	54.9 yrs	50.8 yrs
183	El Salvador	54.7 yrs	50.8 yrs
184	Zimbabwe	54.7 yrs	57.1 yrs
185	Egypt	54.1 yrs	48.6 yrs
186	Nicaragua	53.5 yrs	52.9 yrs
187	Myanmar	53.5 yrs	49.4 yrs
188	Morocco	53.5 yrs	47.7 yrs
189	Sudan	53.3 yrs	51.8 yrs
190	India	52.4 yrs	47.9 yrs
191	Mauritania	52.4 yrs	49.5 yrs
192	Bangladesh	51.6 yrs	48.4 yrs
193	Djibouti	51.2 yrs	46.5 yrs
194	Togo	50.9 yrs	46.0 yrs
195	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	50.8 yrs	46.3 yrs
196	Algeria	50.6 yrs	42.8 yrs
197	Ghana	50.5 yrs	47.8 yrs
198	Maldives	50.5 yrs	42.9 yrs
199	Côte d'Ivoire	50.4 yrs	42.6 yrs
200	United Republic of Tanzania	50.4 yrs	45.6 yrs
201	Cameroon	50.3 yrs	46.4 yrs
202	Madagascar	50.0 yrs	46.9 yrs
203	Comoros	49.7 yrs	44.1 yrs
204	Haiti	49.5 yrs	46.5 yrs
205	Central African Republic	49.2 yrs	44.0 yrs
206	Yemen	48.5 yrs	38.0 yrs
207	Nepal	47.2 yrs	42.2 yrs
208	Somalia	47.0 yrs	45.3 yrs
209	Benin	46.9 yrs	42.2 yrs
210	Lao People's Democratic Republic	46.8 yrs	43.2 yrs
211	Bhutan	46.7 yrs	40.0 yrs
212	Senegal	46.6 yrs	40.1 yrs
213	Rwanda	46.2 yrs	47.7 yrs
214	Uganda	45.6 yrs	49.3 yrs
215	Nigeria	45.4 yrs	38.6 yrs
216	Burkina Faso	45.0 yrs	38.8 yrs
217	Democratic Republic of the Congo	44.6 yrs	42.7 yrs
218	Burundi	44.4 yrs	43.4 yrs
219	Mozambique	44.0 yrs	42.1 yrs
220	Gambia	43.6 yrs	38.5 yrs
221	Liberia	43.6 yrs	39.6 yrs
222	Eritrea	43.4 yrs	40.5 yrs
223	Chad	43.0 yrs	40.7 yrs
224	Malawi	43.0 yrs	36.1 yrs
225	Guinea-Bissau	42.9 yrs	36.7 yrs
226	Equatorial Guinea	42.3 yrs	44.9 yrs
227	Sierra Leone	42.2 yrs	37.8 yrs
228	Guinea	41.9 yrs	38.5 yrs
229	Angola	41.6 yrs	39.0 yrs
230	Ethiopia	41.5 yrs	42.1 yrs
231	Western Sahara	40.4 yrs	41.8 yrs
232	Afghanistan	40.1 yrs	36.5 yrs
233	Mali	38.8 yrs	32.6 yrs
234	Niger	38.3 yrs	36.1 yrs
235	South Sudan	37.6 yrs	26.1 yrs
236	Timor-Leste	22.9 yrs	36.2 yrs
237	Cambodia	11.6 yrs	45.6 yrs

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