Life expectancy by country, 1980

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

◀▶1980

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1970
1	Andorra	77.1 yrs	74.5 yrs
2	Iceland	76.6 yrs	73.8 yrs
3	San Marino	76.4 yrs	74.3 yrs
4	Japan	76.1 yrs	72.0 yrs
5	Netherlands	75.8 yrs	73.6 yrs
6	Faroe Islands	75.8 yrs	74.8 yrs
7	Sweden	75.7 yrs	74.7 yrs
8	Norway	75.7 yrs	74.1 yrs
9	Switzerland	75.6 yrs	73.1 yrs
10	Guernsey	75.5 yrs	72.6 yrs
11	Spain	75.5 yrs	72.2 yrs
12	Canada	75.1 yrs	72.6 yrs
13	Monaco	75.0 yrs	73.3 yrs
14	Liechtenstein	74.8 yrs	72.8 yrs
15	Australia	74.6 yrs	70.7 yrs
16	Greece	74.5 yrs	72.8 yrs
17	China, Hong Kong SAR	74.3 yrs	71.3 yrs
18	France	74.2 yrs	72.1 yrs
19	Denmark	74.1 yrs	73.4 yrs
20	Holy See	74.1 yrs	71.5 yrs
21	Italy	74.0 yrs	71.6 yrs
22	Gibraltar	73.8 yrs	71.9 yrs
23	United States of America	73.7 yrs	70.7 yrs
24	Israel	73.7 yrs	71.2 yrs
25	Finland	73.7 yrs	70.3 yrs
26	United Kingdom	73.6 yrs	71.9 yrs
27	Belgium	73.2 yrs	70.9 yrs
28	Antigua and Barbuda	73.1 yrs	69.4 yrs
29	Germany	73.1 yrs	70.7 yrs
30	Puerto Rico	73.1 yrs	70.3 yrs
31	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	73.0 yrs	73.3 yrs
32	Costa Rica	73.0 yrs	66.8 yrs
33	China, Macao SAR	73.0 yrs	68.8 yrs
34	New Zealand	72.9 yrs	71.2 yrs
35	Cyprus	72.8 yrs	68.0 yrs
36	Austria	72.7 yrs	70.1 yrs
37	Jersey	72.7 yrs	71.1 yrs
38	Bermuda	72.7 yrs	68.4 yrs
39	Cuba	72.6 yrs	67.9 yrs
40	Ireland	72.5 yrs	70.8 yrs
41	Saint Barthélemy	72.4 yrs	65.3 yrs
42	Luxembourg	72.4 yrs	69.2 yrs
43	Saint Martin (French part)	72.3 yrs	71.0 yrs
44	Malta	72.3 yrs	70.4 yrs
45	Montenegro	72.2 yrs	70.4 yrs
46	Barbados	72.1 yrs	68.5 yrs
47	China, Taiwan Province of China	72.0 yrs	69.0 yrs
48	Martinique	71.9 yrs	65.0 yrs
49	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	71.8 yrs	70.9 yrs
50	Slovenia	71.8 yrs	69.0 yrs
51	Portugal	71.7 yrs	67.0 yrs
52	Singapore	71.5 yrs	68.5 yrs
53	Kuwait	71.1 yrs	68.0 yrs
54	Serbia	71.1 yrs	69.7 yrs
55	Bulgaria	71.1 yrs	71.3 yrs
56	Curaçao	71.0 yrs	68.2 yrs
57	Croatia	71.0 yrs	69.2 yrs
58	Dominica	71.0 yrs	66.2 yrs
59	Aruba	70.8 yrs	67.4 yrs
60	Belarus	70.8 yrs	71.7 yrs
61	Guam	70.7 yrs	65.8 yrs
62	Bahrain	70.7 yrs	64.4 yrs
63	Lithuania	70.7 yrs	71.1 yrs
64	Uruguay	70.5 yrs	68.7 yrs
65	Poland	70.5 yrs	69.6 yrs
66	Slovakia	70.4 yrs	69.7 yrs
67	Czechia	70.3 yrs	69.5 yrs
68	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	70.2 yrs	67.5 yrs
69	Albania	69.9 yrs	65.2 yrs
70	Qatar	69.9 yrs	64.9 yrs
71	Guadeloupe	69.9 yrs	64.7 yrs
72	Saint Helena	69.9 yrs	68.6 yrs
73	Ukraine	69.8 yrs	70.8 yrs
74	Mayotte	69.8 yrs	63.5 yrs
75	Bosnia and Herzegovina	69.6 yrs	64.8 yrs
76	British Virgin Islands	69.6 yrs	66.4 yrs
77	Estonia	69.5 yrs	70.4 yrs
78	Cayman Islands	69.5 yrs	64.4 yrs
79	Chile	69.5 yrs	62.6 yrs
80	Panama	69.5 yrs	64.1 yrs
81	Réunion	69.4 yrs	63.2 yrs
82	American Samoa	69.4 yrs	66.4 yrs
83	Montserrat	69.3 yrs	65.3 yrs
84	Romania	69.3 yrs	67.9 yrs
85	Bahamas	69.1 yrs	66.2 yrs
86	Hungary	69.1 yrs	69.2 yrs
87	Latvia	69.1 yrs	70.2 yrs
88	Jamaica	69.0 yrs	66.7 yrs
89	Brunei Darussalam	69.0 yrs	64.5 yrs
90	North Macedonia	69.0 yrs	65.0 yrs
91	Anguilla	68.9 yrs	65.0 yrs
92	United States Virgin Islands	68.7 yrs	66.4 yrs
93	Argentina	68.6 yrs	65.7 yrs
94	Seychelles	68.5 yrs	64.0 yrs
95	Isle of Man	68.5 yrs	65.7 yrs
96	Georgia	68.3 yrs	64.9 yrs
97	Northern Mariana Islands	68.3 yrs	64.8 yrs
98	United Arab Emirates	68.2 yrs	60.8 yrs
99	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	68.2 yrs	64.8 yrs
100	Grenada	68.1 yrs	66.9 yrs
101	Malaysia	68.1 yrs	63.3 yrs
102	Sri Lanka	68.0 yrs	64.3 yrs
103	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	68.0 yrs	64.0 yrs
104	Saint Lucia	67.8 yrs	64.3 yrs
105	Niue	67.6 yrs	64.4 yrs
106	Russian Federation	67.5 yrs	68.7 yrs
107	French Polynesia	67.4 yrs	62.5 yrs
108	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	67.2 yrs	62.0 yrs
109	Turks and Caicos Islands	67.1 yrs	62.7 yrs
110	French Guiana	67.1 yrs	63.3 yrs
111	Belize	66.9 yrs	63.0 yrs
112	Colombia	66.7 yrs	61.5 yrs
113	Syrian Arab Republic	66.5 yrs	60.6 yrs
114	Trinidad and Tobago	66.5 yrs	64.9 yrs
115	Mauritius	66.5 yrs	63.7 yrs
116	Jordan	66.5 yrs	59.8 yrs
117	Tonga	66.2 yrs	63.2 yrs
118	Cook Islands	65.9 yrs	63.6 yrs
119	New Caledonia	65.6 yrs	60.1 yrs
120	Armenia	65.4 yrs	62.8 yrs
121	Viet Nam	65.3 yrs	54.9 yrs
122	Tokelau	65.2 yrs	62.3 yrs
123	Republic of Moldova	65.2 yrs	62.4 yrs
124	Samoa	65.0 yrs	60.4 yrs
125	Libya	64.8 yrs	56.4 yrs
126	Republic of Korea	64.8 yrs	62.2 yrs
127	Paraguay	64.5 yrs	62.5 yrs
128	Saint Kitts and Nevis	64.4 yrs	61.4 yrs
129	Mexico	64.3 yrs	58.9 yrs
130	China	64.2 yrs	56.8 yrs
131	Solomon Islands	63.7 yrs	56.1 yrs
132	Tunisia	63.7 yrs	53.8 yrs
133	Dominican Republic	63.4 yrs	58.5 yrs
134	Ecuador	63.3 yrs	58.9 yrs
135	Uzbekistan	63.0 yrs	60.1 yrs
136	Türkiye	62.7 yrs	56.7 yrs
137	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	62.6 yrs	59.8 yrs
138	Kazakhstan	62.5 yrs	60.0 yrs
139	Botswana	62.5 yrs	56.5 yrs
140	Saudi Arabia	62.4 yrs	52.7 yrs
141	Fiji	62.4 yrs	61.6 yrs
142	Greenland	62.2 yrs	63.0 yrs
143	Thailand	62.2 yrs	56.5 yrs
144	State of Palestine	62.2 yrs	55.4 yrs
145	Palau	61.9 yrs	57.7 yrs
146	Philippines	61.9 yrs	60.8 yrs
147	Brazil	61.8 yrs	57.3 yrs
148	Kyrgyzstan	61.5 yrs	58.2 yrs
149	Azerbaijan	61.4 yrs	56.6 yrs
150	Vanuatu	61.3 yrs	55.3 yrs
151	Cabo Verde	61.0 yrs	56.6 yrs
152	Marshall Islands	61.0 yrs	58.8 yrs
153	Iraq	60.9 yrs	60.5 yrs
154	Guyana	60.8 yrs	60.0 yrs
155	Suriname	60.6 yrs	59.5 yrs
156	Honduras	60.4 yrs	54.4 yrs
157	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	60.3 yrs	54.0 yrs
158	Tuvalu	60.2 yrs	55.4 yrs
159	Turkmenistan	60.2 yrs	56.0 yrs
160	Peru	60.0 yrs	47.7 yrs
161	South Africa	60.0 yrs	55.7 yrs
162	Lebanon	59.9 yrs	66.0 yrs
163	Oman	59.6 yrs	46.6 yrs
164	Sao Tome and Principe	59.4 yrs	56.3 yrs
165	Wallis and Futuna Islands	59.3 yrs	52.3 yrs
166	Kenya	59.2 yrs	54.1 yrs
167	Zimbabwe	59.1 yrs	57.8 yrs
168	Indonesia	58.7 yrs	53.3 yrs
169	Tajikistan	58.6 yrs	56.6 yrs
170	Nauru	58.5 yrs	58.5 yrs
171	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	58.4 yrs	50.2 yrs
172	Eswatini	58.2 yrs	51.2 yrs
173	Nicaragua	58.0 yrs	53.8 yrs
174	Gabon	57.9 yrs	52.7 yrs
175	Papua New Guinea	57.4 yrs	52.1 yrs
176	Kiribati	57.3 yrs	54.4 yrs
177	Pakistan	57.2 yrs	52.9 yrs
178	Congo	56.8 yrs	53.5 yrs
179	Namibia	56.6 yrs	54.7 yrs
180	Lesotho	56.5 yrs	51.5 yrs
181	Egypt	55.7 yrs	49.0 yrs
182	Zambia	55.5 yrs	53.4 yrs
183	Guatemala	55.3 yrs	48.5 yrs
184	Morocco	55.2 yrs	48.7 yrs
185	Mongolia	55.2 yrs	52.0 yrs
186	Maldives	54.8 yrs	44.5 yrs
187	Algeria	54.5 yrs	43.3 yrs
188	Myanmar	54.4 yrs	50.5 yrs
189	Sudan	54.1 yrs	52.3 yrs
190	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	53.9 yrs	55.4 yrs
191	India	53.6 yrs	48.6 yrs
192	Mauritania	53.2 yrs	50.5 yrs
193	Bangladesh	52.3 yrs	42.7 yrs
194	Togo	52.1 yrs	46.8 yrs
195	Djibouti	52.0 yrs	47.5 yrs
196	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	51.8 yrs	47.1 yrs
197	Côte d'Ivoire	51.4 yrs	44.0 yrs
198	United Republic of Tanzania	51.3 yrs	46.5 yrs
199	Ghana	51.1 yrs	47.9 yrs
200	Cameroon	50.9 yrs	48.0 yrs
201	Comoros	50.7 yrs	45.2 yrs
202	Yemen	50.6 yrs	40.6 yrs
203	Haiti	50.0 yrs	47.3 yrs
204	Madagascar	50.0 yrs	47.9 yrs
205	Central African Republic	49.8 yrs	45.2 yrs
206	Equatorial Guinea	48.8 yrs	31.1 yrs
207	El Salvador	48.6 yrs	51.4 yrs
208	Lao People's Democratic Republic	48.6 yrs	43.8 yrs
209	Senegal	48.3 yrs	40.8 yrs
210	Nepal	48.3 yrs	43.1 yrs
211	Bhutan	48.2 yrs	41.2 yrs
212	Rwanda	48.1 yrs	47.1 yrs
213	Benin	47.8 yrs	43.0 yrs
214	Somalia	47.6 yrs	45.6 yrs
215	Cambodia	47.5 yrs	38.6 yrs
216	Burkina Faso	46.5 yrs	39.5 yrs
217	Nigeria	46.0 yrs	40.0 yrs
218	Burundi	45.7 yrs	43.2 yrs
219	Democratic Republic of the Congo	45.5 yrs	43.3 yrs
220	Gambia	45.0 yrs	39.5 yrs
221	Eritrea	44.6 yrs	41.2 yrs
222	Malawi	44.3 yrs	36.6 yrs
223	Liberia	44.1 yrs	40.4 yrs
224	Mozambique	44.0 yrs	42.5 yrs
225	Guinea-Bissau	43.6 yrs	37.3 yrs
226	Uganda	43.5 yrs	49.6 yrs
227	Chad	43.5 yrs	41.4 yrs
228	Ethiopia	42.8 yrs	42.1 yrs
229	Guinea	42.8 yrs	39.1 yrs
230	Sierra Leone	42.8 yrs	38.6 yrs
231	Angola	42.2 yrs	39.7 yrs
232	Mali	40.3 yrs	33.4 yrs
233	Western Sahara	39.4 yrs	42.7 yrs
234	Afghanistan	39.3 yrs	37.5 yrs
235	Niger	39.3 yrs	35.9 yrs
236	South Sudan	38.0 yrs	25.6 yrs
237	Timor-Leste	30.2 yrs	37.4 yrs

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