Life expectancy by country, 1983

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

◀▶1983

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1973
1	Andorra	77.8 yrs	75.1 yrs
2	Japan	77.1 yrs	73.4 yrs
3	San Marino	77.0 yrs	74.8 yrs
4	Sweden	76.6 yrs	74.9 yrs
5	Iceland	76.4 yrs	74.3 yrs
6	Netherlands	76.3 yrs	74.2 yrs
7	Guernsey	76.2 yrs	74.2 yrs
8	Switzerland	76.2 yrs	74.1 yrs
9	Canada	76.1 yrs	73.1 yrs
10	Spain	76.1 yrs	72.7 yrs
11	Norway	76.1 yrs	74.4 yrs
12	Faroe Islands	75.9 yrs	75.2 yrs
13	Monaco	75.7 yrs	73.4 yrs
14	Liechtenstein	75.7 yrs	73.7 yrs
15	Greece	75.5 yrs	73.0 yrs
16	Australia	75.4 yrs	72.1 yrs
17	China, Hong Kong SAR	75.3 yrs	72.2 yrs
18	Israel	75.1 yrs	71.6 yrs
19	Italy	74.7 yrs	72.1 yrs
20	Holy See	74.7 yrs	71.9 yrs
21	France	74.7 yrs	72.5 yrs
22	Gibraltar	74.6 yrs	72.7 yrs
23	United States of America	74.5 yrs	71.4 yrs
24	Denmark	74.5 yrs	73.7 yrs
25	Finland	74.4 yrs	71.4 yrs
26	United Kingdom	74.3 yrs	72.2 yrs
27	Costa Rica	74.3 yrs	68.7 yrs
28	China, Macao SAR	74.1 yrs	70.1 yrs
29	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	74.0 yrs	74.2 yrs
30	Jersey	74.0 yrs	71.6 yrs
31	Germany	73.9 yrs	71.4 yrs
32	Belgium	73.9 yrs	71.6 yrs
33	New Zealand	73.8 yrs	71.7 yrs
34	Antigua and Barbuda	73.7 yrs	70.7 yrs
35	Cyprus	73.7 yrs	69.0 yrs
36	Cuba	73.6 yrs	69.3 yrs
37	Saint Barthélemy	73.5 yrs	67.4 yrs
38	Martinique	73.5 yrs	68.0 yrs
39	Puerto Rico	73.4 yrs	71.0 yrs
40	Ireland	73.2 yrs	71.2 yrs
41	Austria	73.2 yrs	71.2 yrs
42	Bermuda	73.2 yrs	70.4 yrs
43	Barbados	73.2 yrs	69.1 yrs
44	Malta	73.1 yrs	71.3 yrs
45	Luxembourg	73.0 yrs	70.3 yrs
46	Portugal	72.7 yrs	68.6 yrs
47	Saint Martin (French part)	72.5 yrs	71.8 yrs
48	Kuwait	72.4 yrs	69.2 yrs
49	Singapore	72.4 yrs	69.4 yrs
50	China, Taiwan Province of China	72.4 yrs	69.8 yrs
51	Montenegro	72.3 yrs	71.6 yrs
52	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	72.2 yrs	72.1 yrs
53	Guam	72.1 yrs	66.9 yrs
54	Dominica	72.0 yrs	68.1 yrs
55	Aruba	71.6 yrs	68.9 yrs
56	Uruguay	71.6 yrs	69.3 yrs
57	Bahrain	71.6 yrs	66.9 yrs
58	Réunion	71.6 yrs	64.8 yrs
59	Curaçao	71.5 yrs	69.1 yrs
60	Guadeloupe	71.4 yrs	66.1 yrs
61	Slovenia	71.2 yrs	70.8 yrs
62	Bulgaria	71.2 yrs	71.3 yrs
63	Qatar	71.1 yrs	66.6 yrs
64	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	71.1 yrs	68.8 yrs
65	Serbia	71.1 yrs	70.5 yrs
66	Mayotte	71.1 yrs	65.7 yrs
67	Lithuania	71.0 yrs	71.6 yrs
68	Croatia	70.8 yrs	70.1 yrs
69	Cayman Islands	70.8 yrs	65.9 yrs
70	Chile	70.8 yrs	64.4 yrs
71	Poland	70.8 yrs	70.7 yrs
72	Albania	70.7 yrs	67.1 yrs
73	Belarus	70.7 yrs	71.7 yrs
74	Czechia	70.6 yrs	70.1 yrs
75	Slovakia	70.5 yrs	70.0 yrs
76	Saint Helena	70.4 yrs	68.9 yrs
77	British Virgin Islands	70.4 yrs	67.2 yrs
78	American Samoa	70.2 yrs	67.6 yrs
79	Panama	70.1 yrs	65.8 yrs
80	Bosnia and Herzegovina	70.1 yrs	66.6 yrs
81	Ukraine	70.0 yrs	70.8 yrs
82	Saint Lucia	70.0 yrs	64.6 yrs
83	Bahamas	70.0 yrs	67.2 yrs
84	Brunei Darussalam	70.0 yrs	66.0 yrs
85	Anguilla	69.9 yrs	66.3 yrs
86	Montserrat	69.9 yrs	67.0 yrs
87	Estonia	69.8 yrs	70.7 yrs
88	Romania	69.8 yrs	68.7 yrs
89	French Polynesia	69.7 yrs	63.4 yrs
90	North Macedonia	69.7 yrs	67.1 yrs
91	United Arab Emirates	69.5 yrs	63.5 yrs
92	Jamaica	69.5 yrs	67.6 yrs
93	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	69.5 yrs	65.7 yrs
94	Isle of Man	69.5 yrs	66.2 yrs
95	Latvia	69.4 yrs	70.2 yrs
96	Argentina	69.3 yrs	66.2 yrs
97	Seychelles	69.3 yrs	65.9 yrs
98	United States Virgin Islands	69.3 yrs	67.0 yrs
99	Malaysia	69.2 yrs	64.7 yrs
100	Georgia	69.1 yrs	65.8 yrs
101	Hungary	68.9 yrs	69.6 yrs
102	Northern Mariana Islands	68.9 yrs	66.0 yrs
103	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	68.8 yrs	65.1 yrs
104	Sri Lanka	68.7 yrs	64.8 yrs
105	French Guiana	68.6 yrs	64.4 yrs
106	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	68.5 yrs	63.8 yrs
107	Mauritius	68.4 yrs	64.3 yrs
108	Colombia	68.1 yrs	63.0 yrs
109	Turks and Caicos Islands	68.1 yrs	64.2 yrs
110	Niue	68.1 yrs	65.4 yrs
111	Russian Federation	68.0 yrs	69.0 yrs
112	Jordan	67.8 yrs	63.1 yrs
113	Belize	67.6 yrs	64.5 yrs
114	Syrian Arab Republic	67.3 yrs	60.8 yrs
115	New Caledonia	67.0 yrs	62.1 yrs
116	Tonga	66.7 yrs	64.4 yrs
117	Republic of Korea	66.7 yrs	63.8 yrs
118	Armenia	66.5 yrs	63.5 yrs
119	Tokelau	66.5 yrs	63.0 yrs
120	Viet Nam	66.5 yrs	55.7 yrs
121	Trinidad and Tobago	66.4 yrs	65.4 yrs
122	Cook Islands	66.3 yrs	65.9 yrs
123	Libya	66.3 yrs	59.7 yrs
124	Republic of Moldova	66.2 yrs	63.2 yrs
125	Samoa	66.0 yrs	61.9 yrs
126	Mexico	65.8 yrs	60.5 yrs
127	Tunisia	65.7 yrs	57.1 yrs
128	China	65.7 yrs	59.5 yrs
129	Paraguay	65.3 yrs	63.1 yrs
130	Saint Kitts and Nevis	65.1 yrs	62.5 yrs
131	Solomon Islands	64.8 yrs	58.8 yrs
132	Ecuador	64.7 yrs	60.3 yrs
133	Saudi Arabia	64.7 yrs	55.8 yrs
134	Dominican Republic	64.6 yrs	60.2 yrs
135	Thailand	64.5 yrs	58.3 yrs
136	Grenada	64.3 yrs	67.6 yrs
137	Türkiye	64.3 yrs	58.5 yrs
138	Kazakhstan	64.2 yrs	60.7 yrs
139	State of Palestine	64.1 yrs	57.6 yrs
140	Uzbekistan	63.8 yrs	61.1 yrs
141	Botswana	63.6 yrs	58.3 yrs
142	Oman	63.2 yrs	50.0 yrs
143	Vanuatu	63.1 yrs	57.0 yrs
144	Brazil	63.1 yrs	58.7 yrs
145	Fiji	62.9 yrs	60.6 yrs
146	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	62.8 yrs	61.0 yrs
147	Greenland	62.6 yrs	62.4 yrs
148	Azerbaijan	62.5 yrs	57.9 yrs
149	Palau	62.5 yrs	59.0 yrs
150	Philippines	62.4 yrs	60.7 yrs
151	Honduras	62.4 yrs	54.6 yrs
152	Kyrgyzstan	62.3 yrs	59.2 yrs
153	Turkmenistan	62.0 yrs	56.8 yrs
154	Wallis and Futuna Islands	61.9 yrs	54.1 yrs
155	Cabo Verde	61.8 yrs	58.0 yrs
156	Marshall Islands	61.5 yrs	59.8 yrs
157	South Africa	61.4 yrs	56.7 yrs
158	Algeria	61.3 yrs	45.1 yrs
159	Guyana	61.2 yrs	60.2 yrs
160	Suriname	61.1 yrs	59.8 yrs
161	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	61.0 yrs	55.9 yrs
162	Tuvalu	60.9 yrs	57.2 yrs
163	Peru	60.8 yrs	57.3 yrs
164	Lebanon	60.8 yrs	66.3 yrs
165	Tajikistan	60.5 yrs	57.4 yrs
166	Indonesia	60.3 yrs	54.9 yrs
167	Kenya	60.3 yrs	55.5 yrs
168	Zimbabwe	60.0 yrs	58.1 yrs
169	Sao Tome and Principe	59.7 yrs	57.9 yrs
170	Iraq	59.3 yrs	62.3 yrs
171	Gabon	59.0 yrs	54.4 yrs
172	Nauru	58.7 yrs	58.4 yrs
173	Pakistan	58.7 yrs	54.1 yrs
174	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	58.5 yrs	52.9 yrs
175	Lesotho	58.5 yrs	52.6 yrs
176	Eswatini	58.4 yrs	53.0 yrs
177	Papua New Guinea	58.3 yrs	53.9 yrs
178	Egypt	58.0 yrs	50.1 yrs
179	Kiribati	58.0 yrs	55.8 yrs
180	Guatemala	57.9 yrs	52.9 yrs
181	Morocco	57.7 yrs	50.2 yrs
182	Namibia	57.6 yrs	56.4 yrs
183	Maldives	57.5 yrs	47.5 yrs
184	Congo	57.4 yrs	54.7 yrs
185	Nicaragua	56.9 yrs	55.0 yrs
186	Mongolia	55.9 yrs	53.6 yrs
187	India	55.3 yrs	49.6 yrs
188	Myanmar	55.3 yrs	51.8 yrs
189	Mauritania	54.6 yrs	51.2 yrs
190	El Salvador	54.4 yrs	52.8 yrs
191	Togo	53.8 yrs	48.1 yrs
192	Zambia	53.7 yrs	54.9 yrs
193	Yemen	53.6 yrs	43.6 yrs
194	Bangladesh	53.4 yrs	49.9 yrs
195	Djibouti	53.3 yrs	49.1 yrs
196	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	52.9 yrs	48.3 yrs
197	Cameroon	52.5 yrs	49.5 yrs
198	Côte d'Ivoire	52.4 yrs	46.4 yrs
199	United Republic of Tanzania	52.2 yrs	47.9 yrs
200	Comoros	52.1 yrs	47.0 yrs
201	Ghana	51.8 yrs	48.6 yrs
202	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	51.8 yrs	56.0 yrs
203	Haiti	51.0 yrs	48.2 yrs
204	Rwanda	50.9 yrs	45.9 yrs
205	Senegal	50.8 yrs	42.4 yrs
206	Bhutan	50.5 yrs	43.1 yrs
207	Lao People's Democratic Republic	50.5 yrs	44.7 yrs
208	Central African Republic	50.3 yrs	46.9 yrs
209	Madagascar	50.1 yrs	48.9 yrs
210	Equatorial Guinea	50.0 yrs	44.7 yrs
211	Nepal	49.7 yrs	44.5 yrs
212	Sudan	49.6 yrs	53.0 yrs
213	Cambodia	49.4 yrs	39.1 yrs
214	Benin	48.8 yrs	44.4 yrs
215	Somalia	48.2 yrs	46.2 yrs
216	Burkina Faso	48.1 yrs	41.0 yrs
217	Burundi	47.4 yrs	37.4 yrs
218	Gambia	46.9 yrs	41.1 yrs
219	Nigeria	46.4 yrs	41.8 yrs
220	Democratic Republic of the Congo	46.2 yrs	44.1 yrs
221	Western Sahara	46.1 yrs	44.2 yrs
222	Malawi	45.0 yrs	38.4 yrs
223	Guinea-Bissau	44.6 yrs	38.2 yrs
224	Liberia	44.6 yrs	41.6 yrs
225	Chad	44.5 yrs	42.4 yrs
226	Guinea	44.2 yrs	39.9 yrs
227	Uganda	43.5 yrs	47.0 yrs
228	Sierra Leone	43.5 yrs	40.0 yrs
229	Mali	42.8 yrs	35.1 yrs
230	Angola	42.0 yrs	40.9 yrs
231	Mozambique	41.6 yrs	42.7 yrs
232	Niger	40.0 yrs	35.9 yrs
233	Eritrea	37.2 yrs	41.1 yrs
234	Afghanistan	36.5 yrs	39.0 yrs
235	Ethiopia	36.3 yrs	41.1 yrs
236	South Sudan	34.7 yrs	36.3 yrs
237	Timor-Leste	32.7 yrs	39.0 yrs

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