Life expectancy by country, 1985

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

◀▶1985

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1975
1	Andorra	78.0 yrs	75.6 yrs
2	Japan	77.8 yrs	74.4 yrs
3	Iceland	77.4 yrs	75.3 yrs
4	Monaco	77.4 yrs	73.5 yrs
5	San Marino	77.3 yrs	75.3 yrs
6	Switzerland	76.9 yrs	74.8 yrs
7	Sweden	76.7 yrs	75.0 yrs
8	Liechtenstein	76.7 yrs	74.3 yrs
9	Netherlands	76.4 yrs	74.5 yrs
10	Spain	76.4 yrs	73.5 yrs
11	Canada	76.3 yrs	73.5 yrs
12	China, Hong Kong SAR	76.3 yrs	72.8 yrs
13	Greece	76.1 yrs	73.5 yrs
14	Israel	76.0 yrs	71.6 yrs
15	Guernsey	76.0 yrs	73.6 yrs
16	Faroe Islands	76.0 yrs	75.3 yrs
17	Norway	75.9 yrs	74.8 yrs
18	Italy	75.6 yrs	72.7 yrs
19	Holy See	75.5 yrs	72.6 yrs
20	Australia	75.4 yrs	72.8 yrs
21	France	75.3 yrs	72.9 yrs
22	Gibraltar	75.2 yrs	73.3 yrs
23	Costa Rica	74.8 yrs	70.3 yrs
24	United States of America	74.7 yrs	72.5 yrs
25	Jersey	74.7 yrs	71.9 yrs
26	China, Macao SAR	74.7 yrs	71.2 yrs
27	Cyprus	74.6 yrs	70.3 yrs
28	United Kingdom	74.5 yrs	72.7 yrs
29	Denmark	74.5 yrs	74.1 yrs
30	Germany	74.5 yrs	71.5 yrs
31	Belgium	74.5 yrs	72.0 yrs
32	Finland	74.4 yrs	71.8 yrs
33	Martinique	74.4 yrs	69.0 yrs
34	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	74.1 yrs	74.3 yrs
35	Austria	74.0 yrs	71.3 yrs
36	Saint Barthélemy	74.0 yrs	68.9 yrs
37	Antigua and Barbuda	73.9 yrs	71.5 yrs
38	New Zealand	73.9 yrs	72.2 yrs
39	Malta	73.8 yrs	72.1 yrs
40	Ireland	73.6 yrs	71.7 yrs
41	Cuba	73.5 yrs	70.4 yrs
42	Bermuda	73.4 yrs	71.2 yrs
43	Kuwait	73.3 yrs	69.7 yrs
44	Barbados	73.3 yrs	69.8 yrs
45	Luxembourg	73.3 yrs	70.3 yrs
46	China, Taiwan Province of China	73.3 yrs	70.9 yrs
47	Portugal	73.2 yrs	68.8 yrs
48	Guam	73.1 yrs	68.0 yrs
49	Singapore	73.1 yrs	70.2 yrs
50	Saint Martin (French part)	72.9 yrs	72.0 yrs
51	Puerto Rico	72.6 yrs	72.0 yrs
52	Réunion	72.6 yrs	66.0 yrs
53	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	72.4 yrs	72.3 yrs
54	Montenegro	72.4 yrs	71.9 yrs
55	Guadeloupe	72.2 yrs	67.2 yrs
56	Bahrain	72.1 yrs	68.3 yrs
57	Uruguay	71.9 yrs	69.7 yrs
58	Curaçao	71.9 yrs	69.7 yrs
59	Dominica	71.9 yrs	69.1 yrs
60	Mayotte	71.9 yrs	67.0 yrs
61	Aruba	71.8 yrs	69.6 yrs
62	Qatar	71.8 yrs	67.7 yrs
63	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	71.8 yrs	69.5 yrs
64	Slovenia	71.8 yrs	71.1 yrs
65	Cayman Islands	71.6 yrs	67.0 yrs
66	Chile	71.6 yrs	66.0 yrs
67	Croatia	71.5 yrs	71.0 yrs
68	Serbia	71.4 yrs	71.6 yrs
69	Albania	71.3 yrs	68.1 yrs
70	Belarus	71.2 yrs	71.4 yrs
71	French Polynesia	71.2 yrs	64.3 yrs
72	Czechia	71.1 yrs	70.5 yrs
73	Bulgaria	71.0 yrs	71.0 yrs
74	British Virgin Islands	71.0 yrs	68.1 yrs
75	Slovakia	70.7 yrs	70.3 yrs
76	Saint Helena	70.7 yrs	69.1 yrs
77	Lithuania	70.7 yrs	71.1 yrs
78	Bosnia and Herzegovina	70.6 yrs	68.3 yrs
79	Panama	70.5 yrs	67.2 yrs
80	Brunei Darussalam	70.5 yrs	67.0 yrs
81	Poland	70.5 yrs	70.6 yrs
82	American Samoa	70.5 yrs	68.3 yrs
83	Anguilla	70.4 yrs	67.1 yrs
84	Ukraine	70.4 yrs	70.4 yrs
85	Saint Lucia	70.3 yrs	65.9 yrs
86	Bahamas	70.3 yrs	68.1 yrs
87	Montserrat	70.2 yrs	67.8 yrs
88	North Macedonia	70.2 yrs	67.3 yrs
89	United Arab Emirates	70.1 yrs	65.1 yrs
90	Jamaica	70.1 yrs	68.2 yrs
91	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	70.0 yrs	66.7 yrs
92	Isle of Man	70.0 yrs	66.8 yrs
93	Argentina	69.9 yrs	67.0 yrs
94	Malaysia	69.9 yrs	65.7 yrs
95	Estonia	69.8 yrs	70.1 yrs
96	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	69.8 yrs	65.9 yrs
97	United States Virgin Islands	69.7 yrs	67.6 yrs
98	Seychelles	69.6 yrs	66.8 yrs
99	Latvia	69.6 yrs	69.3 yrs
100	Romania	69.4 yrs	69.6 yrs
101	French Guiana	69.4 yrs	65.0 yrs
102	Grenada	69.3 yrs	68.0 yrs
103	Northern Mariana Islands	69.2 yrs	66.8 yrs
104	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	69.2 yrs	64.8 yrs
105	Georgia	69.0 yrs	66.5 yrs
106	Sri Lanka	68.9 yrs	65.4 yrs
107	Hungary	68.9 yrs	69.4 yrs
108	Turks and Caicos Islands	68.7 yrs	65.2 yrs
109	Mauritius	68.7 yrs	64.4 yrs
110	Jordan	68.6 yrs	64.2 yrs
111	Republic of Korea	68.4 yrs	64.7 yrs
112	Belize	68.3 yrs	65.4 yrs
113	Russian Federation	68.3 yrs	68.3 yrs
114	Syrian Arab Republic	68.0 yrs	64.2 yrs
115	Niue	68.0 yrs	66.1 yrs
116	New Caledonia	67.8 yrs	63.2 yrs
117	Tokelau	67.3 yrs	63.5 yrs
118	Libya	67.3 yrs	61.6 yrs
119	Viet Nam	67.2 yrs	61.9 yrs
120	Armenia	67.1 yrs	63.9 yrs
121	Tunisia	66.9 yrs	59.3 yrs
122	Tonga	66.9 yrs	65.1 yrs
123	Republic of Moldova	66.9 yrs	63.7 yrs
124	Cook Islands	66.8 yrs	65.8 yrs
125	Trinidad and Tobago	66.8 yrs	65.7 yrs
126	Mexico	66.8 yrs	61.9 yrs
127	Samoa	66.6 yrs	62.8 yrs
128	Thailand	66.5 yrs	59.7 yrs
129	China	66.5 yrs	61.0 yrs
130	Saudi Arabia	66.0 yrs	57.8 yrs
131	Paraguay	65.9 yrs	63.4 yrs
132	Ecuador	65.6 yrs	61.1 yrs
133	Dominican Republic	65.6 yrs	61.3 yrs
134	Saint Kitts and Nevis	65.5 yrs	63.2 yrs
135	Kazakhstan	65.4 yrs	61.1 yrs
136	Colombia	65.4 yrs	64.0 yrs
137	Oman	65.3 yrs	52.5 yrs
138	Solomon Islands	65.3 yrs	58.4 yrs
139	Türkiye	65.3 yrs	59.5 yrs
140	State of Palestine	65.3 yrs	58.7 yrs
141	Uzbekistan	64.6 yrs	61.6 yrs
142	Algeria	64.2 yrs	46.9 yrs
143	Wallis and Futuna Islands	64.0 yrs	55.5 yrs
144	Fiji	64.0 yrs	61.7 yrs
145	Brazil	64.0 yrs	59.6 yrs
146	Vanuatu	63.9 yrs	58.1 yrs
147	Kyrgyzstan	63.7 yrs	59.8 yrs
148	Botswana	63.6 yrs	59.5 yrs
149	Honduras	63.2 yrs	57.5 yrs
150	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	63.0 yrs	61.6 yrs
151	Greenland	62.8 yrs	61.8 yrs
152	Turkmenistan	62.8 yrs	57.2 yrs
153	Azerbaijan	62.7 yrs	58.7 yrs
154	Palau	62.7 yrs	60.0 yrs
155	Philippines	62.7 yrs	60.9 yrs
156	Cabo Verde	62.3 yrs	59.0 yrs
157	South Africa	62.2 yrs	57.6 yrs
158	Peru	61.7 yrs	58.2 yrs
159	Marshall Islands	61.7 yrs	60.3 yrs
160	Lebanon	61.6 yrs	57.7 yrs
161	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	61.5 yrs	54.8 yrs
162	Indonesia	61.4 yrs	56.0 yrs
163	Guyana	61.4 yrs	60.4 yrs
164	Suriname	61.4 yrs	60.0 yrs
165	Eswatini	61.2 yrs	54.4 yrs
166	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	61.2 yrs	57.3 yrs
167	Tuvalu	61.1 yrs	58.3 yrs
168	Tajikistan	61.0 yrs	57.9 yrs
169	Kenya	60.9 yrs	56.6 yrs
170	Zimbabwe	60.9 yrs	58.3 yrs
171	Sao Tome and Principe	60.1 yrs	58.6 yrs
172	Iraq	59.8 yrs	61.4 yrs
173	Guatemala	59.8 yrs	52.8 yrs
174	Gabon	59.7 yrs	55.5 yrs
175	Egypt	59.4 yrs	51.7 yrs
176	Maldives	59.2 yrs	49.6 yrs
177	Morocco	59.2 yrs	51.4 yrs
178	Lesotho	59.2 yrs	53.5 yrs
179	Pakistan	59.1 yrs	54.7 yrs
180	Papua New Guinea	58.8 yrs	55.0 yrs
181	Kiribati	58.7 yrs	56.4 yrs
182	Nauru	58.6 yrs	58.3 yrs
183	Namibia	58.5 yrs	57.5 yrs
184	El Salvador	58.0 yrs	53.4 yrs
185	Congo	57.6 yrs	55.4 yrs
186	Nicaragua	56.4 yrs	55.8 yrs
187	Mongolia	56.4 yrs	54.3 yrs
188	India	56.3 yrs	50.8 yrs
189	Myanmar	55.8 yrs	52.5 yrs
190	Mauritania	55.8 yrs	51.6 yrs
191	Yemen	55.4 yrs	45.5 yrs
192	Togo	54.4 yrs	49.0 yrs
193	Djibouti	54.1 yrs	49.9 yrs
194	Bangladesh	53.9 yrs	50.6 yrs
195	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	53.8 yrs	49.3 yrs
196	Cameroon	53.5 yrs	49.9 yrs
197	Comoros	53.3 yrs	46.9 yrs
198	Côte d'Ivoire	52.9 yrs	48.0 yrs
199	Ghana	52.7 yrs	49.3 yrs
200	Senegal	52.6 yrs	43.9 yrs
201	United Republic of Tanzania	52.2 yrs	48.9 yrs
202	Zambia	52.0 yrs	55.7 yrs
203	Bhutan	52.0 yrs	44.5 yrs
204	Rwanda	51.7 yrs	45.3 yrs
205	Haiti	51.6 yrs	48.7 yrs
206	Lao People's Democratic Republic	51.6 yrs	46.1 yrs
207	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	51.2 yrs	56.2 yrs
208	Nepal	50.9 yrs	45.5 yrs
209	Cambodia	50.8 yrs	12.8 yrs
210	Equatorial Guinea	50.6 yrs	37.3 yrs
211	Central African Republic	50.5 yrs	47.9 yrs
212	Madagascar	50.4 yrs	49.6 yrs
213	Sudan	50.0 yrs	53.3 yrs
214	Benin	50.0 yrs	45.4 yrs
215	Burkina Faso	48.8 yrs	42.5 yrs
216	Somalia	48.3 yrs	44.5 yrs
217	Gambia	48.1 yrs	42.2 yrs
218	Western Sahara	47.8 yrs	36.0 yrs
219	Burundi	47.7 yrs	43.5 yrs
220	Democratic Republic of the Congo	46.7 yrs	44.5 yrs
221	Nigeria	46.2 yrs	43.0 yrs
222	Uganda	45.5 yrs	46.5 yrs
223	Guinea	45.3 yrs	40.6 yrs
224	Guinea-Bissau	45.3 yrs	41.9 yrs
225	Chad	45.3 yrs	42.7 yrs
226	Malawi	44.6 yrs	40.1 yrs
227	Liberia	44.0 yrs	42.5 yrs
228	Mali	43.9 yrs	36.5 yrs
229	Sierra Leone	43.6 yrs	41.0 yrs
230	Angola	42.5 yrs	40.8 yrs
231	Niger	40.1 yrs	36.6 yrs
232	Mozambique	39.0 yrs	43.8 yrs
233	Eritrea	38.6 yrs	39.0 yrs
234	Ethiopia	37.8 yrs	38.9 yrs
235	Timor-Leste	34.3 yrs	24.3 yrs
236	South Sudan	32.4 yrs	36.9 yrs
237	Afghanistan	32.1 yrs	40.0 yrs

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