Life expectancy by country, 1986

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

◀▶1986

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1976
1	Monaco	78.4 yrs	73.8 yrs
2	Japan	78.2 yrs	74.8 yrs
3	Andorra	78.1 yrs	75.9 yrs
4	Iceland	77.9 yrs	76.6 yrs
5	San Marino	77.4 yrs	75.4 yrs
6	Liechtenstein	77.2 yrs	74.6 yrs
7	Switzerland	77.0 yrs	74.9 yrs
8	Sweden	77.0 yrs	75.0 yrs
9	Spain	76.7 yrs	73.8 yrs
10	China, Hong Kong SAR	76.7 yrs	73.0 yrs
11	Canada	76.5 yrs	73.9 yrs
12	Greece	76.5 yrs	73.8 yrs
13	Netherlands	76.3 yrs	74.7 yrs
14	Norway	76.3 yrs	75.0 yrs
15	Faroe Islands	76.2 yrs	75.4 yrs
16	Australia	76.1 yrs	72.8 yrs
17	Guernsey	76.0 yrs	73.6 yrs
18	Israel	75.9 yrs	72.7 yrs
19	Italy	75.9 yrs	73.1 yrs
20	Holy See	75.8 yrs	72.9 yrs
21	Gibraltar	75.6 yrs	73.4 yrs
22	France	75.6 yrs	73.1 yrs
23	Costa Rica	75.0 yrs	71.0 yrs
24	Jersey	75.0 yrs	72.0 yrs
25	China, Macao SAR	75.0 yrs	71.9 yrs
26	Cyprus	74.9 yrs	70.8 yrs
27	United Kingdom	74.8 yrs	72.6 yrs
28	Finland	74.8 yrs	72.0 yrs
29	United States of America	74.7 yrs	72.8 yrs
30	Germany	74.7 yrs	72.0 yrs
31	Belgium	74.7 yrs	72.1 yrs
32	Denmark	74.6 yrs	73.8 yrs
33	Austria	74.5 yrs	71.8 yrs
34	Malta	74.5 yrs	72.2 yrs
35	Martinique	74.5 yrs	69.7 yrs
36	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	74.4 yrs	74.7 yrs
37	Saint Barthélemy	74.3 yrs	69.7 yrs
38	New Zealand	74.1 yrs	72.4 yrs
39	Luxembourg	74.1 yrs	70.2 yrs
40	Antigua and Barbuda	73.9 yrs	71.8 yrs
41	Kuwait	73.8 yrs	69.9 yrs
42	Portugal	73.7 yrs	69.1 yrs
43	Ireland	73.6 yrs	71.8 yrs
44	Cuba	73.6 yrs	70.9 yrs
45	Singapore	73.6 yrs	70.6 yrs
46	Bermuda	73.4 yrs	71.3 yrs
47	Barbados	73.4 yrs	70.1 yrs
48	Guam	73.3 yrs	68.3 yrs
49	Puerto Rico	73.3 yrs	72.1 yrs
50	China, Taiwan Province of China	73.3 yrs	71.2 yrs
51	Saint Martin (French part)	73.2 yrs	72.1 yrs
52	Réunion	73.0 yrs	66.7 yrs
53	Montenegro	72.8 yrs	72.1 yrs
54	Guadeloupe	72.6 yrs	67.8 yrs
55	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	72.4 yrs	72.3 yrs
56	Lithuania	72.4 yrs	71.2 yrs
57	Bahrain	72.3 yrs	68.9 yrs
58	Mayotte	72.3 yrs	67.6 yrs
59	Uruguay	72.2 yrs	69.9 yrs
60	Qatar	72.2 yrs	68.2 yrs
61	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	72.1 yrs	69.7 yrs
62	Slovenia	72.1 yrs	71.1 yrs
63	Chile	72.1 yrs	66.8 yrs
64	Curaçao	72.0 yrs	70.0 yrs
65	French Polynesia	72.0 yrs	64.8 yrs
66	Cayman Islands	71.9 yrs	67.5 yrs
67	Aruba	71.8 yrs	69.8 yrs
68	Croatia	71.8 yrs	71.4 yrs
69	Albania	71.7 yrs	68.6 yrs
70	Dominica	71.7 yrs	69.4 yrs
71	Belarus	71.7 yrs	71.2 yrs
72	Serbia	71.6 yrs	71.9 yrs
73	Bulgaria	71.5 yrs	71.4 yrs
74	British Virgin Islands	71.3 yrs	68.4 yrs
75	Czechia	71.0 yrs	70.6 yrs
76	Latvia	71.0 yrs	69.4 yrs
77	Estonia	70.9 yrs	69.7 yrs
78	Slovakia	70.9 yrs	70.5 yrs
79	Saint Helena	70.9 yrs	69.3 yrs
80	Anguilla	70.8 yrs	67.4 yrs
81	Ukraine	70.8 yrs	70.1 yrs
82	Brunei Darussalam	70.8 yrs	67.4 yrs
83	Bosnia and Herzegovina	70.8 yrs	68.6 yrs
84	Panama	70.7 yrs	67.8 yrs
85	American Samoa	70.7 yrs	68.5 yrs
86	Jamaica	70.5 yrs	68.4 yrs
87	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	70.5 yrs	67.3 yrs
88	Poland	70.5 yrs	70.4 yrs
89	United Arab Emirates	70.4 yrs	65.8 yrs
90	Argentina	70.3 yrs	67.0 yrs
91	Bahamas	70.3 yrs	68.5 yrs
92	Isle of Man	70.3 yrs	67.0 yrs
93	Montserrat	70.3 yrs	68.2 yrs
94	North Macedonia	70.3 yrs	67.9 yrs
95	Saint Lucia	70.2 yrs	66.2 yrs
96	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	70.1 yrs	66.5 yrs
97	Malaysia	70.1 yrs	66.2 yrs
98	Russian Federation	70.0 yrs	68.1 yrs
99	United States Virgin Islands	70.0 yrs	67.8 yrs
100	Seychelles	69.8 yrs	67.2 yrs
101	Romania	69.7 yrs	69.9 yrs
102	French Guiana	69.7 yrs	65.3 yrs
103	Grenada	69.6 yrs	68.0 yrs
104	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	69.5 yrs	65.3 yrs
105	Northern Mariana Islands	69.4 yrs	67.3 yrs
106	Georgia	69.2 yrs	66.9 yrs
107	Hungary	69.1 yrs	69.7 yrs
108	Sri Lanka	69.0 yrs	65.8 yrs
109	Turks and Caicos Islands	69.0 yrs	65.6 yrs
110	Jordan	69.0 yrs	64.7 yrs
111	Republic of Korea	69.0 yrs	65.0 yrs
112	Mauritius	68.9 yrs	64.0 yrs
113	Belize	68.7 yrs	65.8 yrs
114	Syrian Arab Republic	68.4 yrs	64.8 yrs
115	Colombia	68.3 yrs	64.6 yrs
116	New Caledonia	68.2 yrs	63.8 yrs
117	Niue	67.9 yrs	66.5 yrs
118	Libya	67.8 yrs	62.5 yrs
119	Tokelau	67.7 yrs	63.7 yrs
120	Viet Nam	67.5 yrs	63.7 yrs
121	Armenia	67.4 yrs	64.1 yrs
122	Tunisia	67.4 yrs	60.3 yrs
123	Mexico	67.4 yrs	62.5 yrs
124	Republic of Moldova	67.4 yrs	64.0 yrs
125	Thailand	67.3 yrs	60.4 yrs
126	Tonga	67.1 yrs	65.4 yrs
127	Cook Islands	67.0 yrs	65.5 yrs
128	Trinidad and Tobago	66.9 yrs	66.0 yrs
129	China	66.9 yrs	61.2 yrs
130	Samoa	66.8 yrs	63.3 yrs
131	Saudi Arabia	66.7 yrs	58.8 yrs
132	Oman	66.2 yrs	54.5 yrs
133	Paraguay	66.2 yrs	63.6 yrs
134	Ecuador	66.1 yrs	61.4 yrs
135	Dominican Republic	66.1 yrs	61.7 yrs
136	Türkiye	65.9 yrs	60.0 yrs
137	Kazakhstan	65.8 yrs	61.3 yrs
138	State of Palestine	65.7 yrs	59.4 yrs
139	Saint Kitts and Nevis	65.5 yrs	63.5 yrs
140	Algeria	65.3 yrs	48.0 yrs
141	Wallis and Futuna Islands	65.0 yrs	56.2 yrs
142	Uzbekistan	65.0 yrs	61.9 yrs
143	Kyrgyzstan	64.7 yrs	60.1 yrs
144	Solomon Islands	64.7 yrs	61.1 yrs
145	Vanuatu	64.6 yrs	58.7 yrs
146	Brazil	64.4 yrs	60.0 yrs
147	Fiji	64.0 yrs	62.1 yrs
148	Honduras	63.6 yrs	58.1 yrs
149	Botswana	63.4 yrs	60.2 yrs
150	Turkmenistan	63.2 yrs	57.5 yrs
151	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	63.1 yrs	61.9 yrs
152	Greenland	62.9 yrs	61.7 yrs
153	Philippines	62.9 yrs	60.9 yrs
154	Palau	62.8 yrs	60.5 yrs
155	Azerbaijan	62.6 yrs	59.5 yrs
156	Cabo Verde	62.6 yrs	59.4 yrs
157	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	62.5 yrs	57.5 yrs
158	South Africa	62.4 yrs	58.0 yrs
159	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	62.1 yrs	55.8 yrs
160	Peru	62.1 yrs	58.6 yrs
161	Lebanon	62.0 yrs	36.4 yrs
162	Tajikistan	61.8 yrs	58.1 yrs
163	Marshall Islands	61.8 yrs	60.4 yrs
164	Indonesia	61.7 yrs	56.5 yrs
165	Eswatini	61.6 yrs	55.2 yrs
166	Guyana	61.5 yrs	60.5 yrs
167	Suriname	61.2 yrs	60.1 yrs
168	Tuvalu	61.2 yrs	58.8 yrs
169	Zimbabwe	61.0 yrs	57.6 yrs
170	Kenya	60.8 yrs	57.1 yrs
171	Guatemala	60.3 yrs	47.6 yrs
172	Egypt	60.1 yrs	52.5 yrs
173	Iraq	60.0 yrs	63.6 yrs
174	Gabon	60.0 yrs	56.0 yrs
175	Maldives	60.0 yrs	50.8 yrs
176	Morocco	60.0 yrs	52.0 yrs
177	Lesotho	59.4 yrs	53.9 yrs
178	El Salvador	59.3 yrs	54.4 yrs
179	Pakistan	59.2 yrs	55.1 yrs
180	Kiribati	59.1 yrs	56.6 yrs
181	Papua New Guinea	59.0 yrs	55.5 yrs
182	Namibia	58.7 yrs	58.0 yrs
183	Nauru	58.6 yrs	58.2 yrs
184	Congo	57.6 yrs	55.7 yrs
185	Sao Tome and Principe	57.6 yrs	58.8 yrs
186	Nicaragua	57.6 yrs	56.1 yrs
187	India	56.8 yrs	51.3 yrs
188	Mongolia	56.8 yrs	54.6 yrs
189	Mauritania	56.3 yrs	51.8 yrs
190	Myanmar	56.1 yrs	52.9 yrs
191	Sudan	54.6 yrs	53.3 yrs
192	Togo	54.6 yrs	49.5 yrs
193	Bangladesh	54.6 yrs	51.0 yrs
194	Djibouti	54.5 yrs	50.3 yrs
195	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	54.3 yrs	50.0 yrs
196	Yemen	54.0 yrs	46.4 yrs
197	Comoros	53.8 yrs	48.6 yrs
198	Senegal	53.7 yrs	44.8 yrs
199	Cameroon	53.6 yrs	50.0 yrs
200	Ghana	53.3 yrs	49.7 yrs
201	Côte d'Ivoire	53.0 yrs	48.9 yrs
202	Bhutan	52.8 yrs	45.2 yrs
203	United Republic of Tanzania	52.2 yrs	49.5 yrs
204	Lao People's Democratic Republic	52.1 yrs	46.0 yrs
205	Haiti	51.9 yrs	49.0 yrs
206	Rwanda	51.7 yrs	45.3 yrs
207	Cambodia	51.6 yrs	11.6 yrs
208	Nepal	51.6 yrs	46.0 yrs
209	Zambia	51.1 yrs	56.1 yrs
210	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	51.1 yrs	56.1 yrs
211	Equatorial Guinea	50.9 yrs	30.5 yrs
212	Benin	50.6 yrs	46.0 yrs
213	Madagascar	50.6 yrs	49.8 yrs
214	Central African Republic	50.4 yrs	48.4 yrs
215	Burkina Faso	49.0 yrs	43.3 yrs
216	Gambia	48.8 yrs	42.9 yrs
217	Western Sahara	48.5 yrs	36.3 yrs
218	Somalia	48.4 yrs	44.7 yrs
219	Burundi	47.4 yrs	43.7 yrs
220	Democratic Republic of the Congo	47.0 yrs	44.7 yrs
221	Nigeria	46.0 yrs	44.2 yrs
222	Guinea	45.7 yrs	41.0 yrs
223	Uganda	45.6 yrs	46.2 yrs
224	Chad	45.6 yrs	42.7 yrs
225	Guinea-Bissau	45.5 yrs	42.3 yrs
226	Mali	44.6 yrs	37.2 yrs
227	Liberia	44.5 yrs	42.9 yrs
228	Malawi	44.3 yrs	41.0 yrs
229	Sierra Leone	43.5 yrs	41.4 yrs
230	Angola	42.7 yrs	40.8 yrs
231	Mozambique	41.0 yrs	43.9 yrs
232	Niger	40.3 yrs	37.1 yrs
233	Eritrea	39.5 yrs	42.6 yrs
234	Afghanistan	38.4 yrs	40.5 yrs
235	Ethiopia	38.4 yrs	41.3 yrs
236	Timor-Leste	34.8 yrs	25.9 yrs
237	South Sudan	32.8 yrs	37.1 yrs

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