Life expectancy by country, 1988

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

◀▶1988

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1978
1	Monaco	79.4 yrs	74.7 yrs
2	Japan	78.5 yrs	75.7 yrs
3	Andorra	78.4 yrs	76.5 yrs
4	Liechtenstein	78.0 yrs	74.7 yrs
5	San Marino	77.5 yrs	75.9 yrs
6	Switzerland	77.4 yrs	75.3 yrs
7	China, Hong Kong SAR	77.1 yrs	73.6 yrs
8	Netherlands	77.0 yrs	75.2 yrs
9	Greece	77.0 yrs	74.4 yrs
10	Sweden	77.0 yrs	75.5 yrs
11	Spain	77.0 yrs	74.5 yrs
12	Iceland	76.9 yrs	76.4 yrs
13	Israel	76.9 yrs	73.1 yrs
14	Canada	76.9 yrs	74.5 yrs
15	Guernsey	76.7 yrs	74.4 yrs
16	Italy	76.5 yrs	73.8 yrs
17	Faroe Islands	76.5 yrs	75.6 yrs
18	Holy See	76.4 yrs	73.7 yrs
19	France	76.4 yrs	73.8 yrs
20	Australia	76.3 yrs	73.7 yrs
21	Norway	76.3 yrs	75.4 yrs
22	Gibraltar	76.2 yrs	73.5 yrs
23	Malta	75.9 yrs	72.3 yrs
24	Jersey	75.6 yrs	72.1 yrs
25	Belgium	75.6 yrs	72.7 yrs
26	Costa Rica	75.5 yrs	72.0 yrs
27	China, Macao SAR	75.5 yrs	72.2 yrs
28	Austria	75.4 yrs	72.2 yrs
29	Cyprus	75.4 yrs	71.7 yrs
30	United Kingdom	75.3 yrs	73.0 yrs
31	Germany	75.3 yrs	72.6 yrs
32	Martinique	75.3 yrs	70.8 yrs
33	Saint Barthélemy	75.0 yrs	71.1 yrs
34	United States of America	74.8 yrs	73.4 yrs
35	Denmark	74.8 yrs	74.4 yrs
36	Finland	74.8 yrs	73.1 yrs
37	Kuwait	74.6 yrs	70.5 yrs
38	New Zealand	74.5 yrs	73.0 yrs
39	Ireland	74.4 yrs	71.9 yrs
40	Luxembourg	74.3 yrs	71.5 yrs
41	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	74.1 yrs	74.2 yrs
42	Portugal	74.1 yrs	70.8 yrs
43	Singapore	74.0 yrs	71.2 yrs
44	Saint Martin (French part)	73.9 yrs	72.2 yrs
45	Antigua and Barbuda	73.8 yrs	72.5 yrs
46	Cuba	73.7 yrs	71.9 yrs
47	Bermuda	73.6 yrs	72.0 yrs
48	Réunion	73.6 yrs	68.1 yrs
49	Guam	73.4 yrs	69.6 yrs
50	Barbados	73.4 yrs	71.1 yrs
51	Montenegro	73.4 yrs	71.9 yrs
52	China, Taiwan Province of China	73.4 yrs	71.7 yrs
53	Guadeloupe	73.3 yrs	68.9 yrs
54	Puerto Rico	73.2 yrs	72.5 yrs
55	French Polynesia	73.1 yrs	65.9 yrs
56	Mayotte	73.0 yrs	68.7 yrs
57	Qatar	72.8 yrs	69.1 yrs
58	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	72.8 yrs	69.9 yrs
59	Slovenia	72.8 yrs	71.6 yrs
60	Chile	72.8 yrs	68.0 yrs
61	Aruba	72.5 yrs	70.3 yrs
62	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	72.5 yrs	72.0 yrs
63	Bahrain	72.5 yrs	69.8 yrs
64	Uruguay	72.4 yrs	70.3 yrs
65	Cayman Islands	72.3 yrs	68.5 yrs
66	Albania	72.2 yrs	69.4 yrs
67	Curaçao	72.2 yrs	70.5 yrs
68	Croatia	72.2 yrs	71.3 yrs
69	Serbia	72.0 yrs	71.4 yrs
70	Lithuania	72.0 yrs	70.8 yrs
71	Belarus	71.8 yrs	71.0 yrs
72	British Virgin Islands	71.8 yrs	69.0 yrs
73	Czechia	71.7 yrs	70.7 yrs
74	Anguilla	71.4 yrs	68.2 yrs
75	Bulgaria	71.4 yrs	71.1 yrs
76	Jamaica	71.2 yrs	68.7 yrs
77	Saint Helena	71.2 yrs	69.5 yrs
78	Brunei Darussalam	71.2 yrs	68.3 yrs
79	Argentina	71.1 yrs	68.0 yrs
80	Slovakia	71.1 yrs	70.4 yrs
81	Isle of Man	71.1 yrs	67.7 yrs
82	Ukraine	71.0 yrs	69.8 yrs
83	Estonia	71.0 yrs	69.7 yrs
84	Dominica	71.0 yrs	70.1 yrs
85	Bosnia and Herzegovina	71.0 yrs	68.8 yrs
86	Panama	70.9 yrs	68.7 yrs
87	Latvia	70.9 yrs	69.3 yrs
88	American Samoa	70.9 yrs	68.9 yrs
89	United Arab Emirates	70.8 yrs	67.1 yrs
90	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	70.8 yrs	68.1 yrs
91	Poland	70.8 yrs	70.4 yrs
92	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	70.6 yrs	67.3 yrs
93	Montserrat	70.6 yrs	68.9 yrs
94	Bahamas	70.5 yrs	68.9 yrs
95	Malaysia	70.5 yrs	67.2 yrs
96	North Macedonia	70.5 yrs	69.0 yrs
97	French Guiana	70.4 yrs	66.0 yrs
98	United States Virgin Islands	70.4 yrs	68.3 yrs
99	Republic of Korea	70.2 yrs	65.0 yrs
100	Grenada	70.0 yrs	67.9 yrs
101	Seychelles	70.0 yrs	67.9 yrs
102	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	70.0 yrs	66.3 yrs
103	Hungary	69.9 yrs	69.5 yrs
104	Russian Federation	69.9 yrs	67.8 yrs
105	Saint Lucia	69.7 yrs	67.4 yrs
106	Turks and Caicos Islands	69.6 yrs	66.4 yrs
107	Jordan	69.6 yrs	65.6 yrs
108	Northern Mariana Islands	69.6 yrs	67.9 yrs
109	Belize	69.4 yrs	66.3 yrs
110	Mauritius	69.4 yrs	65.3 yrs
111	Romania	69.4 yrs	69.8 yrs
112	Syrian Arab Republic	69.2 yrs	65.9 yrs
113	Sri Lanka	69.0 yrs	66.8 yrs
114	New Caledonia	68.9 yrs	64.7 yrs
115	Georgia	68.8 yrs	67.6 yrs
116	Viet Nam	68.6 yrs	64.5 yrs
117	Libya	68.6 yrs	63.8 yrs
118	Tunisia	68.5 yrs	62.1 yrs
119	Tokelau	68.5 yrs	64.4 yrs
120	Colombia	68.3 yrs	65.8 yrs
121	Mexico	68.3 yrs	63.4 yrs
122	Thailand	68.2 yrs	61.3 yrs
123	Republic of Moldova	68.2 yrs	64.5 yrs
124	Wallis and Futuna Islands	67.8 yrs	57.7 yrs
125	Saudi Arabia	67.8 yrs	60.7 yrs
126	Oman	67.7 yrs	57.0 yrs
127	Niue	67.6 yrs	67.1 yrs
128	China	67.6 yrs	63.1 yrs
129	Cook Islands	67.4 yrs	65.4 yrs
130	Trinidad and Tobago	67.4 yrs	66.2 yrs
131	Samoa	67.3 yrs	64.1 yrs
132	Tonga	67.3 yrs	65.8 yrs
133	Ecuador	67.0 yrs	62.4 yrs
134	Algeria	66.9 yrs	50.6 yrs
135	Dominican Republic	66.9 yrs	62.6 yrs
136	Türkiye	66.9 yrs	61.6 yrs
137	Paraguay	66.7 yrs	64.1 yrs
138	State of Palestine	66.7 yrs	60.8 yrs
139	Kazakhstan	66.0 yrs	61.8 yrs
140	Solomon Islands	65.9 yrs	62.5 yrs
141	Uzbekistan	65.8 yrs	62.4 yrs
142	Vanuatu	65.7 yrs	59.9 yrs
143	Saint Kitts and Nevis	65.5 yrs	64.0 yrs
144	Kyrgyzstan	65.3 yrs	60.7 yrs
145	Brazil	65.2 yrs	60.9 yrs
146	Fiji	65.0 yrs	63.1 yrs
147	Honduras	64.4 yrs	59.3 yrs
148	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	64.2 yrs	58.8 yrs
149	Turkmenistan	63.7 yrs	58.3 yrs
150	Philippines	63.7 yrs	61.5 yrs
151	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	63.5 yrs	62.3 yrs
152	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	63.3 yrs	56.0 yrs
153	Cabo Verde	63.2 yrs	60.4 yrs
154	Greenland	63.0 yrs	61.8 yrs
155	Peru	63.0 yrs	59.3 yrs
156	Lebanon	62.9 yrs	60.0 yrs
157	South Africa	62.9 yrs	59.0 yrs
158	Palau	62.8 yrs	61.3 yrs
159	Azerbaijan	62.7 yrs	60.5 yrs
160	Indonesia	62.4 yrs	57.6 yrs
161	Eswatini	61.9 yrs	56.8 yrs
162	Guyana	61.9 yrs	60.6 yrs
163	Tajikistan	61.8 yrs	58.4 yrs
164	Marshall Islands	61.8 yrs	60.7 yrs
165	Botswana	61.7 yrs	61.5 yrs
166	Maldives	61.6 yrs	50.5 yrs
167	Guatemala	61.5 yrs	56.4 yrs
168	Suriname	61.5 yrs	60.4 yrs
169	Egypt	61.4 yrs	54.1 yrs
170	Tuvalu	61.4 yrs	59.6 yrs
171	Morocco	61.2 yrs	53.5 yrs
172	Sao Tome and Principe	60.8 yrs	59.1 yrs
173	Gabon	60.4 yrs	57.0 yrs
174	Kenya	60.3 yrs	58.2 yrs
175	Zimbabwe	60.2 yrs	54.7 yrs
176	El Salvador	60.0 yrs	54.7 yrs
177	Kiribati	60.0 yrs	56.9 yrs
178	Nicaragua	59.8 yrs	53.5 yrs
179	Lesotho	59.6 yrs	55.2 yrs
180	Pakistan	59.4 yrs	56.1 yrs
181	Papua New Guinea	59.4 yrs	56.5 yrs
182	Namibia	59.0 yrs	59.1 yrs
183	Nauru	58.7 yrs	58.3 yrs
184	India	57.7 yrs	52.4 yrs
185	Congo	57.5 yrs	56.3 yrs
186	Mauritania	57.5 yrs	52.4 yrs
187	Mongolia	57.5 yrs	54.9 yrs
188	Yemen	57.4 yrs	48.5 yrs
189	Iraq	56.7 yrs	64.2 yrs
190	Myanmar	56.6 yrs	53.5 yrs
191	Senegal	55.5 yrs	46.6 yrs
192	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	55.5 yrs	50.8 yrs
193	Bangladesh	55.2 yrs	51.6 yrs
194	Djibouti	55.1 yrs	51.2 yrs
195	Sudan	55.0 yrs	53.3 yrs
196	Togo	54.9 yrs	50.9 yrs
197	Comoros	54.7 yrs	49.7 yrs
198	Ghana	54.4 yrs	50.5 yrs
199	Cameroon	54.4 yrs	50.3 yrs
200	Cambodia	54.4 yrs	11.6 yrs
201	Bhutan	54.4 yrs	46.7 yrs
202	Côte d'Ivoire	53.1 yrs	50.4 yrs
203	Nepal	53.1 yrs	47.2 yrs
204	Lao People's Democratic Republic	53.1 yrs	46.8 yrs
205	Armenia	52.7 yrs	64.7 yrs
206	Haiti	52.5 yrs	49.5 yrs
207	United Republic of Tanzania	52.2 yrs	50.4 yrs
208	Western Sahara	52.1 yrs	40.4 yrs
209	Benin	52.0 yrs	46.9 yrs
210	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	51.7 yrs	55.4 yrs
211	Madagascar	51.4 yrs	50.0 yrs
212	Equatorial Guinea	51.2 yrs	42.3 yrs
213	Rwanda	50.9 yrs	46.2 yrs
214	Central African Republic	50.2 yrs	49.2 yrs
215	Gambia	50.1 yrs	43.6 yrs
216	Zambia	49.7 yrs	56.3 yrs
217	Burkina Faso	49.2 yrs	45.0 yrs
218	Eritrea	48.1 yrs	43.4 yrs
219	Democratic Republic of the Congo	47.8 yrs	44.6 yrs
220	Uganda	47.5 yrs	45.6 yrs
221	Guinea	46.5 yrs	41.9 yrs
222	Chad	46.4 yrs	43.0 yrs
223	Guinea-Bissau	46.3 yrs	42.9 yrs
224	Nigeria	45.8 yrs	45.4 yrs
225	Ethiopia	45.7 yrs	41.5 yrs
226	Mali	45.7 yrs	38.8 yrs
227	Liberia	44.1 yrs	43.6 yrs
228	Somalia	43.9 yrs	47.0 yrs
229	Sierra Leone	43.8 yrs	42.2 yrs
230	Mozambique	43.7 yrs	44.0 yrs
231	Malawi	43.6 yrs	43.0 yrs
232	Afghanistan	43.2 yrs	40.1 yrs
233	Burundi	42.9 yrs	44.4 yrs
234	Angola	41.5 yrs	41.6 yrs
235	Niger	40.8 yrs	38.3 yrs
236	Timor-Leste	36.0 yrs	22.9 yrs
237	South Sudan	11.0 yrs	37.6 yrs

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