Life expectancy by country, 1989

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

◀▶1989

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1979
1	Monaco	79.4 yrs	74.9 yrs
2	Japan	79.0 yrs	76.2 yrs
3	Andorra	78.6 yrs	76.8 yrs
4	Liechtenstein	78.3 yrs	74.7 yrs
5	Iceland	77.9 yrs	76.5 yrs
6	San Marino	77.7 yrs	76.1 yrs
7	Sweden	77.7 yrs	75.5 yrs
8	Israel	77.6 yrs	73.4 yrs
9	Guernsey	77.6 yrs	74.3 yrs
10	Switzerland	77.6 yrs	75.6 yrs
11	China, Hong Kong SAR	77.2 yrs	73.9 yrs
12	Canada	77.1 yrs	74.8 yrs
13	Greece	77.1 yrs	74.7 yrs
14	Spain	77.0 yrs	75.0 yrs
15	Italy	76.9 yrs	74.1 yrs
16	Netherlands	76.8 yrs	75.7 yrs
17	Holy See	76.8 yrs	74.0 yrs
18	Faroe Islands	76.7 yrs	75.7 yrs
19	Gibraltar	76.5 yrs	73.6 yrs
20	Norway	76.5 yrs	75.4 yrs
21	France	76.5 yrs	74.1 yrs
22	Australia	76.2 yrs	74.3 yrs
23	Malta	76.2 yrs	72.5 yrs
24	China, Macao SAR	76.2 yrs	72.6 yrs
25	Cyprus	75.8 yrs	72.2 yrs
26	Costa Rica	75.8 yrs	72.5 yrs
27	Jersey	75.8 yrs	72.3 yrs
28	Martinique	75.8 yrs	71.4 yrs
29	Belgium	75.7 yrs	73.2 yrs
30	Austria	75.5 yrs	72.5 yrs
31	Germany	75.5 yrs	72.9 yrs
32	United Kingdom	75.4 yrs	73.2 yrs
33	Saint Barthélemy	75.3 yrs	71.7 yrs
34	United States of America	75.1 yrs	73.8 yrs
35	Kuwait	75.0 yrs	70.8 yrs
36	Finland	75.0 yrs	73.4 yrs
37	Denmark	74.9 yrs	74.2 yrs
38	New Zealand	74.9 yrs	73.0 yrs
39	Portugal	74.7 yrs	71.6 yrs
40	Ireland	74.5 yrs	72.2 yrs
41	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	74.5 yrs	74.3 yrs
42	Singapore	74.3 yrs	71.4 yrs
43	Luxembourg	74.3 yrs	72.3 yrs
44	Saint Martin (French part)	74.2 yrs	72.3 yrs
45	Réunion	73.9 yrs	68.8 yrs
46	Montenegro	73.8 yrs	71.5 yrs
47	Cuba	73.7 yrs	72.3 yrs
48	Bermuda	73.7 yrs	72.4 yrs
49	China, Taiwan Province of China	73.7 yrs	71.7 yrs
50	Antigua and Barbuda	73.6 yrs	72.8 yrs
51	Guadeloupe	73.6 yrs	69.4 yrs
52	Guam	73.5 yrs	70.1 yrs
53	French Polynesia	73.5 yrs	66.6 yrs
54	Barbados	73.4 yrs	71.5 yrs
55	Slovenia	73.3 yrs	71.6 yrs
56	Mayotte	73.3 yrs	69.2 yrs
57	Chile	73.2 yrs	68.9 yrs
58	Qatar	73.1 yrs	69.5 yrs
59	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	73.0 yrs	70.0 yrs
60	Uruguay	72.6 yrs	70.3 yrs
61	Aruba	72.5 yrs	70.5 yrs
62	Albania	72.5 yrs	69.6 yrs
63	Croatia	72.5 yrs	71.1 yrs
64	Cayman Islands	72.5 yrs	69.0 yrs
65	Bahrain	72.5 yrs	70.3 yrs
66	Puerto Rico	72.5 yrs	72.7 yrs
67	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	72.4 yrs	71.8 yrs
68	Serbia	72.3 yrs	71.2 yrs
69	Curaçao	72.2 yrs	70.7 yrs
70	British Virgin Islands	72.0 yrs	69.3 yrs
71	Anguilla	71.8 yrs	68.6 yrs
72	Czechia	71.8 yrs	70.8 yrs
73	Lithuania	71.6 yrs	70.7 yrs
74	Argentina	71.5 yrs	68.4 yrs
75	Jamaica	71.5 yrs	68.8 yrs
76	Bulgaria	71.5 yrs	71.2 yrs
77	Belarus	71.5 yrs	70.8 yrs
78	Brunei Darussalam	71.4 yrs	68.6 yrs
79	Bosnia and Herzegovina	71.4 yrs	69.1 yrs
80	Isle of Man	71.4 yrs	68.1 yrs
81	Saint Helena	71.3 yrs	69.7 yrs
82	North Macedonia	71.1 yrs	69.2 yrs
83	United Arab Emirates	71.0 yrs	67.6 yrs
84	Slovakia	70.9 yrs	70.7 yrs
85	American Samoa	70.9 yrs	69.1 yrs
86	Ukraine	70.8 yrs	69.8 yrs
87	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	70.8 yrs	68.2 yrs
88	Poland	70.8 yrs	70.3 yrs
89	Malaysia	70.8 yrs	67.6 yrs
90	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	70.7 yrs	69.3 yrs
91	Dominica	70.7 yrs	69.2 yrs
92	Bahamas	70.7 yrs	69.0 yrs
93	Republic of Korea	70.7 yrs	66.1 yrs
94	French Guiana	70.6 yrs	66.6 yrs
95	Estonia	70.5 yrs	69.4 yrs
96	United States Virgin Islands	70.5 yrs	68.5 yrs
97	Latvia	70.4 yrs	68.8 yrs
98	Grenada	70.3 yrs	67.9 yrs
99	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	70.3 yrs	66.8 yrs
100	Seychelles	70.1 yrs	68.2 yrs
101	Panama	70.1 yrs	69.1 yrs
102	Saint Lucia	70.0 yrs	67.4 yrs
103	Turks and Caicos Islands	69.9 yrs	66.8 yrs
104	Jordan	69.9 yrs	66.0 yrs
105	Northern Mariana Islands	69.8 yrs	68.1 yrs
106	Russian Federation	69.7 yrs	67.6 yrs
107	Syrian Arab Republic	69.5 yrs	66.2 yrs
108	Belize	69.5 yrs	66.7 yrs
109	Mauritius	69.5 yrs	66.0 yrs
110	Romania	69.5 yrs	69.5 yrs
111	Hungary	69.4 yrs	69.7 yrs
112	New Caledonia	69.2 yrs	65.2 yrs
113	Tokelau	69.0 yrs	64.7 yrs
114	Libya	69.0 yrs	64.3 yrs
115	Wallis and Futuna Islands	68.9 yrs	58.5 yrs
116	Tunisia	68.8 yrs	62.9 yrs
117	Viet Nam	68.8 yrs	65.0 yrs
118	Colombia	68.6 yrs	66.2 yrs
119	Georgia	68.6 yrs	67.9 yrs
120	Thailand	68.6 yrs	61.7 yrs
121	Mexico	68.6 yrs	63.9 yrs
122	Oman	68.4 yrs	58.3 yrs
123	Saudi Arabia	68.4 yrs	61.5 yrs
124	Montserrat	68.3 yrs	69.1 yrs
125	Republic of Moldova	68.2 yrs	64.8 yrs
126	China	67.9 yrs	63.7 yrs
127	Ecuador	67.8 yrs	62.9 yrs
128	Armenia	67.7 yrs	65.0 yrs
129	Samoa	67.6 yrs	64.5 yrs
130	Algeria	67.5 yrs	52.4 yrs
131	Cook Islands	67.5 yrs	65.7 yrs
132	Trinidad and Tobago	67.5 yrs	66.4 yrs
133	Tonga	67.5 yrs	66.0 yrs
134	Türkiye	67.4 yrs	62.2 yrs
135	Sri Lanka	67.3 yrs	67.5 yrs
136	Dominican Republic	67.3 yrs	62.4 yrs
137	Niue	67.3 yrs	67.4 yrs
138	State of Palestine	67.1 yrs	61.5 yrs
139	Paraguay	66.9 yrs	64.3 yrs
140	Solomon Islands	66.0 yrs	63.1 yrs
141	Vanuatu	66.0 yrs	60.9 yrs
142	Kazakhstan	65.9 yrs	62.1 yrs
143	Uzbekistan	65.8 yrs	62.7 yrs
144	Saint Kitts and Nevis	65.5 yrs	64.2 yrs
145	Brazil	65.5 yrs	61.4 yrs
146	Fiji	65.4 yrs	62.3 yrs
147	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	65.3 yrs	58.5 yrs
148	Kyrgyzstan	65.2 yrs	61.1 yrs
149	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	65.2 yrs	59.1 yrs
150	Lebanon	65.1 yrs	59.6 yrs
151	Honduras	64.8 yrs	59.8 yrs
152	Philippines	64.1 yrs	61.7 yrs
153	Turkmenistan	63.8 yrs	59.1 yrs
154	Cabo Verde	63.6 yrs	60.7 yrs
155	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	63.6 yrs	62.5 yrs
156	Peru	63.4 yrs	59.6 yrs
157	Greenland	63.1 yrs	62.0 yrs
158	South Africa	63.0 yrs	59.5 yrs
159	Azerbaijan	62.9 yrs	60.9 yrs
160	Indonesia	62.9 yrs	58.2 yrs
161	Palau	62.8 yrs	61.6 yrs
162	Maldives	62.4 yrs	53.9 yrs
163	Egypt	62.0 yrs	54.9 yrs
164	Guyana	62.0 yrs	60.7 yrs
165	Suriname	62.0 yrs	60.5 yrs
166	Nicaragua	61.9 yrs	50.8 yrs
167	Guatemala	61.8 yrs	56.6 yrs
168	Morocco	61.8 yrs	54.4 yrs
169	Eswatini	61.7 yrs	57.5 yrs
170	Tajikistan	61.7 yrs	58.5 yrs
171	Marshall Islands	61.7 yrs	60.8 yrs
172	Tuvalu	61.5 yrs	59.9 yrs
173	El Salvador	61.3 yrs	53.8 yrs
174	Botswana	61.2 yrs	62.0 yrs
175	Namibia	60.8 yrs	59.5 yrs
176	Gabon	60.6 yrs	57.4 yrs
177	Kiribati	60.5 yrs	57.1 yrs
178	Kenya	60.0 yrs	58.7 yrs
179	Sao Tome and Principe	59.7 yrs	59.3 yrs
180	Papua New Guinea	59.6 yrs	57.0 yrs
181	Zimbabwe	59.5 yrs	54.9 yrs
182	Pakistan	59.5 yrs	56.6 yrs
183	Lesotho	59.5 yrs	55.8 yrs
184	Nauru	58.9 yrs	58.4 yrs
185	India	58.2 yrs	53.0 yrs
186	Mongolia	58.1 yrs	55.1 yrs
187	Yemen	58.0 yrs	49.5 yrs
188	Mauritania	57.7 yrs	52.8 yrs
189	Iraq	57.5 yrs	64.4 yrs
190	Congo	57.3 yrs	56.5 yrs
191	Myanmar	56.9 yrs	54.0 yrs
192	Senegal	56.2 yrs	47.5 yrs
193	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	56.1 yrs	51.4 yrs
194	Bangladesh	55.5 yrs	52.0 yrs
195	Djibouti	55.4 yrs	51.6 yrs
196	Bhutan	55.1 yrs	47.5 yrs
197	Comoros	55.0 yrs	50.1 yrs
198	Ghana	54.9 yrs	50.8 yrs
199	Sudan	54.9 yrs	53.4 yrs
200	Cambodia	54.8 yrs	41.1 yrs
201	Togo	54.7 yrs	51.5 yrs
202	Cameroon	54.4 yrs	50.5 yrs
203	Nepal	54.0 yrs	47.8 yrs
204	Lao People's Democratic Republic	53.6 yrs	47.5 yrs
205	Côte d'Ivoire	53.0 yrs	51.0 yrs
206	Haiti	52.9 yrs	49.8 yrs
207	Benin	52.5 yrs	47.4 yrs
208	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	52.4 yrs	54.7 yrs
209	United Republic of Tanzania	52.1 yrs	50.8 yrs
210	Madagascar	51.8 yrs	50.1 yrs
211	Western Sahara	51.5 yrs	37.5 yrs
212	Equatorial Guinea	51.3 yrs	43.0 yrs
213	Gambia	50.7 yrs	44.5 yrs
214	Central African Republic	50.1 yrs	49.5 yrs
215	Rwanda	49.5 yrs	47.1 yrs
216	Burkina Faso	49.3 yrs	45.7 yrs
217	Zambia	48.9 yrs	56.0 yrs
218	Democratic Republic of the Congo	48.1 yrs	45.3 yrs
219	Eritrea	47.8 yrs	43.8 yrs
220	Uganda	47.5 yrs	45.4 yrs
221	Guinea	46.9 yrs	42.3 yrs
222	Guinea-Bissau	46.6 yrs	43.2 yrs
223	Somalia	46.6 yrs	47.4 yrs
224	Chad	46.4 yrs	43.2 yrs
225	Mali	46.2 yrs	39.5 yrs
226	Nigeria	45.8 yrs	45.7 yrs
227	Burundi	45.8 yrs	45.0 yrs
228	Ethiopia	45.6 yrs	42.4 yrs
229	Timor-Leste	44.8 yrs	24.2 yrs
230	Afghanistan	44.5 yrs	38.8 yrs
231	Mozambique	43.9 yrs	43.9 yrs
232	Liberia	43.9 yrs	43.9 yrs
233	Sierra Leone	43.7 yrs	42.5 yrs
234	Malawi	43.5 yrs	43.7 yrs
235	Angola	41.7 yrs	41.9 yrs
236	Niger	41.2 yrs	38.9 yrs
237	South Sudan	28.2 yrs	37.8 yrs

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