Life expectancy by country, 1990

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

◀▶1990

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1980
1	Monaco	79.4 yrs	75.0 yrs
2	Andorra	79.0 yrs	77.1 yrs
3	Japan	79.0 yrs	76.1 yrs
4	Liechtenstein	78.5 yrs	74.8 yrs
5	Israel	78.0 yrs	73.7 yrs
6	San Marino	77.8 yrs	76.4 yrs
7	Iceland	77.7 yrs	76.6 yrs
8	Sweden	77.6 yrs	75.7 yrs
9	China, Hong Kong SAR	77.5 yrs	74.3 yrs
10	Canada	77.4 yrs	75.1 yrs
11	Switzerland	77.4 yrs	75.6 yrs
12	Greece	77.3 yrs	74.5 yrs
13	Italy	77.0 yrs	74.0 yrs
14	Australia	77.0 yrs	74.6 yrs
15	Netherlands	77.0 yrs	75.8 yrs
16	Spain	77.0 yrs	75.5 yrs
17	Holy See	76.9 yrs	74.1 yrs
18	Faroe Islands	76.9 yrs	75.8 yrs
19	Gibraltar	76.8 yrs	73.8 yrs
20	France	76.8 yrs	74.2 yrs
21	Guernsey	76.6 yrs	75.5 yrs
22	Norway	76.6 yrs	75.7 yrs
23	China, Macao SAR	76.6 yrs	73.0 yrs
24	Malta	76.2 yrs	72.3 yrs
25	Costa Rica	76.1 yrs	73.0 yrs
26	Jersey	76.1 yrs	72.7 yrs
27	Belgium	76.1 yrs	73.2 yrs
28	Cyprus	76.0 yrs	72.8 yrs
29	Martinique	75.9 yrs	71.9 yrs
30	United Kingdom	75.7 yrs	73.6 yrs
31	Austria	75.7 yrs	72.7 yrs
32	Saint Barthélemy	75.7 yrs	72.4 yrs
33	United States of America	75.4 yrs	73.7 yrs
34	New Zealand	75.4 yrs	72.9 yrs
35	Germany	75.3 yrs	73.1 yrs
36	Finland	75.0 yrs	73.7 yrs
37	Luxembourg	75.0 yrs	72.4 yrs
38	Denmark	74.9 yrs	74.1 yrs
39	Ireland	74.8 yrs	72.5 yrs
40	Saint Martin (French part)	74.6 yrs	72.3 yrs
41	Singapore	74.6 yrs	71.5 yrs
42	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	74.3 yrs	73.0 yrs
43	Portugal	74.3 yrs	71.7 yrs
44	Réunion	74.2 yrs	69.4 yrs
45	Bermuda	74.0 yrs	72.7 yrs
46	Guadeloupe	73.9 yrs	69.9 yrs
47	Montenegro	73.9 yrs	72.2 yrs
48	China, Taiwan Province of China	73.9 yrs	72.0 yrs
49	French Polynesia	73.9 yrs	67.4 yrs
50	Cuba	73.8 yrs	72.6 yrs
51	Chile	73.7 yrs	69.5 yrs
52	Antigua and Barbuda	73.6 yrs	73.1 yrs
53	Mayotte	73.6 yrs	69.8 yrs
54	Guam	73.5 yrs	70.7 yrs
55	Slovenia	73.5 yrs	71.8 yrs
56	Barbados	73.5 yrs	72.1 yrs
57	Qatar	73.4 yrs	69.9 yrs
58	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	73.2 yrs	70.2 yrs
59	Uruguay	73.0 yrs	70.5 yrs
60	Kuwait	72.8 yrs	71.1 yrs
61	Puerto Rico	72.8 yrs	73.1 yrs
62	Albania	72.7 yrs	69.9 yrs
63	Cayman Islands	72.7 yrs	69.5 yrs
64	Bahrain	72.6 yrs	70.7 yrs
65	Aruba	72.5 yrs	70.8 yrs
66	Curaçao	72.4 yrs	71.0 yrs
67	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	72.4 yrs	71.8 yrs
68	British Virgin Islands	72.4 yrs	69.6 yrs
69	Croatia	72.2 yrs	71.0 yrs
70	Serbia	72.2 yrs	71.1 yrs
71	Anguilla	72.1 yrs	68.9 yrs
72	Isle of Man	71.8 yrs	68.5 yrs
73	Jamaica	71.7 yrs	69.0 yrs
74	Argentina	71.6 yrs	68.6 yrs
75	Brunei Darussalam	71.6 yrs	69.0 yrs
76	Saint Helena	71.5 yrs	69.9 yrs
77	Bosnia and Herzegovina	71.5 yrs	69.6 yrs
78	Czechia	71.4 yrs	70.3 yrs
79	Lithuania	71.4 yrs	70.7 yrs
80	Panama	71.3 yrs	69.5 yrs
81	Bulgaria	71.3 yrs	71.1 yrs
82	North Macedonia	71.3 yrs	69.0 yrs
83	United Arab Emirates	71.1 yrs	68.2 yrs
84	Belarus	71.1 yrs	70.8 yrs
85	American Samoa	71.1 yrs	69.4 yrs
86	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	71.0 yrs	68.2 yrs
87	Malaysia	71.0 yrs	68.1 yrs
88	Republic of Korea	71.0 yrs	64.8 yrs
89	Bahamas	70.9 yrs	69.1 yrs
90	Montserrat	70.9 yrs	69.3 yrs
91	Slovakia	70.8 yrs	70.4 yrs
92	French Guiana	70.8 yrs	67.1 yrs
93	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	70.7 yrs	68.0 yrs
94	United States Virgin Islands	70.7 yrs	68.7 yrs
95	Poland	70.6 yrs	70.5 yrs
96	Grenada	70.5 yrs	68.1 yrs
97	Dominica	70.5 yrs	71.0 yrs
98	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	70.5 yrs	67.2 yrs
99	Ukraine	70.3 yrs	69.8 yrs
100	Seychelles	70.2 yrs	68.5 yrs
101	Turks and Caicos Islands	70.2 yrs	67.1 yrs
102	Jordan	70.1 yrs	66.5 yrs
103	Saint Lucia	70.0 yrs	67.8 yrs
104	Northern Mariana Islands	70.0 yrs	68.3 yrs
105	Wallis and Futuna Islands	69.9 yrs	59.3 yrs
106	Estonia	69.9 yrs	69.5 yrs
107	Syrian Arab Republic	69.8 yrs	66.5 yrs
108	Mauritius	69.8 yrs	66.5 yrs
109	Romania	69.8 yrs	69.3 yrs
110	Belize	69.6 yrs	66.9 yrs
111	New Caledonia	69.5 yrs	65.6 yrs
112	Latvia	69.5 yrs	69.1 yrs
113	Tokelau	69.4 yrs	65.2 yrs
114	Hungary	69.4 yrs	69.1 yrs
115	Libya	69.3 yrs	64.8 yrs
116	Russian Federation	69.3 yrs	67.5 yrs
117	Sri Lanka	69.2 yrs	68.0 yrs
118	Tunisia	69.1 yrs	63.7 yrs
119	Oman	69.0 yrs	59.6 yrs
120	Viet Nam	69.0 yrs	65.3 yrs
121	Mexico	69.0 yrs	64.3 yrs
122	Saudi Arabia	68.9 yrs	62.4 yrs
123	Thailand	68.9 yrs	62.2 yrs
124	Colombia	68.7 yrs	66.7 yrs
125	Georgia	68.7 yrs	68.3 yrs
126	Ecuador	68.4 yrs	63.3 yrs
127	China	68.2 yrs	64.2 yrs
128	Republic of Moldova	67.9 yrs	65.2 yrs
129	Samoa	67.8 yrs	65.0 yrs
130	Dominican Republic	67.8 yrs	63.4 yrs
131	Türkiye	67.8 yrs	62.7 yrs
132	State of Palestine	67.8 yrs	62.2 yrs
133	Algeria	67.7 yrs	54.5 yrs
134	Armenia	67.7 yrs	65.4 yrs
135	Trinidad and Tobago	67.6 yrs	66.5 yrs
136	Tonga	67.5 yrs	66.2 yrs
137	Paraguay	67.3 yrs	64.5 yrs
138	Niue	67.1 yrs	67.6 yrs
139	Vanuatu	66.7 yrs	61.3 yrs
140	Cook Islands	66.5 yrs	65.9 yrs
141	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	66.5 yrs	60.3 yrs
142	Solomon Islands	66.2 yrs	63.7 yrs
143	Brazil	65.9 yrs	61.8 yrs
144	Uzbekistan	65.8 yrs	63.0 yrs
145	Kazakhstan	65.7 yrs	62.5 yrs
146	Saint Kitts and Nevis	65.6 yrs	64.4 yrs
147	Lebanon	65.5 yrs	59.9 yrs
148	Honduras	65.2 yrs	60.4 yrs
149	Fiji	65.1 yrs	62.4 yrs
150	Kyrgyzstan	64.8 yrs	61.5 yrs
151	Philippines	64.4 yrs	61.9 yrs
152	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	64.1 yrs	58.4 yrs
153	Peru	64.0 yrs	60.0 yrs
154	Cabo Verde	63.9 yrs	61.0 yrs
155	Turkmenistan	63.9 yrs	60.2 yrs
156	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	63.7 yrs	62.6 yrs
157	Indonesia	63.3 yrs	58.7 yrs
158	Greenland	63.2 yrs	62.2 yrs
159	Maldives	63.1 yrs	54.8 yrs
160	South Africa	62.9 yrs	60.0 yrs
161	Azerbaijan	62.8 yrs	61.4 yrs
162	Palau	62.8 yrs	61.9 yrs
163	Egypt	62.5 yrs	55.7 yrs
164	Nicaragua	62.5 yrs	58.0 yrs
165	Morocco	62.4 yrs	55.2 yrs
166	Guyana	62.3 yrs	60.8 yrs
167	Suriname	62.1 yrs	60.6 yrs
168	El Salvador	62.0 yrs	48.6 yrs
169	Guatemala	61.8 yrs	55.3 yrs
170	Marshall Islands	61.8 yrs	61.0 yrs
171	Tajikistan	61.6 yrs	58.6 yrs
172	Tuvalu	61.6 yrs	60.2 yrs
173	Namibia	61.4 yrs	56.6 yrs
174	Eswatini	61.2 yrs	58.2 yrs
175	Kiribati	61.0 yrs	57.3 yrs
176	Gabon	60.7 yrs	57.9 yrs
177	Sao Tome and Principe	60.7 yrs	59.4 yrs
178	Botswana	60.1 yrs	62.5 yrs
179	Papua New Guinea	59.8 yrs	57.4 yrs
180	Pakistan	59.7 yrs	57.2 yrs
181	Lesotho	59.3 yrs	56.5 yrs
182	Nauru	59.1 yrs	58.5 yrs
183	Mongolia	58.8 yrs	55.2 yrs
184	India	58.6 yrs	53.6 yrs
185	Yemen	58.5 yrs	50.6 yrs
186	Kenya	58.3 yrs	59.2 yrs
187	Zimbabwe	58.3 yrs	59.1 yrs
188	Mauritania	58.1 yrs	53.2 yrs
189	Western Sahara	57.7 yrs	39.4 yrs
190	Iraq	57.6 yrs	60.9 yrs
191	Myanmar	57.2 yrs	54.4 yrs
192	Congo	57.1 yrs	56.8 yrs
193	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	56.8 yrs	51.8 yrs
194	Senegal	56.7 yrs	48.3 yrs
195	Bangladesh	55.8 yrs	52.3 yrs
196	Bhutan	55.8 yrs	48.2 yrs
197	Comoros	55.6 yrs	50.7 yrs
198	Djibouti	55.5 yrs	52.0 yrs
199	Sudan	55.5 yrs	54.1 yrs
200	Ghana	55.4 yrs	51.1 yrs
201	Cambodia	55.2 yrs	47.5 yrs
202	Nepal	54.8 yrs	48.3 yrs
203	Togo	54.6 yrs	52.1 yrs
204	Cameroon	54.4 yrs	50.9 yrs
205	Lao People's Democratic Republic	54.0 yrs	48.6 yrs
206	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	53.3 yrs	53.9 yrs
207	Haiti	53.2 yrs	50.0 yrs
208	Benin	53.0 yrs	47.8 yrs
209	Côte d'Ivoire	52.8 yrs	51.4 yrs
210	Madagascar	52.1 yrs	50.0 yrs
211	United Republic of Tanzania	52.0 yrs	51.3 yrs
212	Equatorial Guinea	51.4 yrs	48.8 yrs
213	Gambia	51.3 yrs	45.0 yrs
214	Central African Republic	49.9 yrs	49.8 yrs
215	Eritrea	49.7 yrs	44.6 yrs
216	Burkina Faso	49.3 yrs	46.5 yrs
217	Democratic Republic of the Congo	48.5 yrs	45.5 yrs
218	Zambia	48.2 yrs	55.5 yrs
219	Rwanda	47.8 yrs	48.1 yrs
220	Uganda	47.6 yrs	43.5 yrs
221	Guinea	47.3 yrs	42.8 yrs
222	Guinea-Bissau	46.9 yrs	43.6 yrs
223	Somalia	46.9 yrs	47.6 yrs
224	Mali	46.5 yrs	40.3 yrs
225	Nigeria	45.7 yrs	46.0 yrs
226	Burundi	45.2 yrs	45.7 yrs
227	Timor-Leste	45.2 yrs	30.2 yrs
228	Afghanistan	45.1 yrs	39.3 yrs
229	Ethiopia	45.1 yrs	42.8 yrs
230	Chad	45.1 yrs	43.5 yrs
231	Mozambique	44.3 yrs	44.0 yrs
232	Sierra Leone	43.7 yrs	42.8 yrs
233	Malawi	43.6 yrs	44.3 yrs
234	Angola	41.9 yrs	42.2 yrs
235	Niger	41.7 yrs	39.3 yrs
236	Liberia	37.6 yrs	44.1 yrs
237	South Sudan	28.6 yrs	38.0 yrs

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