Life expectancy by country, 1995

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

◀▶1995

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1985
1	Monaco	80.9 yrs	77.4 yrs
2	Andorra	80.8 yrs	78.0 yrs
3	Japan	79.7 yrs	77.8 yrs
4	China, Hong Kong SAR	79.1 yrs	76.3 yrs
5	San Marino	79.0 yrs	77.3 yrs
6	Sweden	78.8 yrs	76.7 yrs
7	Switzerland	78.6 yrs	76.9 yrs
8	Australia	78.3 yrs	75.4 yrs
9	Gibraltar	78.3 yrs	75.2 yrs
10	Spain	78.2 yrs	76.4 yrs
11	Italy	78.1 yrs	75.6 yrs
12	Guernsey	78.1 yrs	76.0 yrs
13	Israel	78.0 yrs	76.0 yrs
14	Canada	78.0 yrs	76.3 yrs
15	Greece	77.9 yrs	76.1 yrs
16	France	77.9 yrs	75.3 yrs
17	Liechtenstein	77.9 yrs	76.7 yrs
18	Saint Barthélemy	77.8 yrs	74.0 yrs
19	Norway	77.8 yrs	75.9 yrs
20	Holy See	77.8 yrs	75.5 yrs
21	China, Macao SAR	77.8 yrs	74.7 yrs
22	Faroe Islands	77.7 yrs	76.0 yrs
23	Iceland	77.5 yrs	77.4 yrs
24	Netherlands	77.5 yrs	76.4 yrs
25	Jersey	77.3 yrs	74.7 yrs
26	Martinique	77.2 yrs	74.4 yrs
27	Malta	77.0 yrs	73.8 yrs
28	Austria	76.8 yrs	74.0 yrs
29	New Zealand	76.8 yrs	73.9 yrs
30	Belgium	76.8 yrs	74.5 yrs
31	United Kingdom	76.6 yrs	74.5 yrs
32	Cyprus	76.6 yrs	74.6 yrs
33	Finland	76.6 yrs	74.4 yrs
34	Germany	76.5 yrs	74.5 yrs
35	Costa Rica	76.4 yrs	74.8 yrs
36	French Polynesia	76.2 yrs	71.2 yrs
37	Bermuda	75.9 yrs	73.4 yrs
38	Luxembourg	75.9 yrs	73.3 yrs
39	United States of America	75.8 yrs	74.7 yrs
40	Kuwait	75.7 yrs	73.3 yrs
41	Saint Martin (French part)	75.7 yrs	72.9 yrs
42	Singapore	75.7 yrs	73.1 yrs
43	Réunion	75.7 yrs	72.6 yrs
44	Ireland	75.5 yrs	73.6 yrs
45	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	75.5 yrs	74.1 yrs
46	Guadeloupe	75.5 yrs	72.2 yrs
47	Portugal	75.5 yrs	73.2 yrs
48	Chile	75.3 yrs	71.6 yrs
49	Denmark	75.3 yrs	74.5 yrs
50	Mayotte	75.1 yrs	71.9 yrs
51	China, Taiwan Province of China	74.6 yrs	73.3 yrs
52	Guam	74.5 yrs	73.1 yrs
53	Qatar	74.4 yrs	71.8 yrs
54	Slovenia	74.4 yrs	71.8 yrs
55	Cuba	74.3 yrs	73.5 yrs
56	British Virgin Islands	74.1 yrs	71.0 yrs
57	Albania	74.0 yrs	71.3 yrs
58	Barbados	73.9 yrs	73.3 yrs
59	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	73.8 yrs	71.8 yrs
60	Anguilla	73.7 yrs	70.4 yrs
61	Montenegro	73.7 yrs	72.4 yrs
62	Antigua and Barbuda	73.6 yrs	73.9 yrs
63	Cayman Islands	73.6 yrs	71.6 yrs
64	Puerto Rico	73.6 yrs	72.6 yrs
65	Uruguay	73.5 yrs	71.9 yrs
66	Bahrain	73.4 yrs	72.1 yrs
67	Isle of Man	73.4 yrs	70.0 yrs
68	Republic of Korea	73.4 yrs	68.4 yrs
69	Saint Helena	73.2 yrs	70.7 yrs
70	Czechia	73.2 yrs	71.1 yrs
71	Argentina	72.9 yrs	69.9 yrs
72	Aruba	72.8 yrs	71.8 yrs
73	Curaçao	72.8 yrs	71.9 yrs
74	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	72.8 yrs	72.4 yrs
75	Brunei Darussalam	72.8 yrs	70.5 yrs
76	Serbia	72.7 yrs	71.4 yrs
77	Croatia	72.6 yrs	71.5 yrs
78	Wallis and Futuna Islands	72.5 yrs	64.0 yrs
79	Lebanon	72.4 yrs	61.6 yrs
80	Slovakia	72.3 yrs	70.7 yrs
81	Montserrat	72.2 yrs	70.2 yrs
82	Grenada	72.1 yrs	69.3 yrs
83	Turks and Caicos Islands	72.0 yrs	68.7 yrs
84	Panama	72.0 yrs	70.5 yrs
85	Poland	72.0 yrs	70.5 yrs
86	Malaysia	72.0 yrs	69.9 yrs
87	North Macedonia	72.0 yrs	70.2 yrs
88	French Guiana	71.9 yrs	69.4 yrs
89	Northern Mariana Islands	71.9 yrs	69.2 yrs
90	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	71.7 yrs	70.0 yrs
91	Oman	71.6 yrs	65.3 yrs
92	American Samoa	71.6 yrs	70.5 yrs
93	Jamaica	71.5 yrs	70.1 yrs
94	United Arab Emirates	71.4 yrs	70.1 yrs
95	Bahamas	71.4 yrs	70.3 yrs
96	Ecuador	71.3 yrs	65.6 yrs
97	New Caledonia	71.3 yrs	67.8 yrs
98	Saint Lucia	71.2 yrs	70.3 yrs
99	Tokelau	71.2 yrs	67.3 yrs
100	United States Virgin Islands	71.2 yrs	69.7 yrs
101	Bulgaria	71.0 yrs	71.0 yrs
102	Saudi Arabia	70.9 yrs	66.0 yrs
103	Viet Nam	70.9 yrs	67.2 yrs
104	Jordan	70.9 yrs	68.6 yrs
105	Tunisia	70.8 yrs	66.9 yrs
106	Dominica	70.8 yrs	71.9 yrs
107	Mexico	70.7 yrs	66.8 yrs
108	Seychelles	70.6 yrs	69.6 yrs
109	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	70.6 yrs	69.8 yrs
110	Mauritius	70.6 yrs	68.7 yrs
111	Libya	70.6 yrs	67.3 yrs
112	China	70.4 yrs	66.5 yrs
113	Syrian Arab Republic	70.2 yrs	68.0 yrs
114	Bosnia and Herzegovina	70.2 yrs	70.6 yrs
115	Hungary	70.0 yrs	68.9 yrs
116	Colombia	69.8 yrs	65.4 yrs
117	Sri Lanka	69.8 yrs	68.9 yrs
118	Thailand	69.8 yrs	66.5 yrs
119	Türkiye	69.7 yrs	65.3 yrs
120	State of Palestine	69.6 yrs	65.3 yrs
121	Samoa	69.5 yrs	66.6 yrs
122	Belize	69.5 yrs	68.3 yrs
123	Georgia	69.4 yrs	69.0 yrs
124	Dominican Republic	69.4 yrs	65.6 yrs
125	Romania	69.3 yrs	69.4 yrs
126	Lithuania	69.0 yrs	70.7 yrs
127	Armenia	68.8 yrs	67.1 yrs
128	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	68.8 yrs	61.2 yrs
129	Paraguay	68.8 yrs	65.9 yrs
130	Belarus	68.8 yrs	71.2 yrs
131	Tonga	68.6 yrs	66.9 yrs
132	Cook Islands	68.5 yrs	66.8 yrs
133	Vanuatu	68.1 yrs	63.9 yrs
134	Trinidad and Tobago	68.0 yrs	66.8 yrs
135	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	67.9 yrs	61.5 yrs
136	Estonia	67.8 yrs	69.8 yrs
137	Algeria	67.7 yrs	64.2 yrs
138	Brazil	67.7 yrs	64.0 yrs
139	Saint Kitts and Nevis	67.2 yrs	65.5 yrs
140	Peru	67.2 yrs	61.7 yrs
141	Ukraine	67.1 yrs	70.4 yrs
142	Maldives	67.0 yrs	59.2 yrs
143	Honduras	66.9 yrs	63.2 yrs
144	Solomon Islands	66.7 yrs	65.3 yrs
145	Niue	66.4 yrs	68.0 yrs
146	Philippines	66.3 yrs	62.7 yrs
147	Republic of Moldova	66.2 yrs	66.9 yrs
148	Fiji	66.0 yrs	64.0 yrs
149	Latvia	66.0 yrs	69.6 yrs
150	Indonesia	65.3 yrs	61.4 yrs
151	Egypt	65.2 yrs	59.4 yrs
152	El Salvador	64.9 yrs	58.0 yrs
153	Nicaragua	64.9 yrs	56.4 yrs
154	Iraq	64.8 yrs	59.8 yrs
155	Uzbekistan	64.7 yrs	64.6 yrs
156	Morocco	64.7 yrs	59.2 yrs
157	Greenland	64.2 yrs	62.8 yrs
158	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	64.1 yrs	63.0 yrs
159	Russian Federation	64.0 yrs	68.3 yrs
160	Cabo Verde	63.7 yrs	62.3 yrs
161	Kazakhstan	63.7 yrs	65.4 yrs
162	Guatemala	63.7 yrs	59.8 yrs
163	Turkmenistan	63.5 yrs	62.8 yrs
164	Palau	63.3 yrs	62.7 yrs
165	Kiribati	63.1 yrs	58.7 yrs
166	Kyrgyzstan	62.9 yrs	63.7 yrs
167	Suriname	62.8 yrs	61.4 yrs
168	Guyana	62.7 yrs	61.4 yrs
169	Tuvalu	62.5 yrs	61.1 yrs
170	Marshall Islands	62.5 yrs	61.7 yrs
171	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	62.4 yrs	51.2 yrs
172	Azerbaijan	61.9 yrs	62.7 yrs
173	South Africa	61.6 yrs	62.2 yrs
174	Tajikistan	61.4 yrs	61.0 yrs
175	Gabon	61.3 yrs	59.7 yrs
176	Papua New Guinea	60.9 yrs	58.8 yrs
177	Mongolia	60.9 yrs	56.4 yrs
178	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	60.8 yrs	69.2 yrs
179	India	60.6 yrs	56.3 yrs
180	Yemen	60.5 yrs	55.4 yrs
181	Sao Tome and Principe	60.5 yrs	60.1 yrs
182	Pakistan	60.3 yrs	59.1 yrs
183	Western Sahara	60.2 yrs	47.8 yrs
184	Nauru	60.1 yrs	58.6 yrs
185	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	59.8 yrs	53.8 yrs
186	Nepal	59.3 yrs	50.9 yrs
187	Bhutan	59.3 yrs	52.0 yrs
188	Mauritania	58.9 yrs	55.8 yrs
189	Myanmar	58.7 yrs	55.8 yrs
190	Bangladesh	58.2 yrs	53.9 yrs
191	Comoros	57.8 yrs	53.3 yrs
192	Sudan	57.5 yrs	50.0 yrs
193	Namibia	57.5 yrs	58.5 yrs
194	Senegal	57.3 yrs	52.6 yrs
195	Ghana	56.7 yrs	52.7 yrs
196	Cambodia	56.6 yrs	50.8 yrs
197	Lesotho	56.4 yrs	59.2 yrs
198	Lao People's Democratic Republic	56.3 yrs	51.6 yrs
199	Djibouti	56.2 yrs	54.1 yrs
200	Kenya	55.9 yrs	60.9 yrs
201	Haiti	55.6 yrs	51.6 yrs
202	Congo	55.5 yrs	57.6 yrs
203	Benin	55.4 yrs	50.0 yrs
204	Eswatini	55.1 yrs	61.2 yrs
205	Madagascar	54.9 yrs	50.4 yrs
206	Eritrea	54.8 yrs	38.6 yrs
207	Botswana	54.7 yrs	63.6 yrs
208	Gambia	54.3 yrs	48.1 yrs
209	Togo	53.7 yrs	54.4 yrs
210	Cameroon	53.4 yrs	53.5 yrs
211	Afghanistan	52.1 yrs	32.1 yrs
212	Equatorial Guinea	51.9 yrs	50.6 yrs
213	Côte d'Ivoire	51.7 yrs	52.9 yrs
214	Zimbabwe	51.1 yrs	60.9 yrs
215	United Republic of Tanzania	51.0 yrs	52.2 yrs
216	Somalia	50.6 yrs	48.3 yrs
217	Democratic Republic of the Congo	50.4 yrs	46.7 yrs
218	Guinea	49.8 yrs	45.3 yrs
219	Burkina Faso	49.5 yrs	48.8 yrs
220	Guinea-Bissau	48.5 yrs	45.3 yrs
221	Mali	48.3 yrs	43.9 yrs
222	Ethiopia	48.2 yrs	37.8 yrs
223	Central African Republic	48.1 yrs	50.5 yrs
224	Uganda	47.7 yrs	45.5 yrs
225	Chad	47.5 yrs	45.3 yrs
226	Timor-Leste	47.5 yrs	34.3 yrs
227	Mozambique	46.5 yrs	39.0 yrs
228	Angola	46.1 yrs	42.5 yrs
229	Zambia	46.0 yrs	52.0 yrs
230	Nigeria	45.9 yrs	46.2 yrs
231	Niger	45.5 yrs	40.1 yrs
232	Burundi	44.6 yrs	47.7 yrs
233	Liberia	44.6 yrs	44.0 yrs
234	Malawi	43.8 yrs	44.6 yrs
235	Sierra Leone	42.6 yrs	43.6 yrs
236	Rwanda	41.5 yrs	51.7 yrs
237	South Sudan	31.5 yrs	32.4 yrs

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