Life expectancy by country, 1996

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

◀▶1996

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1986
1	Monaco	81.1 yrs	78.4 yrs
2	Andorra	81.0 yrs	78.1 yrs
3	Japan	80.4 yrs	78.2 yrs
4	China, Hong Kong SAR	79.5 yrs	76.7 yrs
5	San Marino	79.3 yrs	77.4 yrs
6	Switzerland	79.0 yrs	77.0 yrs
7	Sweden	79.0 yrs	77.0 yrs
8	Iceland	78.7 yrs	77.9 yrs
9	Gibraltar	78.7 yrs	75.6 yrs
10	Israel	78.6 yrs	75.9 yrs
11	Holy See	78.5 yrs	75.8 yrs
12	Italy	78.4 yrs	75.9 yrs
13	Australia	78.3 yrs	76.1 yrs
14	Canada	78.3 yrs	76.5 yrs
15	Spain	78.3 yrs	76.7 yrs
16	Norway	78.2 yrs	76.3 yrs
17	Guernsey	78.1 yrs	76.0 yrs
18	Saint Barthélemy	78.1 yrs	74.3 yrs
19	France	78.1 yrs	75.6 yrs
20	Greece	78.0 yrs	76.5 yrs
21	Faroe Islands	77.8 yrs	76.2 yrs
22	Liechtenstein	77.7 yrs	77.2 yrs
23	Netherlands	77.6 yrs	76.3 yrs
24	Jersey	77.6 yrs	75.0 yrs
25	Martinique	77.4 yrs	74.5 yrs
26	China, Macao SAR	77.4 yrs	75.0 yrs
27	Belgium	77.2 yrs	74.7 yrs
28	Austria	77.0 yrs	74.5 yrs
29	United Kingdom	76.9 yrs	74.8 yrs
30	Cyprus	76.9 yrs	74.9 yrs
31	Finland	76.9 yrs	74.8 yrs
32	Germany	76.8 yrs	74.7 yrs
33	New Zealand	76.8 yrs	74.1 yrs
34	French Polynesia	76.8 yrs	72.0 yrs
35	Bermuda	76.5 yrs	73.4 yrs
36	Costa Rica	76.4 yrs	75.0 yrs
37	Malta	76.3 yrs	74.5 yrs
38	United States of America	76.2 yrs	74.7 yrs
39	Luxembourg	76.2 yrs	74.1 yrs
40	Singapore	76.0 yrs	73.6 yrs
41	Réunion	76.0 yrs	73.0 yrs
42	Saint Martin (French part)	75.9 yrs	73.2 yrs
43	Ireland	75.8 yrs	73.6 yrs
44	Guadeloupe	75.8 yrs	72.6 yrs
45	Denmark	75.7 yrs	74.6 yrs
46	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	75.6 yrs	74.4 yrs
47	Kuwait	75.6 yrs	73.8 yrs
48	Chile	75.5 yrs	72.1 yrs
49	Portugal	75.5 yrs	73.7 yrs
50	Mayotte	75.3 yrs	72.3 yrs
51	China, Taiwan Province of China	74.9 yrs	73.3 yrs
52	Slovenia	74.8 yrs	72.1 yrs
53	Cuba	74.7 yrs	73.6 yrs
54	Qatar	74.6 yrs	72.2 yrs
55	Guam	74.6 yrs	73.3 yrs
56	British Virgin Islands	74.3 yrs	71.3 yrs
57	Albania	74.1 yrs	71.7 yrs
58	Barbados	74.1 yrs	73.4 yrs
59	Anguilla	74.0 yrs	70.8 yrs
60	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	74.0 yrs	72.1 yrs
61	Puerto Rico	74.0 yrs	73.3 yrs
62	Republic of Korea	74.0 yrs	69.0 yrs
63	Antigua and Barbuda	73.8 yrs	73.9 yrs
64	Uruguay	73.8 yrs	72.2 yrs
65	Czechia	73.8 yrs	71.0 yrs
66	Cayman Islands	73.7 yrs	71.9 yrs
67	Saint Helena	73.7 yrs	70.9 yrs
68	Bahrain	73.6 yrs	72.3 yrs
69	Isle of Man	73.6 yrs	70.3 yrs
70	Montenegro	73.6 yrs	72.8 yrs
71	Bosnia and Herzegovina	73.5 yrs	70.8 yrs
72	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	73.2 yrs	72.4 yrs
73	Argentina	73.1 yrs	70.3 yrs
74	Wallis and Futuna Islands	73.1 yrs	65.0 yrs
75	Brunei Darussalam	73.1 yrs	70.8 yrs
76	Croatia	73.0 yrs	71.8 yrs
77	Aruba	72.9 yrs	71.8 yrs
78	Curaçao	72.9 yrs	72.0 yrs
79	Serbia	72.9 yrs	71.6 yrs
80	Slovakia	72.7 yrs	70.9 yrs
81	Lebanon	72.6 yrs	62.0 yrs
82	Grenada	72.4 yrs	69.6 yrs
83	Montserrat	72.4 yrs	70.3 yrs
84	Northern Mariana Islands	72.4 yrs	69.4 yrs
85	Turks and Caicos Islands	72.3 yrs	69.0 yrs
86	Poland	72.3 yrs	70.5 yrs
87	Panama	72.2 yrs	70.7 yrs
88	Malaysia	72.1 yrs	70.1 yrs
89	French Guiana	72.1 yrs	69.7 yrs
90	Oman	72.0 yrs	66.2 yrs
91	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	71.9 yrs	70.5 yrs
92	United Arab Emirates	71.8 yrs	70.4 yrs
93	Ecuador	71.8 yrs	66.1 yrs
94	New Caledonia	71.8 yrs	68.2 yrs
95	North Macedonia	71.8 yrs	70.3 yrs
96	United States Virgin Islands	71.6 yrs	70.0 yrs
97	American Samoa	71.6 yrs	70.7 yrs
98	Tokelau	71.5 yrs	67.7 yrs
99	Bahamas	71.5 yrs	70.3 yrs
100	Saudi Arabia	71.3 yrs	66.7 yrs
101	Jamaica	71.3 yrs	70.5 yrs
102	Tunisia	71.3 yrs	67.4 yrs
103	Viet Nam	71.3 yrs	67.5 yrs
104	Mexico	71.1 yrs	67.4 yrs
105	Jordan	71.1 yrs	69.0 yrs
106	Saint Lucia	71.0 yrs	70.2 yrs
107	Dominica	71.0 yrs	71.7 yrs
108	Seychelles	70.8 yrs	69.8 yrs
109	Bulgaria	70.8 yrs	71.5 yrs
110	China	70.8 yrs	66.9 yrs
111	Libya	70.7 yrs	67.8 yrs
112	Georgia	70.6 yrs	69.2 yrs
113	Hungary	70.6 yrs	69.1 yrs
114	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	70.5 yrs	70.1 yrs
115	Mauritius	70.5 yrs	68.9 yrs
116	Türkiye	70.3 yrs	65.9 yrs
117	Colombia	70.2 yrs	68.3 yrs
118	Syrian Arab Republic	70.2 yrs	68.4 yrs
119	Lithuania	70.2 yrs	72.4 yrs
120	Estonia	70.0 yrs	70.9 yrs
121	State of Palestine	70.0 yrs	65.7 yrs
122	Thailand	69.9 yrs	67.3 yrs
123	Samoa	69.8 yrs	66.8 yrs
124	Sri Lanka	69.8 yrs	69.0 yrs
125	Dominican Republic	69.6 yrs	66.1 yrs
126	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	69.4 yrs	62.5 yrs
127	Belize	69.4 yrs	68.7 yrs
128	Armenia	69.2 yrs	67.4 yrs
129	Paraguay	69.0 yrs	66.2 yrs
130	Tonga	68.8 yrs	67.1 yrs
131	Romania	68.8 yrs	69.7 yrs
132	Cook Islands	68.7 yrs	67.0 yrs
133	Belarus	68.6 yrs	71.7 yrs
134	Latvia	68.6 yrs	71.0 yrs
135	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	68.3 yrs	62.1 yrs
136	Algeria	68.2 yrs	65.3 yrs
137	Vanuatu	68.2 yrs	64.6 yrs
138	Brazil	68.1 yrs	64.4 yrs
139	Trinidad and Tobago	68.0 yrs	66.9 yrs
140	Peru	67.8 yrs	62.1 yrs
141	Maldives	67.7 yrs	60.0 yrs
142	Saint Kitts and Nevis	67.5 yrs	65.5 yrs
143	Honduras	67.3 yrs	63.6 yrs
144	Ukraine	67.1 yrs	70.8 yrs
145	Solomon Islands	66.7 yrs	64.7 yrs
146	Philippines	66.7 yrs	62.9 yrs
147	Niue	66.4 yrs	67.9 yrs
148	Republic of Moldova	66.3 yrs	67.4 yrs
149	Fiji	66.2 yrs	64.0 yrs
150	Egypt	65.7 yrs	60.1 yrs
151	Indonesia	65.5 yrs	61.7 yrs
152	El Salvador	65.5 yrs	59.3 yrs
153	Cabo Verde	65.5 yrs	62.6 yrs
154	Russian Federation	65.5 yrs	70.0 yrs
155	Nicaragua	65.2 yrs	57.6 yrs
156	Morocco	65.2 yrs	60.0 yrs
157	Uzbekistan	64.8 yrs	65.0 yrs
158	Iraq	64.6 yrs	60.0 yrs
159	Guatemala	64.5 yrs	60.3 yrs
160	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	64.4 yrs	51.1 yrs
161	Greenland	64.3 yrs	62.9 yrs
162	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	64.3 yrs	63.1 yrs
163	Kazakhstan	63.5 yrs	65.8 yrs
164	Kiribati	63.5 yrs	59.1 yrs
165	Kyrgyzstan	63.5 yrs	64.7 yrs
166	Turkmenistan	63.5 yrs	63.2 yrs
167	Palau	63.5 yrs	62.8 yrs
168	Suriname	63.1 yrs	61.2 yrs
169	Marshall Islands	62.8 yrs	61.8 yrs
170	Azerbaijan	62.7 yrs	62.6 yrs
171	Guyana	62.7 yrs	61.5 yrs
172	Tuvalu	62.7 yrs	61.2 yrs
173	Gabon	61.3 yrs	60.0 yrs
174	Papua New Guinea	61.1 yrs	59.0 yrs
175	South Africa	61.1 yrs	62.4 yrs
176	India	61.0 yrs	56.8 yrs
177	Mongolia	61.0 yrs	56.8 yrs
178	Yemen	60.9 yrs	54.0 yrs
179	Tajikistan	60.8 yrs	61.8 yrs
180	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	60.8 yrs	69.5 yrs
181	Western Sahara	60.7 yrs	48.5 yrs
182	Sao Tome and Principe	60.6 yrs	57.6 yrs
183	Pakistan	60.5 yrs	59.2 yrs
184	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	60.3 yrs	54.3 yrs
185	Nauru	60.1 yrs	58.6 yrs
186	Nepal	60.0 yrs	51.6 yrs
187	Bhutan	60.0 yrs	52.8 yrs
188	Myanmar	59.2 yrs	56.1 yrs
189	Bangladesh	58.9 yrs	54.6 yrs
190	Mauritania	58.9 yrs	56.3 yrs
191	Comoros	58.1 yrs	53.8 yrs
192	Sudan	57.6 yrs	54.6 yrs
193	Senegal	57.1 yrs	53.7 yrs
194	Ghana	57.0 yrs	53.3 yrs
195	Cambodia	56.8 yrs	51.6 yrs
196	Lao People's Democratic Republic	56.8 yrs	52.1 yrs
197	Namibia	56.6 yrs	58.7 yrs
198	Djibouti	56.3 yrs	54.5 yrs
199	Haiti	56.1 yrs	51.9 yrs
200	Kenya	55.6 yrs	60.8 yrs
201	Benin	55.6 yrs	50.6 yrs
202	Eritrea	55.5 yrs	39.5 yrs
203	Madagascar	55.5 yrs	50.6 yrs
204	Congo	55.2 yrs	57.6 yrs
205	Lesotho	55.1 yrs	59.4 yrs
206	Gambia	54.9 yrs	48.8 yrs
207	Botswana	54.3 yrs	63.4 yrs
208	Togo	53.8 yrs	54.6 yrs
209	Eswatini	53.3 yrs	61.6 yrs
210	Cameroon	53.2 yrs	53.6 yrs
211	Afghanistan	52.8 yrs	38.4 yrs
212	Equatorial Guinea	52.1 yrs	50.9 yrs
213	Côte d'Ivoire	51.6 yrs	53.0 yrs
214	United Republic of Tanzania	51.1 yrs	52.2 yrs
215	Guinea	50.5 yrs	45.7 yrs
216	Somalia	50.5 yrs	48.4 yrs
217	Burkina Faso	49.7 yrs	49.0 yrs
218	Democratic Republic of the Congo	49.4 yrs	47.0 yrs
219	Zimbabwe	49.0 yrs	61.0 yrs
220	Guinea-Bissau	48.8 yrs	45.5 yrs
221	Ethiopia	48.7 yrs	38.4 yrs
222	Mali	48.5 yrs	44.6 yrs
223	Timor-Leste	48.3 yrs	34.8 yrs
224	Uganda	47.8 yrs	45.6 yrs
225	Central African Republic	47.7 yrs	50.4 yrs
226	Chad	47.5 yrs	45.6 yrs
227	Mozambique	47.1 yrs	41.0 yrs
228	Angola	46.4 yrs	42.7 yrs
229	Niger	46.3 yrs	40.3 yrs
230	Zambia	45.8 yrs	51.1 yrs
231	Nigeria	45.8 yrs	46.0 yrs
232	Liberia	45.0 yrs	44.5 yrs
233	Burundi	44.8 yrs	47.4 yrs
234	Malawi	44.0 yrs	44.3 yrs
235	Sierra Leone	43.5 yrs	43.5 yrs
236	Rwanda	42.5 yrs	51.7 yrs
237	South Sudan	32.1 yrs	32.8 yrs

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