Life expectancy by country, 1997

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

◀▶1997

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1987
1	Monaco	81.4 yrs	79.3 yrs
2	Andorra	81.1 yrs	78.2 yrs
3	Japan	80.6 yrs	78.6 yrs
4	San Marino	79.7 yrs	77.5 yrs
5	China, Hong Kong SAR	79.7 yrs	77.1 yrs
6	Sweden	79.3 yrs	77.1 yrs
7	Switzerland	79.2 yrs	77.3 yrs
8	Gibraltar	79.1 yrs	75.9 yrs
9	Spain	78.8 yrs	77.0 yrs
10	Iceland	78.7 yrs	77.0 yrs
11	Italy	78.7 yrs	76.3 yrs
12	Guernsey	78.7 yrs	76.4 yrs
13	Australia	78.6 yrs	76.1 yrs
14	Israel	78.5 yrs	76.4 yrs
15	Canada	78.5 yrs	76.8 yrs
16	Greece	78.4 yrs	76.1 yrs
17	Saint Barthélemy	78.4 yrs	74.7 yrs
18	France	78.4 yrs	76.2 yrs
19	China, Macao SAR	78.4 yrs	75.2 yrs
20	Norway	78.2 yrs	76.1 yrs
21	Holy See	78.2 yrs	76.2 yrs
22	Netherlands	77.9 yrs	76.8 yrs
23	Faroe Islands	77.9 yrs	76.3 yrs
24	Jersey	77.8 yrs	75.3 yrs
25	Martinique	77.6 yrs	74.9 yrs
26	Liechtenstein	77.6 yrs	77.8 yrs
27	Austria	77.4 yrs	74.9 yrs
28	Belgium	77.4 yrs	75.3 yrs
29	French Polynesia	77.4 yrs	72.5 yrs
30	New Zealand	77.3 yrs	74.2 yrs
31	Malta	77.3 yrs	75.3 yrs
32	Germany	77.2 yrs	75.1 yrs
33	United Kingdom	77.1 yrs	75.2 yrs
34	Cyprus	77.1 yrs	75.3 yrs
35	Finland	77.1 yrs	74.8 yrs
36	Bermuda	77.0 yrs	73.5 yrs
37	Costa Rica	76.6 yrs	75.2 yrs
38	United States of America	76.5 yrs	74.9 yrs
39	Singapore	76.4 yrs	74.0 yrs
40	Luxembourg	76.4 yrs	73.9 yrs
41	Réunion	76.3 yrs	73.3 yrs
42	Guadeloupe	76.2 yrs	73.0 yrs
43	Saint Martin (French part)	76.1 yrs	73.5 yrs
44	Ireland	76.0 yrs	74.4 yrs
45	Denmark	76.0 yrs	74.7 yrs
46	Portugal	75.9 yrs	74.1 yrs
47	Chile	75.8 yrs	72.5 yrs
48	Kuwait	75.6 yrs	74.2 yrs
49	Mayotte	75.6 yrs	72.6 yrs
50	China, Taiwan Province of China	75.3 yrs	73.6 yrs
51	Cuba	75.1 yrs	73.6 yrs
52	Slovenia	75.0 yrs	72.4 yrs
53	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	74.8 yrs	74.0 yrs
54	Qatar	74.7 yrs	72.5 yrs
55	Guam	74.7 yrs	73.5 yrs
56	Puerto Rico	74.7 yrs	73.4 yrs
57	British Virgin Islands	74.5 yrs	71.5 yrs
58	Republic of Korea	74.5 yrs	69.3 yrs
59	Saint Helena	74.4 yrs	71.0 yrs
60	Anguilla	74.3 yrs	71.1 yrs
61	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	74.2 yrs	72.5 yrs
62	Antigua and Barbuda	74.0 yrs	73.9 yrs
63	Czechia	74.0 yrs	71.5 yrs
64	Barbados	74.0 yrs	73.5 yrs
65	Uruguay	73.9 yrs	72.2 yrs
66	Cayman Islands	73.9 yrs	72.1 yrs
67	Bahrain	73.9 yrs	72.4 yrs
68	Bosnia and Herzegovina	73.9 yrs	70.9 yrs
69	Isle of Man	73.9 yrs	70.7 yrs
70	Wallis and Futuna Islands	73.8 yrs	66.5 yrs
71	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	73.5 yrs	72.4 yrs
72	Montenegro	73.5 yrs	73.2 yrs
73	Argentina	73.4 yrs	70.7 yrs
74	Albania	73.4 yrs	72.0 yrs
75	Brunei Darussalam	73.3 yrs	71.0 yrs
76	Curaçao	73.0 yrs	72.1 yrs
77	Croatia	73.0 yrs	71.9 yrs
78	Serbia	73.0 yrs	71.8 yrs
79	Northern Mariana Islands	73.0 yrs	69.5 yrs
80	Aruba	72.9 yrs	72.5 yrs
81	Lebanon	72.9 yrs	62.5 yrs
82	Slovakia	72.7 yrs	71.1 yrs
83	Turks and Caicos Islands	72.7 yrs	69.3 yrs
84	United Arab Emirates	72.6 yrs	70.6 yrs
85	Grenada	72.6 yrs	69.8 yrs
86	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	72.6 yrs	70.7 yrs
87	Poland	72.6 yrs	70.8 yrs
88	Oman	72.5 yrs	67.0 yrs
89	Panama	72.5 yrs	70.8 yrs
90	Malaysia	72.3 yrs	70.3 yrs
91	New Caledonia	72.2 yrs	68.6 yrs
92	French Guiana	72.2 yrs	70.0 yrs
93	Ecuador	72.0 yrs	66.6 yrs
94	North Macedonia	71.9 yrs	70.4 yrs
95	Tunisia	71.7 yrs	68.0 yrs
96	Tokelau	71.7 yrs	68.1 yrs
97	Viet Nam	71.7 yrs	68.0 yrs
98	Saudi Arabia	71.6 yrs	67.2 yrs
99	Bahamas	71.6 yrs	70.4 yrs
100	American Samoa	71.6 yrs	70.8 yrs
101	Mexico	71.5 yrs	67.9 yrs
102	Jordan	71.3 yrs	69.3 yrs
103	Jamaica	71.2 yrs	70.9 yrs
104	Dominica	71.2 yrs	71.4 yrs
105	China	71.2 yrs	67.3 yrs
106	Hungary	71.0 yrs	69.6 yrs
107	Lithuania	71.0 yrs	72.2 yrs
108	United States Virgin Islands	70.9 yrs	70.2 yrs
109	Seychelles	70.8 yrs	69.9 yrs
110	Saint Lucia	70.8 yrs	69.7 yrs
111	Türkiye	70.7 yrs	66.4 yrs
112	Mauritius	70.7 yrs	69.2 yrs
113	Libya	70.7 yrs	68.3 yrs
114	Colombia	70.6 yrs	68.2 yrs
115	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	70.4 yrs	70.4 yrs
116	Thailand	70.4 yrs	67.8 yrs
117	State of Palestine	70.3 yrs	66.3 yrs
118	Bulgaria	70.3 yrs	71.3 yrs
119	Estonia	70.2 yrs	70.9 yrs
120	Syrian Arab Republic	70.2 yrs	68.8 yrs
121	Samoa	70.0 yrs	67.0 yrs
122	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	69.9 yrs	63.6 yrs
123	Sri Lanka	69.9 yrs	69.0 yrs
124	Dominican Republic	69.8 yrs	66.5 yrs
125	Georgia	69.7 yrs	69.2 yrs
126	Armenia	69.6 yrs	67.6 yrs
127	Paraguay	69.3 yrs	66.5 yrs
128	Belize	69.2 yrs	69.1 yrs
129	Latvia	69.2 yrs	71.0 yrs
130	Romania	69.1 yrs	69.0 yrs
131	Tonga	69.0 yrs	67.2 yrs
132	Algeria	68.9 yrs	66.1 yrs
133	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	68.7 yrs	62.7 yrs
134	Brazil	68.5 yrs	64.8 yrs
135	Belarus	68.5 yrs	72.0 yrs
136	Maldives	68.5 yrs	60.8 yrs
137	Vanuatu	68.3 yrs	64.4 yrs
138	Peru	68.3 yrs	62.5 yrs
139	Trinidad and Tobago	68.1 yrs	67.1 yrs
140	Saint Kitts and Nevis	67.8 yrs	65.5 yrs
141	Ukraine	67.7 yrs	71.2 yrs
142	Honduras	67.5 yrs	64.1 yrs
143	Philippines	67.0 yrs	63.3 yrs
144	Solomon Islands	66.8 yrs	65.7 yrs
145	Russian Federation	66.6 yrs	70.1 yrs
146	Republic of Moldova	66.5 yrs	67.9 yrs
147	Cook Islands	66.4 yrs	66.5 yrs
148	Niue	66.4 yrs	67.8 yrs
149	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	66.4 yrs	51.3 yrs
150	El Salvador	66.3 yrs	59.4 yrs
151	Fiji	66.3 yrs	64.3 yrs
152	Egypt	66.2 yrs	60.7 yrs
153	Cabo Verde	66.1 yrs	62.9 yrs
154	Indonesia	65.8 yrs	62.1 yrs
155	Morocco	65.6 yrs	60.6 yrs
156	Nicaragua	65.5 yrs	57.3 yrs
157	Guatemala	65.3 yrs	61.0 yrs
158	Uzbekistan	65.0 yrs	65.5 yrs
159	Greenland	64.5 yrs	62.9 yrs
160	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	64.4 yrs	63.2 yrs
161	Iraq	64.2 yrs	60.3 yrs
162	Kyrgyzstan	64.2 yrs	65.4 yrs
163	Kiribati	63.8 yrs	59.6 yrs
164	Turkmenistan	63.7 yrs	63.5 yrs
165	Palau	63.7 yrs	62.8 yrs
166	Suriname	63.4 yrs	61.3 yrs
167	Kazakhstan	63.3 yrs	66.0 yrs
168	Montserrat	63.2 yrs	70.5 yrs
169	Azerbaijan	63.0 yrs	62.8 yrs
170	Marshall Islands	63.0 yrs	61.8 yrs
171	Guyana	62.9 yrs	61.7 yrs
172	Tuvalu	62.9 yrs	61.3 yrs
173	Tajikistan	61.9 yrs	61.6 yrs
174	India	61.4 yrs	57.3 yrs
175	Gabon	61.4 yrs	60.2 yrs
176	Mongolia	61.4 yrs	57.1 yrs
177	Yemen	61.3 yrs	56.8 yrs
178	Papua New Guinea	61.3 yrs	59.2 yrs
179	Western Sahara	61.2 yrs	48.9 yrs
180	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	60.9 yrs	69.8 yrs
181	Nepal	60.8 yrs	52.4 yrs
182	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	60.8 yrs	54.9 yrs
183	Sao Tome and Principe	60.6 yrs	60.7 yrs
184	Pakistan	60.6 yrs	59.2 yrs
185	Bhutan	60.6 yrs	53.6 yrs
186	South Africa	60.5 yrs	62.7 yrs
187	Nauru	60.0 yrs	58.6 yrs
188	Bangladesh	59.7 yrs	54.9 yrs
189	Myanmar	59.5 yrs	56.4 yrs
190	Mauritania	59.4 yrs	57.0 yrs
191	Comoros	58.2 yrs	54.1 yrs
192	Sudan	58.1 yrs	54.8 yrs
193	Cambodia	57.3 yrs	53.7 yrs
194	Lao People's Democratic Republic	57.3 yrs	52.6 yrs
195	Ghana	57.2 yrs	53.8 yrs
196	Senegal	57.1 yrs	54.6 yrs
197	Haiti	56.7 yrs	52.3 yrs
198	Eritrea	56.2 yrs	47.4 yrs
199	Djibouti	56.2 yrs	54.8 yrs
200	Madagascar	56.1 yrs	51.1 yrs
201	Benin	56.0 yrs	51.3 yrs
202	Namibia	55.8 yrs	59.1 yrs
203	Kenya	55.5 yrs	60.7 yrs
204	Gambia	55.2 yrs	49.4 yrs
205	Togo	53.9 yrs	54.8 yrs
206	Lesotho	53.7 yrs	59.6 yrs
207	Botswana	53.6 yrs	62.8 yrs
208	Afghanistan	53.2 yrs	38.8 yrs
209	Cameroon	53.1 yrs	54.2 yrs
210	Equatorial Guinea	52.4 yrs	51.0 yrs
211	Eswatini	51.7 yrs	61.9 yrs
212	Côte d'Ivoire	51.5 yrs	53.1 yrs
213	United Republic of Tanzania	51.3 yrs	52.2 yrs
214	Guinea	51.1 yrs	46.1 yrs
215	Democratic Republic of the Congo	50.5 yrs	47.4 yrs
216	Somalia	50.3 yrs	49.0 yrs
217	Burkina Faso	49.6 yrs	49.1 yrs
218	Ethiopia	49.2 yrs	45.9 yrs
219	Mali	49.1 yrs	45.2 yrs
220	Timor-Leste	49.0 yrs	36.0 yrs
221	Congo	48.6 yrs	57.6 yrs
222	Zimbabwe	48.5 yrs	60.7 yrs
223	Liberia	48.3 yrs	44.3 yrs
224	Uganda	48.0 yrs	47.4 yrs
225	Guinea-Bissau	48.0 yrs	45.8 yrs
226	Chad	47.8 yrs	43.1 yrs
227	Mozambique	47.8 yrs	41.0 yrs
228	Central African Republic	47.3 yrs	50.4 yrs
229	Niger	47.1 yrs	40.5 yrs
230	Angola	46.7 yrs	40.8 yrs
231	Nigeria	46.0 yrs	45.9 yrs
232	Zambia	45.7 yrs	50.4 yrs
233	Burundi	45.7 yrs	47.1 yrs
234	Malawi	44.2 yrs	43.9 yrs
235	Sierra Leone	43.6 yrs	43.8 yrs
236	Rwanda	42.0 yrs	51.5 yrs
237	South Sudan	33.1 yrs	20.7 yrs

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