Life expectancy by country, 1998

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

◀▶1998

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1988
1	Monaco	81.6 yrs	79.4 yrs
2	Andorra	81.3 yrs	78.4 yrs
3	Japan	80.7 yrs	78.5 yrs
4	China, Hong Kong SAR	80.1 yrs	77.1 yrs
5	San Marino	79.9 yrs	77.5 yrs
6	Gibraltar	79.5 yrs	76.2 yrs
7	Switzerland	79.5 yrs	77.4 yrs
8	Iceland	79.4 yrs	76.9 yrs
9	Sweden	79.4 yrs	77.0 yrs
10	Guernsey	79.2 yrs	76.7 yrs
11	Australia	79.0 yrs	76.3 yrs
12	Spain	78.9 yrs	77.0 yrs
13	Italy	78.8 yrs	76.5 yrs
14	China, Macao SAR	78.8 yrs	75.5 yrs
15	Canada	78.7 yrs	76.9 yrs
16	Saint Barthélemy	78.7 yrs	75.0 yrs
17	Israel	78.6 yrs	76.9 yrs
18	France	78.6 yrs	76.4 yrs
19	Norway	78.4 yrs	76.3 yrs
20	Greece	78.3 yrs	77.0 yrs
21	Holy See	78.3 yrs	76.4 yrs
22	New Zealand	78.2 yrs	74.5 yrs
23	Jersey	78.1 yrs	75.6 yrs
24	Netherlands	78.0 yrs	77.0 yrs
25	Faroe Islands	78.0 yrs	76.5 yrs
26	Austria	77.8 yrs	75.4 yrs
27	Malta	77.8 yrs	75.9 yrs
28	Martinique	77.8 yrs	75.3 yrs
29	Liechtenstein	77.8 yrs	78.0 yrs
30	French Polynesia	77.8 yrs	73.1 yrs
31	Germany	77.6 yrs	75.3 yrs
32	Belgium	77.5 yrs	75.6 yrs
33	Bermuda	77.4 yrs	73.6 yrs
34	United Kingdom	77.3 yrs	75.3 yrs
35	Finland	77.3 yrs	74.8 yrs
36	Cyprus	77.2 yrs	75.4 yrs
37	Costa Rica	76.9 yrs	75.5 yrs
38	Singapore	76.8 yrs	74.0 yrs
39	United States of America	76.7 yrs	74.8 yrs
40	Luxembourg	76.6 yrs	74.3 yrs
41	Réunion	76.6 yrs	73.6 yrs
42	Guadeloupe	76.4 yrs	73.3 yrs
43	Denmark	76.4 yrs	74.8 yrs
44	Saint Martin (French part)	76.3 yrs	73.9 yrs
45	Chile	76.3 yrs	72.8 yrs
46	Ireland	76.2 yrs	74.4 yrs
47	Portugal	76.1 yrs	74.1 yrs
48	Mayotte	75.9 yrs	73.0 yrs
49	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	75.8 yrs	74.1 yrs
50	Kuwait	75.6 yrs	74.6 yrs
51	China, Taiwan Province of China	75.5 yrs	73.4 yrs
52	Cuba	75.4 yrs	73.7 yrs
53	Saint Helena	75.3 yrs	71.2 yrs
54	Slovenia	75.1 yrs	72.8 yrs
55	Republic of Korea	75.0 yrs	70.2 yrs
56	Qatar	74.9 yrs	72.8 yrs
57	Guam	74.8 yrs	73.4 yrs
58	Anguilla	74.6 yrs	71.4 yrs
59	Puerto Rico	74.6 yrs	73.2 yrs
60	British Virgin Islands	74.6 yrs	71.8 yrs
61	Wallis and Futuna Islands	74.5 yrs	67.8 yrs
62	Czechia	74.5 yrs	71.7 yrs
63	Barbados	74.5 yrs	73.4 yrs
64	Bosnia and Herzegovina	74.5 yrs	71.0 yrs
65	Albania	74.4 yrs	72.2 yrs
66	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	74.4 yrs	72.8 yrs
67	Antigua and Barbuda	74.2 yrs	73.8 yrs
68	Isle of Man	74.2 yrs	71.1 yrs
69	Cayman Islands	74.1 yrs	72.3 yrs
70	Bahrain	74.1 yrs	72.5 yrs
71	Uruguay	74.0 yrs	72.4 yrs
72	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	73.9 yrs	72.5 yrs
73	United Arab Emirates	73.7 yrs	70.8 yrs
74	Brunei Darussalam	73.6 yrs	71.2 yrs
75	Northern Mariana Islands	73.6 yrs	69.6 yrs
76	Argentina	73.4 yrs	71.1 yrs
77	Montenegro	73.4 yrs	73.4 yrs
78	Croatia	73.2 yrs	72.2 yrs
79	Lebanon	73.2 yrs	62.9 yrs
80	Curaçao	73.1 yrs	72.2 yrs
81	Turks and Caicos Islands	73.1 yrs	69.6 yrs
82	Aruba	72.9 yrs	72.5 yrs
83	Oman	72.9 yrs	67.7 yrs
84	Grenada	72.8 yrs	70.0 yrs
85	Panama	72.8 yrs	70.9 yrs
86	Poland	72.8 yrs	70.8 yrs
87	Montserrat	72.8 yrs	70.6 yrs
88	New Caledonia	72.7 yrs	68.9 yrs
89	Slovakia	72.6 yrs	71.1 yrs
90	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	72.5 yrs	70.8 yrs
91	French Guiana	72.5 yrs	70.4 yrs
92	Malaysia	72.4 yrs	70.5 yrs
93	Serbia	72.3 yrs	72.0 yrs
94	Viet Nam	72.3 yrs	68.6 yrs
95	Tunisia	72.1 yrs	68.5 yrs
96	Ecuador	72.0 yrs	67.0 yrs
97	Saudi Arabia	72.0 yrs	67.8 yrs
98	Tokelau	71.8 yrs	68.5 yrs
99	Bahamas	71.8 yrs	70.5 yrs
100	Mexico	71.8 yrs	68.3 yrs
101	North Macedonia	71.8 yrs	70.5 yrs
102	China	71.6 yrs	67.6 yrs
103	Jordan	71.5 yrs	69.6 yrs
104	American Samoa	71.5 yrs	70.9 yrs
105	Dominica	71.3 yrs	71.0 yrs
106	Lithuania	71.3 yrs	72.0 yrs
107	United States Virgin Islands	71.3 yrs	70.4 yrs
108	Jamaica	71.2 yrs	71.2 yrs
109	Seychelles	71.1 yrs	70.0 yrs
110	Türkiye	71.1 yrs	66.9 yrs
111	Colombia	70.9 yrs	68.3 yrs
112	Hungary	70.9 yrs	69.9 yrs
113	Bulgaria	70.9 yrs	71.4 yrs
114	Mauritius	70.9 yrs	69.4 yrs
115	Saint Lucia	70.7 yrs	69.7 yrs
116	Thailand	70.7 yrs	68.2 yrs
117	Libya	70.7 yrs	68.6 yrs
118	State of Palestine	70.6 yrs	66.7 yrs
119	Samoa	70.3 yrs	67.3 yrs
120	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	70.3 yrs	70.6 yrs
121	Syrian Arab Republic	70.2 yrs	69.2 yrs
122	Sri Lanka	70.1 yrs	69.0 yrs
123	Armenia	70.0 yrs	52.7 yrs
124	Dominican Republic	69.9 yrs	66.9 yrs
125	Romania	69.9 yrs	69.4 yrs
126	Estonia	69.8 yrs	71.0 yrs
127	Georgia	69.8 yrs	68.8 yrs
128	Paraguay	69.5 yrs	66.7 yrs
129	Algeria	69.3 yrs	66.9 yrs
130	Cook Islands	69.3 yrs	67.4 yrs
131	Maldives	69.3 yrs	61.6 yrs
132	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	69.2 yrs	63.3 yrs
133	Tonga	69.2 yrs	67.3 yrs
134	Belize	68.9 yrs	69.4 yrs
135	Brazil	68.8 yrs	65.2 yrs
136	Latvia	68.8 yrs	70.9 yrs
137	Peru	68.7 yrs	63.0 yrs
138	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	68.6 yrs	64.2 yrs
139	Vanuatu	68.4 yrs	65.7 yrs
140	Trinidad and Tobago	68.3 yrs	67.4 yrs
141	Belarus	68.3 yrs	71.8 yrs
142	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	68.2 yrs	51.7 yrs
143	Ukraine	68.0 yrs	71.0 yrs
144	Saint Kitts and Nevis	67.9 yrs	65.5 yrs
145	Philippines	67.2 yrs	63.7 yrs
146	Solomon Islands	66.9 yrs	65.9 yrs
147	Russian Federation	66.9 yrs	69.9 yrs
148	Republic of Moldova	66.8 yrs	68.2 yrs
149	El Salvador	66.7 yrs	60.0 yrs
150	Cabo Verde	66.7 yrs	63.2 yrs
151	Egypt	66.6 yrs	61.4 yrs
152	Niue	66.6 yrs	67.6 yrs
153	Fiji	66.5 yrs	65.0 yrs
154	Guatemala	66.0 yrs	61.5 yrs
155	Morocco	66.0 yrs	61.2 yrs
156	Indonesia	65.9 yrs	62.4 yrs
157	Uzbekistan	65.2 yrs	65.8 yrs
158	Greenland	64.7 yrs	63.0 yrs
159	Kyrgyzstan	64.6 yrs	65.3 yrs
160	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	64.5 yrs	63.5 yrs
161	Iraq	64.4 yrs	56.7 yrs
162	Kiribati	64.1 yrs	60.0 yrs
163	Nicaragua	64.1 yrs	59.8 yrs
164	Turkmenistan	64.0 yrs	63.7 yrs
165	Palau	64.0 yrs	62.8 yrs
166	Azerbaijan	63.8 yrs	62.7 yrs
167	Suriname	63.7 yrs	61.5 yrs
168	Guyana	63.4 yrs	61.9 yrs
169	Kazakhstan	63.4 yrs	66.0 yrs
170	Tuvalu	63.2 yrs	61.4 yrs
171	Marshall Islands	63.2 yrs	61.8 yrs
172	Tajikistan	62.4 yrs	61.8 yrs
173	Honduras	62.4 yrs	64.4 yrs
174	Mongolia	62.1 yrs	57.5 yrs
175	India	61.9 yrs	57.7 yrs
176	Yemen	61.8 yrs	57.4 yrs
177	Western Sahara	61.7 yrs	52.1 yrs
178	Gabon	61.5 yrs	60.4 yrs
179	Nepal	61.5 yrs	53.1 yrs
180	Bhutan	61.3 yrs	54.4 yrs
181	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	61.2 yrs	55.5 yrs
182	Pakistan	61.1 yrs	59.4 yrs
183	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	60.9 yrs	70.0 yrs
184	Sao Tome and Principe	60.8 yrs	60.8 yrs
185	Papua New Guinea	60.4 yrs	59.4 yrs
186	Bangladesh	60.4 yrs	55.2 yrs
187	Nauru	59.9 yrs	58.7 yrs
188	Myanmar	59.9 yrs	56.6 yrs
189	Mauritania	59.9 yrs	57.5 yrs
190	South Africa	59.9 yrs	62.9 yrs
191	Comoros	58.3 yrs	54.7 yrs
192	Sudan	58.3 yrs	55.0 yrs
193	Cambodia	57.9 yrs	54.4 yrs
194	Ghana	57.5 yrs	54.4 yrs
195	Lao People's Democratic Republic	57.5 yrs	53.1 yrs
196	Senegal	57.1 yrs	55.5 yrs
197	Haiti	57.1 yrs	52.5 yrs
198	Madagascar	56.8 yrs	51.4 yrs
199	Djibouti	56.4 yrs	55.1 yrs
200	Benin	56.1 yrs	52.0 yrs
201	Gambia	56.0 yrs	50.1 yrs
202	Kenya	55.6 yrs	60.3 yrs
203	Namibia	54.8 yrs	59.0 yrs
204	Togo	54.0 yrs	54.9 yrs
205	Cameroon	53.0 yrs	54.4 yrs
206	Botswana	53.0 yrs	61.7 yrs
207	Equatorial Guinea	52.6 yrs	51.2 yrs
208	Afghanistan	52.5 yrs	43.2 yrs
209	Congo	52.5 yrs	57.5 yrs
210	Lesotho	52.0 yrs	59.6 yrs
211	United Republic of Tanzania	51.8 yrs	52.2 yrs
212	Guinea	51.6 yrs	46.5 yrs
213	Côte d'Ivoire	51.2 yrs	53.1 yrs
214	Somalia	50.8 yrs	43.9 yrs
215	Burkina Faso	50.2 yrs	49.2 yrs
216	Eswatini	50.1 yrs	61.9 yrs
217	Eritrea	50.0 yrs	48.1 yrs
218	Ethiopia	49.8 yrs	45.7 yrs
219	Democratic Republic of the Congo	49.7 yrs	47.8 yrs
220	Mali	49.6 yrs	45.7 yrs
221	Liberia	49.4 yrs	44.1 yrs
222	Timor-Leste	48.6 yrs	36.0 yrs
223	Uganda	48.3 yrs	47.5 yrs
224	Mozambique	48.2 yrs	43.7 yrs
225	Guinea-Bissau	48.1 yrs	46.3 yrs
226	Chad	47.8 yrs	46.4 yrs
227	Niger	47.8 yrs	40.8 yrs
228	Zimbabwe	47.5 yrs	60.2 yrs
229	Central African Republic	47.1 yrs	50.2 yrs
230	Burundi	46.7 yrs	42.9 yrs
231	Nigeria	46.1 yrs	45.8 yrs
232	Zambia	45.7 yrs	49.7 yrs
233	Angola	45.5 yrs	41.5 yrs
234	Malawi	44.3 yrs	43.6 yrs
235	Rwanda	43.1 yrs	50.9 yrs
236	Sierra Leone	42.7 yrs	43.8 yrs
237	South Sudan	19.1 yrs	11.0 yrs

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