Life expectancy by country, 1999

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

◀▶1999

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1989
1	Monaco	81.8 yrs	79.4 yrs
2	Andorra	81.5 yrs	78.6 yrs
3	Japan	80.6 yrs	79.0 yrs
4	China, Hong Kong SAR	80.4 yrs	77.2 yrs
5	Guernsey	80.3 yrs	77.6 yrs
6	San Marino	80.2 yrs	77.7 yrs
7	Gibraltar	79.8 yrs	76.5 yrs
8	Switzerland	79.7 yrs	77.6 yrs
9	Sweden	79.5 yrs	77.7 yrs
10	Australia	79.3 yrs	76.2 yrs
11	Iceland	79.2 yrs	77.9 yrs
12	Italy	79.2 yrs	76.9 yrs
13	Saint Barthélemy	79.1 yrs	75.3 yrs
14	China, Macao SAR	79.1 yrs	76.2 yrs
15	Israel	78.9 yrs	77.6 yrs
16	Canada	78.9 yrs	77.1 yrs
17	Spain	78.9 yrs	77.0 yrs
18	France	78.8 yrs	76.5 yrs
19	Holy See	78.7 yrs	76.8 yrs
20	French Polynesia	78.6 yrs	73.5 yrs
21	Greece	78.4 yrs	77.1 yrs
22	Norway	78.4 yrs	76.5 yrs
23	Jersey	78.2 yrs	75.8 yrs
24	Faroe Islands	78.2 yrs	76.7 yrs
25	Liechtenstein	78.2 yrs	78.3 yrs
26	Martinique	78.1 yrs	75.8 yrs
27	Austria	78.0 yrs	75.5 yrs
28	Netherlands	78.0 yrs	76.8 yrs
29	New Zealand	77.9 yrs	74.9 yrs
30	Germany	77.8 yrs	75.5 yrs
31	Bermuda	77.8 yrs	73.7 yrs
32	Malta	77.8 yrs	76.2 yrs
33	Belgium	77.7 yrs	75.7 yrs
34	Cyprus	77.6 yrs	75.8 yrs
35	Finland	77.5 yrs	75.0 yrs
36	United Kingdom	77.4 yrs	75.4 yrs
37	Singapore	77.3 yrs	74.3 yrs
38	Costa Rica	77.1 yrs	75.8 yrs
39	Luxembourg	77.0 yrs	74.3 yrs
40	Réunion	76.8 yrs	73.9 yrs
41	United States of America	76.7 yrs	75.1 yrs
42	Guadeloupe	76.7 yrs	73.6 yrs
43	Chile	76.7 yrs	73.2 yrs
44	Saint Martin (French part)	76.6 yrs	74.2 yrs
45	Denmark	76.6 yrs	74.9 yrs
46	Portugal	76.3 yrs	74.7 yrs
47	Ireland	76.1 yrs	74.5 yrs
48	Mayotte	76.1 yrs	73.3 yrs
49	Saint Helena	76.0 yrs	71.3 yrs
50	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	75.8 yrs	74.5 yrs
51	Cuba	75.7 yrs	73.7 yrs
52	Kuwait	75.7 yrs	75.0 yrs
53	Republic of Korea	75.6 yrs	70.7 yrs
54	China, Taiwan Province of China	75.6 yrs	73.7 yrs
55	Slovenia	75.5 yrs	73.3 yrs
56	Puerto Rico	75.3 yrs	72.5 yrs
57	United Arab Emirates	75.0 yrs	71.0 yrs
58	Wallis and Futuna Islands	75.0 yrs	68.9 yrs
59	Qatar	75.0 yrs	73.1 yrs
60	Bosnia and Herzegovina	75.0 yrs	71.4 yrs
61	Anguilla	74.9 yrs	71.8 yrs
62	Guam	74.8 yrs	73.5 yrs
63	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	74.7 yrs	73.0 yrs
64	Czechia	74.7 yrs	71.8 yrs
65	British Virgin Islands	74.7 yrs	72.0 yrs
66	Albania	74.6 yrs	72.5 yrs
67	Barbados	74.6 yrs	73.4 yrs
68	Antigua and Barbuda	74.5 yrs	73.6 yrs
69	Isle of Man	74.5 yrs	71.4 yrs
70	Bahrain	74.4 yrs	72.5 yrs
71	Uruguay	74.3 yrs	72.6 yrs
72	Northern Mariana Islands	74.3 yrs	69.8 yrs
73	Cayman Islands	74.2 yrs	72.5 yrs
74	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	74.2 yrs	72.4 yrs
75	Brunei Darussalam	73.8 yrs	71.4 yrs
76	Argentina	73.7 yrs	71.5 yrs
77	Croatia	73.6 yrs	72.5 yrs
78	Turks and Caicos Islands	73.5 yrs	69.9 yrs
79	Lebanon	73.5 yrs	65.1 yrs
80	Oman	73.3 yrs	68.4 yrs
81	Montenegro	73.3 yrs	73.8 yrs
82	Curaçao	73.2 yrs	72.2 yrs
83	Poland	73.2 yrs	70.8 yrs
84	New Caledonia	73.1 yrs	69.2 yrs
85	Panama	73.1 yrs	70.1 yrs
86	Slovakia	73.0 yrs	70.9 yrs
87	Montserrat	73.0 yrs	68.3 yrs
88	Aruba	72.9 yrs	72.5 yrs
89	Grenada	72.9 yrs	70.3 yrs
90	French Guiana	72.7 yrs	70.6 yrs
91	Viet Nam	72.6 yrs	68.8 yrs
92	Malaysia	72.4 yrs	70.8 yrs
93	Saudi Arabia	72.3 yrs	68.4 yrs
94	Tunisia	72.3 yrs	68.8 yrs
95	North Macedonia	72.3 yrs	71.1 yrs
96	Bahamas	72.2 yrs	70.7 yrs
97	Mexico	72.2 yrs	68.6 yrs
98	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	72.1 yrs	70.8 yrs
99	Tokelau	72.0 yrs	69.0 yrs
100	China	72.0 yrs	67.9 yrs
101	Ecuador	71.9 yrs	67.8 yrs
102	Jordan	71.7 yrs	69.9 yrs
103	Lithuania	71.7 yrs	71.6 yrs
104	Bulgaria	71.6 yrs	71.5 yrs
105	Dominica	71.5 yrs	70.7 yrs
106	American Samoa	71.5 yrs	70.9 yrs
107	Mauritius	71.4 yrs	69.5 yrs
108	Jamaica	71.2 yrs	71.5 yrs
109	Seychelles	71.2 yrs	70.1 yrs
110	United States Virgin Islands	71.1 yrs	70.5 yrs
111	Thailand	71.0 yrs	68.6 yrs
112	Hungary	71.0 yrs	69.4 yrs
113	Colombia	70.9 yrs	68.6 yrs
114	Türkiye	70.8 yrs	67.4 yrs
115	State of Palestine	70.8 yrs	67.1 yrs
116	Estonia	70.7 yrs	70.5 yrs
117	Saint Lucia	70.7 yrs	70.0 yrs
118	Samoa	70.6 yrs	67.6 yrs
119	Libya	70.6 yrs	69.0 yrs
120	Romania	70.6 yrs	69.5 yrs
121	Syrian Arab Republic	70.5 yrs	69.5 yrs
122	Armenia	70.4 yrs	67.7 yrs
123	Sri Lanka	70.4 yrs	67.3 yrs
124	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	70.3 yrs	70.7 yrs
125	Dominican Republic	70.2 yrs	67.3 yrs
126	Maldives	70.2 yrs	62.4 yrs
127	Algeria	70.1 yrs	67.5 yrs
128	Georgia	70.0 yrs	68.6 yrs
129	Serbia	70.0 yrs	72.3 yrs
130	Paraguay	69.8 yrs	66.9 yrs
131	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	69.8 yrs	52.4 yrs
132	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	69.7 yrs	65.3 yrs
133	Latvia	69.7 yrs	70.4 yrs
134	Cook Islands	69.6 yrs	67.5 yrs
135	Tonga	69.4 yrs	67.5 yrs
136	Peru	69.3 yrs	63.4 yrs
137	Brazil	69.2 yrs	65.5 yrs
138	Belize	69.0 yrs	69.5 yrs
139	Saint Kitts and Nevis	68.7 yrs	65.5 yrs
140	Trinidad and Tobago	68.5 yrs	67.5 yrs
141	Belarus	68.4 yrs	71.5 yrs
142	Ukraine	68.0 yrs	70.8 yrs
143	Honduras	68.0 yrs	64.8 yrs
144	Vanuatu	67.9 yrs	66.0 yrs
145	Philippines	67.5 yrs	64.1 yrs
146	Cabo Verde	67.4 yrs	63.6 yrs
147	El Salvador	67.3 yrs	61.3 yrs
148	Republic of Moldova	67.2 yrs	68.2 yrs
149	Egypt	67.0 yrs	62.0 yrs
150	Solomon Islands	67.0 yrs	66.0 yrs
151	Fiji	66.7 yrs	65.4 yrs
152	Guatemala	66.6 yrs	61.8 yrs
153	Morocco	66.4 yrs	61.8 yrs
154	Indonesia	66.0 yrs	62.9 yrs
155	Nicaragua	65.9 yrs	61.9 yrs
156	Niue	65.6 yrs	67.3 yrs
157	Russian Federation	65.6 yrs	69.7 yrs
158	Uzbekistan	65.3 yrs	65.8 yrs
159	Greenland	65.1 yrs	63.1 yrs
160	Kyrgyzstan	64.9 yrs	65.2 yrs
161	Azerbaijan	64.7 yrs	62.9 yrs
162	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	64.6 yrs	63.6 yrs
163	Iraq	64.5 yrs	57.5 yrs
164	Turkmenistan	64.5 yrs	63.8 yrs
165	Kiribati	64.4 yrs	60.5 yrs
166	Palau	64.2 yrs	62.8 yrs
167	Suriname	64.0 yrs	62.0 yrs
168	Guyana	63.8 yrs	62.0 yrs
169	Kazakhstan	63.5 yrs	65.9 yrs
170	Tuvalu	63.4 yrs	61.5 yrs
171	Marshall Islands	63.4 yrs	61.7 yrs
172	Tajikistan	63.1 yrs	61.7 yrs
173	Mongolia	62.8 yrs	58.1 yrs
174	Yemen	62.3 yrs	58.0 yrs
175	India	62.3 yrs	58.2 yrs
176	Western Sahara	62.2 yrs	51.5 yrs
177	Nepal	62.0 yrs	54.0 yrs
178	Bhutan	62.0 yrs	55.1 yrs
179	Gabon	61.7 yrs	60.6 yrs
180	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	61.7 yrs	56.1 yrs
181	Pakistan	61.5 yrs	59.5 yrs
182	Papua New Guinea	61.5 yrs	59.6 yrs
183	Bangladesh	61.2 yrs	55.5 yrs
184	Sao Tome and Principe	61.0 yrs	59.7 yrs
185	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	60.9 yrs	70.3 yrs
186	Mauritania	60.4 yrs	57.7 yrs
187	Myanmar	60.1 yrs	56.9 yrs
188	Nauru	59.7 yrs	58.9 yrs
189	South Africa	59.2 yrs	63.0 yrs
190	Comoros	58.9 yrs	55.0 yrs
191	Cambodia	58.6 yrs	54.8 yrs
192	Sudan	58.6 yrs	54.9 yrs
193	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	58.3 yrs	65.2 yrs
194	Lao People's Democratic Republic	57.9 yrs	53.6 yrs
195	Ghana	57.8 yrs	54.9 yrs
196	Haiti	57.7 yrs	52.9 yrs
197	Madagascar	57.4 yrs	51.8 yrs
198	Senegal	57.3 yrs	56.2 yrs
199	Djibouti	56.6 yrs	55.4 yrs
200	Gambia	56.5 yrs	50.7 yrs
201	Benin	56.3 yrs	52.5 yrs
202	Kenya	55.9 yrs	60.0 yrs
203	Afghanistan	54.5 yrs	44.5 yrs
204	Congo	54.4 yrs	57.3 yrs
205	Togo	54.3 yrs	54.7 yrs
206	Namibia	54.0 yrs	60.8 yrs
207	Cameroon	53.2 yrs	54.4 yrs
208	Equatorial Guinea	53.0 yrs	51.3 yrs
209	Botswana	52.5 yrs	61.2 yrs
210	United Republic of Tanzania	52.4 yrs	52.1 yrs
211	Guinea	52.0 yrs	46.9 yrs
212	Côte d'Ivoire	51.3 yrs	53.0 yrs
213	Somalia	50.6 yrs	46.6 yrs
214	Burkina Faso	50.5 yrs	49.3 yrs
215	Liberia	50.4 yrs	43.9 yrs
216	Lesotho	50.4 yrs	59.5 yrs
217	Democratic Republic of the Congo	50.1 yrs	48.1 yrs
218	Mali	50.1 yrs	46.2 yrs
219	Ethiopia	49.5 yrs	45.6 yrs
220	Uganda	49.0 yrs	47.5 yrs
221	Eswatini	48.8 yrs	61.7 yrs
222	Mozambique	48.8 yrs	43.9 yrs
223	Guinea-Bissau	48.5 yrs	46.6 yrs
224	Niger	48.5 yrs	41.2 yrs
225	Chad	47.9 yrs	46.4 yrs
226	Burundi	47.6 yrs	45.8 yrs
227	Central African Republic	46.9 yrs	50.1 yrs
228	Nigeria	46.6 yrs	45.8 yrs
229	Zimbabwe	46.4 yrs	59.5 yrs
230	Zambia	45.9 yrs	48.9 yrs
231	Angola	45.8 yrs	41.7 yrs
232	Rwanda	45.8 yrs	49.5 yrs
233	Timor-Leste	45.3 yrs	44.8 yrs
234	Malawi	45.1 yrs	43.5 yrs
235	Eritrea	44.5 yrs	47.8 yrs
236	South Sudan	44.5 yrs	28.2 yrs
237	Sierra Leone	42.0 yrs	43.7 yrs

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