Life expectancy by country, 2000

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

◀▶2000

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1990
1	Monaco	82.1 yrs	79.4 yrs
2	Andorra	81.9 yrs	79.0 yrs
3	Japan	81.2 yrs	79.0 yrs
4	China, Hong Kong SAR	80.7 yrs	77.5 yrs
5	San Marino	80.5 yrs	77.8 yrs
6	Gibraltar	80.1 yrs	76.8 yrs
7	Switzerland	79.8 yrs	77.4 yrs
8	Sweden	79.7 yrs	77.6 yrs
9	Italy	79.6 yrs	77.0 yrs
10	Australia	79.6 yrs	77.0 yrs
11	Iceland	79.5 yrs	77.7 yrs
12	Guernsey	79.4 yrs	76.6 yrs
13	Spain	79.4 yrs	77.0 yrs
14	China, Macao SAR	79.4 yrs	76.6 yrs
15	Saint Barthélemy	79.3 yrs	75.7 yrs
16	Holy See	79.3 yrs	76.9 yrs
17	Israel	79.2 yrs	78.0 yrs
18	Canada	79.2 yrs	77.4 yrs
19	France	79.0 yrs	76.8 yrs
20	French Polynesia	79.0 yrs	73.9 yrs
21	New Zealand	78.7 yrs	75.4 yrs
22	Norway	78.7 yrs	76.6 yrs
23	Liechtenstein	78.6 yrs	78.5 yrs
24	Martinique	78.5 yrs	75.9 yrs
25	Greece	78.4 yrs	77.3 yrs
26	Jersey	78.4 yrs	76.1 yrs
27	Bermuda	78.3 yrs	74.0 yrs
28	Faroe Islands	78.3 yrs	76.9 yrs
29	Austria	78.2 yrs	75.7 yrs
30	Netherlands	78.1 yrs	77.0 yrs
31	Germany	78.1 yrs	75.3 yrs
32	Cyprus	77.9 yrs	76.0 yrs
33	Malta	77.9 yrs	76.2 yrs
34	United Kingdom	77.8 yrs	75.7 yrs
35	Singapore	77.8 yrs	74.6 yrs
36	Belgium	77.8 yrs	76.1 yrs
37	Finland	77.7 yrs	75.0 yrs
38	Costa Rica	77.3 yrs	76.1 yrs
39	Luxembourg	77.3 yrs	75.0 yrs
40	Guadeloupe	77.1 yrs	73.9 yrs
41	Chile	77.1 yrs	73.7 yrs
42	Réunion	77.0 yrs	74.2 yrs
43	United States of America	76.8 yrs	75.4 yrs
44	Saint Martin (French part)	76.8 yrs	74.6 yrs
45	Denmark	76.8 yrs	74.9 yrs
46	Portugal	76.8 yrs	74.3 yrs
47	Ireland	76.5 yrs	74.8 yrs
48	Mayotte	76.4 yrs	73.6 yrs
49	United Arab Emirates	76.3 yrs	71.1 yrs
50	Republic of Korea	76.2 yrs	71.0 yrs
51	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	76.1 yrs	74.3 yrs
52	China, Taiwan Province of China	76.1 yrs	73.9 yrs
53	Cuba	75.9 yrs	73.8 yrs
54	Kuwait	75.9 yrs	72.8 yrs
55	Slovenia	75.8 yrs	73.5 yrs
56	Saint Helena	75.8 yrs	71.5 yrs
57	Puerto Rico	75.5 yrs	72.8 yrs
58	Wallis and Futuna Islands	75.4 yrs	69.9 yrs
59	Qatar	75.3 yrs	73.4 yrs
60	Bosnia and Herzegovina	75.3 yrs	71.5 yrs
61	Anguilla	75.2 yrs	72.1 yrs
62	Czechia	75.0 yrs	71.4 yrs
63	Guam	74.9 yrs	73.5 yrs
64	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	74.9 yrs	73.2 yrs
65	Northern Mariana Islands	74.9 yrs	70.0 yrs
66	Albania	74.8 yrs	72.7 yrs
67	Antigua and Barbuda	74.8 yrs	73.6 yrs
68	Isle of Man	74.8 yrs	71.8 yrs
69	British Virgin Islands	74.8 yrs	72.4 yrs
70	Uruguay	74.7 yrs	73.0 yrs
71	Bahrain	74.7 yrs	72.6 yrs
72	Barbados	74.6 yrs	73.5 yrs
73	Cayman Islands	74.4 yrs	72.7 yrs
74	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	74.4 yrs	72.4 yrs
75	Croatia	74.0 yrs	72.2 yrs
76	Turks and Caicos Islands	74.0 yrs	70.2 yrs
77	Brunei Darussalam	74.0 yrs	71.6 yrs
78	Argentina	73.9 yrs	71.6 yrs
79	Lebanon	73.9 yrs	65.5 yrs
80	Poland	73.7 yrs	70.6 yrs
81	Oman	73.6 yrs	69.0 yrs
82	New Caledonia	73.6 yrs	69.5 yrs
83	Montenegro	73.5 yrs	73.9 yrs
84	Panama	73.4 yrs	71.3 yrs
85	Curaçao	73.3 yrs	72.4 yrs
86	Montserrat	73.2 yrs	70.9 yrs
87	Slovakia	73.1 yrs	70.8 yrs
88	Grenada	73.0 yrs	70.5 yrs
89	French Guiana	73.0 yrs	70.8 yrs
90	Aruba	72.9 yrs	72.5 yrs
91	Viet Nam	72.8 yrs	69.0 yrs
92	Malaysia	72.7 yrs	71.0 yrs
93	Saudi Arabia	72.6 yrs	68.9 yrs
94	Tunisia	72.6 yrs	69.1 yrs
95	Mexico	72.6 yrs	69.0 yrs
96	North Macedonia	72.6 yrs	71.3 yrs
97	Bahamas	72.5 yrs	70.9 yrs
98	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	72.4 yrs	71.0 yrs
99	Serbia	72.3 yrs	72.2 yrs
100	China	72.3 yrs	68.2 yrs
101	Tokelau	72.2 yrs	69.4 yrs
102	Ecuador	72.1 yrs	68.4 yrs
103	Lithuania	72.1 yrs	71.4 yrs
104	Türkiye	71.9 yrs	67.8 yrs
105	Jordan	71.9 yrs	70.1 yrs
106	Hungary	71.8 yrs	69.4 yrs
107	Mauritius	71.8 yrs	69.8 yrs
108	United States Virgin Islands	71.8 yrs	70.7 yrs
109	Dominica	71.7 yrs	70.5 yrs
110	Bulgaria	71.6 yrs	71.3 yrs
111	American Samoa	71.4 yrs	71.1 yrs
112	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	71.3 yrs	66.5 yrs
113	Jamaica	71.3 yrs	71.7 yrs
114	Seychelles	71.3 yrs	70.2 yrs
115	Sri Lanka	71.2 yrs	69.2 yrs
116	Thailand	71.2 yrs	68.9 yrs
117	Romania	71.2 yrs	69.8 yrs
118	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	71.1 yrs	53.3 yrs
119	Estonia	71.0 yrs	69.9 yrs
120	Colombia	70.9 yrs	68.7 yrs
121	Syrian Arab Republic	70.9 yrs	69.8 yrs
122	Maldives	70.9 yrs	63.1 yrs
123	Armenia	70.8 yrs	67.7 yrs
124	Samoa	70.8 yrs	67.8 yrs
125	Saint Lucia	70.8 yrs	70.0 yrs
126	Algeria	70.6 yrs	67.7 yrs
127	Libya	70.5 yrs	69.3 yrs
128	Dominican Republic	70.4 yrs	67.8 yrs
129	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	70.3 yrs	70.7 yrs
130	State of Palestine	70.3 yrs	67.8 yrs
131	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	70.2 yrs	64.1 yrs
132	Latvia	70.2 yrs	69.5 yrs
133	Georgia	70.1 yrs	68.7 yrs
134	Paraguay	70.0 yrs	67.3 yrs
135	Cook Islands	69.8 yrs	66.5 yrs
136	Peru	69.8 yrs	64.0 yrs
137	Tonga	69.6 yrs	67.5 yrs
138	Brazil	69.6 yrs	65.9 yrs
139	Saint Kitts and Nevis	69.3 yrs	65.6 yrs
140	Belize	68.9 yrs	69.6 yrs
141	Trinidad and Tobago	68.6 yrs	67.6 yrs
142	Vanuatu	68.6 yrs	66.7 yrs
143	Belarus	68.5 yrs	71.1 yrs
144	Honduras	68.3 yrs	65.2 yrs
145	Cabo Verde	68.1 yrs	63.9 yrs
146	Ukraine	67.8 yrs	70.3 yrs
147	Philippines	67.8 yrs	64.4 yrs
148	El Salvador	67.7 yrs	62.0 yrs
149	Republic of Moldova	67.5 yrs	67.9 yrs
150	Egypt	67.3 yrs	62.5 yrs
151	Guatemala	67.1 yrs	61.8 yrs
152	Solomon Islands	67.1 yrs	66.2 yrs
153	Morocco	66.8 yrs	62.4 yrs
154	Niue	66.7 yrs	67.1 yrs
155	Nicaragua	66.4 yrs	62.5 yrs
156	Indonesia	66.3 yrs	63.3 yrs
157	Fiji	66.2 yrs	65.1 yrs
158	Greenland	65.6 yrs	63.2 yrs
159	Uzbekistan	65.5 yrs	65.8 yrs
160	Azerbaijan	65.4 yrs	62.8 yrs
161	Kyrgyzstan	65.2 yrs	64.8 yrs
162	Russian Federation	65.0 yrs	69.3 yrs
163	Iraq	64.9 yrs	57.6 yrs
164	Turkmenistan	64.9 yrs	63.9 yrs
165	Kiribati	64.7 yrs	61.0 yrs
166	Palau	64.5 yrs	62.8 yrs
167	Suriname	64.4 yrs	62.1 yrs
168	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	64.3 yrs	63.7 yrs
169	Guyana	64.1 yrs	62.3 yrs
170	Kazakhstan	63.8 yrs	65.7 yrs
171	Tajikistan	63.5 yrs	61.6 yrs
172	Tuvalu	63.5 yrs	61.6 yrs
173	Mongolia	63.5 yrs	58.8 yrs
174	Marshall Islands	63.3 yrs	61.8 yrs
175	Yemen	62.8 yrs	58.5 yrs
176	India	62.8 yrs	58.6 yrs
177	Western Sahara	62.7 yrs	57.7 yrs
178	Nepal	62.6 yrs	54.8 yrs
179	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	62.1 yrs	56.8 yrs
180	Bangladesh	62.0 yrs	55.8 yrs
181	Pakistan	61.9 yrs	59.7 yrs
182	Gabon	61.8 yrs	60.7 yrs
183	Bhutan	61.8 yrs	55.8 yrs
184	Papua New Guinea	61.6 yrs	59.8 yrs
185	Sao Tome and Principe	61.2 yrs	60.7 yrs
186	Mauritania	61.0 yrs	58.1 yrs
187	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	60.9 yrs	70.5 yrs
188	Myanmar	60.4 yrs	57.2 yrs
189	Nauru	59.6 yrs	59.1 yrs
190	Cambodia	59.5 yrs	55.2 yrs
191	Sudan	59.0 yrs	55.5 yrs
192	Comoros	58.9 yrs	55.6 yrs
193	South Africa	58.4 yrs	62.9 yrs
194	Lao People's Democratic Republic	58.3 yrs	54.0 yrs
195	Haiti	58.2 yrs	53.2 yrs
196	Ghana	58.1 yrs	55.4 yrs
197	Timor-Leste	58.1 yrs	45.2 yrs
198	Madagascar	58.0 yrs	52.1 yrs
199	Senegal	57.6 yrs	56.7 yrs
200	Gambia	56.9 yrs	51.3 yrs
201	Djibouti	56.7 yrs	55.5 yrs
202	Benin	56.6 yrs	53.0 yrs
203	Eritrea	56.3 yrs	49.7 yrs
204	Kenya	56.1 yrs	58.3 yrs
205	Congo	55.4 yrs	57.1 yrs
206	Afghanistan	55.0 yrs	45.1 yrs
207	Togo	54.6 yrs	54.6 yrs
208	Equatorial Guinea	53.4 yrs	51.4 yrs
209	Cameroon	53.3 yrs	54.4 yrs
210	United Republic of Tanzania	53.2 yrs	52.0 yrs
211	Namibia	53.0 yrs	61.4 yrs
212	Guinea	52.4 yrs	47.3 yrs
213	Botswana	52.3 yrs	60.1 yrs
214	Democratic Republic of the Congo	51.9 yrs	48.5 yrs
215	Liberia	51.9 yrs	37.6 yrs
216	Côte d'Ivoire	51.4 yrs	52.8 yrs
217	Ethiopia	50.9 yrs	45.1 yrs
218	Somalia	50.8 yrs	46.9 yrs
219	Burkina Faso	50.8 yrs	49.3 yrs
220	Guinea-Bissau	50.6 yrs	46.9 yrs
221	Mali	50.6 yrs	46.5 yrs
222	Uganda	49.6 yrs	47.6 yrs
223	Mozambique	49.5 yrs	44.3 yrs
224	Niger	49.2 yrs	41.7 yrs
225	Lesotho	48.8 yrs	59.3 yrs
226	Chad	47.9 yrs	45.1 yrs
227	Rwanda	47.8 yrs	47.8 yrs
228	Eswatini	47.6 yrs	61.2 yrs
229	Burundi	47.6 yrs	45.2 yrs
230	South Sudan	47.6 yrs	28.6 yrs
231	Nigeria	47.1 yrs	45.7 yrs
232	Zambia	46.6 yrs	48.2 yrs
233	Central African Republic	46.6 yrs	49.9 yrs
234	Angola	46.5 yrs	41.9 yrs
235	Malawi	46.2 yrs	43.6 yrs
236	Zimbabwe	46.0 yrs	58.3 yrs
237	Sierra Leone	44.8 yrs	43.7 yrs

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