Life expectancy by country, 2002

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

◀▶2002

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1992
1	Monaco	83.0 yrs	80.1 yrs
2	Andorra	82.5 yrs	79.8 yrs
3	Japan	81.8 yrs	79.3 yrs
4	China, Hong Kong SAR	81.2 yrs	78.0 yrs
5	San Marino	81.1 yrs	78.1 yrs
6	Gibraltar	80.6 yrs	77.4 yrs
7	Switzerland	80.4 yrs	77.9 yrs
8	Iceland	80.3 yrs	78.6 yrs
9	Italy	80.1 yrs	77.4 yrs
10	China, Macao SAR	80.1 yrs	77.1 yrs
11	Australia	80.0 yrs	77.5 yrs
12	Holy See	80.0 yrs	77.3 yrs
13	Saint Barthélemy	79.9 yrs	76.6 yrs
14	Sweden	79.9 yrs	78.1 yrs
15	Spain	79.8 yrs	77.6 yrs
16	Liechtenstein	79.8 yrs	78.7 yrs
17	Guernsey	79.6 yrs	77.8 yrs
18	Canada	79.6 yrs	77.8 yrs
19	Israel	79.5 yrs	77.3 yrs
20	French Polynesia	79.5 yrs	74.8 yrs
21	France	79.4 yrs	77.3 yrs
22	Greece	79.0 yrs	77.3 yrs
23	Norway	79.0 yrs	77.3 yrs
24	New Zealand	78.9 yrs	76.2 yrs
25	Martinique	78.9 yrs	76.6 yrs
26	Austria	78.8 yrs	76.0 yrs
27	Cyprus	78.8 yrs	76.3 yrs
28	Jersey	78.8 yrs	76.6 yrs
29	Bermuda	78.8 yrs	74.5 yrs
30	United Arab Emirates	78.7 yrs	71.2 yrs
31	Singapore	78.7 yrs	75.3 yrs
32	Germany	78.5 yrs	76.0 yrs
33	Malta	78.5 yrs	76.7 yrs
34	Netherlands	78.4 yrs	77.4 yrs
35	Faroe Islands	78.4 yrs	77.3 yrs
36	Finland	78.3 yrs	75.7 yrs
37	United Kingdom	78.2 yrs	76.3 yrs
38	Belgium	78.2 yrs	76.4 yrs
39	Costa Rica	77.9 yrs	76.4 yrs
40	Guadeloupe	77.8 yrs	74.6 yrs
41	Chile	77.8 yrs	74.4 yrs
42	Ireland	77.6 yrs	75.4 yrs
43	Luxembourg	77.5 yrs	74.8 yrs
44	Portugal	77.4 yrs	74.9 yrs
45	Réunion	77.3 yrs	74.8 yrs
46	Saint Martin (French part)	77.2 yrs	75.2 yrs
47	Republic of Korea	77.2 yrs	72.2 yrs
48	Denmark	77.1 yrs	75.3 yrs
49	United States of America	77.0 yrs	75.8 yrs
50	China, Taiwan Province of China	76.9 yrs	74.3 yrs
51	Cuba	76.8 yrs	73.8 yrs
52	Puerto Rico	76.8 yrs	73.4 yrs
53	Mayotte	76.7 yrs	74.3 yrs
54	Slovenia	76.3 yrs	73.4 yrs
55	Kuwait	76.2 yrs	75.7 yrs
56	Bosnia and Herzegovina	76.0 yrs	52.0 yrs
57	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	75.9 yrs	73.4 yrs
58	Northern Mariana Islands	75.9 yrs	70.8 yrs
59	Qatar	75.8 yrs	73.9 yrs
60	Saint Helena	75.8 yrs	72.1 yrs
61	Isle of Man	75.8 yrs	72.5 yrs
62	Anguilla	75.7 yrs	72.8 yrs
63	Wallis and Futuna Islands	75.7 yrs	71.1 yrs
64	Guam	75.5 yrs	73.6 yrs
65	Czechia	75.4 yrs	72.3 yrs
66	Albania	75.3 yrs	73.3 yrs
67	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	75.3 yrs	73.4 yrs
68	Antigua and Barbuda	75.2 yrs	73.4 yrs
69	Bahrain	75.2 yrs	72.8 yrs
70	Uruguay	75.0 yrs	73.2 yrs
71	British Virgin Islands	75.0 yrs	73.1 yrs
72	Turks and Caicos Islands	74.8 yrs	70.9 yrs
73	Barbados	74.8 yrs	73.6 yrs
74	Lebanon	74.8 yrs	71.2 yrs
75	Croatia	74.7 yrs	71.7 yrs
76	Cayman Islands	74.6 yrs	73.1 yrs
77	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	74.6 yrs	72.4 yrs
78	Poland	74.5 yrs	70.9 yrs
79	Brunei Darussalam	74.4 yrs	72.1 yrs
80	Argentina	74.3 yrs	72.1 yrs
81	Oman	74.3 yrs	70.1 yrs
82	New Caledonia	74.3 yrs	70.1 yrs
83	Panama	74.2 yrs	71.5 yrs
84	Montenegro	74.1 yrs	73.8 yrs
85	Slovakia	73.8 yrs	71.4 yrs
86	Curaçao	73.5 yrs	72.7 yrs
87	Malaysia	73.5 yrs	71.5 yrs
88	Montserrat	73.5 yrs	71.4 yrs
89	French Guiana	73.5 yrs	71.2 yrs
90	Saudi Arabia	73.3 yrs	69.8 yrs
91	Ecuador	73.2 yrs	69.5 yrs
92	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	73.2 yrs	56.3 yrs
93	Aruba	73.1 yrs	72.7 yrs
94	Grenada	73.1 yrs	71.1 yrs
95	Tunisia	73.1 yrs	69.7 yrs
96	Viet Nam	73.1 yrs	69.6 yrs
97	Mexico	73.1 yrs	69.7 yrs
98	Bahamas	73.0 yrs	71.3 yrs
99	China	73.0 yrs	69.1 yrs
100	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	72.8 yrs	71.2 yrs
101	Tokelau	72.7 yrs	70.2 yrs
102	North Macedonia	72.7 yrs	71.3 yrs
103	Serbia	72.6 yrs	71.6 yrs
104	Türkiye	72.6 yrs	68.6 yrs
105	Hungary	72.5 yrs	69.2 yrs
106	Maldives	72.4 yrs	64.7 yrs
107	Jordan	72.4 yrs	70.4 yrs
108	Sri Lanka	72.3 yrs	69.6 yrs
109	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	72.2 yrs	67.4 yrs
110	Bulgaria	72.1 yrs	71.2 yrs
111	Mauritius	72.0 yrs	70.2 yrs
112	United States Virgin Islands	72.0 yrs	71.0 yrs
113	Dominica	71.9 yrs	70.5 yrs
114	Thailand	71.8 yrs	69.3 yrs
115	Lithuania	71.8 yrs	70.3 yrs
116	American Samoa	71.8 yrs	71.5 yrs
117	Syrian Arab Republic	71.7 yrs	70.2 yrs
118	Saint Lucia	71.7 yrs	70.7 yrs
119	Algeria	71.6 yrs	67.7 yrs
120	Armenia	71.5 yrs	67.9 yrs
121	Colombia	71.5 yrs	68.8 yrs
122	Jamaica	71.5 yrs	71.8 yrs
123	Seychelles	71.5 yrs	70.3 yrs
124	Estonia	71.4 yrs	69.2 yrs
125	Samoa	71.2 yrs	68.5 yrs
126	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	71.1 yrs	66.7 yrs
127	State of Palestine	70.9 yrs	68.5 yrs
128	Peru	70.8 yrs	65.0 yrs
129	Libya	70.8 yrs	70.0 yrs
130	Romania	70.8 yrs	69.5 yrs
131	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	70.7 yrs	70.7 yrs
132	Dominican Republic	70.7 yrs	68.5 yrs
133	Paraguay	70.5 yrs	68.0 yrs
134	Georgia	70.4 yrs	67.8 yrs
135	Brazil	70.4 yrs	66.5 yrs
136	Cook Islands	70.3 yrs	67.8 yrs
137	Saint Kitts and Nevis	70.2 yrs	66.3 yrs
138	Latvia	70.2 yrs	68.5 yrs
139	Tonga	70.0 yrs	67.9 yrs
140	Cabo Verde	69.5 yrs	64.3 yrs
141	Belize	69.5 yrs	69.6 yrs
142	Trinidad and Tobago	69.2 yrs	67.8 yrs
143	Vanuatu	68.8 yrs	67.4 yrs
144	Honduras	68.7 yrs	65.9 yrs
145	El Salvador	68.5 yrs	62.9 yrs
146	Belarus	68.3 yrs	70.1 yrs
147	Nicaragua	68.0 yrs	63.7 yrs
148	Philippines	67.9 yrs	65.3 yrs
149	Egypt	67.8 yrs	63.6 yrs
150	Guatemala	67.8 yrs	62.0 yrs
151	Republic of Moldova	67.8 yrs	66.8 yrs
152	Ukraine	67.7 yrs	69.0 yrs
153	Morocco	67.6 yrs	63.4 yrs
154	Solomon Islands	67.3 yrs	66.5 yrs
155	Indonesia	67.0 yrs	64.2 yrs
156	Greenland	67.0 yrs	63.8 yrs
157	Azerbaijan	66.8 yrs	60.8 yrs
158	Niue	66.7 yrs	66.5 yrs
159	Uzbekistan	66.4 yrs	65.2 yrs
160	Iraq	65.7 yrs	65.3 yrs
161	Turkmenistan	65.6 yrs	63.8 yrs
162	Fiji	65.5 yrs	65.4 yrs
163	Kyrgyzstan	65.3 yrs	64.4 yrs
164	Suriname	65.3 yrs	62.3 yrs
165	Kiribati	65.1 yrs	62.0 yrs
166	Palau	65.1 yrs	62.9 yrs
167	Tajikistan	64.9 yrs	57.1 yrs
168	Russian Federation	64.7 yrs	67.8 yrs
169	Kazakhstan	64.4 yrs	65.0 yrs
170	Guyana	64.2 yrs	62.8 yrs
171	Bhutan	64.0 yrs	57.2 yrs
172	Mongolia	64.0 yrs	60.4 yrs
173	Marshall Islands	63.9 yrs	61.9 yrs
174	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	63.9 yrs	64.0 yrs
175	Yemen	63.8 yrs	59.3 yrs
176	Tuvalu	63.8 yrs	60.3 yrs
177	Western Sahara	63.7 yrs	58.7 yrs
178	India	63.6 yrs	59.5 yrs
179	Bangladesh	63.6 yrs	56.6 yrs
180	Nepal	63.5 yrs	56.7 yrs
181	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	63.1 yrs	57.9 yrs
182	Pakistan	62.6 yrs	60.0 yrs
183	Mauritania	62.3 yrs	58.6 yrs
184	Gabon	62.2 yrs	61.0 yrs
185	Sao Tome and Principe	61.8 yrs	60.7 yrs
186	Papua New Guinea	61.6 yrs	60.3 yrs
187	Cambodia	61.4 yrs	55.8 yrs
188	Myanmar	60.9 yrs	57.7 yrs
189	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	60.9 yrs	71.0 yrs
190	Comoros	59.7 yrs	56.6 yrs
191	Timor-Leste	59.5 yrs	46.2 yrs
192	Nauru	59.4 yrs	59.5 yrs
193	Sudan	59.3 yrs	56.0 yrs
194	Lao People's Democratic Republic	59.3 yrs	55.1 yrs
195	Madagascar	59.2 yrs	53.0 yrs
196	Haiti	59.0 yrs	54.0 yrs
197	Eritrea	58.9 yrs	52.4 yrs
198	Senegal	58.9 yrs	57.3 yrs
199	Ghana	58.7 yrs	56.1 yrs
200	Djibouti	57.8 yrs	54.4 yrs
201	Gambia	57.7 yrs	52.5 yrs
202	Benin	56.9 yrs	54.1 yrs
203	Kenya	56.8 yrs	57.1 yrs
204	Congo	56.4 yrs	56.5 yrs
205	Afghanistan	56.2 yrs	46.6 yrs
206	South Africa	55.6 yrs	62.8 yrs
207	Togo	55.0 yrs	54.1 yrs
208	United Republic of Tanzania	54.9 yrs	51.4 yrs
209	Equatorial Guinea	54.3 yrs	51.6 yrs
210	Liberia	54.1 yrs	43.6 yrs
211	Cameroon	53.9 yrs	54.0 yrs
212	Guinea	53.2 yrs	48.3 yrs
213	Democratic Republic of the Congo	52.4 yrs	49.3 yrs
214	Botswana	52.4 yrs	58.2 yrs
215	Ethiopia	52.1 yrs	47.3 yrs
216	Namibia	52.0 yrs	60.2 yrs
217	Mali	52.0 yrs	47.2 yrs
218	Guinea-Bissau	51.6 yrs	47.5 yrs
219	Côte d'Ivoire	51.5 yrs	52.4 yrs
220	Burkina Faso	51.5 yrs	49.4 yrs
221	Uganda	51.4 yrs	47.7 yrs
222	Rwanda	51.3 yrs	44.4 yrs
223	Mozambique	50.9 yrs	45.1 yrs
224	Somalia	50.8 yrs	25.0 yrs
225	Niger	50.6 yrs	43.1 yrs
226	Burundi	49.9 yrs	44.5 yrs
227	South Sudan	49.4 yrs	21.9 yrs
228	Zambia	48.5 yrs	47.0 yrs
229	Chad	48.4 yrs	46.8 yrs
230	Malawi	48.2 yrs	43.6 yrs
231	Nigeria	48.0 yrs	45.6 yrs
232	Angola	47.9 yrs	42.3 yrs
233	Central African Republic	46.8 yrs	49.2 yrs
234	Sierra Leone	46.2 yrs	43.5 yrs
235	Lesotho	46.0 yrs	58.6 yrs
236	Zimbabwe	45.9 yrs	55.6 yrs
237	Eswatini	45.4 yrs	59.3 yrs

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