Life expectancy by country, 2003

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

◀▶2003

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1993
1	Monaco	83.6 yrs	80.4 yrs
2	Andorra	82.7 yrs	80.2 yrs
3	Japan	81.8 yrs	79.5 yrs
4	San Marino	81.3 yrs	78.4 yrs
5	China, Hong Kong SAR	81.1 yrs	78.3 yrs
6	Iceland	80.8 yrs	78.8 yrs
7	Gibraltar	80.7 yrs	77.7 yrs
8	Switzerland	80.5 yrs	78.2 yrs
9	Australia	80.4 yrs	78.0 yrs
10	Italy	80.2 yrs	77.7 yrs
11	Saint Barthélemy	80.2 yrs	77.1 yrs
12	Sweden	80.2 yrs	78.1 yrs
13	Liechtenstein	80.2 yrs	78.5 yrs
14	China, Macao SAR	80.2 yrs	77.5 yrs
15	Israel	79.8 yrs	77.9 yrs
16	Spain	79.8 yrs	77.7 yrs
17	Holy See	79.8 yrs	77.0 yrs
18	Guernsey	79.7 yrs	76.8 yrs
19	Canada	79.7 yrs	77.7 yrs
20	French Polynesia	79.7 yrs	75.2 yrs
21	United Arab Emirates	79.6 yrs	71.2 yrs
22	Martinique	79.6 yrs	76.8 yrs
23	Norway	79.5 yrs	77.2 yrs
24	France	79.4 yrs	77.3 yrs
25	Singapore	79.2 yrs	75.5 yrs
26	Greece	79.1 yrs	77.7 yrs
27	Jersey	79.1 yrs	76.8 yrs
28	New Zealand	79.1 yrs	76.5 yrs
29	Cyprus	78.9 yrs	76.3 yrs
30	Austria	78.8 yrs	76.2 yrs
31	Netherlands	78.7 yrs	77.0 yrs
32	Bermuda	78.7 yrs	74.8 yrs
33	Malta	78.7 yrs	76.8 yrs
34	Germany	78.5 yrs	76.1 yrs
35	Finland	78.5 yrs	75.9 yrs
36	Faroe Islands	78.4 yrs	77.4 yrs
37	United Kingdom	78.3 yrs	76.2 yrs
38	Belgium	78.3 yrs	76.4 yrs
39	Guadeloupe	78.2 yrs	74.9 yrs
40	Costa Rica	78.2 yrs	76.3 yrs
41	Ireland	78.1 yrs	75.3 yrs
42	Chile	77.9 yrs	74.7 yrs
43	Portugal	77.6 yrs	74.8 yrs
44	Réunion	77.6 yrs	75.0 yrs
45	Republic of Korea	77.5 yrs	72.8 yrs
46	Cuba	77.4 yrs	73.9 yrs
47	Saint Martin (French part)	77.4 yrs	75.3 yrs
48	Denmark	77.4 yrs	75.2 yrs
49	Luxembourg	77.3 yrs	75.4 yrs
50	United States of America	77.1 yrs	75.6 yrs
51	China, Taiwan Province of China	77.0 yrs	74.6 yrs
52	Puerto Rico	76.9 yrs	73.3 yrs
53	Mayotte	76.8 yrs	74.5 yrs
54	Bosnia and Herzegovina	76.5 yrs	50.9 yrs
55	Northern Mariana Islands	76.5 yrs	71.2 yrs
56	Saint Helena	76.4 yrs	72.3 yrs
57	Kuwait	76.3 yrs	75.8 yrs
58	Slovenia	76.3 yrs	73.6 yrs
59	Isle of Man	76.3 yrs	72.8 yrs
60	Qatar	76.1 yrs	74.1 yrs
61	Anguilla	75.9 yrs	73.1 yrs
62	Guam	75.9 yrs	74.0 yrs
63	Wallis and Futuna Islands	75.8 yrs	70.6 yrs
64	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	75.7 yrs	73.7 yrs
65	Albania	75.6 yrs	73.6 yrs
66	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	75.5 yrs	73.5 yrs
67	Bahrain	75.5 yrs	72.9 yrs
68	Czechia	75.4 yrs	72.8 yrs
69	Antigua and Barbuda	75.3 yrs	73.4 yrs
70	Turks and Caicos Islands	75.3 yrs	71.2 yrs
71	Lebanon	75.3 yrs	71.6 yrs
72	British Virgin Islands	75.2 yrs	73.4 yrs
73	Uruguay	75.1 yrs	73.2 yrs
74	Barbados	74.9 yrs	73.7 yrs
75	Poland	74.8 yrs	71.3 yrs
76	Croatia	74.7 yrs	72.3 yrs
77	Cayman Islands	74.6 yrs	73.3 yrs
78	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	74.6 yrs	72.5 yrs
79	Panama	74.6 yrs	71.8 yrs
80	Oman	74.5 yrs	70.6 yrs
81	New Caledonia	74.5 yrs	70.5 yrs
82	Brunei Darussalam	74.5 yrs	72.3 yrs
83	Argentina	74.3 yrs	72.3 yrs
84	Montenegro	74.2 yrs	73.9 yrs
85	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	74.0 yrs	58.2 yrs
86	Slovakia	73.8 yrs	71.9 yrs
87	Montserrat	73.8 yrs	71.7 yrs
88	Saudi Arabia	73.7 yrs	70.2 yrs
89	Malaysia	73.7 yrs	71.7 yrs
90	Ecuador	73.6 yrs	70.1 yrs
91	Curaçao	73.6 yrs	72.7 yrs
92	French Guiana	73.6 yrs	71.5 yrs
93	China	73.4 yrs	69.5 yrs
94	Grenada	73.3 yrs	71.5 yrs
95	Tunisia	73.3 yrs	70.0 yrs
96	Mexico	73.3 yrs	70.0 yrs
97	Maldives	73.3 yrs	65.4 yrs
98	Aruba	73.2 yrs	72.8 yrs
99	Bahamas	73.2 yrs	71.4 yrs
100	Viet Nam	73.2 yrs	70.0 yrs
101	North Macedonia	73.0 yrs	71.7 yrs
102	Tokelau	72.9 yrs	70.6 yrs
103	Türkiye	72.9 yrs	69.0 yrs
104	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	72.7 yrs	68.0 yrs
105	Serbia	72.7 yrs	71.9 yrs
106	Jordan	72.6 yrs	70.6 yrs
107	Hungary	72.5 yrs	69.2 yrs
108	Sri Lanka	72.4 yrs	70.0 yrs
109	Bulgaria	72.4 yrs	71.2 yrs
110	Colombia	72.3 yrs	69.1 yrs
111	Mauritius	72.3 yrs	70.4 yrs
112	Syrian Arab Republic	72.2 yrs	70.3 yrs
113	Saint Lucia	72.2 yrs	71.0 yrs
114	Thailand	72.1 yrs	69.6 yrs
115	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	72.1 yrs	71.4 yrs
116	Lithuania	72.1 yrs	68.9 yrs
117	United States Virgin Islands	72.0 yrs	71.1 yrs
118	Algeria	71.9 yrs	67.8 yrs
119	Estonia	71.9 yrs	68.2 yrs
120	Dominica	71.9 yrs	70.6 yrs
121	Armenia	71.7 yrs	68.1 yrs
122	Seychelles	71.7 yrs	70.4 yrs
123	American Samoa	71.7 yrs	71.5 yrs
124	Jamaica	71.6 yrs	71.8 yrs
125	Samoa	71.4 yrs	68.8 yrs
126	Georgia	71.4 yrs	67.4 yrs
127	Peru	71.3 yrs	65.7 yrs
128	State of Palestine	71.0 yrs	68.8 yrs
129	Libya	71.0 yrs	70.3 yrs
130	Dominican Republic	70.9 yrs	68.9 yrs
131	Brazil	70.9 yrs	66.9 yrs
132	Paraguay	70.8 yrs	68.2 yrs
133	Romania	70.8 yrs	69.5 yrs
134	Cook Islands	70.6 yrs	68.0 yrs
135	Saint Kitts and Nevis	70.6 yrs	66.7 yrs
136	Latvia	70.6 yrs	66.6 yrs
137	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	70.5 yrs	67.0 yrs
138	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	70.4 yrs	70.6 yrs
139	Tonga	70.2 yrs	68.2 yrs
140	Cabo Verde	70.0 yrs	64.5 yrs
141	Belize	69.8 yrs	69.6 yrs
142	Trinidad and Tobago	69.5 yrs	67.8 yrs
143	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	69.4 yrs	70.8 yrs
144	Vanuatu	68.9 yrs	67.7 yrs
145	Honduras	68.9 yrs	66.1 yrs
146	El Salvador	68.8 yrs	64.0 yrs
147	Nicaragua	68.8 yrs	64.1 yrs
148	Belarus	68.4 yrs	69.5 yrs
149	Guatemala	68.2 yrs	62.4 yrs
150	Egypt	68.0 yrs	64.2 yrs
151	Philippines	68.0 yrs	65.7 yrs
152	Morocco	68.0 yrs	63.9 yrs
153	Republic of Moldova	67.9 yrs	66.7 yrs
154	Ukraine	67.6 yrs	68.3 yrs
155	Greenland	67.6 yrs	64.1 yrs
156	Solomon Islands	67.5 yrs	66.6 yrs
157	Indonesia	67.1 yrs	64.8 yrs
158	Azerbaijan	67.0 yrs	61.4 yrs
159	Uzbekistan	66.8 yrs	64.9 yrs
160	Niue	66.8 yrs	66.4 yrs
161	Tajikistan	65.9 yrs	55.5 yrs
162	Suriname	65.8 yrs	62.4 yrs
163	Turkmenistan	65.8 yrs	63.6 yrs
164	Fiji	65.7 yrs	65.5 yrs
165	Kyrgyzstan	65.5 yrs	63.6 yrs
166	Palau	65.5 yrs	63.0 yrs
167	Kiribati	65.3 yrs	62.4 yrs
168	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	64.9 yrs	64.0 yrs
169	Iraq	64.8 yrs	65.3 yrs
170	Kazakhstan	64.8 yrs	64.5 yrs
171	Bhutan	64.7 yrs	57.9 yrs
172	Russian Federation	64.7 yrs	65.0 yrs
173	Yemen	64.4 yrs	59.7 yrs
174	Bangladesh	64.3 yrs	57.1 yrs
175	Nepal	64.2 yrs	57.6 yrs
176	Western Sahara	64.2 yrs	59.2 yrs
177	India	64.1 yrs	59.8 yrs
178	Guyana	64.1 yrs	63.0 yrs
179	Mongolia	64.1 yrs	60.8 yrs
180	Marshall Islands	64.0 yrs	62.1 yrs
181	Tuvalu	63.9 yrs	62.1 yrs
182	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	63.5 yrs	58.7 yrs
183	Pakistan	62.8 yrs	60.1 yrs
184	Mauritania	62.8 yrs	58.7 yrs
185	Gabon	62.5 yrs	61.1 yrs
186	Cambodia	62.4 yrs	56.0 yrs
187	Sao Tome and Principe	62.2 yrs	60.6 yrs
188	Papua New Guinea	61.7 yrs	60.5 yrs
189	Myanmar	61.2 yrs	58.0 yrs
190	Comoros	60.2 yrs	57.0 yrs
191	Timor-Leste	60.1 yrs	47.0 yrs
192	Madagascar	59.7 yrs	53.7 yrs
193	Lao People's Democratic Republic	59.6 yrs	55.6 yrs
194	Eritrea	59.5 yrs	53.2 yrs
195	Senegal	59.5 yrs	57.4 yrs
196	Nauru	59.4 yrs	59.8 yrs
197	Haiti	59.4 yrs	54.5 yrs
198	Ghana	59.0 yrs	56.3 yrs
199	Sudan	58.3 yrs	56.1 yrs
200	Gambia	58.2 yrs	53.1 yrs
201	Djibouti	58.0 yrs	55.7 yrs
202	Kenya	57.4 yrs	56.7 yrs
203	Afghanistan	57.2 yrs	51.0 yrs
204	Congo	57.1 yrs	56.0 yrs
205	Benin	57.1 yrs	54.6 yrs
206	United Republic of Tanzania	55.9 yrs	51.2 yrs
207	Togo	55.3 yrs	53.9 yrs
208	Equatorial Guinea	54.8 yrs	51.7 yrs
209	Cameroon	54.3 yrs	53.9 yrs
210	South Africa	54.3 yrs	62.6 yrs
211	Guinea	53.6 yrs	48.8 yrs
212	Rwanda	53.5 yrs	42.9 yrs
213	Democratic Republic of the Congo	53.0 yrs	49.6 yrs
214	Liberia	53.0 yrs	43.0 yrs
215	Ethiopia	52.9 yrs	47.7 yrs
216	Botswana	52.9 yrs	57.3 yrs
217	Mali	52.6 yrs	47.6 yrs
218	Uganda	52.4 yrs	47.7 yrs
219	South Sudan	52.3 yrs	22.3 yrs
220	Guinea-Bissau	52.2 yrs	47.8 yrs
221	Burkina Faso	52.0 yrs	49.4 yrs
222	Namibia	51.9 yrs	59.3 yrs
223	Niger	51.5 yrs	43.8 yrs
224	Côte d'Ivoire	51.4 yrs	52.3 yrs
225	Mozambique	51.4 yrs	45.7 yrs
226	Burundi	51.0 yrs	37.2 yrs
227	Somalia	50.7 yrs	50.5 yrs
228	Angola	50.2 yrs	42.2 yrs
229	Zambia	49.6 yrs	46.7 yrs
230	Malawi	49.6 yrs	43.6 yrs
231	Chad	48.6 yrs	47.0 yrs
232	Nigeria	48.6 yrs	45.8 yrs
233	Central African Republic	47.3 yrs	48.9 yrs
234	Sierra Leone	46.8 yrs	43.4 yrs
235	Zimbabwe	45.4 yrs	54.0 yrs
236	Lesotho	44.9 yrs	58.1 yrs
237	Eswatini	44.6 yrs	58.1 yrs

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