Life expectancy by country, 2005

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

◀▶2005

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	1995
1	Monaco	84.3 yrs	80.9 yrs
2	Andorra	83.1 yrs	80.8 yrs
3	Japan	82.0 yrs	79.7 yrs
4	San Marino	81.9 yrs	79.0 yrs
5	China, Hong Kong SAR	81.7 yrs	79.1 yrs
6	Iceland	81.2 yrs	77.5 yrs
7	Switzerland	81.2 yrs	78.6 yrs
8	Australia	81.1 yrs	78.3 yrs
9	Liechtenstein	81.1 yrs	77.9 yrs
10	Italy	81.0 yrs	78.1 yrs
11	Gibraltar	81.0 yrs	78.3 yrs
12	United Arab Emirates	80.8 yrs	71.4 yrs
13	Saint Barthélemy	80.8 yrs	77.8 yrs
14	Guernsey	80.7 yrs	78.1 yrs
15	Holy See	80.7 yrs	77.8 yrs
16	Sweden	80.6 yrs	78.8 yrs
17	China, Macao SAR	80.5 yrs	77.8 yrs
18	Israel	80.4 yrs	78.0 yrs
19	Singapore	80.3 yrs	75.7 yrs
20	Spain	80.3 yrs	78.2 yrs
21	France	80.3 yrs	77.9 yrs
22	Norway	80.2 yrs	77.8 yrs
23	Martinique	80.2 yrs	77.2 yrs
24	Canada	80.1 yrs	78.0 yrs
25	New Zealand	80.0 yrs	76.8 yrs
26	French Polynesia	80.0 yrs	76.2 yrs
27	Greece	79.7 yrs	77.9 yrs
28	Jersey	79.7 yrs	77.3 yrs
29	Austria	79.5 yrs	76.8 yrs
30	Netherlands	79.5 yrs	77.5 yrs
31	Malta	79.5 yrs	77.0 yrs
32	Germany	79.3 yrs	76.5 yrs
33	Cyprus	79.2 yrs	76.6 yrs
34	United Kingdom	79.1 yrs	76.6 yrs
35	Finland	79.0 yrs	76.6 yrs
36	Belgium	79.0 yrs	76.8 yrs
37	Ireland	78.9 yrs	75.5 yrs
38	Costa Rica	78.9 yrs	76.4 yrs
39	Bermuda	78.9 yrs	75.9 yrs
40	Luxembourg	78.9 yrs	75.9 yrs
41	Chile	78.5 yrs	75.3 yrs
42	Republic of Korea	78.5 yrs	73.4 yrs
43	Faroe Islands	78.4 yrs	77.7 yrs
44	Portugal	78.3 yrs	75.5 yrs
45	Guadeloupe	78.2 yrs	75.5 yrs
46	Denmark	78.2 yrs	75.3 yrs
47	Réunion	78.0 yrs	75.7 yrs
48	Saint Martin (French part)	77.8 yrs	75.7 yrs
49	United States of America	77.5 yrs	75.8 yrs
50	Cuba	77.5 yrs	74.3 yrs
51	Slovenia	77.5 yrs	74.4 yrs
52	Isle of Man	77.5 yrs	73.4 yrs
53	Northern Mariana Islands	77.3 yrs	71.9 yrs
54	Saint Helena	77.2 yrs	73.2 yrs
55	Mayotte	77.1 yrs	75.1 yrs
56	China, Taiwan Province of China	77.1 yrs	74.6 yrs
57	Qatar	76.9 yrs	74.4 yrs
58	Puerto Rico	76.7 yrs	73.6 yrs
59	Kuwait	76.5 yrs	75.7 yrs
60	Albania	76.4 yrs	74.0 yrs
61	Guam	76.4 yrs	74.5 yrs
62	Bosnia and Herzegovina	76.4 yrs	70.2 yrs
63	Anguilla	76.3 yrs	73.7 yrs
64	Czechia	76.2 yrs	73.2 yrs
65	Wallis and Futuna Islands	76.1 yrs	72.5 yrs
66	Bahrain	76.1 yrs	73.4 yrs
67	Lebanon	76.1 yrs	72.4 yrs
68	Turks and Caicos Islands	76.0 yrs	72.0 yrs
69	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	75.9 yrs	75.5 yrs
70	Uruguay	75.8 yrs	73.5 yrs
71	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	75.8 yrs	73.8 yrs
72	Croatia	75.6 yrs	72.6 yrs
73	British Virgin Islands	75.6 yrs	74.1 yrs
74	Antigua and Barbuda	75.4 yrs	73.6 yrs
75	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	75.3 yrs	62.4 yrs
76	Argentina	75.2 yrs	72.9 yrs
77	Panama	75.2 yrs	72.0 yrs
78	Oman	75.1 yrs	71.6 yrs
79	Poland	75.1 yrs	72.0 yrs
80	Barbados	75.0 yrs	73.9 yrs
81	Cayman Islands	74.9 yrs	73.6 yrs
82	New Caledonia	74.9 yrs	71.3 yrs
83	Maldives	74.8 yrs	67.0 yrs
84	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	74.7 yrs	72.8 yrs
85	Brunei Darussalam	74.7 yrs	72.8 yrs
86	Saudi Arabia	74.4 yrs	70.9 yrs
87	Malaysia	74.4 yrs	72.0 yrs
88	Montenegro	74.4 yrs	73.7 yrs
89	Slovakia	74.2 yrs	72.3 yrs
90	Montserrat	74.2 yrs	72.2 yrs
91	China	74.1 yrs	70.4 yrs
92	French Guiana	74.1 yrs	71.9 yrs
93	Ecuador	73.9 yrs	71.3 yrs
94	Curaçao	73.9 yrs	72.8 yrs
95	Grenada	73.7 yrs	72.1 yrs
96	Tunisia	73.7 yrs	70.8 yrs
97	Mexico	73.6 yrs	70.7 yrs
98	North Macedonia	73.6 yrs	72.0 yrs
99	Türkiye	73.5 yrs	69.7 yrs
100	Aruba	73.4 yrs	72.8 yrs
101	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	73.4 yrs	68.8 yrs
102	Bahamas	73.4 yrs	71.4 yrs
103	Tokelau	73.3 yrs	71.2 yrs
104	Colombia	73.2 yrs	69.8 yrs
105	Viet Nam	73.2 yrs	70.9 yrs
106	Sri Lanka	73.1 yrs	69.8 yrs
107	Serbia	73.1 yrs	72.7 yrs
108	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	73.1 yrs	71.7 yrs
109	Estonia	73.0 yrs	67.8 yrs
110	Jordan	73.0 yrs	70.9 yrs
111	Thailand	72.9 yrs	69.8 yrs
112	Hungary	72.9 yrs	70.0 yrs
113	Algeria	72.8 yrs	67.7 yrs
114	Syrian Arab Republic	72.8 yrs	70.2 yrs
115	Bulgaria	72.6 yrs	71.0 yrs
116	Mauritius	72.6 yrs	70.6 yrs
117	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	72.5 yrs	67.9 yrs
118	Saint Lucia	72.5 yrs	71.2 yrs
119	American Samoa	72.4 yrs	71.6 yrs
120	United States Virgin Islands	72.2 yrs	71.2 yrs
121	Armenia	72.1 yrs	68.8 yrs
122	Dominica	72.0 yrs	70.8 yrs
123	State of Palestine	72.0 yrs	69.6 yrs
124	Peru	72.0 yrs	67.2 yrs
125	Seychelles	71.9 yrs	70.6 yrs
126	Brazil	71.8 yrs	67.7 yrs
127	Romania	71.6 yrs	69.3 yrs
128	Samoa	71.5 yrs	69.5 yrs
129	Jamaica	71.5 yrs	71.5 yrs
130	Libya	71.4 yrs	70.6 yrs
131	Paraguay	71.3 yrs	68.8 yrs
132	Lithuania	71.3 yrs	69.0 yrs
133	Cook Islands	71.2 yrs	68.5 yrs
134	Saint Kitts and Nevis	71.2 yrs	67.2 yrs
135	Dominican Republic	71.0 yrs	69.4 yrs
136	Cabo Verde	70.9 yrs	63.7 yrs
137	Georgia	70.7 yrs	69.4 yrs
138	Tonga	70.6 yrs	68.6 yrs
139	Latvia	70.6 yrs	66.0 yrs
140	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	70.5 yrs	70.6 yrs
141	Nicaragua	70.4 yrs	64.9 yrs
142	Belize	70.3 yrs	69.5 yrs
143	Trinidad and Tobago	70.2 yrs	68.0 yrs
144	El Salvador	69.3 yrs	64.9 yrs
145	Vanuatu	69.2 yrs	68.1 yrs
146	Honduras	69.2 yrs	66.9 yrs
147	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	69.2 yrs	60.8 yrs
148	Belarus	69.0 yrs	68.8 yrs
149	Morocco	68.8 yrs	64.7 yrs
150	Egypt	68.4 yrs	65.2 yrs
151	Philippines	68.4 yrs	66.3 yrs
152	Guatemala	68.2 yrs	63.7 yrs
153	Republic of Moldova	68.2 yrs	66.2 yrs
154	Greenland	67.8 yrs	64.2 yrs
155	Solomon Islands	67.8 yrs	66.7 yrs
156	Azerbaijan	67.7 yrs	61.9 yrs
157	Indonesia	67.5 yrs	65.3 yrs
158	Ukraine	67.5 yrs	67.1 yrs
159	Uzbekistan	67.5 yrs	64.7 yrs
160	Suriname	67.0 yrs	62.8 yrs
161	Niue	67.0 yrs	66.4 yrs
162	Tajikistan	66.5 yrs	61.4 yrs
163	Turkmenistan	66.3 yrs	63.5 yrs
164	Palau	66.2 yrs	63.3 yrs
165	Fiji	66.0 yrs	66.0 yrs
166	Bhutan	65.9 yrs	59.3 yrs
167	Kyrgyzstan	65.8 yrs	62.9 yrs
168	Kiribati	65.5 yrs	63.1 yrs
169	Bangladesh	65.5 yrs	58.2 yrs
170	Yemen	65.4 yrs	60.5 yrs
171	Kazakhstan	65.4 yrs	63.7 yrs
172	Nepal	65.3 yrs	59.3 yrs
173	Russian Federation	65.2 yrs	64.0 yrs
174	Western Sahara	65.2 yrs	60.2 yrs
175	Iraq	64.9 yrs	64.8 yrs
176	India	64.9 yrs	60.6 yrs
177	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	64.9 yrs	64.1 yrs
178	Mongolia	64.8 yrs	60.9 yrs
179	Guyana	64.4 yrs	62.7 yrs
180	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	64.2 yrs	59.8 yrs
181	Cambodia	64.1 yrs	56.6 yrs
182	Tuvalu	64.1 yrs	62.5 yrs
183	Marshall Islands	64.1 yrs	62.5 yrs
184	Mauritania	63.9 yrs	58.9 yrs
185	Gabon	63.0 yrs	61.3 yrs
186	Sao Tome and Principe	62.4 yrs	60.5 yrs
187	Pakistan	62.4 yrs	60.3 yrs
188	Papua New Guinea	61.9 yrs	60.9 yrs
189	Myanmar	61.7 yrs	58.7 yrs
190	Timor-Leste	61.3 yrs	47.5 yrs
191	Senegal	61.0 yrs	57.3 yrs
192	Comoros	60.9 yrs	57.8 yrs
193	Madagascar	60.7 yrs	54.9 yrs
194	Lao People's Democratic Republic	60.7 yrs	56.3 yrs
195	Eritrea	60.6 yrs	54.8 yrs
196	Haiti	60.3 yrs	55.6 yrs
197	Ghana	59.6 yrs	56.7 yrs
198	Nauru	59.4 yrs	60.1 yrs
199	Gambia	59.1 yrs	54.3 yrs
200	Congo	58.7 yrs	55.5 yrs
201	Kenya	58.5 yrs	55.9 yrs
202	Djibouti	58.5 yrs	56.2 yrs
203	Afghanistan	58.3 yrs	52.1 yrs
204	United Republic of Tanzania	57.7 yrs	51.0 yrs
205	Benin	57.7 yrs	55.4 yrs
206	Sudan	57.2 yrs	57.5 yrs
207	Rwanda	57.0 yrs	41.5 yrs
208	Liberia	56.8 yrs	44.6 yrs
209	Togo	55.9 yrs	53.7 yrs
210	Equatorial Guinea	55.8 yrs	51.9 yrs
211	Uganda	54.9 yrs	47.7 yrs
212	Cameroon	54.9 yrs	53.4 yrs
213	Ethiopia	54.4 yrs	48.2 yrs
214	Guinea	54.4 yrs	49.8 yrs
215	Botswana	54.4 yrs	54.7 yrs
216	Democratic Republic of the Congo	54.0 yrs	50.4 yrs
217	South Sudan	54.0 yrs	31.5 yrs
218	South Africa	53.9 yrs	61.6 yrs
219	Mali	53.8 yrs	48.3 yrs
220	Niger	53.3 yrs	45.5 yrs
221	Burkina Faso	53.3 yrs	49.5 yrs
222	Guinea-Bissau	53.0 yrs	48.5 yrs
223	Burundi	53.0 yrs	44.6 yrs
224	Namibia	52.6 yrs	57.5 yrs
225	Malawi	52.5 yrs	43.8 yrs
226	Côte d'Ivoire	52.4 yrs	51.7 yrs
227	Mozambique	52.3 yrs	46.5 yrs
228	Angola	52.1 yrs	46.1 yrs
229	Zambia	51.6 yrs	46.0 yrs
230	Somalia	50.9 yrs	50.6 yrs
231	Nigeria	49.5 yrs	45.9 yrs
232	Chad	48.9 yrs	47.5 yrs
233	Sierra Leone	48.3 yrs	42.6 yrs
234	Central African Republic	48.2 yrs	48.1 yrs
235	Zimbabwe	46.6 yrs	51.1 yrs
236	Eswatini	44.0 yrs	55.1 yrs
237	Lesotho	43.6 yrs	56.4 yrs

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