Life expectancy by country, 2012

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

◀▶2012

#	Country / area	Life expectancy	2002
1	Monaco	85.0 yrs	83.0 yrs
2	Andorra	84.3 yrs	82.5 yrs
3	San Marino	83.9 yrs	81.1 yrs
4	China, Hong Kong SAR	83.4 yrs	81.2 yrs
5	Japan	83.2 yrs	81.8 yrs
6	Switzerland	82.6 yrs	80.4 yrs
7	Gibraltar	82.5 yrs	80.6 yrs
8	Iceland	82.3 yrs	80.3 yrs
9	Italy	82.3 yrs	80.1 yrs
10	Australia	82.3 yrs	80.0 yrs
11	Guernsey	82.3 yrs	79.6 yrs
12	Saint Barthélemy	82.3 yrs	79.9 yrs
13	Liechtenstein	82.3 yrs	79.8 yrs
14	China, Macao SAR	82.3 yrs	80.1 yrs
15	Singapore	82.2 yrs	78.7 yrs
16	Spain	82.2 yrs	79.8 yrs
17	Israel	82.0 yrs	79.5 yrs
18	Holy See	82.0 yrs	80.0 yrs
19	United Arab Emirates	81.9 yrs	78.7 yrs
20	Martinique	81.8 yrs	78.9 yrs
21	Canada	81.7 yrs	79.6 yrs
22	Sweden	81.7 yrs	79.9 yrs
23	France	81.7 yrs	79.4 yrs
24	French Polynesia	81.7 yrs	79.5 yrs
25	Norway	81.5 yrs	79.0 yrs
26	Réunion	81.3 yrs	77.3 yrs
27	Republic of Korea	81.3 yrs	77.2 yrs
28	New Zealand	81.2 yrs	78.9 yrs
29	Netherlands	81.1 yrs	78.4 yrs
30	Cyprus	81.1 yrs	78.8 yrs
31	Malta	81.1 yrs	78.5 yrs
32	Guadeloupe	81.0 yrs	77.8 yrs
33	United Kingdom	80.9 yrs	78.2 yrs
34	Ireland	80.8 yrs	77.6 yrs
35	Austria	80.8 yrs	78.8 yrs
36	Jersey	80.7 yrs	78.8 yrs
37	Qatar	80.5 yrs	75.8 yrs
38	Germany	80.5 yrs	78.5 yrs
39	Finland	80.5 yrs	78.3 yrs
40	Portugal	80.5 yrs	77.4 yrs
41	Greece	80.4 yrs	79.0 yrs
42	Luxembourg	80.4 yrs	77.5 yrs
43	Belgium	80.3 yrs	78.2 yrs
44	Denmark	80.1 yrs	77.1 yrs
45	Isle of Man	80.0 yrs	75.8 yrs
46	Costa Rica	79.9 yrs	77.9 yrs
47	Slovenia	79.8 yrs	76.3 yrs
48	Bermuda	79.8 yrs	78.8 yrs
49	Bahrain	79.6 yrs	75.2 yrs
50	Saint Martin (French part)	79.3 yrs	77.2 yrs
51	Puerto Rico	79.3 yrs	76.8 yrs
52	Chile	79.2 yrs	77.8 yrs
53	China, Taiwan Province of China	79.2 yrs	76.9 yrs
54	Faroe Islands	79.0 yrs	78.4 yrs
55	United States of America	78.8 yrs	77.0 yrs
56	Oman	78.2 yrs	74.3 yrs
57	Cuba	78.2 yrs	76.8 yrs
58	Kuwait	78.2 yrs	76.2 yrs
59	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	78.2 yrs	73.2 yrs
60	Albania	78.1 yrs	75.3 yrs
61	Czechia	78.0 yrs	75.4 yrs
62	Mayotte	77.9 yrs	76.7 yrs
63	Lebanon	77.9 yrs	74.8 yrs
64	Northern Mariana Islands	77.6 yrs	75.9 yrs
65	Maldives	77.5 yrs	72.4 yrs
66	Anguilla	77.4 yrs	75.7 yrs
67	Croatia	77.3 yrs	74.7 yrs
68	Antigua and Barbuda	77.1 yrs	75.2 yrs
69	Cayman Islands	77.1 yrs	74.6 yrs
70	Wallis and Futuna Islands	77.0 yrs	75.7 yrs
71	Turks and Caicos Islands	77.0 yrs	74.8 yrs
72	Bosnia and Herzegovina	77.0 yrs	76.0 yrs
73	Panama	76.9 yrs	74.2 yrs
74	Poland	76.8 yrs	74.5 yrs
75	Uruguay	76.7 yrs	75.0 yrs
76	New Caledonia	76.6 yrs	74.3 yrs
77	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	76.5 yrs	75.3 yrs
78	Estonia	76.4 yrs	71.4 yrs
79	British Virgin Islands	76.4 yrs	75.0 yrs
80	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	76.2 yrs	75.9 yrs
81	Guam	76.2 yrs	75.5 yrs
82	Slovakia	76.2 yrs	73.8 yrs
83	Saint Helena	76.2 yrs	75.8 yrs
84	Montenegro	76.2 yrs	74.1 yrs
85	China	76.2 yrs	73.0 yrs
86	French Guiana	76.2 yrs	73.5 yrs
87	Saudi Arabia	76.1 yrs	73.3 yrs
88	Curaçao	76.0 yrs	73.5 yrs
89	Argentina	75.8 yrs	74.3 yrs
90	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	75.8 yrs	72.2 yrs
91	Barbados	75.7 yrs	74.8 yrs
92	Colombia	75.6 yrs	71.5 yrs
93	Thailand	75.6 yrs	71.8 yrs
94	Ecuador	75.5 yrs	73.2 yrs
95	Türkiye	75.5 yrs	72.6 yrs
96	Malaysia	75.5 yrs	73.5 yrs
97	Sri Lanka	75.2 yrs	72.3 yrs
98	Hungary	75.2 yrs	72.5 yrs
99	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	75.1 yrs	74.6 yrs
100	Serbia	75.1 yrs	72.6 yrs
101	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	75.0 yrs	71.1 yrs
102	Grenada	75.0 yrs	73.1 yrs
103	Tokelau	75.0 yrs	72.7 yrs
104	North Macedonia	75.0 yrs	72.7 yrs
105	Aruba	74.8 yrs	73.1 yrs
106	Brunei Darussalam	74.8 yrs	74.4 yrs
107	Montserrat	74.8 yrs	73.5 yrs
108	Algeria	74.6 yrs	71.6 yrs
109	Tunisia	74.6 yrs	73.1 yrs
110	Brazil	74.3 yrs	70.4 yrs
111	Bulgaria	74.3 yrs	72.1 yrs
112	Mauritius	74.3 yrs	72.0 yrs
113	Romania	74.3 yrs	70.8 yrs
114	Mexico	74.1 yrs	73.1 yrs
115	Jordan	74.1 yrs	72.4 yrs
116	Peru	74.0 yrs	70.8 yrs
117	Lithuania	74.0 yrs	71.8 yrs
118	Latvia	73.9 yrs	70.2 yrs
119	Viet Nam	73.8 yrs	73.1 yrs
120	Bahamas	73.7 yrs	73.0 yrs
121	State of Palestine	73.7 yrs	70.9 yrs
122	United States Virgin Islands	73.7 yrs	72.0 yrs
123	Armenia	73.4 yrs	71.5 yrs
124	Cabo Verde	73.3 yrs	69.5 yrs
125	Cook Islands	73.3 yrs	70.3 yrs
126	Paraguay	73.1 yrs	70.5 yrs
127	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	73.1 yrs	72.8 yrs
128	Saint Lucia	72.9 yrs	71.7 yrs
129	Dominican Republic	72.8 yrs	70.7 yrs
130	Georgia	72.7 yrs	70.4 yrs
131	American Samoa	72.7 yrs	71.8 yrs
132	Seychelles	72.5 yrs	71.5 yrs
133	Trinidad and Tobago	72.5 yrs	69.2 yrs
134	Jamaica	72.4 yrs	71.5 yrs
135	Nicaragua	72.4 yrs	68.0 yrs
136	Libya	72.2 yrs	70.8 yrs
137	Belarus	71.8 yrs	68.3 yrs
138	Morocco	71.7 yrs	67.6 yrs
139	Tonga	71.5 yrs	70.0 yrs
140	El Salvador	71.4 yrs	68.5 yrs
141	Saint Kitts and Nevis	71.4 yrs	70.2 yrs
142	Dominica	71.4 yrs	71.9 yrs
143	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	71.3 yrs	60.9 yrs
144	Samoa	71.2 yrs	71.2 yrs
145	Azerbaijan	71.1 yrs	66.8 yrs
146	Ukraine	71.1 yrs	67.7 yrs
147	Belize	71.1 yrs	69.5 yrs
148	Guatemala	70.7 yrs	67.8 yrs
149	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	70.5 yrs	70.7 yrs
150	Honduras	70.5 yrs	68.7 yrs
151	Uzbekistan	70.4 yrs	66.4 yrs
152	Republic of Moldova	70.3 yrs	67.8 yrs
153	Russian Federation	70.1 yrs	64.7 yrs
154	Suriname	70.0 yrs	65.3 yrs
155	Kazakhstan	69.9 yrs	64.4 yrs
156	Vanuatu	69.9 yrs	68.8 yrs
157	Bhutan	69.8 yrs	64.0 yrs
158	Egypt	69.5 yrs	67.8 yrs
159	Greenland	69.3 yrs	67.0 yrs
160	Philippines	69.2 yrs	67.9 yrs
161	Tajikistan	69.1 yrs	64.9 yrs
162	Solomon Islands	69.0 yrs	67.3 yrs
163	Turkmenistan	69.0 yrs	65.6 yrs
164	Bangladesh	69.0 yrs	63.6 yrs
165	Indonesia	68.9 yrs	67.0 yrs
166	Palau	68.9 yrs	65.1 yrs
167	Iraq	68.8 yrs	65.7 yrs
168	Cambodia	68.4 yrs	61.4 yrs
169	Western Sahara	68.2 yrs	63.7 yrs
170	India	68.1 yrs	63.6 yrs
171	Kyrgyzstan	68.1 yrs	65.3 yrs
172	Niue	68.0 yrs	66.7 yrs
173	Yemen	67.6 yrs	63.8 yrs
174	Mongolia	67.6 yrs	64.0 yrs
175	Nepal	67.4 yrs	63.5 yrs
176	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	66.6 yrs	63.1 yrs
177	Guyana	66.4 yrs	64.2 yrs
178	Syrian Arab Republic	66.2 yrs	71.7 yrs
179	Kiribati	65.9 yrs	65.1 yrs
180	Fiji	65.8 yrs	65.5 yrs
181	Mauritania	65.8 yrs	62.3 yrs
182	Gabon	65.4 yrs	62.2 yrs
183	Senegal	65.2 yrs	58.9 yrs
184	Tuvalu	65.1 yrs	63.8 yrs
185	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	65.1 yrs	63.9 yrs
186	Lao People's Democratic Republic	65.1 yrs	59.3 yrs
187	Pakistan	64.9 yrs	62.6 yrs
188	Marshall Islands	64.8 yrs	63.9 yrs
189	Eritrea	64.7 yrs	58.9 yrs
190	Sao Tome and Principe	64.5 yrs	61.8 yrs
191	Timor-Leste	64.4 yrs	59.5 yrs
192	Myanmar	64.3 yrs	60.9 yrs
193	Rwanda	64.2 yrs	51.3 yrs
194	Papua New Guinea	63.6 yrs	61.6 yrs
195	Comoros	63.5 yrs	59.7 yrs
196	Sudan	63.4 yrs	59.3 yrs
197	Madagascar	63.0 yrs	59.2 yrs
198	Congo	62.7 yrs	56.4 yrs
199	United Republic of Tanzania	62.3 yrs	54.9 yrs
200	Haiti	62.3 yrs	59.0 yrs
201	Ghana	62.0 yrs	58.7 yrs
202	Gambia	61.9 yrs	57.7 yrs
203	Afghanistan	61.7 yrs	56.2 yrs
204	Djibouti	61.7 yrs	57.8 yrs
205	South Africa	61.7 yrs	55.6 yrs
206	Uganda	61.6 yrs	51.4 yrs
207	Kenya	61.5 yrs	56.8 yrs
208	Ethiopia	61.4 yrs	52.1 yrs
209	Nauru	60.5 yrs	59.4 yrs
210	Botswana	60.4 yrs	52.4 yrs
211	Malawi	59.9 yrs	48.2 yrs
212	Liberia	59.8 yrs	54.1 yrs
213	Equatorial Guinea	59.3 yrs	54.3 yrs
214	Angola	58.9 yrs	47.9 yrs
215	Zambia	58.7 yrs	48.5 yrs
216	Benin	58.6 yrs	56.9 yrs
217	Burundi	58.5 yrs	49.9 yrs
218	Guinea-Bissau	58.3 yrs	51.6 yrs
219	Cameroon	58.2 yrs	53.9 yrs
220	South Sudan	58.2 yrs	49.4 yrs
221	Niger	58.0 yrs	50.6 yrs
222	Togo	57.9 yrs	55.0 yrs
223	Namibia	57.7 yrs	52.0 yrs
224	Burkina Faso	57.5 yrs	51.5 yrs
225	Democratic Republic of the Congo	57.4 yrs	52.4 yrs
226	Guinea	57.1 yrs	53.2 yrs
227	Mali	56.7 yrs	52.0 yrs
228	Côte d'Ivoire	56.6 yrs	51.5 yrs
229	Mozambique	56.5 yrs	50.9 yrs
230	Zimbabwe	55.4 yrs	45.9 yrs
231	Sierra Leone	53.2 yrs	46.2 yrs
232	Nigeria	51.7 yrs	48.0 yrs
233	Central African Republic	51.3 yrs	46.8 yrs
234	Chad	50.8 yrs	48.4 yrs
235	Eswatini	50.7 yrs	45.4 yrs
236	Somalia	49.1 yrs	50.8 yrs
237	Lesotho	48.2 yrs	46.0 yrs

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