Life Expectancy

yearsThe World Bank — World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0)

As of 2024-12-31, Monaco has the highest Life Expectancy at 86.5, while Nigeria has the lowest at 54.64. Median across 217 economies is 74.71. Source: The World Bank — World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0).

Last updated 2024-12-31

Countries

217

Highest

Monaco86.5

Lowest

Nigeria54.64

Median

74.71

Average

74.02

Ranked by latest value

highest to lowest · 217 countries

Which country has the highest Life Expectancy?

#	Country	Last	Change	Date
1	Monaco	86.5	0.125	2024-12-31
2	San Marino	85.82	0.111	2024-12-31
3	Hong Kong SAR, China	85.39	0.1454	2024-12-31
4	Kuwait	84.58	1.39	2024-12-31
5	Switzerland	84.41	0.2512	2024-12-31
6	Liechtenstein	84.2	0.3951	2024-12-31
7	French Polynesia	84.19	0.122	2024-12-31
8	Andorra	84.19	0.147	2024-12-31
9	Sweden	84.06	0.7537	2024-12-31
10	Japan	84.04	0.0049	2024-12-31
11	Italy	83.95	0.6	2024-12-31
12	Spain	83.89	0.0463	2024-12-31
13	Gibraltar	83.63	0.077	2024-12-31
14	Korea, Rep.	83.63	0.2	2024-12-31
15	Singapore	83.35	0.2488	2024-12-31
16	Macao SAR, China	83.33	0.1512	2024-12-31
17	Israel	83.2	0.0024	2024-12-31
18	Luxembourg	83.2	0.1146	2024-12-31
19	Norway	83.16	0.1488	2024-12-31
20	Faroe Islands	83.08	0.1311	2024-12-31
21	United Arab Emirates	83.07	0.16	2024-12-31
22	Australia	83.05	0	2024-12-31
23	Ireland	83.01	0.2024	2024-12-31
24	France	82.98	0.1488	2024-12-31
25	Malta	82.96	0.4	2024-12-31
26	Iceland	82.81	0.3537	2024-12-31
27	Qatar	82.52	0.154	2024-12-31
28	Bermuda	82.49	0.181	2024-12-31
29	Portugal	82.38	0.0537	2024-12-31
30	Finland	82.34	0.7512	2024-12-31
31	Belgium	82.3	0.1	2024-12-31
32	Slovenia	82.29	0.3561	2024-12-31
33	Denmark	82.25	0.5	2024-12-31
34	Canada	82.11	0.4817	2024-12-31
35	New Zealand	82.01	0.2512	2024-12-31
36	Austria	82	0.2024	2024-12-31
37	Netherlands	81.97	0.1024	2024-12-31
38	Puerto Rico (US)	81.9	0.212	2024-12-31
39	Greece	81.84	0.1024	2024-12-31
40	Cyprus	81.82	0.173	2024-12-31
41	Bahrain	81.42	0.139	2024-12-31
42	United Kingdom	81.39	0.1488	2024-12-31
43	Chile	81.36	0.192	2024-12-31
44	Maldives	81.29	0.244	2024-12-31
45	Channel Islands	81.2	0.1	2024-12-31
46	Isle of Man	81.09	0.092	2024-12-31
47	Costa Rica	81	0.197	2024-12-31
48	Germany	80.79	0.2488	2024-12-31
49	Virgin Islands (U.S.)	80.77	0.2512	2024-12-31
50	Cayman Islands	80.54	0.182	2024-12-31
51	St. Martin (French part)	80.44	0.214	2024-12-31
52	Oman	80.25	0.215	2024-12-31
53	Czechia	79.98	0.1512	2024-12-31
54	Albania	79.78	0.174	2024-12-31
55	Panama	79.78	0.181	2024-12-31
56	Estonia	79.3	0.5024	2024-12-31
57	Saudi Arabia	78.98	0.25	2024-12-31
58	Northern Mariana Islands	78.95	0.139	2024-12-31
59	Croatia	78.93	0.4561	2024-12-31
60	New Caledonia	78.92	0.155	2024-12-31
61	United States	78.89	0.5049	2024-12-31
62	Poland	78.41	0.1512	2024-12-31
63	Slovak Republic	78.37	0.2512	2024-12-31
64	Armenia	78.32	0.8537	2024-12-31
65	Uruguay	78.29	0.149	2024-12-31
66	Cuba	78.26	0.179	2024-12-31
67	Kosovo	78.22	0.189	2024-12-31
68	Turks and Caicos Islands	78.18	0.173	2024-12-31
69	Bosnia and Herzegovina	78.04	0.194	2024-12-31
70	China	78.02	0.064	2024-12-31
71	Jordan	77.98	0.167	2024-12-31
72	Lebanon	77.95	0.128	2024-12-31
73	Peru	77.94	0.201	2024-12-31
74	Colombia	77.91	0.188	2024-12-31
75	Montenegro	77.89	0.3024	2024-12-31
76	Iran, Islamic Rep.	77.85	0.2	2024-12-31
77	Antigua and Barbuda	77.77	0.168	2024-12-31
78	Sri Lanka	77.67	0.189	2024-12-31
79	Ecuador	77.58	0.187	2024-12-31
80	Argentina	77.54	0.148	2024-12-31
81	British Virgin Islands	77.43	0.155	2024-12-31
82	Guam	77.42	0.213	2024-12-31
83	Turkiye	77.42	0.265	2024-12-31
84	Lithuania	77.2	0.0951	2024-12-31
85	Curacao	76.99	0.189	2024-12-31
86	Malaysia	76.82	0.164	2024-12-31
87	Hungary	76.72	0.1537	2024-12-31
88	Tunisia	76.71	0.203	2024-12-31
89	North Macedonia	76.62	1.3	2024-12-31
90	Thailand	76.56	0.152	2024-12-31
91	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	76.53	0.157	2024-12-31
92	Aruba	76.5	0.147	2024-12-31
93	Algeria	76.48	0.214	2024-12-31
94	Romania	76.46	0.0537	2024-12-31
95	Latvia	76.43	1	2024-12-31
96	Barbados	76.33	0.154	2024-12-31
97	Seychelles	76.3	0.8756	2024-12-31
98	Cabo Verde	76.22	0.165	2024-12-31
99	Brazil	76.02	0.175	2024-12-31
100	Serbia	75.97	0.1732	2024-12-31
101	Bulgaria	75.76	0.0049	2024-12-31
102	Brunei Darussalam	75.5	0.174	2024-12-31
103	Morocco	75.49	0.18	2024-12-31
104	Grenada	75.37	0.162	2024-12-31
105	Mexico	75.26	0.195	2024-12-31
106	Nicaragua	75.1	0.153	2024-12-31
107	Bangladesh	74.93	0.258	2024-12-31
108	Viet Nam	74.74	0.148	2024-12-31
109	Bahamas, The	74.71	0.158	2024-12-31
110	Ukraine	74.69	1.27	2024-12-31
111	Georgia	74.66	0.161	2024-12-31
112	Azerbaijan	74.58	0.147	2024-12-31
113	Kazakhstan	74.53	0.129	2024-12-31
114	Belarus	74.37	0.1816	2024-12-31
115	Paraguay	73.98	0.138	2024-12-31
116	Dominican Republic	73.87	0.148	2024-12-31
117	Mauritius	73.79	0.3768	2024-12-31
118	Suriname	73.76	0.126	2024-12-31
119	Korea, Dem. People's Rep.	73.74	0.101	2024-12-31
120	Belize	73.74	0.173	2024-12-31
121	Trinidad and Tobago	73.62	0.127	2024-12-31
122	Russian Federation	73.44	0.1859	2024-12-31
123	Bhutan	73.26	0.287	2024-12-31
124	Tonga	73.07	0.175	2024-12-31
125	Honduras	73.04	0.16	2024-12-31
126	American Samoa	72.99	0.14	2024-12-31
127	St. Lucia	72.85	0.149	2024-12-31
128	Guatemala	72.75	0.144	2024-12-31
129	Venezuela, RB	72.67	0.159	2024-12-31
130	Syrian Arab Republic	72.56	0.44	2024-12-31
131	Uzbekistan	72.53	0.14	2024-12-31
132	Iraq	72.42	0.1	2024-12-31
133	Kyrgyz Republic	72.4	0.1512	2024-12-31
134	Mongolia	72.4	0.2756	2024-12-31
135	El Salvador	72.3	0.203	2024-12-31
136	St. Kitts and Nevis	72.28	0.136	2024-12-31
137	India	72.24	0.232	2024-12-31
138	Tajikistan	71.93	0.137	2024-12-31
139	Samoa	71.83	0.128	2024-12-31
140	Egypt, Arab Rep.	71.81	0.173	2024-12-31
141	Vanuatu	71.65	0.177	2024-12-31
142	Jamaica	71.61	0.127	2024-12-31
143	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	71.38	0.152	2024-12-31
144	Moldova	71.33	0.134	2024-12-31
145	Dominica	71.29	0.162	2024-12-31
146	Indonesia	71.29	0.142	2024-12-31
147	Libya	71.12	1.78	2024-12-31
148	Cambodia	70.82	0.149	2024-12-31
149	Solomon Islands	70.69	0.166	2024-12-31
150	Nepal	70.64	0.282	2024-12-31
151	Guyana	70.32	0.139	2024-12-31
152	Greenland	70.27	0.699	2024-12-31
153	Turkmenistan	70.2	0.128	2024-12-31
154	Philippines	69.95	0.113	2024-12-31
155	Sao Tome and Principe	69.91	0.187	2024-12-31
156	Yemen, Rep.	69.44	0.144	2024-12-31
157	Palau	69.38	0.114	2024-12-31
158	Botswana	69.29	0.13	2024-12-31
159	Lao PDR	69.23	0.261	2024-12-31
160	West Bank and Gaza	69.21	4.04	2024-12-31
161	Senegal	68.92	0.241	2024-12-31
162	Eritrea	68.89	0.269	2024-12-31
163	Bolivia	68.74	0.158	2024-12-31
164	Mauritania	68.71	0.229	2024-12-31
165	Gabon	68.51	0.174	2024-12-31
166	Uganda	68.49	0.235	2024-12-31
167	Rwanda	68.02	0.232	2024-12-31
168	Timor-Leste	67.9	0.215	2024-12-31
169	Pakistan	67.8	0.15	2024-12-31
170	Ethiopia	67.6	0.288	2024-12-31
171	Malawi	67.56	0.208	2024-12-31
172	Namibia	67.52	0.131	2024-12-31
173	Fiji	67.46	0.147	2024-12-31
174	Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	67.36	0.159	2024-12-31
175	Tuvalu	67.26	0.154	2024-12-31
176	Tanzania	67.21	0.217	2024-12-31
177	Myanmar	67.1	0.206	2024-12-31
178	Marshall Islands	67.08	0.13	2024-12-31
179	Comoros	67.02	0.246	2024-12-31
180	Kiribati	66.6	0.127	2024-12-31
181	Zambia	66.53	0.179	2024-12-31
182	Sudan	66.52	0.19	2024-12-31
183	South Africa	66.31	0.173	2024-12-31
184	Afghanistan	66.29	0.254	2024-12-31
185	Papua New Guinea	66.26	0.122	2024-12-31
186	Djibouti	66.2	0.215	2024-12-31
187	Gambia, The	66.06	0.197	2024-12-31
188	Congo, Rep.	66	0.229	2024-12-31
189	Ghana	65.7	0.197	2024-12-31
190	Haiti	65.12	0.183	2024-12-31
191	Angola	64.81	0.188	2024-12-31
192	Eswatini	64.26	0.141	2024-12-31
193	Guinea-Bissau	64.25	0.169	2024-12-31
194	Cameroon	63.97	0.268	2024-12-31
195	Equatorial Guinea	63.91	0.199	2024-12-31
196	Madagascar	63.84	0.203	2024-12-31
197	Kenya	63.83	0.188	2024-12-31
198	Burundi	63.82	0.167	2024-12-31
199	Mozambique	63.8	0.186	2024-12-31
200	Zimbabwe	63.06	0.289	2024-12-31
201	Togo	62.94	0.195	2024-12-31
202	Liberia	62.32	0.161	2024-12-31
203	Nauru	62.28	0.17	2024-12-31
204	Cote d'Ivoire	62.11	0.166	2024-12-31
205	Congo, Dem. Rep.	62.07	0.179	2024-12-31
206	Sierra Leone	61.96	0.178	2024-12-31
207	Niger	61.43	0.25	2024-12-31
208	Burkina Faso	61.29	0.2	2024-12-31
209	Benin	60.96	0.187	2024-12-31
210	Guinea	60.9	0.164	2024-12-31
211	Mali	60.68	0.236	2024-12-31
212	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	58.97	0.151	2024-12-31
213	Lesotho	57.8	0.423	2024-12-31
214	South Sudan	57.74	0.121	2024-12-31
215	Central African Republic	57.67	0.263	2024-12-31
216	Chad	55.24	0.169	2024-12-31
217	Nigeria	54.64	0.173	2024-12-31