Countries by life expectancy, 2024

Name: Countries by life expectancy, 2024
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Monaco had the highest life expectancy of 215 countries in 2024, at 86.5 years. Nigeria had the lowest, at 54.64 years. The median was 74.69 years and the figure for the World was 73.48 years. Source: the World Bank.

Highest86.5Monaco

Lowest54.64Nigeria

Median74.69215 countries

World73.48History

Top 40 countries, 2024

CSV Chart (SVG)

years. Source: World Bank. Retrieved 2026-10-09.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2024 years	Change on 2023
1	Monaco	86.5	+0.13
2	San Marino	85.82	+0.11
3	Hong Kong	85.39	+0.15
4	Kuwait	84.58	+1.39
5	Switzerland	84.41	+0.25
6	Liechtenstein	84.2	-0.4
7	French Polynesia	84.19	+0.12
8	Andorra	84.19	+0.15
9	Sweden	84.06	+0.75
10	Japan	84.04	-0
11	Italy	83.95	+0.6
12	Spain	83.89	-0.05
13	Gibraltar	83.63	+0.08
14	South Korea	83.63	+0.2
15	Singapore	83.35	+0.25
16	Macao	83.33	+0.15
17	Israel	83.2	0
18	Luxembourg	83.2	-0.11
19	Norway	83.16	+0.15
20	Faroe Islands	83.08	+0.13
21	United Arab Emirates	83.07	+0.16
22	Australia	83.05	0
23	Ireland	83.01	+0.2
24	France	82.98	+0.15
25	Malta	82.96	-0.4
26	Iceland	82.81	+0.35
27	Qatar	82.52	+0.15
28	Bermuda	82.49	+0.18
29	Portugal	82.38	+0.05
30	Finland	82.34	+0.75
31	Belgium	82.3	-0.1
32	Slovenia	82.29	+0.36
33	Denmark	82.25	+0.5
34	Canada	82.11	+0.48
35	New Zealand	82.01	+0.25
36	Austria	82	+0.2
37	Netherlands	81.97	+0.1
38	Puerto Rico	81.9	+0.21
39	Greece	81.84	+0.1
40	Cyprus	81.82	+0.17
41	Bahrain	81.42	+0.14
42	United Kingdom	81.39	+0.15
43	Chile	81.36	+0.19
44	Maldives	81.29	+0.24
45	Isle of Man	81.09	+0.09
46	Costa Rica	81	+0.2
47	Germany	80.79	-0.25
48	U.S. Virgin Islands	80.77	+0.25
49	Cayman Islands	80.54	+0.18
50	Saint Martin	80.44	+0.21
51	Oman	80.25	+0.21
52	Czechia	79.98	+0.15
53	Albania	79.78	+0.17
54	Panama	79.78	+0.18
55	Estonia	79.3	+0.5
56	Saudi Arabia	78.98	+0.25
57	Northern Mariana Islands	78.95	+0.14
58	Croatia	78.93	+0.46
59	New Caledonia	78.92	+0.16
60	United States	78.89	+0.5
61	Poland	78.41	+0.15
62	Slovakia	78.37	+0.25
63	Armenia	78.32	+0.85
64	Uruguay	78.29	+0.15
65	Cuba	78.26	+0.18
66	Turks and Caicos Islands	78.18	+0.17
67	Bosnia and Herzegovina	78.04	+0.19
68	China	78.02	+0.06
69	Jordan	77.98	+0.17
70	Lebanon	77.95	+0.13
71	Peru	77.94	+0.2
72	Colombia	77.91	+0.19
73	Montenegro	77.89	+0.3
74	Iran	77.85	+0.2
75	Antigua and Barbuda	77.77	+0.17
76	Sri Lanka	77.67	+0.19
77	Ecuador	77.58	+0.19
78	Argentina	77.54	+0.15
79	British Virgin Islands	77.43	+0.16
80	Guam	77.42	+0.21
81	Türkiye	77.42	+0.27
82	Lithuania	77.2	-0.1
83	Curaçao	76.99	+0.19
84	Malaysia	76.82	+0.16
85	Hungary	76.72	+0.15
86	Tunisia	76.71	+0.2
87	North Macedonia	76.62	+1.3
88	Thailand	76.56	+0.15
89	Sint Maarten	76.53	+0.16
90	Aruba	76.5	+0.15
91	Algeria	76.48	+0.21
92	Romania	76.46	+0.05
93	Latvia	76.43	+1
94	Barbados	76.33	+0.15
95	Seychelles	76.3	+0.88
96	Cape Verde	76.22	+0.17
97	Brazil	76.02	+0.17
98	Serbia	75.97	-0.17
99	Bulgaria	75.76	0
100	Brunei	75.5	+0.17
101	Morocco	75.49	+0.18
102	Grenada	75.37	+0.16
103	Mexico	75.26	+0.19
104	Nicaragua	75.1	+0.15
105	Bangladesh	74.93	+0.26
106	Vietnam	74.74	+0.15
107	Bahamas	74.71	+0.16
108	Ukraine	74.69	+1.27
109	Georgia	74.66	+0.16
110	Azerbaijan	74.58	+0.15
111	Kazakhstan	74.53	+0.13
112	Belarus	74.37	+0.18
113	Paraguay	73.98	+0.14
114	Dominican Republic	73.87	+0.15
115	Mauritius	73.79	+0.38
116	Suriname	73.76	+0.13
117	North Korea	73.74	+0.1
118	Belize	73.74	+0.17
119	Trinidad and Tobago	73.62	+0.13
120	Russia	73.44	+0.19
121	Bhutan	73.26	+0.29
122	Tonga	73.07	+0.17
123	Honduras	73.04	+0.16
124	American Samoa	72.99	+0.14
125	Saint Lucia	72.85	+0.15
126	Guatemala	72.75	+0.14
127	Venezuela	72.67	+0.16
128	Syria	72.56	+0.44
129	Uzbekistan	72.53	+0.14
130	Iraq	72.42	+0.1
131	Kyrgyzstan	72.4	+0.15
132	Mongolia	72.4	+0.28
133	El Salvador	72.3	+0.2
134	Saint Kitts and Nevis	72.28	+0.14
135	India	72.24	+0.23
136	Tajikistan	71.93	+0.14
137	Samoa	71.83	+0.13
138	Egypt	71.81	+0.17
139	Vanuatu	71.65	+0.18
140	Jamaica	71.61	+0.13
141	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	71.38	+0.15
142	Moldova	71.33	+0.13
143	Dominica	71.29	+0.16
144	Indonesia	71.29	+0.14
145	Libya	71.12	+1.78
146	Cambodia	70.82	+0.15
147	Solomon Islands	70.69	+0.17
148	Nepal	70.64	+0.28
149	Guyana	70.32	+0.14
150	Greenland	70.27	-0.7
151	Turkmenistan	70.2	+0.13
152	Philippines	69.95	+0.11
153	São Tomé and Príncipe	69.91	+0.19
154	Yemen	69.44	+0.14
155	Palau	69.38	+0.11
156	Botswana	69.29	+0.13
157	Laos	69.23	+0.26
158	Palestine	69.21	+4.04
159	Senegal	68.92	+0.24
160	Eritrea	68.89	+0.27
161	Bolivia	68.74	+0.16
162	Mauritania	68.71	+0.23
163	Gabon	68.51	+0.17
164	Uganda	68.49	+0.23
165	Rwanda	68.02	+0.23
166	Timor-Leste	67.9	+0.22
167	Pakistan	67.8	+0.15
168	Ethiopia	67.6	+0.29
169	Malawi	67.56	+0.21
170	Namibia	67.52	+0.13
171	Fiji	67.46	+0.15
172	Micronesia	67.36	+0.16
173	Tuvalu	67.26	+0.15
174	Tanzania	67.21	+0.22
175	Myanmar	67.1	+0.21
176	Marshall Islands	67.08	+0.13
177	Comoros	67.02	+0.25
178	Kiribati	66.6	+0.13
179	Zambia	66.53	+0.18
180	Sudan	66.52	+0.19
181	South Africa	66.31	+0.17
182	Afghanistan	66.29	+0.25
183	Papua New Guinea	66.26	+0.12
184	Djibouti	66.2	+0.22
185	Gambia	66.06	+0.2
186	Republic of the Congo	66	+0.23
187	Ghana	65.7	+0.2
188	Haiti	65.12	+0.18
189	Angola	64.81	+0.19
190	Eswatini	64.26	+0.14
191	Guinea-Bissau	64.25	+0.17
192	Cameroon	63.97	+0.27
193	Equatorial Guinea	63.91	+0.2
194	Madagascar	63.84	+0.2
195	Kenya	63.83	+0.19
196	Burundi	63.82	+0.17
197	Mozambique	63.8	+0.19
198	Zimbabwe	63.06	+0.29
199	Togo	62.94	+0.2
200	Liberia	62.32	+0.16
201	Nauru	62.28	+0.17
202	Côte d’Ivoire	62.11	+0.17
203	Democratic Republic of the Congo	62.07	+0.18
204	Sierra Leone	61.96	+0.18
205	Niger	61.43	+0.25
206	Burkina Faso	61.29	+0.2
207	Benin	60.96	+0.19
208	Guinea	60.9	+0.16
209	Mali	60.68	+0.24
210	Somalia	58.97	+0.15
211	Lesotho	57.8	+0.42
212	South Sudan	57.74	+0.12
213	Central African Republic	57.67	+0.26
214	Chad	55.24	+0.17
215	Nigeria	54.64	+0.17

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About this ranking

Average number of years a newborn would live at current age-specific mortality, both sexes.

United States: NCHS period life tables. National figures from 1900 to 1932 cover only the states then in the death registration area. State figures are available for 2018 to 2021.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

World Bank, World Development Indicators. Life expectancy at birth, total, years (SP.DYN.LE00.IN). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN. Retrieved 2026-10-09.

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Which country has the highest life expectancy?

Monaco, with 86.5 years in 2024, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest life expectancy?

Nigeria, with 54.64 years in 2024.

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Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: World Bank, Life expectancy at birth, total, years (SP.DYN.LE00.IN). Retrieved 2026-10-09.