Countries by life expectancy

Name: Countries by life expectancy, 2015
Creator: World Bank
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Monaco had the highest life expectancy of 215 countries in 2015, at 85.32 years. South Sudan had the lowest, at 39.76 years. The median was 73.45 years and the figure for the World was 71.97 years. Source: the World Bank.

Highest85.32Monaco

Lowest39.76South Sudan

Median73.45215 countries

World71.97History

Top 40 countries, 2015

CSV Chart (SVG)

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

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2015 years	Change on 2014
1	Monaco	85.32	+0.23
2	San Marino	84.6	+0.2
3	Andorra	84.53	+0.05
4	Hong Kong	84.25	+0.32
5	Japan	83.79	+0.21
6	Macao	83.22	+0.2
7	Switzerland	82.9	-0.3
8	Spain	82.83	-0.4
9	Singapore	82.74	+0.25
10	Gibraltar	82.67	+0.02
11	Liechtenstein	82.66	+0.58
12	Italy	82.54	-0.55
13	Iceland	82.47	-0.39
14	Australia	82.4	+0.1
15	French Polynesia	82.34	+0.19
16	France	82.32	-0.4
17	Norway	82.3	+0.2
18	Luxembourg	82.29	+0.06
19	Sweden	82.2	-0.05
20	United Arab Emirates	82.08	+0.09
21	Israel	82.05	-0.1
22	South Korea	82.02	+0.3
23	Canada	81.83	+0.04
24	Faroe Islands	81.8	+0.21
25	Malta	81.8	-0.1
26	Qatar	81.79	+0.39
27	New Zealand	81.61	+0.16
28	Netherlands	81.51	-0.2
29	Finland	81.48	+0.3
30	Cyprus	81.46	+0.13
31	Ireland	81.45	+0.1
32	Austria	81.19	-0.3
33	Portugal	81.12	0
34	Greece	81.04	-0.35
35	Belgium	80.99	-0.3
36	United Kingdom	80.96	-0.35
37	Slovenia	80.78	-0.3
38	Denmark	80.7	0
39	Puerto Rico	80.68	+0.64
40	Germany	80.64	-0.45
41	Costa Rica	80.41	+0.18
42	Bahrain	80.34	+0.12
42	Bermuda	80.34	+0.14
44	Isle of Man	80.27	+0.07
45	Chile	80.01	+0.29
46	Saint Martin	79.83	+0.1
47	Kuwait	79.38	+0.3
48	Oman	79.35	+0.32
49	U.S. Virgin Islands	79.02	+0.15
50	United States	78.69	-0.15
51	Maldives	78.61	+0.42
52	Czechia	78.58	-0.25
53	Albania	78.36	+0.33
54	Lebanon	78.28	+0.13
55	Cayman Islands	78.12	+0.25
56	Saudi Arabia	77.78	+0.66
57	Cuba	77.75	-0.08
58	Estonia	77.59	+0.56
59	Panama	77.58	+0.22
60	Poland	77.45	-0.15
61	Northern Mariana Islands	77.36	-0.02
62	Turks and Caicos Islands	77.32	+0.11
63	Uruguay	77.29	+0.09
64	Croatia	77.28	-0.45
65	New Caledonia	77.21	+0.15
66	Bosnia and Herzegovina	77.07	-0.02
67	China	76.98	+0.26
68	Antigua and Barbuda	76.89	-0.02
69	Montenegro	76.6	+0.26
70	Argentina	76.6	+0.33
71	Slovakia	76.56	-0.25
72	Thailand	76.56	+0.28
73	British Virgin Islands	76.56	+0.03
74	Türkiye	76.54	+0.09
75	Curaçao	76.48	+0.1
76	Guam	76.44	+0.02
77	Ecuador	76.22	+0.08
78	Colombia	76.07	+0.12
79	Barbados	76.06	+0.13
80	Sri Lanka	75.99	+0.23
81	Iran	75.91	+0.27
82	Sint Maarten	75.9	+0.16
83	Peru	75.73	+0.47
84	Hungary	75.57	-0.2
85	Aruba	75.41	+0.14
86	North Macedonia	75.4	-0.05
87	Malaysia	75.29	-0.06
88	Serbia	75.29	-0.05
89	Algeria	75.16	+0.17
90	Brazil	75.11	+0.28
91	Jordan	75.06	+0.45
92	Grenada	75.04	-0.01
93	Romania	74.91	0
94	Brunei	74.88	+0.02
95	Tunisia	74.88	+0.09
96	Armenia	74.87	-0
97	Bulgaria	74.61	+0.15
98	Palestine	74.58	+1.8
99	Latvia	74.48	+0.36
100	Mexico	74.43	+0.03
101	Mauritius	74.35	+0.16
102	Lithuania	74.32	-0.2
103	Seychelles	74.3	+1.07
104	Cape Verde	74.1	+0.31
105	Vietnam	73.96	+0.07
106	Bahamas	73.81	-0.22
107	Belarus	73.62	+0.65
108	Paraguay	73.45	+0.04
109	Georgia	73.24	+0.14
110	Venezuela	73	+0.17
111	Dominican Republic	72.98	-0.16
112	Saint Lucia	72.93	+0.26
113	Nicaragua	72.9	+0.11
114	Morocco	72.89	+0.37
115	Trinidad and Tobago	72.88	-0.02
116	North Korea	72.83	+0.37
117	Ukraine	72.69	+0.88
118	American Samoa	72.65	-0.03
119	Azerbaijan	72.35	+0.42
120	Jamaica	72.21	-0.14
121	Kazakhstan	72.02	+0.61
122	Tonga	71.85	+0.13
123	Belize	71.65	+0.21
124	Libya	71.64	+0.34
125	Uzbekistan	71.33	+0.36
126	Honduras	71.32	+0.29
127	Saint Kitts and Nevis	71.21	-0.02
128	Russia	71.18	+0.44
129	Samoa	71.06	-0.08
130	El Salvador	70.95	-0.19
131	Guatemala	70.92	-0.03
132	Greenland	70.91	+0.4
133	Mongolia	70.81	+0.23
134	Bhutan	70.8	+0.29
135	Kyrgyzstan	70.65	+0.25
136	Suriname	70.57	+0.24
137	Bangladesh	70.54	+0.53
138	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	70.46	+0.11
139	Vanuatu	70.16	+0.12
140	Egypt	70.14	+0.22
141	Moldova	70.12	-0.12
142	Iraq	69.98	+0.3
143	Dominica	69.97	-1.22
144	Tajikistan	69.67	-0.03
145	Indonesia	69.52	+0.23
146	Philippines	69.45	+0.14
147	Cambodia	69.4	+0.28
148	India	69.33	+0.39
149	Solomon Islands	69.32	+0.34
150	Palau	69.07	+0.01
151	Turkmenistan	69.06	+0.06
152	Guyana	67.72	+0.38
153	Nepal	67.37	-0.44
154	Bolivia	67.21	+0.23
155	Yemen	66.76	-1.24
156	Laos	66.69	+0.34
157	Mauritania	66.5	+0.29
158	Fiji	66.48	-0.1
159	Senegal	66.45	+0.45
160	Gabon	66.34	+0.27
161	São Tomé and Príncipe	66.02	+0.55
162	Eritrea	65.91	+0.39
163	Kiribati	65.83	-0.04
164	Pakistan	65.64	+0.27
165	Rwanda	65.42	+0.33
166	Tuvalu	65.37	+0.09
167	Timor-Leste	65.33	+0.3
168	Micronesia	65.31	+0.01
169	Marshall Islands	65.29	+0.18
170	Myanmar	65.29	+0.29
171	Comoros	64.47	+0.33
171	Papua New Guinea	64.47	+0.28
173	Sudan	64.38	+0.38
174	South Africa	64.05	+0.87
175	Tanzania	63.93	+0.56
176	Uganda	63.83	+0.77
177	Republic of the Congo	63.66	+0.31
178	Ethiopia	63.59	+0.66
179	Madagascar	63.36	+0.1
180	Syria	63.27	-2.23
181	Haiti	63.22	+0.25
182	Botswana	63.22	+1.05
183	Ghana	63.18	+0.34
184	Gambia	62.97	+0.39
185	Djibouti	62.83	+0.41
186	Malawi	62.32	+0.67
187	Kenya	62.28	+0.29
188	Afghanistan	62.27	+0.01
189	Angola	61.04	+0.65
190	Nauru	60.9	+0.06
191	Zambia	60.73	+0.62
192	Equatorial Guinea	60.64	+0.41
193	Burundi	60.11	+0.34
194	Guinea-Bissau	60.07	+0.59
195	Namibia	60.01	+0.7
196	Cameroon	59.69	+0.56
197	Liberia	59.25	+0.04
198	Togo	59.23	+0.45
199	Benin	59.12	+0.11
200	Zimbabwe	58.99	+0.88
201	Niger	58.85	+0.16
202	Burkina Faso	58.78	+0.45
203	Mozambique	58.71	+0.75
204	Democratic Republic of the Congo	58.66	+0.42
205	Côte d’Ivoire	58.28	+0.51
206	Guinea	57.9	+0.32
207	Mali	57.85	+0.37
208	Sierra Leone	55.45	+1.17
209	Somalia	55.06	+0.61
210	Eswatini	54.94	+1.45
211	Nigeria	51.94	-0
212	Central African Republic	51.93	+11.67
213	Lesotho	51.83	+1.04
214	Chad	51.32	+0.18
215	South Sudan	39.76	-5.87

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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 85.32 years in 2015, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest life expectancy?

South Sudan, with 39.76 years in 2015.

Where does this ranking come from?

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.