Countries by life expectancy

Name: Countries by life expectancy, 2016
Creator: World Bank
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Monaco had the highest life expectancy of 215 countries in 2016, at 85.63 years. South Sudan had the lowest, at 36.72 years. The median was 73.49 years and the figure for the World was 72.19 years. Source: the World Bank.

Highest85.63Monaco

Lowest36.72South Sudan

Median73.49215 countries

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Top 40 countries, 2016

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

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2016 years	Change on 2015
1	Monaco	85.63	+0.31
2	San Marino	84.78	+0.18
3	Andorra	84.49	-0.04
4	Hong Kong	84.21	-0.04
5	Japan	83.98	+0.19
6	Switzerland	83.6	+0.7
7	Spain	83.33	+0.5
8	Macao	83.28	+0.05
9	Italy	83.24	+0.7
10	Singapore	82.85	+0.1
11	Gibraltar	82.74	+0.07
12	Luxembourg	82.69	+0.39
13	France	82.57	+0.25
14	French Polynesia	82.56	+0.22
15	Australia	82.45	+0.05
16	Israel	82.41	+0.36
16	Norway	82.41	+0.1
18	Malta	82.35	+0.56
19	Sweden	82.31	+0.1
20	South Korea	82.28	+0.25
21	Liechtenstein	82.26	-0.4
22	Iceland	82.2	-0.26
23	United Arab Emirates	82.2	+0.12
24	Qatar	82.15	+0.36
25	Faroe Islands	81.96	+0.16
26	Canada	81.94	+0.11
27	New Zealand	81.66	+0.05
28	Ireland	81.65	+0.2
29	Austria	81.64	+0.45
30	Netherlands	81.56	+0.05
31	Cyprus	81.53	+0.07
32	Belgium	81.44	+0.45
33	Finland	81.43	-0.05
34	Greece	81.39	+0.35
35	Slovenia	81.18	+0.4
36	United Kingdom	81.16	+0.2
37	Portugal	81.12	0
38	Germany	80.99	+0.35
39	Denmark	80.85	+0.15
40	Bermuda	80.48	+0.14
41	Bahrain	80.41	+0.07
42	Isle of Man	80.39	+0.12
43	Puerto Rico	80.36	-0.32
44	Chile	80.3	+0.29
45	Costa Rica	79.99	-0.42
46	Saint Martin	79.89	+0.06
47	Kuwait	79.68	+0.3
48	Oman	79.58	+0.23
49	U.S. Virgin Islands	79.17	+0.15
50	Czechia	79.03	+0.45
51	Maldives	78.91	+0.31
52	Albania	78.64	+0.28
53	United States	78.54	-0.15
54	Cayman Islands	78.37	+0.25
55	Saudi Arabia	78.35	+0.58
56	Lebanon	78.31	+0.03
57	Croatia	77.92	+0.65
58	Poland	77.85	+0.4
59	Panama	77.77	+0.19
60	Estonia	77.64	+0.05
61	Cuba	77.57	-0.17
62	Turks and Caicos Islands	77.44	+0.12
63	Northern Mariana Islands	77.39	+0.03
64	New Caledonia	77.36	+0.15
65	Uruguay	77.35	+0.07
66	China	77.21	+0.24
67	Slovakia	77.17	+0.6
68	Bosnia and Herzegovina	77.12	+0.05
69	Antigua and Barbuda	76.97	+0.08
70	Thailand	76.77	+0.21
71	British Virgin Islands	76.62	+0.07
72	Türkiye	76.6	+0.06
73	Montenegro	76.54	-0.06
74	Guam	76.45	0
75	Curaçao	76.32	-0.16
76	Colombia	76.23	+0.16
77	Barbados	76.17	+0.11
78	Iran	76.16	+0.25
79	Sri Lanka	76.14	+0.15
80	Argentina	76.11	-0.49
81	Ecuador	76.09	-0.13
82	Hungary	76.06	+0.5
83	Sint Maarten	75.95	+0.05
84	Peru	75.95	+0.22
85	Serbia	75.69	+0.4
86	Jordan	75.55	+0.49
87	Aruba	75.54	+0.14
88	North Macedonia	75.4	-0
89	Malaysia	75.37	+0.08
90	Algeria	75.31	+0.15
91	Romania	75.21	+0.3
92	Brazil	75.08	-0.02
93	Grenada	75.01	-0.03
94	Tunisia	75.01	+0.13
95	Palestine	74.92	+0.34
96	Brunei	74.91	+0.03
97	Armenia	74.87	-0
98	Bulgaria	74.81	+0.2
99	Lithuania	74.67	+0.35
100	Latvia	74.58	+0.1
101	Mauritius	74.39	+0.04
102	Mexico	74.38	-0.05
103	Cape Verde	74.35	+0.25
104	Seychelles	74.31	+0.01
105	Bahamas	74.04	+0.24
106	Vietnam	73.98	+0.03
107	Belarus	73.83	+0.2
108	Paraguay	73.49	+0.03
109	Ukraine	73.39	+0.7
110	Morocco	73.23	+0.33
111	Nicaragua	73.18	+0.28
112	Georgia	73.14	-0.11
113	North Korea	72.97	+0.15
114	Trinidad and Tobago	72.94	+0.05
115	Dominican Republic	72.89	-0.09
116	American Samoa	72.64	-0.01
117	Azerbaijan	72.57	+0.22
118	Saint Lucia	72.55	-0.38
119	Kazakhstan	72.55	+0.53
120	Jamaica	72.05	-0.16
121	Venezuela	72	-1
122	Tonga	71.95	+0.1
123	Belize	71.84	+0.2
124	Libya	71.8	+0.16
125	Russia	71.65	+0.47
126	Honduras	71.62	+0.29
127	Uzbekistan	71.58	+0.25
128	Saint Kitts and Nevis	71.23	+0.02
129	Guatemala	71.22	+0.3
130	Greenland	71.2	+0.29
131	Dominica	71.19	+1.22
132	Bhutan	71.12	+0.32
133	Bangladesh	71.08	+0.53
134	Samoa	71	-0.06
135	Suriname	70.98	+0.41
136	Kyrgyzstan	70.95	+0.3
137	El Salvador	70.91	-0.04
138	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	70.7	+0.24
139	Egypt	70.44	+0.3
140	Vanuatu	70.4	+0.23
141	Mongolia	70.22	-0.59
142	Moldova	70.18	+0.06
143	Tajikistan	69.98	+0.32
144	Indonesia	69.73	+0.21
145	India	69.71	+0.38
146	Cambodia	69.64	+0.24
147	Solomon Islands	69.5	+0.18
148	Philippines	69.49	+0.04
149	Turkmenistan	69.14	+0.08
150	Palau	69.05	-0.02
151	Iraq	68.68	-1.29
152	Nepal	68.44	+1.07
153	Guyana	68.07	+0.35
154	Bolivia	67.39	+0.19
155	Yemen	67.11	+0.34
156	Laos	67.01	+0.33
157	Mauritania	66.82	+0.32
158	Senegal	66.72	+0.27
159	Fiji	66.66	+0.18
160	Gabon	66.58	+0.25
161	São Tomé and Príncipe	66.56	+0.54
162	Eritrea	66.24	+0.33
163	Pakistan	65.94	+0.3
164	Kiribati	65.8	-0.03
165	Rwanda	65.73	+0.31
166	Myanmar	65.64	+0.35
167	Timor-Leste	65.61	+0.28
168	Micronesia	65.58	+0.27
169	Tuvalu	65.51	+0.15
170	Marshall Islands	65.48	+0.19
171	Syria	65.19	+1.92
172	Comoros	64.79	+0.32
173	South Africa	64.75	+0.7
174	Papua New Guinea	64.7	+0.23
175	Sudan	64.68	+0.3
176	Uganda	64.49	+0.66
177	Tanzania	64.4	+0.48
178	Botswana	64.32	+1.1
179	Ethiopia	64.16	+0.57
180	Republic of the Congo	63.91	+0.25
181	Ghana	63.52	+0.35
182	Madagascar	63.43	+0.07
183	Gambia	63.39	+0.42
184	Djibouti	63.34	+0.5
185	Haiti	63.33	+0.1
186	Malawi	63.16	+0.84
187	Afghanistan	62.65	+0.38
188	Kenya	62.53	+0.25
189	Angola	61.62	+0.58
190	Zambia	61.13	+0.4
191	Equatorial Guinea	61.08	+0.45
192	Nauru	61	+0.1
193	Namibia	60.81	+0.8
194	Burundi	60.79	+0.68
195	Guinea-Bissau	60.62	+0.55
196	Liberia	60.48	+1.23
197	Cameroon	60.29	+0.61
198	Zimbabwe	59.76	+0.77
199	Togo	59.68	+0.45
200	Mozambique	59.46	+0.74
201	Benin	59.28	+0.16
202	Niger	59.23	+0.38
203	Burkina Faso	59.17	+0.4
204	Democratic Republic of the Congo	59.08	+0.42
205	Côte d’Ivoire	58.81	+0.53
206	Guinea	58.49	+0.59
207	Mali	58.29	+0.43
208	Sierra Leone	56.94	+1.48
209	Eswatini	56.23	+1.29
210	Somalia	55.28	+0.23
211	Lesotho	52.91	+1.08
212	Nigeria	52.19	+0.25
213	Chad	51.6	+0.28
214	Central African Republic	51	-0.93
215	South Sudan	36.72	-3.04

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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 85.63 years in 2016, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest life expectancy?

South Sudan, with 36.72 years in 2016.

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.