Countries by life expectancy

Name: Countries by life expectancy, 2018
Creator: World Bank
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Monaco had the highest life expectancy of 215 countries in 2018, at 86.08 years. South Sudan had the lowest, at 51.91 years. The median was 73.95 years and the figure for the World was 72.64 years. Source: the World Bank.

Highest86.08Monaco

Lowest51.91South Sudan

Median73.95215 countries

World72.64History

Top 40 countries, 2018

CSV Chart (SVG)

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

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2018 years	Change on 2017
1	Monaco	86.08	+0.21
2	San Marino	85.1	+0.16
3	Hong Kong	84.87	+0.17
4	Andorra	84.24	-0.12
5	Japan	84.21	+0.11
6	Switzerland	83.75	+0.2
7	Macao	83.68	+0.15
8	Spain	83.43	+0.15
9	Italy	83.35	+0.4
10	Singapore	83.3	+0.2
11	Liechtenstein	83.04	-0.7
12	Gibraltar	83.03	+0.17
13	French Polynesia	82.99	+0.21
14	Iceland	82.86	+0.2
15	Israel	82.8	+0.25
16	Norway	82.76	+0.15
17	Australia	82.75	+0.25
18	Qatar	82.71	+0.26
19	France	82.68	+0.1
20	South Korea	82.63	0
21	Sweden	82.56	+0.15
22	United Arab Emirates	82.45	+0.06
23	Luxembourg	82.3	+0.2
24	Malta	82.25	+0.05
25	Faroe Islands	82.25	+0.14
26	Ireland	82.2	+0.05
27	Netherlands	81.81	+0.05
28	Canada	81.8	-0
29	Greece	81.79	+0.5
30	Finland	81.73	+0.1
31	New Zealand	81.71	-0.15
32	Austria	81.69	+0.05
33	Belgium	81.6	+0.1
34	Cyprus	81.56	+0.01
35	Slovenia	81.38	+0.35
36	Portugal	81.32	-0.1
37	United Kingdom	81.26	0
38	Puerto Rico	81.09	+2.02
39	Bermuda	80.99	+0.3
40	Denmark	80.95	-0.15
41	Germany	80.89	-0.1
42	Isle of Man	80.61	+0.11
43	Chile	80.56	-0.05
44	Bahrain	80.41	+0.01
45	Kuwait	80.11	+0.19
46	Costa Rica	80.09	+0.1
47	Saint Martin	80.03	+1.27
48	Oman	79.86	+0.12
49	U.S. Virgin Islands	79.52	+0.15
50	Maldives	79.43	+0.21
51	Albania	79.24	+0.34
52	Czechia	79.03	+0.05
53	Cayman Islands	78.84	+0.22
54	Saudi Arabia	78.75	+0.03
55	United States	78.64	+0.1
56	Panama	78.27	+0.37
57	Lebanon	78.26	+0.07
58	Estonia	78.24	+0.15
59	Bosnia and Herzegovina	77.94	+0.56
60	Croatia	77.92	+0.19
61	Montenegro	77.89	+1.2
62	China	77.71	+0.47
63	Poland	77.6	-0.15
64	Turks and Caicos Islands	77.6	+0.09
65	New Caledonia	77.56	+0.05
66	Uruguay	77.53	-0.09
67	Northern Mariana Islands	77.51	+0.04
68	Türkiye	77.45	+0.42
69	Cuba	77.43	+0.13
70	Slovakia	77.27	+0.1
71	Ecuador	77.25	+1.03
72	Thailand	77.19	+0.2
73	Antigua and Barbuda	77.13	+0.1
74	Argentina	76.77	+0.23
75	British Virgin Islands	76.73	+1.06
76	North Macedonia	76.65	+0.7
77	Iran	76.62	+0.22
78	Colombia	76.58	+0.16
79	Guam	76.56	+0.1
80	Curaçao	76.49	+0.07
81	Jordan	76.49	+0.42
82	Sri Lanka	76.49	+0.25
83	Barbados	76.38	+0.14
84	Hungary	76.07	+0.25
85	Peru	76.02	+0.06
86	Serbia	75.89	+0.35
87	Aruba	75.88	+0.26
88	Malaysia	75.73	+0.19
89	Sint Maarten	75.69	+0.24
90	Lithuania	75.68	+0.2
91	Brazil	75.63	+0.25
92	Armenia	75.62	+0.4
93	Algeria	75.56	+0.12
94	Palestine	75.38	+0.16
95	Tunisia	75.37	+0.19
96	Romania	75.36	+0.15
97	Brunei	74.99	+0.05
98	Bulgaria	74.96	+0.15
99	Grenada	74.96	-0.02
100	Cape Verde	74.84	+0.13
101	Latvia	74.78	+0.15
102	Mauritius	74.42	-0.1
103	Mexico	74.3	+0.04
104	Belarus	74.18	+0.05
105	Vietnam	74.1	+0.07
106	Bahamas	74.06	+0.03
107	Georgia	73.99	+0.55
108	Morocco	73.95	+0.34
109	Nicaragua	73.88	+0.49
110	Paraguay	73.63	+0.18
111	Ukraine	73.57	-0.42
112	Dominican Republic	73.56	+0.19
113	Kazakhstan	73.37	+0.37
114	Libya	73.15	+0.43
115	North Korea	73.02	-0.01
116	Azerbaijan	73.02	+0.32
117	Seychelles	72.84	-1.46
118	American Samoa	72.79	-0.01
119	Russia	72.66	+0.21
120	Trinidad and Tobago	72.66	-0.33
121	Saint Lucia	72.66	+0.13
122	Venezuela	72.64	+0.74
123	Belize	72.32	+0.26
124	Tonga	72.17	+0.1
125	Bangladesh	72.12	+0.52
126	Honduras	72	+0.2
127	Uzbekistan	72	+0.26
128	Bhutan	71.71	+0.3
129	Jamaica	71.61	-0.27
130	Guatemala	71.5	-0.09
131	Suriname	71.47	+0.22
132	Kyrgyzstan	71.4	+0.2
133	El Salvador	71.38	+0.38
134	Dominica	71.38	+2.76
135	Greenland	71.36	+0.1
136	Saint Kitts and Nevis	71.34	+0.05
137	Iraq	71.12	+1.33
138	Samoa	71.05	+0.06
139	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	71.02	0
140	Egypt	70.97	+0.27
141	Mongolia	70.83	+0.28
142	Tajikistan	70.74	+0.21
143	Vanuatu	70.63	+0.13
144	India	70.42	+0.35
145	Moldova	70.24	-0.14
146	Indonesia	70.08	+0.13
147	Cambodia	69.99	+0.15
148	Solomon Islands	69.81	+0.15
149	Philippines	69.76	-0.2
150	Turkmenistan	69.27	+0.08
151	Nepal	69.04	+0.3
152	Palau	68.99	-0.03
153	Guyana	68.83	+0.29
154	Bolivia	67.7	+0.16
155	São Tomé and Príncipe	67.6	+0.53
156	Laos	67.59	+0.25
157	Mauritania	67.42	+0.33
158	Senegal	67.38	+0.32
159	Syria	67.37	+1.72
160	Gabon	67.04	+0.23
161	Eritrea	66.98	+0.37
162	Fiji	66.97	-0.09
163	Pakistan	66.48	+0.26
164	Botswana	66.37	+0.95
165	Rwanda	66.35	+0.21
166	Myanmar	66.23	+0.32
167	Timor-Leste	66.2	+0.31
168	Micronesia	65.94	+0.18
169	Yemen	65.92	-1.2
170	Tuvalu	65.87	+0.19
171	Marshall Islands	65.87	+0.2
172	Kiribati	65.81	+0.02
173	Uganda	65.78	+0.6
174	South Africa	65.73	+0.3
175	Sudan	65.5	+0.36
176	Tanzania	65.49	+0.53
177	Comoros	65.4	+0.27
178	Ethiopia	65.26	+0.49
179	Papua New Guinea	65.11	+0.19
180	Republic of the Congo	64.47	+0.27
181	Malawi	64.46	+0.55
182	Ghana	64.14	+0.31
183	Djibouti	64.11	+0.4
184	Haiti	64.08	+0.24
185	Gambia	64.03	+0.33
186	Madagascar	63.49	+0.06
187	Kenya	62.83	+0.1
188	Angola	62.62	+0.5
189	Namibia	62.58	+0.92
190	Afghanistan	62.44	+0.04
191	Zambia	62.14	+0.57
192	Equatorial Guinea	61.92	+0.43
193	Burundi	61.81	+0.46
194	Guinea-Bissau	61.65	+0.5
195	Nauru	61.24	+0.14
196	Cameroon	61.19	+0.37
197	Liberia	61	+0.22
198	Zimbabwe	60.91	+0.64
199	Mozambique	60.79	+0.64
200	Togo	60.61	+0.46
201	Burkina Faso	59.97	+0.39
202	Democratic Republic of the Congo	59.93	+0.43
203	Côte d’Ivoire	59.8	+0.48
204	Niger	59.77	+0.24
205	Benin	59.71	+0.18
206	Sierra Leone	59.06	+1.3
207	Guinea	59.04	+0.33
208	Mali	58.87	+0.31
209	Eswatini	58.71	+1.13
210	Somalia	54.77	+2.58
211	Lesotho	54.64	+0.76
212	Nigeria	52.67	+0.27
213	Chad	52.45	+0.57
214	Central African Republic	52.3	+7.07
215	South Sudan	51.91	+16.55

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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 86.08 years in 2018, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest life expectancy?

South Sudan, with 51.91 years in 2018.

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.