Countries by life expectancy

Name: Countries by life expectancy, 2019
Creator: World Bank
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Monaco had the highest life expectancy of 215 countries in 2019, at 86.15 years. The Central African Republic had the lowest, at 31.53 years. The median was 74.05 years and the figure for the World was 72.87 years. Source: the World Bank.

Highest86.15Monaco

Lowest31.53Central African Republic

Median74.05215 countries

World72.87History

Top 40 countries, 2019

CSV Chart (SVG)

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

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2019 years	Change on 2018
1	Monaco	86.15	+0.07
2	San Marino	85.26	+0.16
3	Hong Kong	85.16	+0.29
4	Japan	84.36	+0.15
5	Liechtenstein	84.16	+1.12
6	Andorra	84.1	-0.14
7	Macao	83.93	+0.25
8	Switzerland	83.9	+0.15
9	Spain	83.83	+0.4
10	Singapore	83.6	+0.3
11	Italy	83.5	+0.15
12	South Korea	83.23	+0.6
13	French Polynesia	83.2	+0.21
14	Gibraltar	83.18	+0.16
15	Iceland	83.16	+0.3
16	Sweden	83.11	+0.55
17	Norway	82.96	+0.2
18	Qatar	82.95	+0.23
19	Australia	82.9	+0.15
20	France	82.83	+0.15
21	Israel	82.8	0
22	Ireland	82.7	+0.5
23	Malta	82.66	+0.41
24	Luxembourg	82.64	+0.34
25	United Arab Emirates	82.6	+0.15
26	Faroe Islands	82.39	+0.14
27	Canada	82.16	+0.35
28	Netherlands	82.11	+0.3
29	New Zealand	82.06	+0.35
30	Belgium	82	+0.4
31	Finland	81.98	+0.25
32	Kuwait	81.97	+1.86
33	Austria	81.9	+0.2
34	Portugal	81.68	+0.35
35	Greece	81.64	-0.15
36	Slovenia	81.53	+0.15
37	Cyprus	81.45	-0.1
38	Denmark	81.45	+0.5
39	Puerto Rico	81.44	+0.35
40	United Kingdom	81.37	+0.11
41	Germany	81.29	+0.4
42	Bermuda	81.25	+0.27
43	Isle of Man	80.74	+0.13
44	Bahrain	80.47	+0.06
45	Chile	80.32	-0.23
46	Costa Rica	80.3	+0.21
47	Saint Martin	80.08	+0.05
48	Oman	79.95	+0.08
49	Maldives	79.71	+0.27
50	U.S. Virgin Islands	79.67	+0.15
51	Albania	79.47	+0.23
52	Czechia	79.23	+0.2
53	Cayman Islands	79.05	+0.22
54	United States	78.79	+0.15
55	Estonia	78.65	+0.4
56	Panama	78.51	+0.25
57	Saudi Arabia	78.31	-0.44
58	Croatia	78.22	+0.3
59	Lebanon	78.21	-0.06
60	China	77.94	+0.23
61	Poland	77.9	+0.3
62	Northern Mariana Islands	77.84	+0.33
63	Türkiye	77.74	+0.28
64	Turks and Caicos Islands	77.69	+0.09
65	Slovakia	77.67	+0.4
66	Uruguay	77.5	-0.02
67	Cuba	77.41	-0.01
68	Bosnia and Herzegovina	77.39	-0.55
69	Ecuador	77.29	+0.04
70	New Caledonia	77.26	-0.3
71	Thailand	77.2	+0.01
72	Antigua and Barbuda	77.17	+0.04
73	Jordan	76.87	+0.37
74	Iran	76.86	+0.23
75	Argentina	76.85	+0.08
76	British Virgin Islands	76.85	+0.12
77	Colombia	76.79	+0.21
78	Sri Lanka	76.7	+0.21
79	Montenegro	76.68	-1.2
80	Guam	76.65	+0.08
81	North Macedonia	76.6	-0.05
82	Barbados	76.5	+0.12
83	Curaçao	76.49	-0
84	Hungary	76.32	+0.25
85	Lithuania	76.28	+0.6
86	Peru	76.28	+0.26
87	Armenia	76.22	+0.6
88	Aruba	76.02	+0.14
89	Serbia	75.94	+0.05
90	Malaysia	75.9	+0.17
91	Palestine	75.81	+0.43
92	Brazil	75.81	+0.18
93	Algeria	75.68	+0.13
94	Sint Maarten	75.68	-0.01
95	Romania	75.61	+0.25
96	Tunisia	75.6	+0.23
97	Cape Verde	75.45	+0.61
98	Latvia	75.39	+0.6
99	Bulgaria	75.11	+0.15
100	Brunei	75.05	+0.06
101	Grenada	74.97	+0.01
102	Mexico	74.53	+0.23
103	Morocco	74.25	+0.3
104	Mauritius	74.24	-0.18
105	Belarus	74.23	+0.05
106	Vietnam	74.21	+0.11
107	Georgia	74.17	+0.18
108	Seychelles	74.05	+1.2
109	Ukraine	73.92	+0.35
110	Nicaragua	73.76	-0.12
111	Paraguay	73.67	+0.04
112	Kazakhstan	73.66	+0.29
113	Azerbaijan	73.29	+0.27
114	Dominican Republic	73.11	-0.44
115	Russia	73.08	+0.42
116	Libya	72.94	-0.21
117	North Korea	72.93	-0.09
118	Trinidad and Tobago	72.84	+0.18
119	Venezuela	72.77	+0.13
120	American Samoa	72.75	-0.04
121	Bangladesh	72.63	+0.5
122	Belize	72.58	+0.25
123	Tonga	72.29	+0.12
124	Saint Lucia	72.25	-0.41
125	Honduras	72.12	+0.12
126	Uzbekistan	72.09	+0.09
127	Bhutan	72.01	+0.29
128	Suriname	71.77	+0.3
129	El Salvador	71.73	+0.34
130	Guatemala	71.64	+0.14
131	Kyrgyzstan	71.6	+0.2
132	Saint Kitts and Nevis	71.54	+0.2
133	Jamaica	71.53	-0.07
134	Greenland	71.41	+0.05
135	Bahamas	71.41	-2.65
136	Dominica	71.31	-0.07
137	Iraq	71.25	+0.13
138	Egypt	71.21	+0.24
139	Mongolia	71.05	+0.23
140	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	70.99	-0.02
141	Syria	70.97	+3.6
142	Tajikistan	70.96	+0.23
143	Vanuatu	70.78	+0.16
144	India	70.75	+0.33
145	Indonesia	70.35	+0.27
146	Samoa	70.27	-0.78
147	Moldova	70.18	-0.06
148	Cambodia	70.13	+0.13
149	Solomon Islands	69.98	+0.17
150	Philippines	69.68	-0.08
151	Turkmenistan	69.41	+0.13
152	Nepal	69.3	+0.26
153	Guyana	69.07	+0.24
154	Palau	68.98	-0.01
155	São Tomé and Príncipe	68.04	+0.44
156	Laos	67.91	+0.32
157	Bolivia	67.82	+0.12
158	Senegal	67.67	+0.29
159	Mauritania	67.64	+0.22
160	Gabon	67.34	+0.29
161	Eritrea	67.31	+0.33
162	Botswana	67.17	+0.8
163	Fiji	67.01	+0.04
164	Pakistan	66.73	+0.25
165	Rwanda	66.69	+0.34
166	Yemen	66.57	+0.65
167	Timor-Leste	66.5	+0.29
168	Myanmar	66.46	+0.22
169	Uganda	66.35	+0.58
170	Micronesia	66.2	+0.25
171	Tuvalu	66.11	+0.24
172	South Africa	66.07	+0.34
173	Marshall Islands	66.05	+0.18
174	Tanzania	66.01	+0.52
175	Kiribati	65.87	+0.06
176	Sudan	65.8	+0.3
177	Ethiopia	65.74	+0.48
178	Comoros	65.66	+0.26
179	Papua New Guinea	65.33	+0.22
180	Malawi	65	+0.53
181	Ghana	64.46	+0.32
182	Gambia	64.43	+0.39
183	Djibouti	64.38	+0.28
184	Haiti	64.33	+0.25
185	Namibia	63.55	+0.97
186	Madagascar	63.5	+0.01
187	Republic of the Congo	63.15	-1.32
188	Angola	63.05	+0.43
189	Afghanistan	62.94	+0.5
190	Kenya	62.94	+0.11
191	Zambia	62.91	+0.78
192	Equatorial Guinea	62.3	+0.38
193	Burundi	62.18	+0.37
194	Guinea-Bissau	62.16	+0.51
195	Cameroon	61.7	+0.51
196	Nauru	61.39	+0.16
197	Mozambique	61.31	+0.52
198	Liberia	61.23	+0.23
199	Togo	61.06	+0.45
200	Zimbabwe	61.06	+0.15
201	Côte d’Ivoire	60.27	+0.48
202	Democratic Republic of the Congo	60.24	+0.32
203	Burkina Faso	60.18	+0.21
204	Niger	60.03	+0.27
205	Benin	59.89	+0.18
206	Eswatini	59.85	+1.14
207	Sierra Leone	59.59	+0.53
208	Guinea	59.38	+0.34
209	Mali	59.22	+0.34
210	South Sudan	58.13	+6.22
211	Somalia	57.25	+2.48
212	Lesotho	55.25	+0.61
213	Nigeria	53.01	+0.34
214	Chad	52.99	+0.55
215	Central African Republic	31.53	-20.77

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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 86.15 years in 2019, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest life expectancy?

The Central African Republic, with 31.53 years in 2019.

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.